Structuring your presentation When structuring your presentation remember: – to keep it simple – repeat your messages so that your audience remembers them – guide the audience as if you were taking them on a journey The Core Structure INTRODUCTION > MESSAGE 1 > MESSAGE 2 > MESSAGE 3 > CONCLUSION Intro: tell your audience what you are going to present and provide a summary of your main message(s). Body: present the details of your key messages Conclusion: tell your audience what you have presented and sum up the main messages. – tell your audience what you are going to tell them – tell them – tell them what you have told them Moving from one part of the presentation to the next – guide the audience and make sure they know when one section finishes and another one begins. Use 'signposting' phrases that guide the audience and describe the structure of your presentation. – Emphasize the transition by making physical changes (movement, pausing, changing the energy of your voice. Adapted from: John Hughes, Andrew Mallet. Successful Presentations: For Professionals who use English at Work. OUP, 2012. Language focus A) Structuring a presentation: match the expressions to the correct section of a presentation. That is the end of my presentation … Now today I’d like to talk about … Introduction That brings me to my second point. I’m going to go through 3 points. That covers what I wanted to say about … Messages Let’s move on to the last point … So, let’s start with … First of all, I will talk about … Secondly, I will cover … Conclusion And finally, I want to discuss … B) Announcing the beginning and end of a message: look at the phrases for guiding your audience and put them in the correct category. Moving on (from .. .) to … So, I've reached the end of … Now let's look at … Now I'd like to consider … That was my first point. Next I'd like to … That covers all I wanted to say about … Turning now to … I'd like to begin by (-ing) … That's enough about … Let's start with … That leads me on to my next point … Let's leave that there. So, next … Let's look at …. That's all I wanted to say about … Let's examine … Adapted from: John Hughes, Andrew Mallet. Successful Presentations: For Professionals who use English at Work. OUP, 2012. Introducing a message Ending a message Transition from M to M C) Signposting Match the signposting phrases on the left with the same meaning: 1 Last of all a To begin with 2 Firstly/First of all b To recap 3 In conclusion c Secondly/Thirdly … 4 Next d To conclude 5 To sum up e Finally/Lastly Complete the introduction and conclusion using the phrases above. I am going to talk about three main points. ____________, I would like to look at some of the problems of introducing a flexitime scheme for your company. _______________, I intend to outline the advantages for your staff and business. And ______________ I’ll go through how your firm can help you to implement such change. Note that I’ll be referring to the handout in fron of you as we go … … so, ________________ we’ve looked at how this scheme would affect your workingpractices. We’ve outlined how these changes might be implemented and I’ve taken Adapted from: John Hughes, Andrew Mallet. Successful Presentations: For Professionals who use English at Work. OUP, 2012. you through what my company could do to help you with this process. _____________, I’d like to point out that while changes might cause problems in the short term, in the long run I believe it will bring significant benefits. Now, does anone have any questions? D) Practice Pick a topic from the list below and in a few minutes prepare a roughly two-minute presentation which gives your opinion on the chosen topic. Focus on clarity and structure. Driverless cars Social networks and private information Advertising targeted at children High salaries of politicians Tablet PCs are the future of the computer The importance of university diploma for the job market Copyright: copyright holders vs. the public Future of technology Books and e-readers Adapted from: John Hughes, Andrew Mallet. Successful Presentations: For Professionals who use English at Work. OUP, 2012.