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Steve Jobs no longer feels he can meet his duties and has resigned as chief executive of Apple. The 56-year-old, who is fighting cancer, was an inspiring leader — and presenter. His iPhone presentation back in 2007 started the hype and a mobile-phone revolution. 

There's nothing worse than text on a presentation slide that is too small to read — even when you're sitting in the front row. When you do need to write more, divide your ideas up into bullet points — and remember the rule of seven.

As a non-native speaker of English, you can make a few grammar mistakes in your presentation — when you make it in English. Your audience probably won't mind, but will you? Our exercise will help you to remember which verb form to use.

How would you finish your presentation? Could you end as dramatically as President Obama frequently does with his speeches? Listen to some excerpts from his inauguration speech and try our latest presentation exercise.

The first few sentences of your presentation are very important. If you show that you are confident about what you are about to say, your audience will sit up and listen. Learn some useful opening phrases in our exercise. 

There are many verbs you should try to use more often in your presentations: demonstrate, appreciate and showcase are just three. Would you like to learn more? Do you want to learn how to use them correctly?

No matter how aggressive the marketing or how wonderful the design, if the company doesn't offer proper training, it risks alienating its customers. Our exercise focuses on the language of training sessions. However, we think that anyone who has to attend a seminar will find the expressions useful.