Understand why schools ask students to give presentations

� Understand why schools ask students to give presentations. � Understand what makes a good presentation. � Learn about structuring a presentation. � Learn some useful presenting language.

True or false? “I know why schools often ask students to give presentations. ”

� Preparation for the future � Encourage independent research � Help you to work with one another � Develop knowledge of a topic � Develop confidence

True or false? “ I know what makes a good presentation. ”

� Did the presentation have a clear introduction, main part and conclusion? � Did the presenter involve the audience? � Did the presenter speak clearly and effectively? � Did the presenter use pictures effectively? � Did the presenter think in advance about things that might go wrong?

True or false? “ I know the basic structure of a presentation. ” “I know what to include in introductions and conclusions. ”

A Introduction 2 Saying who you are and describing the problem. iii Help the audience to understand the problem. B Main part of the presentation 3 Describing the solution i Tell the audience things they don’t know which would be useful and interesting to them. C The conclusion 1 Saying what you have achieved. ii Give the audience a clear idea of how the solution solves the problem.

Introduction Introducing yourself I live … I’m … My name’s … Introducing the topic The topic of my presentation today is … This morning we’re going to talk about…

Introduction Getting the audience interested Have you ever thought about why …? One thing that really interests me about … is … Giving the structure of the presentation I’m firstly going to … / Firstly I’m going to … / First , I’m going to … I’m going to begin by looking at … / Then Shirley will move on to … / After that Cheryl is going talk to you about Our presentation is divided into three parts. First, … / Second, … / Third, …

Main part of presentation Conclusion Changing the subject Summarising Let’s look now at … Firstly, I talked about …. Then I discussed…. Finally, I described … Now Jun is going to talk about … So, to conclude / To sum up … Since I had my idea …. Giving examples Thanking the audience For example / For instance …. Thanks very much for listening. … such as… Ashe olen. It means in my language, thank you very much.