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This document provides guidance and examples for giving presentations in English. It includes brainstorming questions about past presentation experiences, examples of introducing presentations with varying levels of formality, exercises to practice completing sentences about presentation introductions, matching less and more formal phrases, and guidance on using the WISE structure of welcoming the audience, introducing yourself, stating the topic, and explaining why the audience will be interested. Practice opportunities are provided to help non-native English speakers feel more comfortable presenting in English.

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01 English For Presentation-No Recording

This document provides guidance and examples for giving presentations in English. It includes brainstorming questions about past presentation experiences, examples of introducing presentations with varying levels of formality, exercises to practice completing sentences about presentation introductions, matching less and more formal phrases, and guidance on using the WISE structure of welcoming the audience, introducing yourself, stating the topic, and explaining why the audience will be interested. Practice opportunities are provided to help non-native English speakers feel more comfortable presenting in English.

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ENGLISH FOR PRESENTATION

Part 1
Let’s Get Started

Dr. Joko Kusmanto


Brainstorming….
1. Have you ever give a presentation?
2. Who did you give the presentation to?
3. Where did you do?
4. How did you feel?
5. Have you ever give a presentation in
English?
Listen to the opening sentences of these
presentations and complete the table
Presenter’s Name|Presenter’s position/function|Topic of presentation|who is for|

1. Don Taylor |Head of Logistics | new semi automatic


shelving system | people who place orders
2. Charlotte Best | team leader IT | project documentation |
people involved in international project management
3. Susan Webster | human resources manager | in company
training and qualification programs | department head

Which presentation is formal and which is less formal?


Listen to the opening again and complete the
sentences
Presentation 1
First of all
1. ……………………………, let me thank you all for being here
today
introduce
2. Let me ……………………….. Myself. My name is .
present
3. I’m here today to ……………………………. our new semi
automatic shelving system.
particularly
4. My talk is ……………………… relevant to those of you who
place orders
……………………….for the different parts we supply
Listen to the opening again and complete the
sentences
Presentation 2
make it
1. I’m happy that so many of you could ……………………….
notice
today at such short …………………….
screen
2. As you can see on the ……………………….., our
topic
……………………. today is project documentation.
important
3. This is extremely ………………………………………for all of us
involved
who are directly ………………………………………in
international project management, right?
Listen to the opening again and complete the
sentences
Presentation 3
aware schedules
1. I’m …………………..that you all have very tight ………………,
so I appreciate you taking the time to come here today.
probably
2. As you …………………………know, my name is , I’m the new
Human resources
……………………………… manager here at the Weston Ltd.
3. Today’s topic will be very important for you as
Department head
…………………………..….since I’ll need
………………………..your help to
evaluate and select candidates for training.
Put (a – d) in the correct order to start a
presentation
a. Saying what the topic is
b. Welcoming the audience
c. Saying who you are
d. Saying why the topic is important
Match these less formal phrases with the more formal
phrases in the table.
More Formal Less Formal
1. Good afternoon, ladies and a. What I want to do is ..
gentlemen
2. Today I would like to .. b. OK, shall we get started?
3. Let me just start by introducing c. Today I’m going to talk
myself. My name is ……..
4. It’s a pleasure to welcome you about
today d. I know you are all very busy
5. In my presentation I would like to
report on .. e. It’s good to see you all here
6. The topic of today’s presentation f. In my talk I’ll tell you about
is ….
7. I suggest that we begin now. g. As you know, I’m ……
8. I’m aware that you all have very h. Hi everyone, …
tight schedule …
Practice the opening of a presentation. Use
phrases from the box and follow the WISE
1 Good morning/afternoon, ladies and gentlemen |
Hello/Hi, everyone | First of all, let me thank you all
Welcome audience for coming here today | I’m happy that so many of
you could make it today

2 Let me introduce myself, I’m Dave Elwood from…. |


For those of you who don’t know me, my name’s …|
Introduce yourself As you probably know, I’m the new manager … |
I’m here in my function as the Head of Controlling.

3 As you can see on the screen, our topic today is …


Today’s topic is ….
Say what the topic is What I’d like to present to you today is ….
The subject of my presentation is ….

4 My talk is particularly relevant to those of you who ..


The topic is of particular interest to those of you who
Explain why audience The topic is very important for you because …
will be interested By the end of this talk you will be familiar with …

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