martes, 28 de enero de 2014

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES PRESENTATION

NEXT SESSION 30-01-14

Prepare a short presentation about one of the world's endangered languages, any visual support will be welcome.(You can find plenty of information on the unit "Multicultural English" such as useful links and websites). Bear in mind the following structure ;

1. Beginning - Short introduction
welcome your audience
introduce your subject
explain the structure of your presentation

2. Middle - Body of presentation
present the subject itself

3. End - Short conclusion
summarise your presentation
thank your audience
invite questions

 Some useful sentences and vocabulary to be used on your presentations:

Introducing the subject
  • I'd like to start by...
  • I’d like to begin by…
  • Let's begin by...
  • First of all, I'll...
  • Starting with...
  • I'll begin by...
  • I’ve chosen this topic because…
Finishing one subject...
  • Well, I've told you about...
  • That's all I have to say about...
  • We've looked at...
  • So much for...
...and starting another
  • Moving on to…
  • Turning to…
  • Now we'll move on to...
  • Let me turn now to...
  • Next...
  • Turning to...
  • I'd like now to discuss...
  • Let's look now at...
Ordering
  • Firstly...secondly...thirdly...lastly...
  • First of all...then...next...after that...finally...
  • To start with...later...to finish up...
  • Last but not least…
Analysing a point and giving recommendations
  • What I mean is…
  • Where does that lead us?
  • Let's consider this in more detail...
  • What does this mean for ABC?
  • Translated into real terms...
Giving an example
  • For example,...
  • A good example of this is...
  • As an illustration,...
  • To give you an example,...
  • To illustrate this point...
Summarising and concluding
  • So to sum up…
  • In conclusion,...
  • Right, let's sum up, shall we?
  • I'd like now to recap...
  • Let's summarize briefly what we've looked at...
  • Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we've covered...
  • If I can just sum up the main points...

LANGUAGES MATTER


DO vs MAKE


LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES.


MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES SESSION