English Presentation Skills
To be able to do a presentation effectively in English, you will need to learn some skills and the appropriate expressions. The skills in English presentation cover your ability to open and close the presentation, signal the different parts of the talk, use presentation aids, and handle questions effectively. The following slide will help you to understand the stages so that you increase the ability to make presentations
Classroom Language: During The Lesson
Classroom language can be an invaluable way of promoting English as real communication, student involvement in the lesson, and active language learning skills. According to Doff, Teach English: A training course for teachers ( 1988), most of the language we need for organizing the class consists of simple expressions which can be used again and again. Getting everyone’s attention Listen to me, please Be quiet/Quiet down, please Silent, please Can I have your attention, please? Could you all listen to me, please? Would you …
Classroom Language For Students
Classroom language is a good beginning step for encouraging students to feel comfortable in a foreign language and for them to begin to “think” in that language. The goal is to get students to react in English, rather than in mother tongue. The more times they use English, the comfortable they will be. Here are some useful phrases you can encourage your students to say English 1. Permission Can I come in? Can I go out? Can I borrow _______________ ? Can I change seats? Can I go to the toilet/restroom Can you repeat that, please? C…
Classroom Language: Ending The Class
The goal of an English teacher is to use as much of the target language as possible. One of the most frequent ways that language is used in the daily routines refers to classroom language. Here are useful phrases that are often used to end the lesson. Feel free to use these or other that you find. 1. Not time to stop The bell hasn't gone yet. There are still two minutes to go. We still have a couple of minutes left. The lesson doesn't finish till five past. Your watch must be fast. We seem to have finished early. We have…
Classroom Language: Starting The Class
Classroom language is the routine language that is used on a regular basis in classroom. Knowing this language reduces the amount that students are forced to use their mother tongue and increases the amount of the target language they are using; it makes the language classroom environment more authentic. 1. Greeting Good morning/afternoon, everybody. Hello, everyone. Hello there, Anggie. How are you today? How are you getting on? How's life? How are things with you? Are you feeling better today, Santi? How are you this morn…
Offering things and service
It is common that English speakers make offers in conversations in order to be polite and helpful. When they do so they use these expressions: Offering Shall I (verb1)……….? Would you like me to (Verb1)………..? Would you like ………? Accepting an Offer Oh yes, I’d love to. That sounds nice. That’s very kind of you. Oh, thank you. Yes, please Refusing an Offer I’m sorry I can’t. I have to … Oh, I’d love to, but I don’t think I can’t. It’s all right. I can.......
Expressions Of Greetings & Leave Takings
In our daily life, we often need to greet someone, to introduce ourselves and other person and to express thanking. That’s why you need to learn this unit. It will be beneficial for you to get along well with people around you, either today or later when you get into the world of work. Formal Greetings Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Hello, how are you? Responses Hello. Hello, good afternoon. Good evening. I’m fine. Thank you. Very well, thank you. Informal Greetings Hi, how’s life? What’s news? How’…
Offering Something
Offering Something Responses Would you like Some drinks/food? Would you care for coffee? Why do not you have Some mint tea? How about having fun? May I offer you ...? Yes, please No, thank I do not drink coffee Thank you, I'd love to Oh, no
Giving Advice
Giving Advice
Asking For Permission
When you ask for permission to use something that belongs to someone else you have to do your best to be polite. It is desirable to use the word "please." Asking for Permission: Can I go out, please? May I open the window, please? Please, can I have a look at your photo album? Please, may I taste that hot spicy couscous dish? Do you mind if I smoke? Would you mind if I asked you something? Is it okay if I sit here? Would it be all right if I borrowed your mobile Phone? Giving Permission: Yes, please do. Sure, go ahead. …
Expressing Thanks
In the English language being polite means much more than just saying ‘thank you’,‘sorry’ and ‘excuse me’. Very often it requires forming long and complex sentences and choosing an appropriateword for a specific context.
Describing Things
Sometimes you may be asked to describe something, what it looks like, and it's function or purpose. For example, You may to talking to a person not up on the latest technological devises or telling someone about the newest time saving kitchen gadget. When you are describing objects you use adjectives, (words that describe nouns) such as the size, color, shape, material made from, thickness, texture, etc. Look at the expressions below that can be used when asking for descriptions of things Expression Respo…
Asking for Permission
Rani: Mum , can I go shopping with Maria? Mother: Yeah, sure. Rani: Cool. Oh, and then can i go to the cinema? Mother: No, you can't. Rani: Why not? Mother: Because it's Monday night, and you've got school tomorrow. Rani: Ok. One more thing, can I borrow some money? Mother: Yeah, OK. I'll lend you Rp. 100.000. But I'll only l…
Shopping
Everyone loves shopping, right? Well, maybe not everyone. But everyone has to do it from time to time to buy the necessities of life- like food and clothes. Whether you enjoy shopping and spend a considerable amount of time at it or you hate it and get it over with as quickly and painlessly as possible, there are standard expressions that are used. Look at these examples What the shopkeeper says Can I help you? May (can) I be of assistance? Are you looking for anything in particular? May I assist you? Could I help you find somethin…
Expressions of Agree and Disagree
The following expressions are commonly used to say agreement and disagreement. Agree I agree with you. You are right. Oh, that’s interesting. You have a good point. I think you might be right about that. Disagree I see. However, … I don’t agree with you. My point of view differs from yours. I think we are looking at this the same way. I think our perspectives are different. In my point of view… I see your point of view, but… I don’t see your point of view. I think you might be wrong. In English conversations, we often say …
Expressing Sympathy
What is sympathy? How to express sympathy? Sympathy is feeling for someone without specifically understanding what they're feeling. When we want to express our sympathy in English, we can use the following phrases Expressions used to show sympathy I’m extremely sorry to hear that … I’m happy to hear that … What a terrible situation Congratulation on … How terrible/ how awful! What a pity/ what a nuisance! Oh, that’s bad luck Oh, what a shame! When someone died, the expressions are: You have my deepest sy…
Expressing Certainty and Uncertainity
Bellow are some common expressions/phrases used to talk about CERTAINTY: He must be success She was pale. Now she is absent. She must be sick I''m absolutely sure I'm quite sure I'm certain I'm positive definitely. certainly. of course. And these are common phrases used to express UNCERTAINTY: it's possible, it's impossible, it might be, it might not be, it could happen I wouldn't like to say for certain. I'm not sure I doubt it. I have my own doubts. it's doubtful. It's…
Asking for and giving suggestions and advice
The following words, phrases and expressions are used to make suggestions and give advice in English. Using modal "should" You should be yourself You should got to your dentist You should try to practice English You shouldn't translate too much Using modal "ought to" You ought to be more careful You ought to make benefit of the Internet for learning free You ought to read more Using phrase "Why don't you..." Why don't you study tonight? Why don't you join an English club? Why don…
Telling the Time
For hundreds, maybe thousands of years we’ve all been obsessed by time. It’s part of our everyday lives. If we don’t know the time we might not be in time or even on time. We could miss our busses and trains, we might be late for appointments, late for work and most importantly, not catch our favourite television programmes. You can see the time on your watch, if you don’t have a watch there are clocks on walls and on many buildings. If you aren’t near any of those then the chances are your mobile phone can tell you the time. But what if yo…
Offering Help
There are a number of formulas used when offering help in English. Here are some of the most common: May I help you? Can I help you? Are you looking for something? Would you like some help? Do you need some help? What can I do for you today?
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