LearnEnglish Select Intermediate

6.1 Understanding and reporting back on a presentation

Useful language
Reporting back on a Verbs for describing product Signposting language
presentation research first
guarantee to carry out research second
product description to compare third
starting price to feel/be safe
suggestion to report accidents/problems next
suitable to survey after that
to test then
to trial at the end
to try out finally

Grammar
Making requests (indirect questions, and direct requests)
A direct request is in the form of a statement, not
a question. For example:
Make notes on anything else they say during the
presentation.
After the question word (what, where, when, who
or how), indirect questions have the same word
order as positive statements. For example, How
much do the tickets cost? is a direct question.

Indirect questions make requests softer or more To make this an indirect question, you say Could
polite. The request above, for example, becomes: you tell me how much the tickets cost?
Could you make notes on anything else they say
during the presentation?

Check my progress
Are these statements true for you? If not, go back and do some activities
from the unit again.
Yes No
I can make requests.  
I can understand specific details given in a presentation.  
I can use signposting expressions in a presentation.  
I can report back on a spoken presentation.  

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