2. Preparation and delivery

1. mastering the topic

2. preparing notes

3. practicing or rehearsing

4. recording oneself

5. getting feedback from others

6. making sure you can be seen

7. speaking in a clear and well-modulated voice

8. maintaining eye contact

9. using natural and communicative gestures

3. Providing input

1. stating the objectives and/or focus of the topic

2. using visuals and other aids appropriately

3. using handouts appropriately

4. using appropriate language (not too technical)

5. including only essential information

6. presenting points in a logical order

7. giving examples to concretize ideas

8. using humor, anecdotes an analogies to clarify and liven up the ideas

9. linking ideas constantly

10. repeating and reinforcing the main points

11. closing clearly with a re-iteration of the focus of the topic

6. Processing group presentation

1. making sure that presenters can be seen and heard

2. listening attentively to the presentation

3. taking down notes about the group output

4. planning the discussion strategy as the group presents

5. keeping to the chosen structure for discussion during the feedback session

6. using notes only as a guide during the discussion

7. asking questions to elicit the peers’ comments

8. getting the peers to make the evaluation

9. making the peers give reasons and details to support their views

Study the scheme. Think of an order of preparing a report. Make some notes to use the information for making your own presentation.

Your Topic

Order

Sort out

Classify

Recognize patterns

Identify assumption

Determine criteria for assessment

Evaluate

Personalize

Speculate

Use intuition

Your

Topic

Compare

Contrast

Summarize

Identify casual relationship

Expand

Modify

Concretize

Illustrate

Research the problem

Find alternative solution

Choose the solution

1. World of business unit 1

Lead in

• What forms of business do you know?

• Do you know special terms for them in English?

• Are there any differences between state and private types of business? Name them.

• What type of business do the company you work in use?

Discussion

• Divide in groups of three.

• Think of advantages and disadvantages of working in state and private company; in multinational and family company; in big team and working on your own.

• Discuss the ideas in group.

Vocabulary

• Read and translate new words and expressions using a dictionary.

to set up enterprise, retailing, buy in bulk, division of labor, liability, lack of capital, shareholder, benefit, board of directors, donations, revenue, volunteer, tax, partnership

• Try to give their definitions in English.

• In pairs make short dialogues using expressions from the list above. Read the dialogues aloud.

Pre-Reading task

Scan the text and find definitions of given types of business. Read them aloud.

Reading

Read and translate the text.