The Language of Presentations




Home Negotiating Telephoning Meetings Presentations Opening a Talk Selling the Product Selling Yourself Selling a Concept Selling Techniques Handling Questions Handling Friction Grammar Vocabulary Listening and Pronunciation Practice Let's Do Business Achievement Tests	The Language of Presentations Level: Intermediate - Advanced Number of Lessons: 7 Total Hours of Tuition: 40 hrs average Total Number of Units: 21 Total Number of Pages: 222 "Let's Do Business -The Language of Presentations" deals with key business issues over a series of 7 separate lessons. All the lessons are self contained, and can be taken in any order. The key feature for each lesson is the video, taken from authentic management training materials. Click on the lesson titles on the left for more details on the video and the language objectives covered. NOTE: You need to have a User ID and Password to access the lessons. Click here to register. START ON-LINE COURSE

		Scenario In this film, watch the manager introduce himself and explain the subject of the talk.
	Lesson - 1 Opening a Talk (1 Units)
	Objectives:- You will study a set of idiomatic phrases study the structure of verb combinations answer a set of comprehension questions consider a training problem [Back to Top]

	Lesson - 2 Selling the Product (2 Units)	Scenario The speaker is trying to get sponsorship from companies for his orchestra. He outlines the reasons why companies should invest in his musical group.
	Lesson - 2 Selling the Product (2 Units)
	Objectives:- You will listen to countable & uncountable terms study a set of idioms study countable & uncountable terms answer some comprehension questions listen to wh-clauses study collocations of money study wh-clauses [Back to Top]

		Scenario Jane, a computer consultant, is asked to give a presentation to a group of accountants on the security of computer data.
	Lesson - 3 Selling Yourself (2 Units)
	Objectives:- You will listen to the language of comparisons study a set of compound adjectives practise making requests answer some comprehension questions listen to passive forms study a set of compound nouns practise using passives [Back to Top]

		Scenario Mike is giving a product update on the C11 project to the Sales team. Some of the Sales team are hostile to the changes so Mike has to sell the benefits of the new product.
	Lesson - 4 Selling A Concept (3 Units)
	Objectives You will practise past conditionals listen to idioms and phrasal verbs study a set of compound nouns practise relative clauses [Back to Top]

	Lesson - 5 **Selling Techniques (4 Units)**	Scenario The presenter, talking about Selling techniques, outlines a number of ways successful salespeople close a sale.
	Objectives:- You will You will practise talking about possibilities You will study a set of compound verbs You will listen to examples of can You will listen to a set of common idioms You will study a set of adjectives You will practise using conjunctions You will practise talking about the present You will listen to contractions You will study adjectives ending in -ed and -ing You will study a set of collocations You will study the uses of conditionals [Back to Top]

	Lesson - 6 Handling Questions (4 Units)	Scenario Jim Arlington presents a report to his Board of Directors on the work-in-progress on the C11 project.
	Objectives:- You will listen to some modal verbs study the usage of some modal verbs practise a set of compound noun study the usage of irregular verbs practise a set of idioms listen to past forms of irregular verbs study collocations of the word business listen to contracted forms of have study the usage of the present perfect listen to opinions and beliefs study how to give opinions and state beliefs study a set of phrasal verbs [Back to Top]

	Lesson - 7 Handling Friction (5 Units)	Scenario Sally meets the production staff to tell them about the new C11 product. Her task is to tell them about the changes that will occur.
	Objectives:- You will study the usage of the words so & then study a set of common idioms listen to some common sequencers study a set of collocations answer a set of comprehension questions study reported speech listen to verbs of speaking listen to examples of future forms study the usage of future forms listen to a set of idioms practise a set of common idioms study the usage of the words however and but [Back to Top]



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