1. Structuring your presentation

3.  What can make a presentation difficult to understand?  Do your presentations normally have a typical structure?  If so, what is it?

5.  Go through (v): search through or examine methodically:  She started to go through the library to find that book.

6.  Cover (v): deal with (a subject) by describing or analysing its most important aspects or events  This course covers subjects about making presentations.

7.  Issue (n): an important topic or problem for debate or discussion:  the issue of racism

8.  Indicate (v): point out; show  Figures indicate a 2% increase in unemployment in the south east.

9.  Move on to (phr. v): to change from one subject to another when talking or writing:  Can we move on to the next item for discussion please?

10.  Guide (v): help  I never follow recipes exactly when I cook. Recepies only guide me.

11.  Structure a presentation (v. phr.): arrange a presentation according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to the presentation  You need to structure your presentation before you start to prepare your speech.

12.  Watch video 2.1 and compare the speakers’ answers and experience with yours.  Watch video 2.2 the presentation of Marcus Stevenson and do the activity 3 on your coursebook page 10.

13.  Before you watch video 2.3 consider these questions:  At which stages of the core structure will you tell the audience a) what you are going to tell them? b) What you have told them? c) Your key points?  The Core Structure Introduction Message 1 Message 2 Message 3 Conclusion

14.  Watch video 2.3 and do the activity 5 on your coursebook p. 11  Watch video 2.4 and do the activity 6 on your coursebook p.11  Lastly watch the expert view video 2.5 and compare his views with yours.

15.  Match the structures used in a presentation with its sections the activity 1 on your coursebook p. 12  Now watch video 2.6 and check your answers.  Do all the activities on pages 12 & 13.  Study the useful phrases on page 14 of your coursebook.