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Language Guide German + Dictionary for iPhone and iPod-Touch (made by ego4u)

Structure and Content

■Introduction: General information on the topic

Give your listeners an introduction to the topic (some general information) and explain what exactly
you are going to talk about in your presentation.

■Actual Presentation

Subdivide your presentation into several sub-topics.

■Conclusion

Try to find a good conclusion, e.g.: ◦an invitation to act

◦an acknowledgement

◦a motivation

Important Tenses

■Simple Present

■Simple Past

■Present Perfect

Tips on Giving a Presentation

As listeners cannot take up as many information as readers, keep the following rules in mind when
giving a presentation:

■Keep your sentences short and simple.

■Use standard English, avoid slang and techy language.


■Prefer verbs to nouns (not: The meaning of this is that …, but: This means that …).

■Use participal constructions sparingly. (In written texts they are often used to increase the density
of information in a sentence. In spoken texts, however, they make it more difficult for the listeners
to follow.)

■Speak clearly and slowly.

■Have little breaks in between the sentences to allow your audience to reflect on what has been
said.

■Communicate freely (don't read the whole text from a piece of paper).

■Illustrate certain aspects of your presentation with pictures and graphics.

The following tricks will also help you keep your audience's attention:

■Outline to the audience how your presentation is structured. (e.g. I will first explain ... / Then I will
… / After that … / Finally… ).

■Indicate when you come to another sub-topic (I will now talk about …). This way your audience can
follow your presentation more easily.

■Use a rhetorical question or hypophora from time to time. Your listeners will think that you've
asked them a question and thus listen more attentively.

■Use enumerations starting first / second / third. This also draws your audience's attention.

■A joke or a quotation might also help keeping your audience listening. Don't overdo it, however.
Using too many jokes or quotations might not have the effect you want.

IntroductionI want to give you a short presentation about ...My presentation is about ...I'd like to tell
you something about ...I think everybody has heard about ..., but hardly anyone knows a lot about
it.That's why I'd like to tell you something about it.Did you know that ...?

Introducing sub-topicsLet me begin by explaining why / how ...First / Now I want to talk about ...First
/ Now I want to give you an insight into ...Let's (now) find out why / how ...Let's now move to ...As I
already indicated ...Another aspect / point is that ...The roots of ... go back to ...... began when
...Legend has it that ...As you probably know, ... You probably know that ...Maybe you've already
heard about ...You might have seen that already.At the beginning there was / were ...Many people
knew / know ...Hardly anyone knew / knows ...... hit the idea to ...... was the first to ...It is claimed
that ...One can say that ...I have read that ...Pictures and graphicsLet me use a graphic to explain
this.The graphic shows that ...As you can see (in the picture) ...In the next / following picture, you
can see ...Here is another picture.The next picture shows how ...Let the pictures speak for
themselves.I think the picture perfectly shows how / that ...Now, here you can see ...Final thoughts
on a sub-topicIt was a great success for ...It is a very important day in the history of ...It was / is a
very important / special event.This proves that ...The reason is that ...The result of this is that ...It's
because ...In other words, ...I want to repeat that ...I'd (just) like to add ...
Conclusion... should not be forgotten.... has really impressed me.I hope that one day ...We should
not forget ...All in all I believe that...Summing up / Finally it can be said that ...Let me close by
quoting ... who said, »...«That was my presentation on ...I am now prepared to answer your
questions.Do you have any questions?

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