To teach pertinent vocabulary for meetings and presentations

To put communication and language skills into practice using realistic tasks

To identify the essential elements of preparing and delivering successful presentations

KEY TOPICS:

Presenting background information

Preparing a powerful introduction

Linking topics and organizing presentation flow

Writing and speaking persuasively

Working with numbers & using meaningful visual aids

Presenting Options & Giving Opinions

Preparing a dynamic conclusion

Handling questions and problems

Evaluating the effectiveness of a presentation

This course, designed at an intermediate to advanced level, looks at some of the essential things that presenters often get wrong and demonstrates ways of avoiding these mistakes.   Language areas touch upon important topics such as incorporating connectors, referring to graphs and charts, emphasizing and minimizing information.   Participants will get to practice some useful exercises, and listen to people practice language for presentations on a class CD.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?