BEP 115c – Charts and Trends 2: Describing Trends
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This episode focuses on how to effectively describe trends during a presentation using charts and graphs.
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bizpod/BEP115c-Charts-2.mp3 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…
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