Business English Presentations- Advice Vocabulary
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Vocabulary for giving and talking about presentations speaking practice
Lesson Plan Content:
Presentations vocabulary advice and useful phrases
Choose one of the words below and give some advice about presentations. See if your partner agrees, discuss that topic more if you like, then take turns doing the same with different vocabulary from below.
(Line) graph (Pie/ bar) chart
(Radio) mic (= Microphone) (Special) effects/ Animation
Aim/ Purpose/ Thesis statement Apology/ Apologise
Applause Attendee/ Audience
Attention Beam
Body language/ Eye contact Brainstorm
Break Bullet point
ClipArt Column/ Row
Conclude/ Conclusion/ Ending/ Closing Diagram
Dias/ Stage Drink
Empathising/ Connecting Equipment
Fidget Figure
Flipchart Font
Greet/ Greetings Hand out/ Pass out/ Give out
Hand over Heading/ Title
Hook Interrupt
Intonation Introduce/ Introduction
Joke Key/ Caption
Laptop Lectern
Lights Memorise
Move on Nerves
Notes Overhead projector (OHP)
Pace Pause
Photocopy/ Handout Picture
Planning Point/ Pointer/ Laser pointer
PowerPoint Projector
Q&A/ Questions Quote/ Quotation
Read something out Remote control
Rhetorical question Row
Script Signalling
Size Slide
Stages/ Staging Summary/ Summarise
Survey Switch
Table Technical problems
Text Thanks
Time Topic/ Subject
Visuals Voice
Ask about any which you don’t understand, can’t think of any related advice for, etc, discussing related things you could do and say in a presentation each time.
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Write down useful phrases to say in a presentation using these words from above:
(Line) graph/ (Pie/ bar) chart/ Diagram/ Table/ Picture
Attend/ Attendee/ Audience
Attention
Bullet point
Column/ Row
Figure
End
Conclude/ Conclusion
Title
Interrupt
Introduce/ Introduction
Joke
Quote/ Quotation
Move on
Notes
Question
Slide
Summary/ Summarise/ Sum up
Time
Topic
Write down useful phrases connected to these situations that you gave advice about.
Greetings
Checking everyone can hear and see
Having problems with the equipment
Handing things out
Creating a “hook” to get the audience’s attention straightaway and keep it
Compare as a class or with the suggested answers.
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Suggested answers
Many more phrases are possible, so please check if you wrote anything different.
Phrases using the vocabulary
(Line) graph/ (Pie/ bar) chart/ Diagram/ Table/ Picture
This… represents/ shows…
You can see from this… that…
Attend/ Attendee/ Audience
It’s nice to see so many familiar faces in the audience.
I really didn’t expect so many attendees.
Thank you for attending…
Attention
I’d like to draw your attention to…
Thank you for your kind attention.
Bullet point
These three bullet points are…
Column/ Row
The columns/ rows represent…
Figure
These figures come from…
Figure One is/ shows/ comes from…
End
I’d like to end with…
That is the end of my presentation. Thank you for listening.
Conclude/ Conclusion
In conclusion,…
I’d like to conclude by…
From the information I have given you, we can conclude that…
Title
The title of my presentation is…
I’d like to start by explaining the title of my presentation.
Interrupt
If anything isn’t clear, please feel free to interrupt me at any time.
Introduce/ Introduction
I should probably start by introducing myself. I…
I only have time to quickly introduce the topic, but I’ll give some suggestions for further reading at the end
Joke
A joke that was popular last year/ when I was at school was…
Maybe the most famous Groucho Marx joke is…
As the joke goes,…
Quote/ Quotation
I’d like to quote…
There’s a famous quotation that says…
Move on
Moving on to the next slide/ topic/ point,…
If there are no more questions, I’ll move on to…
Notes
Let me just take a look at my notes.
Question
Are there any questions (so far)?
If you have any questions,…
I will now answer any questions you may have.
Slide
The next slide shows…
Moving on to the next slide…
…, which is the topic of the next slide.
Summary/ Summarise/ Sum up
To sum up,…
To summarise,…
Time
I seem to have run out of time, but if you have any questions please come up and talk to me afterwards.
I don’t have enough time to explain this in detail, but…
Topic
The topic of my presentation is…
I chose this topic because…
I think this is an important/ interesting topic because…
Phrases related to the vocabulary but not using the words
Greetings
Hi/ Hello/ Good morning/ Good afternoon/ Good evening
… everyone/ ladies and gentlemen.
Checking everyone can hear and see
Is the microphone working?
Can everyone hear me?
Can you see at the back?
Please let me know if you can’t see or hear.
Having problems with the equipment
I’ll have to carry on without the…
Please bear with me while I sort out the…
Handing things out
Can you take one and pass them along?
Here is a copy of…
This piece of paper has…
Creating a “hook” to get the audience’s attention straightaway and keep it
Did you know that…?
… once said that…
There is an amazing statistic that…
Have you ever wondered…?
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