Unit 9.

Presentation in International Conferences

Part 1. Conference Presentation

 Prepare by reading your script and handle the time accurately.

 Practice your presentation with the visual aids for the best match.

1. Visual aids to help your speech ＊ PPT: large enough, color, layout (pink, purple are not suitable) ＊ Overhead projector (distinguishing )

＊ Slides (operation) ＊ Gesture (assisting your speech ) ＊ Posture (position, proper)

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2. Oral presentation Well Begun Is Half Done.

   Your presentation should － catch attention － arouse interest    Catch attention Eye contact- audience Salutation – language expressions

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Choose suitable language expressions for opening your speech

   Thank you Mr. Chairman Thanks for the chairman’s introduction.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to address this distinguished audience today.

我非常荣幸地能有此机会发言 .

Thank you and good morning.

It’s a pleasure to be here and an honor to present my … Good afternoon. I am pleased to participate the symposium and I am also honored to speak here.

I am privileged to be here with you this afternoon.

  Ladies and gentlemen.

It is a great pleasure for me to share my work with this distinguished group of scholars.

 I am honored to have been invited to speak at this symposium.

 I owe a great debt to gratitude to the Organizing Committee of the conference for asking me to speak here today. I wish also to thank my American hosts for their generosity and hospitality.

 I would like to thank Dr. Huang for permitting me the privilege to speak to this audience.

  Arouse interest Don’t start your speech with a tedious introduction      Go directly to your topic.

Topic: ★ not too long ★ using noun phrase ★ repeating your topic in proper time once

  Use visual aid to start.

(map, figure, table, diagram etc.)  Make a startling statement.

 Good morning, everyone, I appreciate the opportunity to be with you today. I am here to talk to you about

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a disease. Some of you may already be infected; most of you will in some way be touched by this disease. If this disease can’t be eradicated, it will have a direct and serious impact on every person in this

3. Presenting your speech

 pronunciation Clear, full vowel sound    rhythm making every meaning block coherently presented; avoid repeating unnecessarily, too quickly; proper pause

Language expressions for beginning your presentation

    ＊ I would like to start by briefly reviewing … ＊ Let us start with the theoretical basis of this new technique.

＊ To begin with, I have to review the previous work in ….

＊ I think it would be best to start out by looking at/into….

 The first point I’d like to make is …  First , I shall explain to you …

Language expressions for indicating your topic

 I would like to concentrate on the…  I prefer to confine my talk to the latest development in…  In today’s talk, I restrict myself to …

 In my presentation this morning, I’ll limit myself to three major points on…only.

 What I’m going to present today is ….

 I shall devote myself to the ….(specific topic)

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Language expressions for introducing outline briefly

My talk consists of two parts. One is …and the other is…  I’ve divided my presentation into two parts.

 My presentation will be given in four parts. The first part deals with…The second part relates to…The third part concerns and the last part discusses…

Language expressions for expressing purpose

 The purpose of my study is …  My purpose of the study is to …  The talk is designed for the purpose of…

 To realize the purpose of… , I conducted the research in…  For the purpose of…, I and my team studied… 

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Language expressions for shifting to the next main point

Well. Let’s move on to the next point.

 We will now come to the second problem.

 Turning to the next question, I ‘ll talk about the stages of the procedure.

 At the second topic, I shall stop here, Now let’s turn our attention to the third topic.

Language expressions for indicating summary

    To sum up, In summary, To summarize, Finally, as a summary statement,

Language expressions for conclusion

 In recognition of the above, we may conclude that…  Allow me to conclude by listing out all the factors influencing the efficacy.

 In conclusion, I would like to point out the following aspects.

 Let me conclude my talk with the following comments.

 I’d like to leave you with the following conclusion.

Language expressions of referring to the next topic

    I’ll deal with it later.

I’ll touch upon that point in a moment.

I shall tell you in detail shortly.

I shall discuss it in the second part of my speech.

Language expression for explaining PPT/slides etc.

      The diagram on this slide displaces… This chart depicts… The curve in this PPT shows… This table presents… The flow-hart points out… This figure exhibits…

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Presentation Practice

1. China-Africa friendship benefits the economy of the two parties.

 2. Agricultural development in China.  3. Chinese Farmers – cities.

their employment in  4. Food safety – Chinese diet.

a serious problem in

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About examination

1. Each student presents a speech for 7-8 minutes.

2. The speech must be assisted by visual aids-PPT.

3. After the 8-minute talk, audience will ask the speaker 2-3 questions about his/her topic.

4. The examination will begin on 21, Dec., 2006.

5. Students can choose any topic related to your research or adopt other people/s paper as your speech script

  5. A student can choose any topic related to his/her research or adopt other people ’ s paper as his/her speech script.

6. Students will be divided into 3 groups, first group will take part in the exam on 21, Dec. and the others will do it on 22, Dec.