戴軍英文

打算去海外留學的小夥伴們可能都知道，presentation是必不可免的。然而，很多台灣的學生對presentation並不太熟悉，更何況還要用全英文演講。所以老師特意弄來了要完成一場成功的presentation必知的超全攻略及必備的英語表達，大家學起來！

1. 開講前

① Say hello 打招呼。

這個大家應該都知道怎麼說，就不多講了。

② Opening statement 開場白。

也就是拋出個議題，引發大家對presentation的興趣。舉個例子：

"As you all know, this company is losing its market share. But we are being asked to increase sales by 20 – 25%. How can we possibly increase sales in a shrinking market?"

市佔率在逐漸下降的情況下反倒要提高銷售額。要怎麼做才行？

這種反差強烈的設定和提問就是一種相當不錯的開場白喲~

③ Overview 概要。

開場白之後，建議對自己即將進行的presentation進行一個概括。

包括你的presentation是關於什麼的，大概需要多長時間，以及對聽眾的提問將如何安排解答（隨時回答還是結束後統一回答）。舉個例子：

"Today I am going to talk to you about how we can do this. My presentation will be in three parts. Firstly I am going to look at the market and the background. Then I am going to talk to you about our new products and how they fit in. Finally, I'm going to examine some selling strategies that will help us increase our sales by 20%. The presentation will probably take around 20 minutes. There will be time for questions at the end of my talk."

是不是感覺presentation的結構很清楚明瞭呢？演講人也聽上去很有邏輯的感覺，層次一下就上去了喲~

Overview的實用表達

"My presentation is in three parts."

"My presentation is divided into three main sections."

"Firstly, secondly, thirdly, finally…"

"I'm going to…

take a look at…

talk about…

examine…

tell you something about the background…

give you some facts and figures…

fill you in on the history of…

concentrate on…

limit myself to the question of…

關於提問的實用表達

"Please feel free to interrupt me if you have questions."

"There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation."

"I'd be grateful if you could ask your questions after the presentation."

2. 開講中

① 強調重要性

在presentation過程當中，可以時不時提醒聽眾你正在講的內容有多重要。舉個例子：

"As I said at the beginning…"

"This, of course, will help you (to achieve the 20% increase)."

"As you remember, we are concerned with…"

"This ties in with my original statement…"

"This relates directly to the question I put to you before…"

② 讓聽眾跟上節奏

一定記得，聽眾是第一次聽你的presentation，所以他們並不十分清楚你演講的架構。所以你需要讓他們知道你現在已經轉到下一個part了。除了用"right", or "OK"來告知他們告一段落之外，還可以用如下表達：

"I'd now like to move on to…"

"I'd like to turn to…"

"That's all I have to say about…"

"Now I'd like to look at…"

"This leads me to my next point…"

③ 講解圖片時的實用表達

presentation一般都會用到PPT，而PPT的好處就是可以用圖片或圖示直觀展示某些觀點或資料。這時引導聽眾看圖可以用 如下表達：

"This graph shows you…"

"Take a look at this…"

"If you look at this, you will see…"

"I'd like you to look at this…"

"This chart illustrates the figures…"

"This graph gives you a break down of…"

記得，給聽眾充分的時間去理解吸收圖片或圖表回饋的資訊。在停頓一段時間後，再開始講它的重要性。比如：

"As you can see…"

"This clearly shows …"

"From this, we can understand how / why…"

"This area of the chart is interesting…"

④ 做總結時的實用表達

presentation結束時，一定要總結你的演講，並引導聽眾回顧你所講的內容。比如：

"That brings me to the end of my presentation. I've talked about…"

"Well, that's about it for now. We've covered…"

"So, that was our marketing strategy. In brief, we…"

"To summarise, I…"

3. 提問階段

① 感謝聽眾的聆聽和關注，然後請他們開始提問：

"Thank you for listening – and now if there are any questions, I would be pleased to answer them."

"That brings me to the end of my presentation. Thank you for your attention. I'd be glad to answer any questions you might have."

② 重述一遍問題時的實用表達

重述一遍問題有很多好處：可以讓你確認是否正確理解提問者的問題；給自己一點時間去思考如何回答；可以讓其他聽眾也能聽清楚並理解問題。

"Thank you. So you would like further clarification on our strategy?"

"That's an interesting question. How are we going to get voluntary redundancy?"

"Thank you for asking. What is our plan for next year?"

③回答問題並不代表就結束了，要確認提問者是否對回答滿意。

"Does this answer your question?"

"Do you follow what I am saying?"

"I hope this explains the situation for you."

"I hope this was what you wanted to hear!"

④ 遇到不知道的問題時的實用表達

不知道就是不知道，與其給出可能是錯誤的回答，還不如直白承認你不確定或不知道。

"That's an interesting question. I don't actually know off the top of my head, but I'll try to get back to you later with an answer."

"I'm afraid I'm unable to answer that at the moment. Perhaps I can get back to you later."

"Good question. I really don't know! What do you think?"

"That's a very good question. However, we don't have any figures on that, so I can't give you an accurate answer."

"Unfortunately, I'm not the best person to answer that."

最好能跟開場白首尾呼應。

"So I hope that you're a little clearer on how we can achieve sales growth of 20%."

"To return to the original question, we can achieve…"

"So just to round the talk off, I want to go back to the beginning when I asked you…"

"I hope that my presentation today will help you with what I said at the beginning…"

4. 其他情況

① 遇到困境時的實用表達

有時會遇到很窘迫的情況，聽眾貌似沒有聽懂你的演講內容，或者提問者質疑你給出的回答，這時候不要慌：

"Let me just say that in another way."

"Perhaps I can rephrase that."

"Put another way, this means…"

"What I mean to say is…"

② 記不住臺詞（演講稿內容）

總是會與一些很難的專業詞彙，或者是發音比較難的單詞，你可以把它們在你的index card上進行重點標注。然後到時候勇敢的停頓一下，環視一遍你的聽眾，然後看著你的index card，讀出那個單詞。聽眾不會發覺你是不記得臺詞，而是會覺得這是一個自然的呼吸停頓，或這可能是一個比較重要的部分而已。

③ 充分調動你的聲音

Don't speak in a flat monotone – this will bore your audience. By varying your speed and tone, you will be able to keep your audience's attention. Practise emphasising key words and pause in the right places – usually in between ideas in a sentence. For example "The first strategy involves getting to know our market (pause) and finding out what they want. (pause) Customer surveys (pause) as well as staff training (pause) will help us do this."

千萬不要用平直單一的語調進行演講，是你你也會睡著。時不時的變換你的語速和語調，以便讓觀眾能一直保持關注。事前可以練習下關鍵字的重讀並在適當的地方停頓（通常根據語意來分隔）。舉個栗例子：

"The first strategy involves getting to know our market (pause) 

and finding out what they want. (pause) 

Customer surveys (pause) 

as well as staff training (pause) 

will help us do this."

試著按照上面的指示讀一讀，聽上去會更加抑揚頓挫有節奏感。

但千萬記住，語速不能太快，聽眾一旦跟不上，你就完蛋了。