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Improve your Presentations.

In modern English, Presentations tend to be much less

formal than they were even twenty years ago. Most

audience these days prefers a relatively informal

approach. However, there is a certain structure to the

opening of a Presentation that you should observe.

Get people's attention Welcome them

If I could have everybody's

attention.

If we can start.

Perhaps we should begin?

Let's get started.

Welcome to Microsoft.

Thank you for coming today.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

On behalf of Intel, I'd like to welcome you

Introduce yourself State the purpose of your presentation

My name's Jane Shaw. I'm

responsible for travel

arrangements.

For those of you who don't

know me, my name's Tom

Stotter.

As you know, I'm in charge

of public relations.

I'm the new Marketing

Manager

This morning I'd like to present our new processor.

Today I'd like to discuss our failures in the Peruvian market and

suggest a new approach.

This afternoon, I'd like to report on my study into the Peruvian

market.

What I want to do this morning is to talk to you about our new

mobile telephone system.

What I want to do is to tell you about our successes and failures in

introducing new working patterns.

What I want to do is to show you how we've made our first

successful steps in the potentially huge Chinese market.

State how you want to deal with questions.

If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them as we go along.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Perhaps we can leave any questions you have until the end?

There will be plenty of time for questions at the end.

1. Get people's attention

2. Welcome to people

3. Introduce yourself

4. State the purpose of your presentation

5. State how you want to deal with

questions

STARTING A PRESENTATION

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1. Using the information from page number 01 makes your own presentation, you can work in group of 4, and then one of you explains to class.

2. Complete the dialogue with these expressions from the box below. If I could have everybody’s ? morning.

Onof Avis I would like to you all here this morning. My name’s

Twist and I’m for customer service. This morning I’d like to

our new packages for travel agents. If you have any

you’d like to ask, I’d be happy to them.

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STARTING A PRESENTATION

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3. Label the pictures about Business in English. Use the expressions from the box.Then practice

the vocabulary with your partners.

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1. Green Companies

2. Internet Entrepreneurs

3. Cigarettes in the 21st Century

4. Artificial Intelligence

5. Corporate Responsibility

6. Credits cards, Loans and Debt.

7. Insider Trading

8. Apple Company

9. Coke vs Pepsi-The Cola Wars

10. Currencies.

11. Online Shopping

12. Microsoft enterprise

13. Toyota in the World.

Apple business

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CROSSWORD: MONEY…

Fill the gaps in these sentences and then add the words to the puzzle below:

1. Banks ........................................................your account when you use a Eurocheque abroad .

2. Few companies pay their shareholders a regular ........................................................ .

3. ........................................................can result if your expenditure exceeds your income.

4. Our customers get reminders on ........................................................payments.

5. People with large ........................................................can always get credit from a bank.

6. Banks ........................................................very high rates of interest on credit loans.

7. Suppliers expect their ........................................................to be promptly paid.

8. A firm’s costs include wages, interest and also ........................................................ .

9. Despite paying our ........................................................regularly, we still owe money.

10. We hope to increase our profits for this ........................................................year.

11. Our profits were very small despite a large ........................................................ .

12. The increase in ........................................................will not change our price policy.

13. Every year a company must allow for ........................................................in the value of its machines and buildings.

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