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Structuring your presentation
Language focus
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Structuring a presentation
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In his presentation, Marcus uses the expressions below to guide the audience through the
presentation. Match them to the correct section of his presentation.
That is the end of my presentation …
Now today I’d like to talk to you about …
This brings me to my second point.
I’m going to go through three points.
That more or less covers …
Let’s move on to the last point …
Let’s leave that there for now, shall we?
So let’s start with …
First of all, I’ll talk about …
Secondly, I’ll cover …
And finally, I want to discuss …
Introduction
Messages
Conclusion
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Now watch the presentation and check your answers.
Announcing the beginning and end of a message
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As Andrew explained, you need to guide your audience by clearly introducing and ending
a message and also by moving from one message to another. Look at the phrases in the
Messages
section of the table in
1
. Put them in the correct category below.
Introducing a message
Ending a message
Moving from one message to
the next
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Now look at some more phrases for guiding your audience. Add them to the correct part of
the table in
3
.
Moving on (from… ) to … 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 (examining) … That’s enough about …