A 1.05 Watch the summary from the finish to Cesars Step 1 presentation. Answer the questions.
1. What tense did Cesar use in his summary?
2. Do you think this tense is effective when giving a summary? Why?
3. Did Cesar follow the recommended procedure in his finish?
4. Was this effective?
B Complete this presentation extract with the present perfect or simple past form of the verbs.
Lets now turn to training. Many other international companies (1) .. (envy) our development programme five years ago. But, the internal situation
(2) .. (be) actually far from satisfactory. Then, each department (3) .. (make) its own decisions, (4) . (set) its own budget and (5) . (appoint) its own trainers. This often (6) (mean) that staff (7) . (not attend) training that (8) .(be) necessary for their jobs. We (9) (waste) both time and money. All in all, we (10) (not have) the best possible solution. How (11) we . (change) things since then? Well, all training measures (12) . (be) centralized. This year, we (13) . (make) HR responsible for all decisions on training. We (14) (allocate) one central budget and (15) .. (introduce) one integral system. Training (16) . (become) much more effective and targeted. We (17) (start) to build modern training facilities and you are sitting today in our brand new purpose built Academy. Im sure that you must agree that today we (18) (find) a much better, more effective and targeted solution than the one we (19) .. (have) before. Ill just quickly summarize what we (20) . (see) so far.
| Find Your Voice Now prepare and present the finish of a presentation, typical of your work or study situation. Include any phrases you want to learn Use the present perfect in your summary Make sure you give a clear logical conclusion |
STRUCTURING
SIGNPOSTING
A 1.06Watch an extract from an interview with Dan after his Step 1 presentation.
1. How does structuring a presentation help Dan?
2. Do you agree with his comments?
B 1.07, 1.08 Phrases 1 22 below are examples of signposts. Read them and check any vocabulary you dont know. Now watch the main content of Svitlana and Zhans Step 1 presentations and tick the signposts they use.
| 1. Moving on now to .. 2. I would like to begin by .. 3. Lets now turn to .. 4. Lets start with my presentation. .. 5. So, first of all .. 6. Now, turning to .. 7. Now, what about ? .. 8. Let me move on to .. 9. So thats the general picture for .. 10. Id like to conclude this point by saying .. 11. This leads me to a point .. | 12. So, weve looked at .. 13. That completes my overview of .. 14. Lets just recap .. 15. So, thats pretty much .. 16. and this is .. 17. Next we come to .. 18. So, that was .. 19. My next point is .. 20. Thats all I want to say about .. 21. So, that covers this point. . 22. And finally .. |
DELIVERY
