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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.

What makes a good anecdote? The humour? The personalization? The embarrassing moment? Not only should you have a good story, you should also use the right tenses when telling it.

Watching so many different nationalities at work confirmed once again what the British say about themselves. They love wit. They particularly like one-liners: these are short, funny statements.

It's been just over two years since the iPhone was launched in the US. Steve Jobs introduced the product back then to the world: his presentation started the hype. It was so good, that it's worth taking a look at again.

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.

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.

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?

You've been told you have to make a presentation about a few figures in your company. Would you know what to say? How to say it? If you're lost for words, you'll find our exercise useful.

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.