週7・8 - ECA (Survival English): 中間プレゼンテーションのサポート

Hello to all my Survival English students,

How are you? Here is another post for all of you about topic ideas, words and phrases you can use in your presentations.

Some topic ideas

• Food & drink from another country
• Greetings and everyday phrases in another language 「外国語の挨拶、日常的なフレーズ」
• Festivals and celebrations in another country 
• Transportation in another country
• A famous or important sightseeing spot in another country (= church, temple, building, park など)
• Customs in another culture
• Games or sports in another country

You can think of your own ideas too! You can look at the textbook for some ideas. 

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Here are some useful expressions!

You can use these when speaking in your presentation. Using these expressions is called signposting - using words and phrases that signal how you introduce your topic, how you go to the next part of your talk, and so on. 

1. Introducing your topic 「トピックの紹介」

Thank you for your time today. we'd like to begin by...

First of all, we'll...

Starting with this point, we'll...

We'll begin with...

2. Ordering points or parts「部分の順番」

First(ly)...second(ly)...third(ly)...last(ly)...

First...then...next...after that...finally...

To begin with...later...to finish up...

3. Finishing one point and starting a new point 「部分の終わり、新しいことを始まっている」

We've looked at...(now) let's turn to...

And that's this point...now we'd like to show you...

From here let's look at...

4. Giving examples「例えば」

For example...

To give you an example...

A good example is...

5. Finishing your talk 「終わった時のフレーズ」

We'd like to finish by saying...thank you for listening today.

Let us finish by saying...thank you for your time today.

To sum up...and that's all. Thank you for listening.

I hope this helps you. Please ask me for help if you need it. 

Have fun!