Business+Presentations

This space is for our ideas for teaching the skills and language needed for business presentations.
In his Upper-intermediate **//in company//** student's book, Mark uses the story of the first presidential TV debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon as a way of illustrating the importance of body language in presentations. Following on from this, I found and edited down to a useful length a video clip re-telling the story, which I think makes a nice addition to the reading activity in the book. media type="youtube" key="Ur92R4Gvcj4" width="425" height="350"

And here are two slide shows that I have adapted from the BusinessWeek.com website. One is specifically concerned with body language and could be used as an online reading activity, and the other covers a wider range of issues and might be useful to revise points you have already covered with your student(s):

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Click on the "View full-screen icon" to see the slide shows properly.

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Continuing with the theme of body language, but this time also bringing in the topic of how to use PowerPoint, here's another short clip of some promotional videos that I spliced together:

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I found this video on youtube - a comedian gives his version of what not to do with visuals. It really appealed to a student.

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Gillian