Presentations- Prepositions and Determiners Pairwork

Presentations prepositions and determiners pairwork guessing game

Student A

Work in pairs with one Student A worksheet and one Student B sheet, not showing your sheets to each other. Choose one section below and read out phrases with the word in bold missing from each phrase until your partner guesses the word that is missing from all of them. They can only guess once per hint. If you have used all the examples and your partner still hasn’t guessed the missing word, make up more example sentences with the same word missing. Then switch roles and try to guess which one word is missing from all of your partner’s sentences. Take turns doing the same until your teacher stops the game. You can go back to a previous section again later if there are still examples left. 

Useful phrases for playing the game “No, that’s not possible (because…) I’ll read out another example.” “That might be OK, but that’s not what I’ve got written here. I’ll give you another hint.” “I’m not sure. Can you give me another hint?” “Sorry, can you repeat the sentence (a little more slowly)?” “Can you repeat all the sentences (so far)?”

A

• Figure 1 is a bar chart based on…
• Just a moment while I look at my notes.
• Let’s make a start, shall we?
• Let’s now take a look at…
• That’s a tricky one.
• That’s a good point.
• That’s a great question.
• There’s a famous quotation that goes…
• There’s a Japanese joke about this, which I would translate as…

 

About

• I’m going to talk about three topics.
• Thank you for inviting us here to tell you about our products.
• The aim of my presentation is to change your mind about the best solution for this.
• Then I’ll speak about the benefits of this product.
• Today I’m going to give you information about…

 

An

• I think this is an important topic because…
• That’s an interesting question.
• There is an amazing fact that…
• There is an old proverb which says…

 

Any

• Are there any more questions?
• At this point, I’d welcome any questions or comments.
• I hope none of you now have any doubt that…
• If anything isn’t clear, please feel free to interrupt at any
• There don’t seem to be any other questions, so I’ll finish my presentation there.

At

• Are there any questions at this stage?
• At this point, I’d like to ask if anyone has any questions or comments.
• Firstly, I’ll look at the selling points of…
• I will leave ten minutes at the end for questions.
• I’m afraid I don’t have that information with me at the moment, but…
• I’m pointing at a diagram which shows…
• If anything isn’t clear, please feel free to interrupt me at any time.
• If you have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer them at the end.
• If you look at this chart, you will see that…
• Just a second. Let me just take a look at my notes.

 

By

• I hope that by the end of my presentation I will have convinced you that…
• I should probably start by introducing myself.
• I’d like to conclude by…
• I’d like to start by explaining the title of my presentation.
• Let me begin by welcoming you to our HQ.
• So, let’s start by looking at the reasons why change is needed.
• What I want to achieve by presenting this is for you to accept a trial batch of our newest product.

 

In

• I don’t have enough time to explain this in detail, but…
• Just a second while I find the right page in my notes.
• You might have read that our company was in the news yesterday because…
• Thanks for coming to this presentation so early in the morning.

 

Your

• I’d like to draw your attention to…
• Please raise your hand if you have any questions.
• John. What’s your question, please?
• Thank you so much for your great questions.

 

For

• I’m going to speak for approximately five minutes.
• My presentation will last for about ten minutes.
• Sorry for not explaining that before.

 

Ask about any phrases which you don’t understand, think could have a different word in bold, etc.

 

Switch worksheets and play the same game, this time making sure that you choose the most difficult sections and most difficult examples first (because your partner has already seen that worksheet).

 

Student B

Work in pairs with one Student A worksheet and one Student B sheet, not showing your sheets to each other. Choose one section below and read out phrases with the word in bold missing from each phrase until your partner guesses the word that is missing from all of them. They can only guess once per hint. If you have used all the examples and your partner still hasn’t guessed the missing word, make up more example sentences with the same word missing. Then switch roles and try to guess which one word is missing from all of your partner’s sentences. Take turns doing the same until your teacher stops the game. You can go back to a previous section again later if there are still examples left. 

Useful phrases for playing the game “No, that’s not possible (because…) I’ll read out another example.” “That might be OK, but that’s not what I’ve got written here. I’ll give you another hint.” “I’m not sure. Can you give me another hint?” “Sorry, can you repeat the sentence (a little more slowly)?” “Can you repeat all the sentences (so far)?”

Of

• And last of all, I’m going to focus on the benefits of this idea.
• As most of you know, I’m Alex Case.
• First of all, I’ll explain why people aren’t happy with the present situation.
• In the first part of my presentation, I’ll show a short video.
• I seem to have run out of time, so I’ll stop there.
• In the second part of my presentation, I’ll look at the other side of the argument.
• The purpose of today’s presentation is to make you think again.
• The topic of my presentation is the future of wearable technology.

 

On

• I’ll focus on three main points.
• Moving on to the next topic,…

 

Some

• First of all, I will give you some info on our competitors.
• Here are some figures which show you what I mean.
• This chart gives some information on our market share in different countries.

 

That

• And on that point, I will bring my presentation to a close.
• I think I’ve covered that point, so now I want to speak about the financial side.
• I’m afraid I don’t have that information with me at the moment, but I’ll find out and email you tomorrow.
• If everyone is clear on that point, the next topic is other possible uses.
• Just a minute. I have that information in here somewhere.

 

Up

• Please put your hand up if you’d like to ask a question.
• To sum all that up, I have told you,…

The

• …, which is the topic of the next slide.
• …which is the last thing that I wanted to say today.
• As you can see on the first page,…
• As you can see, the overall trend is…
• For the first part of my presentation, I’ll give the background to the invention.
• From the information that I have given you today, I think we can conclude that…
• In the next stage of my presentation,…
• In the second part of my presentation, I’ll describe how innovative it is.
• In the top right corner, you can see our special logo.
• Thank you for finding the time to come and join me for this presentation.
• Thanks again for giving me the opportunity to share this information with you.
• That brings me to the end of my presentation.
• The next stage will be to talk about future developments.
• The main reason why I want to tell you about this is…

 

This

• I'd like to look at this column of the table in more detail.
• This picture shows the different designs which are available.
• This pie chart comes from our annual report.
• This slide shows why we made that decision.
• You may have read that we were one of the stars of this week’s trade show.

 

To

• I aim to prove to you that this is the future of transport.
• I hope we have the opportunity to do business together soon.
• I look forward to doing business with you.
• I only have time to quickly introduce the topic, but it should be enough to...
• If you have any other questions please come and talk to me individually.
• Just to check, are you asking what research we have done so far?
• Now I’d be very happy to answer any questions that you have.
• So, I’d like to get started, if I may.
• So, to summarise what I have told you,…
• That’s all that I wanted to talk about today.
• Turning to the next section of my presentation,…
• Yes, what would you like to ask?

 

No

• If there are no further questions, shall we negotiate an initial agreement?
• So, if there are no questions so far, let’s have a look at the market conditions.

 

Ask about any phrases which you don’t understand, think could have a different word in bold, etc.

Switch worksheets and play the same game, this time making sure that you choose the most difficult sections and most difficult examples first (because your partner has already seen that worksheet).