B. Comment on the presentation given by your colleague. Make use of the following points and helpful phrases

Translate the following words and word-combinations.

Word-building

· a gear – to gear - gearing adjustment – high gearing – low gearing - geared investment trust

· to draw – draft – overdraft – drawer – drawee - to withdraw – withdrawal

· hold - holder – shareholder – stockholder – stakeholder - holding

· debt – debtor – debit – indebtedness

· own – owned - owning-owner - ownership – ownerless

· owe – owing – owed

2.5.6 A. Use the plan below and the phrases that follow to make a presentation of a company. Surf the Internet, find supporting materials and base your presentation on the profile of a real company.

Greetings	Introduction (Preparing the audience)	Main Part (Delivering the message)	Conclusion (Winding-up)
Good morning / afternoon ladies and gentlemen!	First, let me introduce myself; I’m … from ….	Let us clear first of all over … (e.g the organisation structure / the general aims / etc...)	In conclusion ….
Ladies and gentlemen!	I’ll begin by …, then go on to …, and I’ll end with …	The first point to make is that ….	Looking back, ….
Good morning / afternoon!	I stick to the opinion that no speech can be entirely bad if it is short enough. So I intend to be brief.	The next point is that ….	That’s all I have to say for the moment.
Good morning / afternoon, colleagues!	It’s tempting to talk in terms of … (one or other’s views prevailing …)	However, one or two comments have some validity.	Before closing I’d like to summarize the main points again.
	The core of my presentation will be contained in ….	Initially, ….	Thank you for your attention.
	Feel free to interrupt if you have any questions.	All this suggests that, ….
	My presentation will take not more than 7 minutes as I intend to be concise.	… not to mention … [11]

- The timing

· … The presentation was a bit out of schedule/had an appropriate timing

· to follow the timeline

-The lay-out of the presentation

· to have a well-balanced lay-out (structure)

· to be plainly arranged into foreword, the body, conclusion

- The manner of presentation

· to show the ability to describe and comment on something (to explain, summarize and develop the idea)…

· to speak (exceedingly) fluently / to be inarticulate (incoherent)

· to speak in an appropriately formal tone/in a tone sometimes inappropriate

· to follow the response of the target listeners

- General language ability

· …the wide range of the active does the speaker credit / the limited range of the active is not to the speaker’s credit

· …the mistakes were quite occasional/ unfortunately rough

· …the speaker shows / can boast of a good (poor, adequate, relevant) command of the language

· to use helpful phrases (active vocabulary) in a full range

· … the speaker uses effective strategies for delivering the message across

- The contents of the presentation

· to give an insight into something

· to be integrated throughout the professional component

· to give relevant information (judgment / detailed description / recommendations) in various subject-matter areas

· to be discussed with a special bias towards analyzing and evaluating the relevance of something

- The use of visuals and slide structure

· … the chosen Power Point techniques (fonts, background, colours, animation, graphs and charts) make the statements more convincing

· to do something with flick-of-the-eye rapidity

· At a first glance, ….

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