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Business English: Making Presentations

University of Washington via Coursera

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Provider

Coursera
Pricing

Paid Course
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Effort

17 hours 7 minutes
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Intermediate
Subtitles

Arabic, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, English, Spanish, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Hindi, Swedish, Korean, Greek, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indonesian, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Mongolian, Hungarian, Bengali, Pashto, Urdu, Azerbaijani, Farsi

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Business English Communication Skills

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This course teaches you language and techniques that will help you make effective presentations in English. The final task is to develop a well-organized, persuasive presentation using charts and graphs that sells your city as a venue. The course focuses on students who have an intermediate level of English, with a minimum of two years of formal language study. Course Learning Objectives • Present information in an organized and engaging way • Share data in charts and graphs • Use persuasive language in a presentation

Syllabus

Giving Effective Presentations

Week 1 is an overview of giving effective presentations. You will see examples of good and bad presentations and what mistakes to avoid.

Referring to Data and Describing Visuals

Week 2 is all about the visuals in presentations – any slides or graphics that you will use to support your presentation. This includes more work on describing charts and graphs clearly.

Persuasive Language in Marketing

Week 3 week focuses on using persuasive language in presentations, which should help you if you have to market anything from a product to a plan you’re presenting to your boss.