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Mgr.Antonín Zita, M.A.
Polishing Presentations
Presentations
 Spoken vs. written language
 Spoken language:
 More informal
 Personal
 Avoid repetition
 Emphasis and pronunciation important
Polishing Presentations
Original Revised
First I will give you a brief
introduction to my work.
Then I will outline the
reasons that led me to
conducting this research.
Next I will explain my
Methodology before
discussing my results.
First, I’d like to tell you about why I
am interested in incompetence in the
workplace.Then, I’ll be showing you
how we managed to investigate this
potentially embarrassing area in 10
different multinational companies.
And finally, I’ll show you our results
that indicate that around 80% of
middle managers have been
promoted into a position for which
they simply don’t have the skills.
Polishing Presentations
 The method was carried
out as follows. Initially, X
was done which led to a
failure as a consequence of
. . .The next attempt
involved . . .
 First I tried this, but it
didn’t work because . . . So
I tried that . . .
unfortunately that failed
too probably because . . .
finally, one of the
members of research group
had a brainwave and . . .
Polishing Presentations
 OK, that’s all I wanted to
say at this particular point
about the infrastructure.
What I would like to do
next in this presentation is
to take a brief look at the
gizmo.This picture in this
slide shows a gizmo.As you
can see a gizmo is a . . .
 OK, here’s something that
you may not know about a
gizmo: blah blah blah. In
fact you can see here that a
gizmo is . . .
Pronunciation
 Please present your paper next week.
 Please present your paper next week.
 Please present your paper next week.
 Please present your paper next week.
 Please present your paper next week.
Pronunciation
 First of all / thank you very much /
for coming here today. My name’s Esther
Kritz / and I am currently doing
research into psycholinguistics / at
Manchester University. // I’d like to
show you / what I think / are some
incredible results / that I got while ...
Sources
 Jiří Šalamoun
 Williams, Erica J. Presentations in English. Macmillan.