English for Masters. Маркушевская Л.П - 108 стр.

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“In order to improve the performance of employees and ensure that their working
practices are as efficient as is humanly possible, a manager needs to make sure that
they have adequate and sufficient training to undertake the tasks assigned to them”.
The sentence can be rewritten in the following way:
“If employees are to work efficiently, a manager must train them properly”.
Vocabulary
get you down = make you feel unhappy
gabble = talk very quickly in a way that is difficult for people to understand
sustain = make something continue
sparingly = using or giving only a little of something
allotted = given officially for a particular purpose
VIII. Practice Section
Objective: to develop presentation skills
Strategy Point:
Use the Phrase Bank as a study resource (Helpfile 5)
Follow the checklists for the stages of presentations
(Helpfile 4) to help you structure the presentation well and
to evaluate it.
Use the worksheet in preparation of your full presentation
(Helpfile 3)
Contents:
I. Introduction
II. The main body
1. Signposting
2. Developing an argument
3. Preparing visual aids
III. Conclusion
I. Introduction
Exercise 1. Look at the relevant section of the Phrase Bank. Choose the expressions
you would feel more comfortable using and highlight them. Learn them by heart. If
you learn the expressions by heart, you will be able to use them automatically and,
therefore, confidently.
Exercise 2. This is what the American writer Steven Silbiger writes about
presentations (or public speaking) in his book, The Ten Day MBA, The Mini-Course
On Public Speaking.
1. Know your audience. Their interests, attention span
2. Know your own capabilities. Can you deliver a joke?
3. Keep it simple. Detailed information is best delivered in print.
Speeches should deliver concept and motivate.