Closing a Presentation: Business English Worksheets & Activities

Business English Closing a Presentation Worksheet - Reading, Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Labelling, Ordering, Gap-fill, Writing Sentences - Speaking Activity: Presenting In this comprehensive closing a presentation worksheet, students practice useful language, techniques, and steps for closing a business presentation. First, students label each part of a business presentation closing with an appropriate heading. Students then arrange sentences in the correct order to form a presentation closing summary. Next, students complete calls to action with phrases from a box. After that, students unscramble sentences to form expressions of gratitude to an audience. Students then move on to complete memorable statements with words from a box. Next, students use the steps and language from the worksheet to create their own business presentation closing. Finally, in pairs, students take turns to deliver their presentation closing to their partner, who listens and provides feedback. show less

Business English Closing a Presentation Game - Speaking: Preparing and Delivering Part of a Presentation, Freer Practice - Group Work This challenging closing a presentation game helps students practice professional closing techniques for business presentations across various business situations. In groups of four, students take turns drawing a situation card describing a business context and rolling a dice to determine their specific closing challenge, e.g. drawing 'You've pitched a new product to investors' and rolling a 3, which requires creating a closing that expresses gratitude to the audience. The presenter has 30 seconds to prepare their closing, incorporating the required challenge element and must commence delivery within 10 seconds of preparation time. After delivering their closing, the other players vote thumbs up or thumbs down based on whether the closing included the challenge element, was appropriate for the situation, and sounded professional. Players score 2 points for a majority thumbs up, 1 point for a majority thumbs down, or 0 points if there are no thumbs up. The game continues with players taking turns until someone reaches 8 points and wins. show less

Business English Ending a Presentation Activity - Listening: Matching - Writing Exercises: Writing Sentences, Guided Writing - Speaking: Delivering a Presentation Here is a useful presentation closers activity and worksheet to help students practice different ways to end a presentation. First, students do a group matching activity to help them become familiar with different types of presentation closers. Students take turns reading out presentation closers on cards. Together, students decide which description matches each presentation closer. Next, students take turns reading out phrases in bold on their cards and writing them under the corresponding closer description. Working alone, students then read a presentation conclusion and prepare three suitable presentation closers. After that, students prepare their own conclusion to a presentation using linking phrases and one of the closers from the worksheet. Lastly, in groups of four, students deliver their presentation endings to their group, who try to identify the type of closer used. show less