Giving A Successful Business Presentation: Unit 12
Giving A Successful Business Presentation: Unit 12
Giving A Successful Business Presentation: Unit 12
12
Objectives
1. Technical Problems
2. Useful Phrases
3. Grammar : Modals, Certainty, Possibility and Probability
4. Prepare a powerful presentation
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Vocabulary
Useful Phrases
A When giving a presentation, you need to make sure your
content flows smoothly. To do this, you need to link your
ideas together. Read the list of
phrases and try to fill in the
missing words.
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Vocabulary
on
slide
look
shows
points
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3 Vocabulary
Earlier
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Vocabulary
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Vocabulary
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Sentences
Wrapping Things Up
A At the end of the presentation, you should include a very brief
summary of the topics covered. To introduce this part of your
presentation, use the phrases below.
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Sentences
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Sentences
Unnecessary
Good Questions Difficult Questions
Questions
I’m glad you asked Sorry. I don’t As I mentioned
that. follow you. earlier, …
That’s a very good Interesting. What Well, as I said, …
question. do you think?
I think I answered
Thank you. I’ll I wish I knew. that already.
explain that in
more detail now.
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Listening Comprehension
Listen to the dialogue again, and then answer the following questions
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Kelly: Good afternoon, Mr. Preston, ladies and gentlemen. I’d like to begin by introducing myself. My
name is Kelly Richards. One year ago, I founded a small company with three coworkers called
TechPro Consulting. Today I am here to seek investment from you to increase the scale of the
company. My presentation will last about ten minutes. I will start by introducing the concept
behind the company, and then move on to our running costs and the amount of investment we
need. At the end of the presentation, I will be pleased to answer any questions you may have.
TechPro aims to offer a broad range of consulting services. In this first slide, you will see…
Mr. Preston: Sorry, Kelly. What services will you be offering?
Kelly: That’s a good question; I will be coming to that point later. As I was saying, in this first slide,
you can see our model of how companies can work together for their mutual benefit. We call
this the networked model of consulting.
Lady: Is that how you will offer services?
Kelly: Yes, I was just coming to that. The next slide illustrates how this model allows us to offer the
following services: 1. Web design, 2. Manufacturing, and 3. Logistics.
Because different companies work together, as we increase the size of the company, we will
also be able to increase the range of services we offer.
Moving on to the next slide, we can see our total running costs. These have been kept as low
as possible. Unfortunately, I don’t have any more information about them.
Mr. Preston: Kelly, it seems you are not fully prepared for this presentation. Please schedule another
appointment with my secretary once you have all the information we need.
Kelly: Sorry. Thank you for your time.
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Grammar Check
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Grammar Check
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Grammar Check
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Grammar Check
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Grammar Check
Sample Answers
1. Belinda has a cold today. Will she go to work today? (Positive or negative
verb with 50% certainty)
She might go to work today.
→ _________________________________________________________
2. Randy has a good chance to receive a promotion. How does he feel?
(Positive or negative verb with a high degree of certainty)
He must feel very excited.
→ _________________________________________________________
3. That notebook has Barry’s name on it, but Roger is holding it. (Negative
verb with a high degree of certainty)
Roger must not take notes in class.
→ _________________________________________________________
4. My colleague is not well prepared for his presentation. How does he feel
about his presentation? (Negative verb with a strong assumption)
He must not be satisfied with his presentation.
→ _________________________________________________________
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Grammar Check
Sample Answers
Statements
1. My boss wants to talk to me about the information in my presentation. He
doesn’t seem too happy.
You must be very nervous.
→ _________________________________________________________
2. I just received my electric bill. It’s very high, but I wasn’t even home last
month.
Someone may be stealing your electricity.
→ _________________________________________________________
3. I wonder what happened to Robert. He didn’t answer my phone call last
night or this morning.
His phone might have run out of power.
→ _________________________________________________________
4. I don’t see my car in the parking lot. I’m sure I parked in that space over
there.
You may have moved it after lunch.
→ _________________________________________________________
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Guided Writing & Speaking
Company Presentation
Read the information provided about each of the companies
below. Choose one of them and write a brief presentation to either a
group of investors or a potential client for one of the companies
above. Use the phrases and grammar that you’ve learned to guide
you.
Use the phrases and grammar that you’ve learned to guide you
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Guided Writing & Speaking
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