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Lesson 3 Beginning a Presentation

Welcome to ESLPod.com's “Business Meetings” course: lesson two.

I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

In the second lesson of “Business Meetings,” we learned business vocabulary for introducing the participants at formal and informal business meetings.

Now, in this third lesson, we're going to learn how to begin a presentation and let people know what's going to be discussed.

Let's begin by listening to the formal meeting.

Thank you, Alex. And thank you to everyone who is here today.

As you know, today's presentation is designed to present our recommendations about how Vision Corporation can increase its market share by reaching more of its potential market.

You should each have a copy of our handouts in front of you that correspond to the slides up here on the screen.

This first slide shows our agenda for the day.

First, I will begin with an overview of how our market share has been declining during the past twelve months, and the reasons for that decline.

Then, Ms. Graff will present the data that she gathered from the focus groups and her ideas for clarifying our target market.

She will be followed by Mr. Hanson, who will discuss adapting our product to meet market needs, and he'll conclude with our main recommendations.

Since we have limited time today, please hold your questions until the end of the presentation.

Shawn begins by thanking the people for coming to hear his presentation.

He says that “today's presentation is designed to present our recommendations.”

To be “designed” to do something means to be made or created for a specific purpose.

The ESL Podcasts, for example, are designed to help you learn English.

In this case, the presentation is designed to present recommendations.