2015-08-12
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a. By establishing eye contact with each member of the audience.
b. By waving your arms.
c. By raising your voice andmaking hand or arm gestures during important points.
How should you stand?
a. Relaxed or leaning against the wall (table).
b. Straight, but relaxed with your hands by your sides.
c. Arms crossed over your chest.
d. Back turned to the audience.
How should you maintain eye contact with the audience?
a. Focus on a small amount of people and look at them as often as possible.
b. Look at your notes, the screen or the floor.
c. Spread your attention around the audience, and make eye contact with each person.
How should you emphasise something?
a. Move forward to show that something is important.
b. Use a pen or a pointer to draw attention to important parts of the presentation.
c. Use your finger to point out important parts of the presentation.
How should you speak?
a. Speak with the same, flat, monotonous voice throughout your presentation.
b. At either normal speed or slightly slower than usual.
c. Speak changing your voice in either a high or a low tone.
Exercise 2. Complete the list of “signposting” phrases with useful phrases from the box given below.
| Let’s go back to what we were discussing earlier… | |
| In this part of my presentation, I’d like… | |
| Let me briefly summarize the main issues. | |
| This brings me to the end of my second (third, etc.) point… | |
| As I said earlier… | Let’s now turn to the next issue… |
| I’d like to sum up the main points. | So much for … |
| As I mentioned previously… | Let’s move on to the next point. |
| This leads us to my next point… | Let me give you a brief overview of… |
| 1. Saying what is coming in the next part | ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ |
| 2. Moving on to the next point | ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ |
| 3. Indicating the end of a section | ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ |
| 4. Referring back to | ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ |
| 5. Summarising a point | ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ |
Exercise 3. Match the two parts to make sentences.
| 1. 1. This brings | a. a. the issue of environmental pollution. |
| 2. 2. This leads | b. b. come back to this question later. |
| 3. 3. Let’s now turn to | c. c. we were discussing earlier. |
| 4. 4. As I mentioned | d. d. us directly to my next question. |
| 5. 5. I’d like to | e. e. earlier, I’d like to give you a brief overview of… |
| 6. 6. Let’s go back to what | f. f. I’ll be focusing on the advantages of the technology. |
| 7. 7. As I said earlier | g. g. to the next point, which is price. |
Exercise 4. Complete the sentences with words from the box according to the meanings.
| cope with | take care of | identify | clarify | deal with |
