How to keep in time during presentations

We all know the problem, our teacher provides us issues with heaps of information and it is often difficult to accommodate these into a predetermined time.

So I took the chance to provide my audience, my English class, with helpful options and solutions to keep in time during presentations.

The information of the following presentation-slides is based on an article of the University of Leicester.

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After presenting, I got the chance to receive feedback.

There were several helpful aspects, that could be improved and implemented into my upcoming presentations.

One important aspect was, that I should use the “International” Logo of our University, instead of the Dutch one showing that this course is international and not just local.

Moreover, I had a spelling mistake, which I could easily avoid by looking over my presentation several times.

All in all I took a lot of useful information from this tutorial, about my performance, as well as the ones from the others and I am looking forward to implement the improvements made on them in my following performances at the University to be more professional.

Welcome, here I am! My language learning history.

Well, how should I start my first Blog entry? I think first of all I should tell you something about my English knowledge level.

I started learning English in the 4th grade of primary school, our teacher taught us words describing colors, numbers and how to introduce ourselves. Ongoing, I have been learning now for more than ten years. During my school-time I took part in several exchange programs where I noticed how important English was. Looking back, I can remember just one funny situation when I was in Severna Park, Maryland, USA. I tried to explain my exchange mum that I needed a towel. Trying to find this simple expression I stumbled  something like “May I have a serviette, please?” My host started laughing and asked: “What?”

This is to show how a multi-lingual boy from Europe mixed up a French word with a double meaning simply trying to find an English expression for a piece of cloth to dry his skin.

So far I realized that my school English wasn’t always sufficient to manage simple everyday-life situations.

After having finished school with my A-levels, I started travelling through southeast-Asia, Australia and New Zealand, to explore the world and also improving my English skills.

The result was heaps of new vocabulary, but mostly colloquial and slang. Just to show you one example: in the Bushes of Australia “rednecks” usually welcome you by asking ”How ya, mate?” instead of saying formally “How are you doing, sir?” Even if I had a good basic school education and lots of exchanges as well as a one-year-trip, I had to realize that for my professional future it is indispensable to enter a new field of English, namely, Business English, to enhance my ability to express myself properly at the university as well as on my future job.

So my aims for this study course are to improve and to get used to “Business English” itself and to be able to transfer this knowledge to other study-subjects.

In addition to that, I want to gain better presentation skills and a reliable basis of business vocabulary.

In the end, I would like to read, write and speak Academic English, to participate in discussions at the university and to be successful in my future business job.

I am looking forward to tell you something about my first presentation in English in my next Blog entry.