ECA (Travel English): 中間プレゼンテーションサポート

Hello!

How are you? This is another post to support you in your mid-term presentations (中間プレゼンテーション). If you want to see the post from last week about presentations, click here.

First, here are my board notes from today (11/19). Here are the groups:

Team Silent will present on British food.
Monokuma's Family will present on comparison and contrast (比較対照) between food from Hawaii and food from another state in the U.S.
Yuzupan will present on food of India.
C Group will present on Vietnamese food.
Sousou Better will present on Mexican food.
A Group and B Group - I need to hear from you about what country's or culture's food you'll present on!

Here are more board notes. Here's the task and responsibility (担当者) sheet:

Here are some hints and tips for you about your posters or Power Point slides:

Now here are some more hints and tips for you!

1. Make small note cards to write key words or phrases on

This will help you to talk about your topic more than just read from your poster or slides. The people listening can read your poster. The key is to talk about your topic! 

You can make cards from paper - take an A4 or notebook-sized paper and fold (折る) it into 4 parts. 

2. Have each member of your group speak a different part of the presentation

In your groups, every member should speak on a different part of the presentation - one member introduce the topic, then another member go into the next part of the talk, and so on. 

* Here is some useful expressions for you to use when speaking in your presentation! Using these expressions is called signposting - using words and phrases that show the audience how you introduce your topic, how you go to the next part of your talk, and so on. 

a. Introducing your presentation

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...

b. Ordering points or parts

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

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

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

c. Finishing one point and starting a new point 

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...

d. Giving examples

For example...

To give you an example...

A good example is...

e. Finishing your talk
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.

You don't have to use every one of these expressions! But for each part of your talk, you should use at least one of these expressions as you go along.

I hope this will help you in your presentations. 

Good luck, and see you soon!