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English for Presentations | Presentation in English

BEP — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:58:47 +0000

Are you looking to improve your English for presentations? Whether you’re a professional or a student, being able to deliver an effective presentation in English is a valuable skill that can open doors to new opportunities. In this guide, we will explore the key strategies and techniques to master the art of business English presentations. From structuring your presentation to using persuasive language, we’ll cover everything you need to know to captivate your audience and make a lasting impression.

Our earlier lessons look at key language for making a presentation in English . You’ll learn how to make a clear introduction, link and signpost your ideas, and deliver a powerful summary with a compelling call to action. As you progress, handling questions and answers becomes second nature, ensuring you can deal with any Q&A session confidently.

Moving on to delivery skills, we guide you through aspects such as using your voice effectively and presenting charts and graphs. These foundational skills lay the groundwork for a successful presentation in English.

Advanced lessons include our “Presenting Online” series, guiding you through the nuances of online presentations, and the advanced English presentations trilogy, covering the entire presentation process for advanced business English learners.

In the world of product presentations, we look at how to present essential features so you can perfect your sales pitch. For international conferences, our lesson on opening presentations ensures you start events with confidence, setting the stage for engaging sessions.

Handling Q&A sessions can be tricky, but our lessons on presenting in English prepare you to respond smoothly, managing queries with ease for a polished presentation. Lessons on SWOT analysis, presenting persuasive arguments, and sales presentations further elevate your proficiency.

Whether you’re building a solid foundation or refining your skills, these lessons serve as a comprehensive guide to business English for presentations. Get ready to captivate your audience and make a lasting impression in your next English presentation!

Our English for presentations lessons are listed by release date, with the most recent lesson at the top. Each lesson includes the podcast MP3, a PDF transcript and online quizzes.

Presentation Essentials eBook – New Edition Now Available

BEP 116c – Charts and Trends 3: Analyzing Trends

BEP 115c – Charts and Trends 2: Describing Trends

BEP 103c – English Presentations Charts and Trends 1: Visuals

BEP 37c – English for Presentations: Questions and Answers (2)

BEP 36c – English for Presentations: Questions and Answers (1)

BEP 33c – English Presentation: Summarizing and Call to Action

BEP 380 – Video Conferences: Presenting Online (3)

BEP 379 – Video Conferences: Presenting Online (2)

BEP 378 – Video Conferences: Presenting Online (1)

BEP 365 – English for Startups 2: Pitching to Investors

BEP 305 – Business English Collocations for Emphasizing (2)

BEP 304 – Business English Collocations for Emphasizing (1)

Skills 360 – Presentations: Connecting with your Audience (2)

Skills 360 – Presentations: Connecting with your Audience (1)

BEP 276 – English Presentation Skills 3: Wrapping Up

BEP 275 – English Presentation Skills 2: Engaging your Audience

BEP 274 – English Presentation Skills 1: Getting Started

BEP 267 – Presentation English: Presenting Numbers (2)

BEP 266 – Presentation English: Presenting Numbers (1)

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Presentation Essentials eBook – New Edition Now Available

BEP — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:43:04 +0000

We’re excited to announce the 3rd edition of our Presentation Essentials eBook, now with updated lessons and new audio.

If you need to present in English, this eBook will help you build the language and skills you need to present with confidence. Presentation Essentials is an 8-unit audio eBook designed to help you communicate clearly, confidently, and effectively in English presentations.

The lessons cover the full presentation process. You’ll learn how to open and structure your business English presentation, use clear signposting language, and guide your audience through your ideas. You’ll also develop language for describing charts and trends, explaining data, and highlighting key trends.

In the final units, we focus on finishing off your presentation and handling questions. You’ll learn how to summarize your message, deliver a clear call to action, and manage the Q&A session.

Each lesson includes realistic dialogs, clear explanations, and practice activities, along with downloadable PDF transcripts and MP3 listening files.

All eBooks are included with premium membership, or you can purchase the eBook for $15.95.

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BEP 116c – Charts and Trends 3: Analyzing Trends

BEP — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:15:10 +0000

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Welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on analyzing trends during a presentation in English.

Business is a game of numbers. And whether you’re in marketing, finance, sales, or operations, you have different metrics that tell you whether you’re successful. Read any business report, and you’ll see these metrics presented in charts and graphs.

But charts and graphs aren’t enough on their own. Sure, you can use them to present a snapshot of the current state. And you can show how different numbers have gone up or down relative to other numbers. But so what? The numbers are only useful if we can analyze them, learn from them, and make better decisions with them.

When you analyze trends in a presentation, it’s a good idea to clearly state your approach from the beginning. Then you can do things like describe the rate of change and speculate about future developments. You might also make specific predictions about what will happen and raise people’s awareness of possible future trends.

In today’s dialog, we’ll rejoin a presentation at a mobile company called Ambient. A director named Pat has been presenting results for sales and market share. Now Pat is digging deeper and analyzing the company’s performance on one key metric: revenue per unit, or RPU.

Listening Questions

1. What is Pat going to compare in his approach to analyzing trends?
2. What does Pat predict about his company’s “RPU” in the future?
3. What possible future trend does Pat warn about at the end of the dialog?

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BEP 115c – Charts and Trends 2: Describing Trends

BEP — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:19:27 +0000

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Welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on describing trends during a presentation in English.

Every great presentation has two things: good content and skilled delivery. These aren’t separate features. The content becomes good through skilled delivery. And skilled delivery means bringing the content alive, rather than just reading from a slide deck.

This marriage of content and delivery is especially important with charts and graphs. Many people know that visuals can enhance a presentation. But we’ve all had the experience of seeing a graph that’s so confusing that we come away feeling we know less, not more. So as a good presenter, you need to tell the graph’s story.

A graph’s story is all about change. Or lack of change. When we are presenting a graph, it’s always good to begin by introducing the theme, so people know what they’re looking at. Then we can bring people’s attention to specific parts of the graph. And we might describe how things are decreasing, staying the same, or increasing.

In today’s dialog, we’ll rejoin a presentation from Pat, a director with a mobile phone company called Ambient. Pat is giving a presentation to his sales team about market share. He’s talking about their own company as well as the competition, describing the trends in market share.

Listening Questions

1. What does Pat say is the theme of the chart that he’s showing?
2. Which company’s market share decreased in 2007?
3. What does Pat say about the market share of all the smaller competitors in recent quarters?

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BEP 103c – English Presentations Charts and Trends 1: Visuals

BEP — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:39:35 +0000

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Welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on using visuals and describing charts and trends in an English presentation.

We’ve all sat through boring presentations, with PowerPoints that are just slide after slide of too much text. If all you’re doing is reading off your slides, then why do a presentation at all? And if your audience falls asleep, then you’ve effectively communicated nothing.

If you really want to grab people’s attention, you use visuals. That could mean not just pictures, but graphs and charts. There’s no better way to represent data than with graphs. But the graph doesn’t do all the work for you. You still need to give it life and make it a seamless part of your overall presentation.

The first thing you might do is introduce the point you want to make, before you use the visual. And remember that your audience might have some understanding of the topic already, so you should acknowledge that. And you can make it dramatic by using foreshadowing and highlighting important points. And just like in any presentation, it’s good to use clear transitions between points and slides.

In today’s dialog, we’ll hear a presentation from Pat, a director with a cell, or mobile phone manufacturer called Ambient. He’s presenting to the company’s sales team about how they’ve regained market share after a rough couple of years. We will hear how Pat uses visuals to enhance his presentation.

Listening Questions

1. At the start of his presentation, what does Pat say they will focus on?
2. When talking about the company called Sirus, what does Pat “draw people’s attention” to?
3. What does Pat say to transition to showing information about Ambient?

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BEP 37c – English for Presentations: Questions and Answers (2)

BEP — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 16:41:31 +0000

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Welcome back to Business English Pod for the second part of our lesson on English for presentations and handling a question and answer session at the end of a presentation.

Presentations can be stressful. Speaking in front of the public, or even just your colleagues, makes even confident people nervous. And there’s one part of a presentation in particular that might dial up the nerves: the questions people ask at the end of your presentation.

The Q&A requires you to think on your feet. Some of the questions you get might be really difficult. And for that reason, it may be important to check that your answers are sufficient for the question-asker. At the same time, the questions might not even be relevant! So you’ll need a strategy for that situation as well.

Sometimes a person will ask a question that you think you’re not the best person to answer. In that case, you can figure out who to redirect the question to. And if this entire Q&A situation is stressful, well at least you have some control. You can control the timing, instead of letting it go on forever.

In this lesson, we’ll continue listening to a Q&A in a meeting at a steel company. Nick, a sales director, has just given a presentation. He and his boss Max are dealing with questions from Bryan and Cindy.

Listening Questions

1. After telling Cindy about measures of success, what question does Nick ask her?
2. What does Max say about Cindy’s question regarding morale and how the sales staff are feeling?
3. How does Nick respond to John’s question about marketing in the U.K.?

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