Lesson 5: Highly Effective Presenters

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Lesson Preparation

Vocabulary and Expression Builders

Presentation Vocabulary
Presentation: We have a presentation next week.
PowerPoint: I use PowerPoint for my slide presentations.
Slides: There are twelve slides in the presentation.
Projector: The projector is for the PowerPoint presentation.
Layout: The layout of the slide is important for the presentation.
Templates: They use templates in the company. They have standard colors and shapes.
Slide show: They had a great slide show.
Pitch: He pitched the idea to the executives.
Wireless: They used a wireless mouse for the presentation.
Question period: There was a question period after the show.
Audience: The audience was impressed with the show.
Listeners: The listeners did not understand all of the English presentation.
Screen: They asked for a screen for the projector.

Speaking English

Telephone requests
John, do we have a presentation to prepare for next week?
Who is doing the slides for the show?
Can you prepare the graphics?


Technique Builders
Dates: For more info go to Wikipedia.
January 1st 2008: January first two thousand eight.
1 Jan 2008: The first of January two thousand eight.
Also: Jan 1 2008: January first two thousand eight.
09/11/01: (USA) mm/dd/yy September 11th 2001
11/09/01:Other dd/mm/yy September 11 th 2001