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for this. My name is Benjamin. Today, we are going to be doing a short lesson on useful
vocabulary for making a presentation. So it's going to be useful for college students when
you have to make a presentation in class, and also for those of you who are studying
business English. So we are going to be looking at how to begin a presentation, how to present
ideas, how to... Useful words for putting your ideas across. Lovely. So, a good way to start, at the beginning.
We could say: "To begin with", or: "To start off", okay? So: "I'd like to begin by thanking you all
for coming today." Okay? "I'd like", obviously short for: "I would like to begin",
the infinitive "by"... "I'd like to begin by", and then you list the reasons or what
it is you want to start with. Okay. Another use of "begin
with" or "by": "It was a great start to the year, beginning
with the press conference in Japan", for example. Yeah? "It was a
great start to the year", and then "beginning with" with "ing". Just the
spelling when you are going to use "ing", you need to add that extra "n". "Beginning
with". So: "begin with" or "by". It kind of also works with "start off". So: "I'd like to start off by thanking
you for coming to engVid today." Okay? Or: "I'd like to start off
by thanking you". "Start off with", "start off
by", "begin with", "begin by", great ways for starting
a presentation. The next phrase I want to come on to: "base on".
Now, "base" as a verb, it has two different functions. Okay? It can be the reason for a
decision, or it can be to do with place. Okay? So... If I'm using it
in the past, I would say: "This was a decision based on", it's the reason for decision. So, you came to
engVid today based on your desire to become better at English. So: "I base", so I... My
reason for the decision, I base this on my understanding of the website.
Okay? Now, when I'm talking about place, we
talk about basing yourself at. So: "This company is based
in London", or: "This company is
based in Germany", or if you're going to
talk about the future: "We will base ourselves
in the United States" or: "We will be basing ourselves in
Montreal or in Russia." Okay? "To base yourself" and the
reason for a decision. Okay so far? I hope so. Going to do a quiz at
the end so if you... You can try out these phrases, and then I'll give you
a bit of feedback on the quiz. Now, if I'm doing a presentation and I
want you to do something, I might say: "I'd like you to come
up with some ideas.", "I'd like you to come
up with some reasons." Okay? So I'll put: "ideas". Let's just work on the pronunciation,
make sure you've got that right. "I'd like you to come", "I'd
like you to come up with", "I'd like you to come
up with some ideas." And then you can ask them to do it with the
person sitting next to them, whatever. Okay? Now, this is quite a difficult phrase: "deal
with". Okay? It... It basically means to have an answer to. So: "We need to deal with
foreign competitors." This is a very difficult word
to spell: "foreign", okay? It's "eiga", "gn", sorry. So: "We need to deal with
foreign competitors." Here are the foreign competitors, they're
saying things, and we need to have an idea. We need to have a good idea, we need to do
something in return. We need to enter the fight, almost. Okay? "To deal with". So, I am
dealing with... You can ask it as a question: "Are you dealing with that?" If you're the manager
and you're talking to someone in your company: "Are you dealing with
that portfolio?" or whatever it is. Right? Now, "move on". This is a good way, if you're
doing a speech, to move on to the next chapter. Okay? So I have my beginning, come... I'm
getting them to come up with ideas. I'm telling them to deal with something. And now, this is
just a way of going on to the next chapter, so I'd say: "Moving on to our company's progress
in Hong Kong." Okay? So, "moving on", now let's look at. Or: "I'd like to move on to...",
"I would like to", "I would like to move on to". Now, I'd like to move on to our next guest
speaker, so I'm just going to go next door and see if he's ready for us.
One sec. That's very strange, the guest speaker, he
wasn't there, so terribly sorry, but I have to finish it myself. Sorry about that. Now,
there's one other kind of word I wanted to draw your attention to. We've got: "refer to".
Basically means "look at". Okay? "Refer to". So, all these people, they're sitting
with their little booklets about my talk, I say to them: "Please
refer to page 21", or: "Refer to page 34 if you
want more information." Okay? Another use of "refer": If a person in
my company gives me serious problems, they're really rude to me,
I say to them: "Okay, that's fine. I'll be referring
that to your senior manager." Okay? "Referring to", it means going to
someone else, almost looking to someone else for an answer. Great, so that just puts us in time for our
conclusion. To wrap up a speech, you conclude. So we start with, start by, now we conclude.
So, to conclude today's presentation, I'd like you to think about doing
the quiz on www.engvid.com. Today we did... Well, how to start, we did "refer to", we said to "come
up with", all these really useful words that I hope you're going to be remembering.
You could say: "To conclude by..." I will conclude today's lesson by asking
you to take the quiz and to possibly subscribe to my YouTube video if you want more lessons. So: "conclude"
we can also use as a noun. My conclusion: Keep learning English, have fun with it. Get
a dictionary, keep on learning your words, talk to people as much as you can. We got like
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really hope you enjoy learning English, and thanks for watching
today's lesson. Okay, bye.
