Presenting in English A Practical Guide

This practical guide introduces students to the language and other skills needed to deliver a presentation in English. Concise and accessible, the guide will be particularly helpful to learners of English.

The book:

? covers different types of presentations, including group and online presentations, common structures of presentations, presentation tools, and the main message that each presentation should have

? introduces the language skills necessary for presentations: useful English words, phrases, and sentences to use in the various parts of presentations, and how one?s pronunciation can become clearer to an international audience

? explains how to control voice and vocal tract usage and how to use the body as a communicator effectively

? discusses how to communicate with the audience, including how to handle questions, and looks at different types of audiences

? includes culturally diverse examples, case studies and exercises

Accompanied by online support material with recordings, the book is an essential guide to delivering a successful presentation in English.

FOREWORD

PART A. THE PRESENTATION

1. Presentation types

2. Online and joint presentations

3. Presentation structure

4. Digital slide shows

5. Slide design

PART B. THE LANGUAGE

6. Useful sentences

7. Useful words

8. Clear vowels and consonants

9. Tongue twisters

10. The music of your English

PART C. THE PRESENTER

11. Speaking style

12. Posture

13. Face, arms, and hands

14. Emotions before presentation day

15. Emotions on presentation day

PART D. THE AUDIENCE

16. Knowing your audience

17. Handling audience diversity

18. Engaging your audience

19. Convincing your audience

20. Audience questions

INDEX

Dick Smakman is Lecturer at Leiden University, The Netherlands, where he teaches courses in Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics. He is the author of Accent Building (2015), Discovering Sociolinguistics (2018), and Clear English Pronunciation (2020). He has taught courses and delivered presentations at various universities, particularly in Europe and Asia.