AEE 140: Three Pro Tips on How to Start Your Presentation in English with Carl Kwan

<p>Taking IELTS?</p> <p><a href="http://www.allearsenglish.com/training">Get our free IELTS video training course</a></p> <p>Do you have to make presentations in English sometimes?</p> <p>Do you know how to start your presentation in English?</p> <p>Today you’ll find out 3 awesome tips from our guest Carl Kwan!</p> <p>Carl has been on our show a few times this year!</p> <p>He is a presentation expert and he told us <a href="http://allearsenglish.com/aee-79-what-some-americans-know-about-presentations-that-you-dont/" target="_blank">why it’s important to know your audience when you present</a> and <a href="http://allearsenglish.com/aee-80-do-you-know-how-to-end-your-presentation-in-english/" target="_blank">how to end your English presentation.</a></p> <p>Today he’s here to show you how to get your presentation started!</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>3 Ways to Start your Presentation in English:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Start with a surprising fact:</strong> After you state the interesting or surprising fact, tell people what they should do with it. This gets their attention and this makes it easy for you to show them what they are going to learn. This is a more effective way to start than saying your name or “thanks for coming to my presentation.”</li> </ul> <ul> <li><strong>Use a story:</strong> Talk about what you were doing at a specific time when you thought about your presentation topic. For example, “Recently I was having a conversation with a friend when she told me about a really interesting method she is using to learn English.” With this strategy you should use a time reference. Talk about a situation and the action that was going on at the time. Use the word “when.” Using “when” is a good way to introduce the topic that you are about to talk about. This will get your audience interested.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><strong>Use a question to talk about a problem and your solution:</strong> Start by asking “have you ever…?” Then say, “well, here’s…” Here is an example from Carl: “Have you ever won