ACADEMIC
PRESENTATION
ENGLISH FOR PHYSICS I
2019
IRVANY NURITA PEBRIANA
ATTENTION GETTER
OPENING
1. QUOTE SOMEONE
2. TELL A STORY
• I read somewhere the
other day,
• You know, … I’m
reminded of the man that
…
3. ASK A QUESTION
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•
•
•
•
Did you know that …
Suppose …
Have you ever wondered why it is that …/ would you be interested?
How many people in this room had …
Have you been in situation when you …
4. STATISTICS & DATA
• Statistics shows that …
• According to the latest
study, …
SIGNALLING
A P R E S E N TAT I O N I S A J O U R N E Y
WHEN SIGNALING?
a.
The topic of the whole talk
b. The beginning or the end of each section
c.
A new point in a list
d. A contrasting point
e. An example
f.
A point of special importance
Signal used to indicate what we’re saying earlier (just now) and what we’re saying
next, which are spoken at the same time
1.
To expand on the figures for last year
2.
I’d like to recap on this main points
3.
Let’s go back to the question of clinical research methods
4.
To digress for a moment, let’s consider the alternatives
5.
Going back for a moment to the situation last year,
6.
Let’s turn now to our targets for the next five years.
7.
I’d like to turn now to our projections to the year 2005
8.
To go back to the main reason for our collaboration with
9.
I’d like to expand on that a little before we move on
10. Let’s go back for a moment to what we were discussing earlier
11. Let me expand on some of the main points in our proposal
12. To elaborate on that a little for those of you who aren’t familiar with Russian business practice,
13. If I could just move on to some of the problems we face in central and Latin America
14. I’d like to conclude, if I may, by repeating what I said at the beginning of this presentation
• Ok first of all I’m going to fill you in on the objectives, and then I’ll bring you up to speed
on how we are progressing so far.
• I’d just like to say a little bit more about costly shipping if I may, before we move on to
pricing strategy.
• So that’s our new text to speech software and that’s the first thing I wanted to show you today,
now let’s take a look into a more exciting text to speech package.
• Ok so that’s an overview of what the contrast covers, now let’s thrill down into some of the
details…
• So there, in a nutshell, you have the background to the project, now let’s look at some of the
milestones we scheduled into our plan.
VISUAL AIDS
INTRODUCING THE VISUAL
• OK. Let’s take/have a look at ….
• The first/second/final slide will show you …
• I have a figure/table/picture to show you
• Here we can see ….
FOCUSING ATTENTION OR HIGHLIGHTING
• I’d like to draw your attention to ….
• I’d like us to look at … in more detail.
• One of the most important aspects of this is …
• If you look at it more closely, you will notice ….
CLOSING AN ACADEMIC
P R E S E N TAT I O N
1. Signaling the end
2. Summarizing
3. Concluding
4. Closing
5. Inviting Questions (if appropriate)
1.
Signaling the end
• This brings me to the end of my presentation.
• That covers everything I wanted to say about….
• So, that’s all I wanted to say
2.
Summarizing
• To summarize/sum up, I’ve just talked to you about …
• In brief, there are four causes of …
3. Concluding
• I’d like to finish by saying that saving the earth is easy and needs our support
4. Closing
• Thank you for listening. I hope that this has been useful
• Thank you for your attention
5. Inviting Questions (if appropriate)
SUMMARIZING VS CONCLUDING
SUMMARY
• RESTATE the key points of your presentation
• Emphasize what you did I your presentation in relation to
the points of your presentation
CONCLUDING
1. Use a mantra  key phrase that is repeated several times
• Barack Obama’s “Yes, we can!”
2. Use rhetorical questions
• So, what’s the main challenge we face? The main challenge is piracy.
3. Use group of three
• I hear, I see, I understand