Professional Workplace Communication - Pitching and Persuasive Presentations

Learn useful language and strategies, and practice essential skills for presenting information, ideas, products, services and organisations.

1. Staging a presentation

Learn useful words and expressions, learn how to structure and signpost the stages of a presentation, and watch a video of a presentation that doesn't go very well.

2. Presenting a tourist activity

Study an example presentation, and practise more useful language used when making a presentation.

3. Giving information and using visual aids

Study language to describe tendencies and changes, practise using visual aids, and practise word stress.

4. An effective four-minute presentation

Practise common abbreviations, focus on clarity, organisation and delivery, and practise language to express making things possible, and rhetorical questions.

5. Being persuasive

Practise clear, persuasive language to describe a company or organisation.

6. Elevator pitches

Learn about elevator pitches, then practise useful language and pronunciation.