LESSON 1

Differentiating Between Types and Purposes of Presentations

Effective business presentations can help an organization to reduce internal conflict and increase external sales. Business presentations can be used to confirm a company's financial viability, to cast vision for a managerial staff and to honor the accomplishments of valued employees. Business presentations often take on distinctive characteristics depending on their overall purpose and the audience for which they are intended.

Christine Switzer, eHow Contributor

Part I Work in class

Task 1 Can you say? Let’s do it!

I. Pronunciation drills

pale-pail	pluck-punt	pyramid-pyre
peak-pick	power-pond	put-purse
pale-pal	purpose-pure	type-pipe
pen-pan	pheasant-photo	typical-python
pole-pol	proper-prophylactic	puzzle-tut

II. Tongue twister. Read as fast as you can.

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,

Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,

But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,

That’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,

So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,

Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,

Cause as sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang!