Individual Presentation

• Preparation time:
10 minutes
• Presentation time:
2 minutes
• Passage length:
About 300 words
Preparation time
• Read and understand
the passage.
• Take notes to help you
in your presentation.
• Practise your
presentation.
Your notes should be:
• Correct: Read the
passage carefully.
• Concise: Only note
down the key words.
• Clear: Write your
notes in point form and
keep them organised.
Do not ...
• Write down anything
you don’t understand.
• Write down any words
you can’t pronounce.
• Spend the whole 10
minutes preparing
your notes.
 You are going to watch two
presentations. Which one do you
think is better?
Presentation #1.
Presentation #2
 And the winner is ...
• Presentation #2
• Presentation #2 wasn’t
perfect but …
• It was more pleasant to
listen to.
• All the main ideas were
mentioned.
• It proved that the
candidate can do more
than just read the passage.
 The Mr. Marc Method

Read a paragraph. Re-read the paragraph.

Make brief notes Make sure you

while referring to the understand the paragraph
passage as little as and re-read it if you don’t.
possible.
 The key is to spend more
time understanding the
passage and less time
copying big chunks from it.

Taking notes

Reading and
understanding
If you prepare your
notes well enough,
you won’t even
need them.
Don’t forget to save some time to
practise your presentation.

At the very least, you

should keep 2 minutes
to practise your
presentation.
Time to practise.
You have 80 seconds to
read the 1st paragraph
of a passage. Don’t take
any notes yet.
Click when
you’re ready.
 Drinking alcohol (para. 1)
Everyone knows that people who drive after
drinking too much alcohol pose a great danger to
innocent motorists and pedestrians. But alcohol
can also be very dangerous in another way. For
example, serious problems can arise if a person
passes out or becomes unconscious after drinking
heavily. Recently, a young Taiwanese woman
died after drinking large amounts of alcohol at
her own wedding reception. This tragic event
highlights the danger of consuming too much
alcohol at one time.
How much do you remember?
• What is the topic?
• What is the first danger
related to alcohol
mentioned?
• What can happen if a
person drinks too
heavily?
• Does the paragraph
give any examples?
Try giving the presentation.
• Drinking alcohol
• About ...
• Driving
• Pass out
• Taiwanese wedding -
woman died
• Too much - dangerous
Mistakes we avoided:
• Reading too much.
• Using expressions we are
not familiar with and
which might not sound
natural such as “pose a
great danger to
motorists...”
• Mispronounce difficult
words such as
“unconscious”.
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