Engaging your audience
Read this handout to explore some strategies for engaging those listening to your pitch and keeping them interested throughout the presentation.
Making a FAB analysis
In this video, you will learn what a FAB analysis is. By using FAB, you can position your idea, product or service so that the listeners understand the value that it brings to them. This is especially important when you are pitching a new product.
Understanding a FAB analysis
Have you understood the concept of a FAB analysis? Try this quiz to check that you understand the difference between features, advantages and benefits that a product or service can bring to users.
Pronouncing keywords
Read this handout to discover some tips for making sure you can confidently pronounce the most important terms you will need to use when you give a pitch or presentation.
Pronunciation and intonation in your presentation or pitch
When you are ready to practise your pitch or presentation, try these activities to work on pronunciation and the use of your voice.
Introduction and structure of a presentation
Introduction and structure of a presentation.
Signposting language - useful phrases
In this handout, you will find a lot of useful phrases that will guide the audience through your presentation.
Voice coaching tips
This listening activity presents some advice on how to use voice and your intonation to engage your audience in your presentation.
Voice coaching tips - collocations
In this activity you can practise the use of collocations that were used in the recording in a previous task.
How to prepare a presentation?
In this activity, you need to complete the presentation with some singposting phrases. In addition, the text of the presentation gives you a few tips on how to prepare your presentation and what can help you control your nerves during your presentation. Once you have finished the task, you can listen to the presentation to check your answers.
What is a pitch?
Read this handout to find out more about the purpose of a pitch and the elements it typically contains.
Presentation - useful words
In these activities, you are going to practise different verbs along with the preposition you can use in your presentation.
Synonyms for a presentation - in-class version
These activities allow students to practice the use of different verbs along with the prepositions that may be useful when you make a presentation. There is also a speaking practice - giving a mini-presentation.
Presenting data in a graph description
Giving exact percentages when describing a graph can be substituted by less accurate phrases.
In the link provided below, you will have some practice with using less accurate expressions for data when describing graphs.
Graph description-synonyms and data
In this handout, you will have some practice with synonyms for words and expressions used to describe trends presented in graphs. You will also deal with different ways of presenting data.
Presentation openings
Experts say that the first few minutes of a presentation are the most important. In this handout, you'll have to match the provided items to make attention-grabbing openings. You will also have to recognize the names of the techniques used in the openings.