Meetings, Greetings and

Presentation language
Yeni Wulandari, S.S., M.A..
 Formal Greetings and responds
• Good morning
• Good afternoon
• Good evening
• Hello
• How are you?
• Good
• Fine
• Very well
• Great
• So so
• Not well
 Informal greetings and responds
Informal greetings
• Hi
• What’s up?
• How is it going?
• Hey
• Howdy
• What’s new?
• What’s going on?
Informal greetings’ responds
• Fantastic!
• Pretty good
• Can’t complain
• Okay
• Not bad
• Alright
• Hangin’ in there
• Been better
• Not so great
• Terrible
 Formal farewells
• Good bye
• Have a nice day
• Have a good…
• I look forward to our next meeting
• Until…
• Good Day
• So long
• Take care
• Good night
• It was nice meeting you/ it was nice to see you again
 Informal farewell
• Bye
• Bye bye
• See you later, see you soon, talk to you later
• I’ve got to get going or I must be going
• Take it easy
• I’m off
• Later, laters, catch you later
• Peace/peace out
• I’m out/I’m out of here
• I gotta jet/I gotta take off/I gotta hit the road/I gotta head out
 Language of presentation
• Using simple and clear language
• Use short words and short sentences
• Use jargons only if you are certain the audiences familiar with them
• Talk about facts not opinion
• Use active verbs than passive verbs

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 Signposting
• Introduction
Welcome
Explanation of structure
• Body
The core of your topic of presentation
• Conclusion
Summing up
recommendations
 Useful Expressions
Introducing the subject
• I’d like to start by…
• Let’s begin by…
• First of all, I’ll…
• Starting with…
• I’ll begin by…

Finishing one subject

• Well, I’ve told you about…
• That’s all I have to say about…
• We’ve looked at…
• So much for…
Starting another
• Now we’ll move on to…
• Let me turn now to…
• Next…
• Turning to…
• I’d like now to discuss…
• Let’s look now at…

Analyzing a point and giving recommendations

• Where does that lead us?
• Let’s consider this in more detail…
• What does this mean for…?
• Translated into real terms…
• Giving examples
For example,…
A good example of this is…
As an illustration,…
To give you an example,…
To illustrate this point,…

• Dealing with questions

We’ll be examining this point in more detail later on…
I’d like to deal with this question later in my talk…
Perhaps you’d like to raise this point at the end…
I won’t comment on this now…
Summarizing and concluding
• In conclusion…
• Right, let’s sum up, shall we?
• I’d like now to recap…
• Let’s summarize briefly what we’ve looked at…
• Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we’ve covered…
• If I can just sum up the main points…

Ordering
• Firstly… secondly…thirdly…lastly…
• First of all… then…next.. After that…finally…
• To start with… later…to finish up…
 Rules of the group presentation
1. The groups will be hand picked by the lecturer on meeting 10 consist of 5
members each.
2. The group MUST write a paper ( 2 pages+ cover) and submit it on Waskita on
week 12.
3. Presentation MUST include PPT slides and each member of the group must
present (speak in English) presenting about them for at least 2 minutes in the
video. The PPT slides is DUE on week 2 submitted ALONG with the paper.
4. Each group will have to upload their presentation video on class’ YouTube
channel on the scheduled date (late=no count) on week 12, 13, 14, and MUST
include hashtags #amikom #universitasamikomyogyakarta
 Themes of Presentation
• Trends of IT, E-Business, E-Commerce
• New IT systems
• Start up companies
• IT/apps hits
• Breakthrough IT company
• Innovation and new great ideas in IT
• Artificial Intelligence development
• IT development in education, business, medical, etc
• Unicorn companies
• Animation industry
• Augmented Reality uses in business and industry.