Presenting in English - How to Present an Introduction in an English Presentation

Hello students and welcome back to the English Danny channel.

i am teacher sarah today's video is the first video in our new series

presenting in english in this series you will learn helpful

presentation skills and how to present well in english

today's topic is effective introductions let's get started

what makes a good presentation this is a question we are going to be

answering throughout this series one of the most

basic parts of a good presentation is a good introduction

your introduction is the first thing your audience will hear you say

it is important to say something interesting

that will capture the attention of the audience

and will make them want to listen today we're going to talk about the four

parts of a good introduction a greeting an opener

a topic statement and a preview the first part of a good introduction is

a greeting in a greeting you should say hello and introduce

yourself to your audience let's look at two examples of a good

greeting number one hello everyone i'm sarah and i'm happy

to speak with you today

number two good afternoon my name is lisa i'm excited to be here

with you today as you can see we should say hello

give our name and connect with the audience

the second part of a good introduction is

an opener an opener is a hook that can grab the audience's attention

let's look at six common types of openers

a quotation or proverb a story a question a general statement

an instruction or task and an interesting

fact or statistic let's look at some examples of

each of these types of openers we are going to

imagine that we are giving a presentation about

learning a language number one a quotation

or a proverb a chinese proverb says to learn a language is to have one

more window from which to view the world

number two a story recently my korean friend told me that

she feels like a different person when she speaks english

this made me curious about what it is like to learn

another language

number three a question have you ever tried to learn another

language

number four a general statement i'm sure we all agree that learning

another language is not easy number five

an instruction or a task

please close your eyes now imagine you are in a foreign country

and no one speaks the same language as you

okay open your eyes number six an interesting fact or

statistic about 43 of the world's population can speak a

second language fluently these are all excellent ways to catch

the audience's attention and make them want to listen to what you

have to say after we have caught the audience's

attention we should move on to the third part of a good

introduction the third part of a good introduction

is a topic statement a topic statement tells the audience the

main subject of our presentation

it can be just one sentence that shows what topic we are going to talk about

let's look at two examples of good topic statements

number one today i want to tell you about my

experience learning a second language

number two today i'm going to share my language learning journey with you

the last part of a good introduction is a

preview in a preview we tell the audience

what details about the topic we will discuss

it is like a short map of our presentation

that shows what points we will stop at along the way

let's look at some examples of good previews number one

i'll explain how i made the decision to learn another language

what it is like to be a language student and how it has changed my life

number two i'd like to tell you how i made the decision to learn another

language what it was like to be a language

student and how it has changed my life now that we have looked at all four

parts of a good presentation let's put it together here are two

examples of good introductions number one hello everyone

i'm sarah and i'm happy to speak with you today

a chinese proverb says to learn a language is to have

one more window from which to look at the world

today i want to tell you about my experience

learning a second language i'll explain how i made the decision to learn another

language what it was like to be a language

student and how it changed my life

number two good afternoon my name is lisa

i'm excited to be here with you today recently my korean friend told me that

she feels like a different person when she speaks english

this made me curious about what it was like to learn another language

today i'm going to share my language learning journey with you

i'd like to tell you how i made the decision to learn another language

what it was like to be a language student and how it changed my life

remember for a good introduction we need a greeting an opener a topic statement

and a preview okay students that's it for today's video on how to

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