Business Skills - Essential words for activating your audience

in this exercise, you'll first hear excerpts from a presentation that Antonio is giving. Then we'll do an exercise in which we'll test you on some of the words used. Okay, first listen very carefully how many of you have lived or worked abroad for more than one year. Could you give me a show of hands please? Interesting. More than half of you. Now, when you think back to that time, how long did it take for you to feel comfortable in a different culture? A few months a year or longer? So we've looked at the need for greater intercultural understanding. What then, are the ways we can achieve this? Let's go around the room and I'll gather your ideas on the flip chart before I summarize. Do you have any questions? No, If there are no questions, let me just remind you of the main points again. Okay, now we'll give you two alternative words and then you'll hear one of the sentences from the presentation again, this time with a beep where one of the words belongs in the pause, choose the right word to complete the sentence, then you'll hear the full sentence again, repeat the sentence, trying to copy the speakers pronunciation and intonation. Ready? Here's the first pair of words to choose from. Play or show could you give me a of hands please? Could you give me a show of hands please? And here's the next pair of words looked or seen. So we've yeah, at the need for greater intercultural understanding. So we've looked at the need for greater intercultural understanding and another pair of words to choose from, assemble or gather. Let's go around the room and I'll your ideas on the flip chart. Let's go around the room and I'll gather your ideas on the flip chart. Yeah. And the next pair of words summarize or summary. Before I. Do you have any questions before I summarize. Do you have any questions? And here's the last sentence with two pairs of words to choose from. Remember or remind. And dots or points. If there are no questions, let me just you of the main again, if there are no questions, let me just remind you of the main points again. Mm hmm. Well done. Did you get all the words right? If not go back and listen to the dialogue again and then repeat the exercise. Okay. No. Yeah.