2012 - Class 5

/ Helena YEH 2012420

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 Outline
Language practices for English Presentation
Prelude/ Introduction Main content of the topic Conclusion Q and A others

Strategies of academic reporting

Announcing the start Offering the agenda of the presentation Moving forward Giving definitions Building relationships with the audience

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plan Purpose People Place, seating, equipment Presenting yourself

timing visuals content structure

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Analyzing
Items to be analyzed:
1. Audience 2. Purpose 3. Content Consider the audience Define objectives Develop contents

Basic Presentation Structure

1. Introduction
Begin powerfully

2. Body
Present logically Maintain interest Use visuals

3. Conclusion
Finish powerfully

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STRUCTURE of a Presentation Greetings and introduction State your purpose It should take the longest amount of time in your presentation. Give a brief outline Main Content Summary Conclusion Question time Farewell

On page 67 of the text book, Presentations.

Language practices for English Presentation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Prelude/ Introduction Main content of the topic Conclusion Q and A others

1. Prelude/ Introduction
1-1 prelude/ introduction
1. Good morning/ afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
/ 2. Good morning to you all.

3. Hello/ Hi, everyone. 4. Lets get started. 5. Its about time to get started. 6. Perhaps we should begin the presentation.

Introduction
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1. 2. 3. 4. Welcome to my presentation. Thank you for coming. Thanks for being here. Thank you for your time this morning. 5. Thank you for your interest in my presentation. 6. Well, thank you all for coming out on such a cold morning.

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Introduction
1.3 Self-Introduction
1. My names Helena Yeh. I am currently an faculty member at St. Johns University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.. 2. Im Jason Chen, a college student from St. Johns University in Taiwan.

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Introduction
Greeting
a. Im pleased/ delighted to be here today. b. Im very happy to have this chance to give this presentation. c. Im very pleased to present our research results to you today. d. My English is limited. Id appreciate your patience with my accent.

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Introduction
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1.Today, Im going to give a talk on the application of reading strategies. 2.Ill start off by filling you in on the background of this research. 3. Let me start with the theoretical basis of this new model. 4. The first thing Id like to talk about is the definition of the terms I will use in my presentation. 5. Id like to do my presentation according to the outline shown on this slide. Part one: Literature Review, Part two: Research Method, Part three: Research Results. 6. Here on this slide you can see an outline of my presentation.

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Introduction
Time arrangement/
a. The whole presentation will take about 30 minutes. 30 b. My talk will last at most half an hour, including the Q&A.

Q and A

a. Id be glad to answer your questions at the end of my presentation. b. Id be grateful if you could hold your questions until the Q&A session.

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Content
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a. Next, lets do a very quick review of the related literature on this issue. b. c. This slide provides a brief overview of the basic concepts of language testing. This literature review will examine the different approaches used to tackle truancy within schools.

d. Based on the information obtained from my literature review, I made the following hypotheses.

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a. b. c. d. Then, Ill do a very quick review on the data collection method used in this study. I conducted this study at a large research-oriented university in western Canada. My study employed a within-groups pretest and posttest design. By employing quantitative and qualitative research methods, we have developed a typology. After collecting all the necessary data for the study, we used the following analysis methods to analyze the data.

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a. Now lets turn to the results of our survey. b. The main results can be summarized briefly here: c. This table gives the average use of the three strategy categories. Among them, social strategies appear to be the most frequently used strategies by the participants, followed by metacognitive strategies and cognitive strategies. d. The findings of our analysis have important implications for future research. e. In addition to implications for testing and teaching, the results of our study also raise issues for university staff to consider.

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a. This slide is a brief summary of what Ive talked about. b. Now Id like to summarize my talk. c. Before I run out of time, let me summarize the main points. d. Why dont we quickly summarize what weve discussed this morning? e. Finally, Id like to draw the following conclusions. f. Although our study has revealed a great deal about the nature of language used at U.S. universities, more research is called for to expand our understanding of academic registers.

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a. That concludes my presentation/ talk. Thank you. b. Thats all for my presentation. Thank you, everyone. c. That brings me to the end of this presentation. d. My time is running out. Ive to stop here. e. That covers all I wanted to say today.

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a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. We have ten minutes for questions. 10 Please feel free to ask me questions. Ill now turn to the audience for questions. Please dont hesitate to ask me if you have questions. Thank you for your attention. Are there any questions or comments? ? I see that we have a few minutes left in my presentation today. I welcome your comments or questions. It seems you all have many questions. Please go ahead. Now who wants to have the fist shot? ?

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a. Im sorry. Im not sure if I understand your question. Could you repeat what you said?

b. Sorry, I didnt catch what you just said. Could you please say it one more time? c. Sorry, I didnt get your question. Could you say it again, please? d. Sorry, I dont quite follow you. Can you repeat it, please?

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a. Thats a very good/ challenging question./ b. Thats a good point. Im glad you asked that. c. Thats a valid point. Thank you for bringing it up.

a. Let me repeat your question to see if I understand you correctly. b. Let me rephrase the question so that everybody can understand. c. Are you asking what happened during the data collection process? ?

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a. Let me try to answer your question. b. Id like to do my best to address your concern. c. I think I answered that question earlier. d. Can I get back to you on that question? ? e. Thank you for your input. Ill go back and review/ check/ look into my research process with that in mind. f. Thank you for your compliment. I have done my best in this project.

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a. Perhaps we should give others a chance to ask questions. I hope we can talk in more detail after the meeting. b. Thats a really interesting question, but my research doesnt deal with that particular issue. c. I didnt address this question because it was not my purpose to address it. However, I feel sure it would be interesting to study it in another research.

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a. Im sorry. I wish I could answer your question. b. Im sorry. Im afraid thats not/ outside my field. c. Im afraid I dont have enough information at my disposal to answer that. d. Sorry. Its something I havent considered before. e. I can only provide a partial answer to that question. f. What Im going to say is not quite an answer to your question, but it is somewhat relevant to it. g. We dont have an answer to that question yet. h. There could be something I missed. Maybe we can talk afterwards.

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a. Does that answer your question?? b. Does that address the issue you raised?? c. Is that the answer to your question?? d. Do you see what Im getting at?? e. Is that clearer to you now?? f. I hope that answers/ covers your question. g. I dont know if thats satisfactory answer. h. Would anyone like me to repeat something?

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a. Are there any other questions or comments? ? b. Any other questions before we end this presentation? ? c. If there is no further question, Id like to end my presentation. d. If there are no further questions, perhaps we should wrap it up here. e. Our allocated time is almost up. Now Id like to answer one more question. f. Since were running out of time, I can only give you a brief answer. g. Since there are no more questions, lets conclude this presentation. h. I know that many of you still have questions, but unfortunately our time is up.

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a. Ladies and gentlemen, it has been a great pleasure for me to be here with you. Thank you. b. I really enjoy being here. Thank you for your time. c. Nice meeting all of you. Thank you very much. d. To all of you, thank you for coming/ attending. e. Let me thank you for sharing your views with me. f. Id be happy to stay here if you have any further questions. Have a good day.

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Is the microphone working?
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Can you hear me if I dont use the microphone? Am I speaking loudly enough for those in the back of the room? I want to check if all of you can hear me clearly. Is that good? I wonder if those in the rear of the room can hear me.

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I apologize for the technical problems. It will only take a few minutes to fix the computer.

Im sorry for the inconvenience.

Im sorry for the delay.

Put the front light out, please.

Lights on, please.

Could we have the light on here, please?

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I should point out, by the way, that there is room up front, if anyone wants to come in and sit down, or squeeze in.

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a. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated/ please take your seats. b.Id like to begin the present session. c. Lets get started. d.Well, let me begin.

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What Im going to present today is

In my presentation today, Id like to discuss

Ill start with Next, Finally,

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Three research questions will be addressed. First, Second, The last,

: ; ;

Ive divided my presentation into four sections. They are

In my presentation today, I will discuss four issues. At first, I will show you After that, I will talk about Thirdly, I will offer And lastly, Id like to propose.
; ......; :
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I will now proceed to the next slide.

Lets move on to a new subject.

This leads us to the last point of todays presentation, namely

The next point Id like to bring up is

The next issue Id like to focus on is

Shifting to the next point of my presentation, Id like to touch on

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Now Id like to switch gears a bit and move on to another issue.

So, lets turn now to a different school of thought in language acquisition.

Now we direct/ shift our attention primarily to globalization.

So the other idea that I want to mention is the flip side of this.

Well, Ive told you about Now lets look at

So much for Let me turn to

That just covers the Now Id like to turn to

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Lets go back to the issue of the data analysis method.

To go back to the main reason for us to conduct this research.

Lets move back for a moment to what we discussed earlier.

Anyway, let me get back to what I was saying about

Going back to what I was saying about

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Sorry, I didnt make it clear. Let me recap on that.

Perhaps I havent made myself clear. Basically, what Im trying to say is

......

Sorry, let me rephrase that.

Sorry, let me try that again.

Sorry, Ive forgotten to mention one thing.

Im sorry. What I meant was

Please allow me to correct a mistake on the slide. Instead of it should be

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To digress for a moment, lets consider other possibilities.

By the way, you may have seen a similar study in the news.

In passing, I just want to say how effective our research method has been.

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In the field of, this term refers to , but in the field of, this term means

This term is used generally to mean

This term may have other meanings, but for our purposes, it means

It is now important to realize that racism is not just an ideology, and in contemporary society it has been defined as a process by which subordinated groups are exclude.

In order to better understand the research well cover today, we need to define this term.

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Let me expand on some of the main points in our findings.

Id like to expand on what I said about

Id like to elaborate on that a little more for those of you who arent familiar with this model.

Let me try to explain it to you.

Let me put it another way.

My starting hypothesis is that initial GDP is significant in explaining economic growth, that is to say that a poor country grows faster than a rich country.

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Take this case, for example.

Let me give you an example.

To illustrate this point, let us consider an example.

I have several examples that will illustrate my point.

Let me, for a minute, take the example of performance gaps in public education.

To better understand this, we might, for example, look at

This example might help you understand

A good example of this point is

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Id like to conclude this talk by

Id like to conclude with the following

Id like to conclude by stating that

So, my conclusion is that

To briefly summarize my main points,

Let me finish my presentation by summarizing

Let me quickly go over todays main points.

Finally, Id like to make some closing remarks for todays presentation.

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We all know from our experience how difficult it is to randomly assign our subjects to either the control or experimental group.

I think we all need to ask ourselves how long we can go on in conducting our investigation.

A great number of difficulties await us in the future.

You know, over the past years the use of educational technology has progressed tremendously. As you can see from this table, the research results are not impressive. As most of you in this room are probably aware, Taipei has a lot of traffic problems. I can see some of you know what Im talking about.

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I think its about time to start todays panel discussion.

Well now proceed to the panel discussion.

Let us now begin this session of panel discussion.

All of you will please find seats. We need to get started.

My name is Helena Yeh. Im going to serve as the moderator for this session of meeting.

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The aim of this session is to review the present state of knowledge and to discuss theories concerning second language acquisition.

The purpose of this discussion is to provide a forum for the exchange of information between participants in this meeting.

The aims of this meeting are to foster the exchange of ideas, to evaluate new research methods, and to bring together scholars and experts working in this area.

This morning we are privileged to have with us a distinguished panel to discuss tsunami warning systems.

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Im pleased to introduce todays panelists.

We have a distinguished panel of scholars who have been involved in studies of this area for some time.

Were very fortunate to have with us today Professor Lee, Dr. Liao, and Mr. Chen.

We have a number of speakers, who will be presenting papers for about 15 minutes. And then at the end, well have an opportunity for a group discussion.
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I might ask Dr. Liao for his comments first and then we will open the entire panel to discussion.

Please hold your questions and comments until all of the panelists have spoken.

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I agree with that opinion. Im in favor of that position. I agree with you on this viewpoint. I think I am quite in agreement with Dr. Wu. I think I can accept your position on that. I fully support what you said. Im of exactly the same opinion with you. I agree entirely with your point of view. Thats exactly the way I feel. I couldnt agree more with your assessment of the two testing systems.

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I agree with most of what you said. But I must differ with you in this regard.

Unfortunately, I see it differently.

I agree with you to a certain extent, but I view this issue a little differently.

Im not convinced by your argument.

Im afraid you dont understand what Im saying.

Im sorry. I think you misunderstood what I said.

Im sorry to say that you seem to have a misunderstanding of our research work.

Im afraid what you said is beyond the point. It seems that it is not relevant to our present topic.

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Class practice
1. Work in pairs 2. Select the language patterns from each section 3. Practice with partner(s) 4. Class demo.

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Comments!?
Email Helena Yeh at

hcyeh2012@gmail.com

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Have a great Spring Break!

5/11 !

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