Hi, I'm Gina. Welcome to Oxford Online English In this lesson. You can learn how to make a presentation in English.
Do you have to make presentations in English in your job? Imagine you had to give an important presentation in English tomorrow.
How would you feel about it? This lesson will help you learn useful phrases and techniques to introduce yourself and your topic. Keep your ideas.
Organized deal with problems and respond to questions from audience members. Imagine you're standing in front of your colleagues.
You need to introduce yourself and what your presentation is about.
What are some words and phrases?
You could use if some people in the audience, don't know who you are. You should introduce yourself and your position in a more formal setting.
You could say something like this. Good morning everyone. For those who don't know me, my name is Simon and I work in the marketing department, or hello.
Everybody. Before we begin, let me introduce myself briefly. I'm Reese. And I'm the head of HR.
If you work in a more informal company, you could say hi guys.
If you don't know me, I'm Sylvia.
And I work in digital marketing or hello. I see some new faces.
So I'll introduce myself first, I'm Julia.
And I'm one of our customers team. Next, you need to introduce your topic.
If your presentation topic is simpler, you could just say one sentence like this. Today, I'm going to be talking about our new HR policies and how they affect you.
Or I'd like to talk to you today about quality control and why we're all responsible for quality control.
Whichever department you work in. If you're topic is more complex, you might add more detail to break your idea into stages.
For example, I'll begin by outlining the policies and then I'll go on to highlight what they mean for you.
And you're working habits. Finally, I'll briefly discuss why we feel these new policies are necessary and beneficial for us all.
Here's another example. First of all I'll explain why quality control has a broader meaning than you might expect.
I'll continue by giving examples of real quality control and why this matters for all of us To finish?
I'll be asking you to think of ways you can incorporate quality control into your working habits. Here you saw two examples.
You can use these as templates to begin your presentation.
And then all Finally, all or first of all, all I'll continue by you finish.
I'll okay. Now, you can practice we'd like you to do two things. First, practice, introducing yourself, informally and explaining your topic.
In a simple way with one sentence.
Then practice introducing yourself formally and explaining your topic.
In a more detailed way, pause the video and practice speaking, all the language you need is in this section.
Ready.
Let's move on. I'm sure that in your life you've heard good speakers and bad speakers. Good speakers.
Grab your attention and don't let go. You want to hear what they have to say.
You feel interested and energized by listening to them, bad speakers are the opposite.
Even if you try to make yourself, listen your attention, drifts away your eyelids, feel heavy, and you have to struggle to stay away.
So here's a question. What's the difference between good speakers and bad speakers?
And how can you make sure you speak effectively when you make your presentation in English?
Here's one way to think about it.
That's because don't think they have to earn your attention. Good speakers. Understand that.
No one has to listen to them so they work hard to make you want to pay attention.
What does this mean for you and your presentation, getting people's attention, starts from the beginning? You need to make it clear.
What people should expect from your presentation and why they should care about what you have to say.
Sounds like a nice idea. But how do you do this? Okay, with three techniques you can use one.
Establish a problem that many people in your audience, have then established that you have a solution to their problem.
For example, have you ever felt on fairly treated at work or felt that the work you do isn't appreciated?
We've been working to make new HR policies that will make sure all staff get fair recognition for their contribution to the company In this way.
You can take a boring sounding topic like HR policies and make it more relevant to your audience, How by connecting it with their experiences and feelings.
The second technique mentioned, an interesting fact, or a surprising statistic to get people's attention.
For example, did you know that the average office worker spends? Eight hours a day at work.
But only does four hours of productive useful work and how you can use this idea to make better use of your time.
Finally, you can engage people by telling a short story and connecting it to your topic.
Stories are powerful and they can add an emotional dimension to your topic If you do it.
Well, for example, I once met a young salesman, I won't mention his name. He spent several weeks building a relationship with a potential client,
He worked overtime and he was working so hard that he was under severe stress, which started to affect his personal life In the end.
He didn't close the deal.
The client signed with another firm.
Today I'm going to talk about confidence as a sales tool and how you can avoid the traps.
That this young man fell into use one of these three techniques in your introduction to connect with your audience and show them why they should be interested in what you have to say.
Here's a question for you, which technique would you prefer to use and why? Okay, now you've introduced your topic and have everyone's attention.
Well, next, there's a famous quote about making presentations, tell the audience, what you're going to say, say it and then tell them what you've said. Have you heard this before?
Do you know who said it? This comes from Dale, Carnegie.
A very successful American salesman and writer lived a long time ago but his advice is still relevant today so here's a question.
What does the quote mean that your presentation? Shouldn't? Just give information.
You also need to show people how your information is organized To do this.
You need signposting language. Let me give you an example to explain. Imagine you go to a website.
The website is full of really useful, interesting information, but the information is all in one page, there's no organization and you have to scroll up and down up and down this huge page trying to find what you need.
Would you stay on that website?
Probably not. You find a website which made it easier for you to find the information.
You needed. What's the point here? The point is that having interesting or relevant information is not enough, how you structure and organize, your information is equally important.
If you don't structure your presentation, clearly people won't pay attention, just like you won't stay on a website, if you can't find the information you want.
So how can you do this? You use sign posting language.
This means using words and phrases to show the audience where your points begin and end to show what's coming next and to remind them about things.
You talk about before, for example, okay? That covers the new policies next.
I'd like to move on and discuss what these policies mean to you, or now that you've heard a bit about what not to do.
Let's focus on positive advice to help you be more effective salespeople and close more of your leads.
When you say something like this, you aren't giving people information about the topic of your presentation.
Instead you're showing people where you are and where you're going next, it's a kind of signpost.
You don't need signposts to travel from one place to another, but they can make it easier. What else can you use?
Signposting language for you can use sign posting language to move from one point to the next.
For example, Next, I'd like to talk about Let's move on and discuss or at this point I'd like to turn to.
You can use signposting language to add details to an idea.
Let me go into some more detail about let's examine in more depth.
Or I'd like to elaborate on you can use sign posting language to show that you finished your main points and you've reached your conclusion to wrap up.
Let's remind ourselves of why this should matter to everyone.
Here, Let's review the key points from this session. So you've heard what I have to say?
What conclusions can you take away from this?
If you have an important presentation in English practice using signposting language,
use sign posting language to move between points to show when you're giving a summary or going into more detail and to signal that you've reached your conclusion. But things don't always go.
So smoothly in real life, we know that.
Let's look at some advice and language for dealing with problems during your presentation. Imagine you're making your presentation and English.
What could go wrong?
What problems could you have? There were many common problems.
You might forget where you were or forget an important word.
You might realize that you said something wrong or you didn't explain something.
Clearly you might forget to mention something important or someone might ask you an awkward question, which you have no idea how to answer.
Of course, there are other possibilities. Let's think about these problems. What can you do?
And more importantly, what can you say in these situations?
First of all, it's a good idea to make a cue card with key points as well as any important vocabulary you need.
If you lose your place or you forget a word, it could help. However, you can't prepare for everything.
So, it's useful to learn some phrases to deal with problems smoothly.
If you lose your place and can't remember what to say, next you can use a filler phrase.
Like where was I?
So what was I saying?
What's the word in English?
Again, if you still can't remember, look at your cue card with your main points.
Of course, forgetting something isn't ideal but if you do, it's better to keep talking rather than just standing there in silence.
What if you make a mistake or you realize that you didn't explain something?
Well, you could say let me rephrase that actually what I meant to say is to clarify.
I wanted to say that and this way you can correct yourself without admitting that you made a mistake.
What if you realize that you forgot to mention something important Use a phrase like this.
Let me just add one more thing.
I'd like to add something to a point we discussed earlier.
Let me return to an earlier point briefly.
Again this allows you to correct your mistake in a confident way so you look like you're in control. Finally, what do you do?
If someone asks you a difficult question, which you can't answer, you have a few options, First, you can delay.
Giving an answer for example, I've allocated time for questions at the end of this session, so we'll address your idea later.
I'm not in a position to answer that right now, but I'll get back to you later this week time to think of an answer and do some research. If you have to Next.
You can deflect the question by asking a question back or maybe by asking other audience members what they think.
For example, that's an interesting question.
Before I answer, I'd like to know what's your take on this or you've raised an important point there.
What does everyone else think about this?
Finally, if the question is irrelevant you can dismiss the question and move on.
For example, Thanks for your input but I don't see how that's connected to what I'm saying.
I don't mean to be blunt but I don't think that's relevant to today's discussion.
Notice how you can use phrases like thanks for your input but or I don't mean to be blunt but to make your language more indirect and polite.
So for dealing with difficult questions just remember the 3Ds delay deflect dismiss finally we want to ask you something do you have any advice for giving good presentations in English or any language?
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