Desafio 7 - To overcome the fear of public speaking

This audio clip by bbclearningenglish will help you to get ready to your oral presentation.
Listen to it and then complete the excerpts from two different presentations with the missing signpost expressions.



INTRODUCTION

Clip 1

“______1_______. I hope my presentation isn’t going to take too long and that you will find it interesting.____2______ how we can improve internal communications within our company. _______3_______ by explaining that I’d like to talk about the business case for better communication, _____4_____I want to cover different styles and methods _____5____I would like to finish off by talking about some of the basics we need to have in place to deliver good quality, consistent communications across the company. ____6_____ and I’m sure there’ll be plenty of time for us to discuss some of the points that have been raised."

Clip 2

“Good afternoon _____7______ to come and join me for this presentation this afternoon. My name is Tim Mason, I‘m a retail consultant and many of you will have seen me shadowing you in your jobs and looking through the accounts and so on in the company over the last week.____8___. First, I’d like to have a look at the performance of the company, the sales of the company over the last three years. ____9__ I’d like to have a look at our market share in the women’s wear market and look at our competitors and, ____10____ I’d like to suggest some improvements in our range of women’s wear. ____11___"

BODY

Clip 1

“____12___ you can see that our sales topped 50 million the year before last. Then last year sales dropped to 40 million with a slight recovery at the end of the financial year. However this year sales have continued to drop to an all time low of 30 million. ___13__ we have 25% of the market share, 10% down on last year.”

Clip 2

“ ___14___ how important internal communications are, is shown by some findings from research that we have recently undertaken. Good communications is a very key factor in staff motivation. ____15__, you will see how important it is to get the basics in place. You need to identify your communication requirement, agree your objectives and success criteria, identify your target audiences, define the content of your message. And determine the style of delivery. _____16___ communication process is when allthose basics fall into place naturally.”

CONCLUSION


Clip 1

“Tim: ___17___
Carrie: yeah, can I just ask .um . graph number 3 that last one you showed us can you explain to me where you’re intending to find the extra income to increase the design arrangement in the maternity ware?
Tim: ___18__I’ve looked at the office ware range and it is quite heavy on material, holiday ware tends to be much lighter much smaller amounts of material involved and I think that s an area… FADE OUT ……where will certainly find a large saving.”