presenting in enatish 1.5 getting started TASK 3 Once you know the nine basie signposts, you can build them into the points you make to give direction and coherence to your presentation. Complete the following signpost phrases and sentences using the notes to help you. Say them first. Then write them down. The first one has been done for you as an example. 1. Moving on / question / the US market, Moving on to the question of the US market, 2. Expand / the figures / last year, 3. I'd like / recap / the main points 4. Let's go back / question / clinical research methods 5. Digress / a moment, let's consider / alternatives. 6 Going back / moment / the situation lst year 7. Lats turn now | Surtagets | the next five. yea 8. Pd like / tum now Jour projections / year 2005 9. Go back | the main reason our cllaboration / the Germans, 10. I'd like / expand / that / little, before we move on. IL. Let's go back / a moment / what we were discussing earlier. 12, Let me expand f some / the main points / our proposal. 13. Elaborate / that / little / those of you / aren't familiar / Russian business practices, 14. If I could just mave on / some / the problems we face / Central / Latin America, 15. I'd like / conclude / 1 may / repeating what I said / the beginning / this presentation. Present the signpost sentences above until you feel comfortable saying them. Neat, short signposts are more effective than long explanations of the structure of your presentation, Remember, the simplest way to signpost the end of one stage of your presentation and the beginning of the next is to say: OK. So, .. 17in english presenting in enstish AFISWEF KEY presenring Sometimes small variations are possible in the answers to a task. Discuss these with your teacher or a native speaker. 1.2 Stating Your Purpose 1 1. calking 2. telling 3. showing 4. taking 5. reporting {filling 2. making 3. outlining 4. giving 5. bringing 1. highlight 2. put 3. tale 4. make 5. discuss 1.3. Stating Your Purpose 2 2, stressing 3. putting forward 4, dealing with 5. raising 6. looking at 7. focus 8. sets out 9, suggesting 10.turm 1. spell out 12, address 13. get across 14. underline 15, come to 1.4 Effective Openings Problems: 2, 6,8 Amazing Facts: 1, 3,5,7 Stories: 4, 9 15. Signposting Task 1 1. to move on (to your next point) 2, to turn to (last year’s figures) 3. to go back (to what I said earlier) 4.to recap (on the main features of the SR125) 5. to expand on (this a bit more) 6. to elaborate on (this particular feature) 7. to summarize (the salient points) 8. to digress (just for a moment) 9. to conclude Task 2 1, To summarize 2. To conclude 3. To elaborate (on) 4. To expand (on) 5. To recap (on) ©. To go back (to) 7. To move on 8. To digress 9. To turn to Task 3 2. To expand on the figures for last year. 3. I'd like to recap on the main points. 4. Let's go back to the question of clinical research methods, 5. To digress for a moment, let's consider the alternatives. 6. Going back fora moment to the situation last yeas, 7. Lets tum now to our targets for the next five yeas. 8. like to turn ‘ow fo our projections to the year 2005. 9. To go back to the main reason for our collaboration with the Germans, 10. 1d like to expand on that a little before we move on. 11. Let’s go back for'a moment to what we were discussing earlier. 12. Let me expand on some of the main points in our progiosal. 13. To elaborate on that a little for those of you who aren't familiar with Russian business practices, 14. If I could just move on to some of the problems we face in Cerural and Latin America, 15, 1d like to conclude if may, by epeating what | said at the beginning of this presentation. 1.6 Survival Tactics Task 1 Le 2a 3d 4b Sh 6g 786 ‘Task 2-1. Sorry, what I meant is this 2. So lets just recap on that. 3. Sorry, I should jst mention one thing 4. So, basically what I'm saying is this 5. Sorry, perhaps I dida’t make that quite clea. 6. Sorry, what’ the word 1m looking for? 7. Sorry, let me rephrase that. 8. So, just to give you the main points here, 2.1 Introducing Visuals Task 1 Graphs: 1,7 Charts: 2 (pie chart), 4 (flowchart), 8, 9, 11 (table) Diagrams: 5, 6, 12 Note that 3 and 10 are (bar) graphs in American English and (har) charts in British English Task 2. Extract 1: Have / Take a look at this graph. As you can se, it fairly typical growth curve fora young company in the early stages ofits development. The vertical axis shows turnover in millions of dollars and the horizontal axis represents the years 1990 ro 1996. Extract 2: The graph we're looking at very clearly demonstrates the comparative productivity of our European plants, and gives you some idea of how far production levels in the Netherlands, shown here, exceed the rest. Extract 3: I'd like you to look at this chart, which shows the current Position of sbx of our leading products. Ler’ take a closer look for a moment at product movement in the high stowth sector. 2.2 Commenting on Visuals Task 1 Tat 2.on 3.about 4.out 5.t0 Task 2 1. As 2.If 3. However 4, Whatever 3. Whichever Task 3. I. conclusions 2. lesson 3, implications 4. significance 5, message 2.3 Change and Development 1 Task TL. increase 2. rise 3. decrease 4. fall 5. shoot up 6. take off 7. plunge 8. slump 9. fluctuate 10. recover 120