Communication

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Unit 10.

• Communication
• at International Conference

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Part I. Presentation at international
conference---continued

• Closing
• Before you close your presentation, pause for a
  while.
• Using one or two sentences to end your
  presentation.

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Signaling the end part

• 1. Well, that brings me to the end of my
  presentation. The last slide is a brief summary
  of what I have talked about.
• 2. Before I finish, let me just say.
• 3. To close my speech, Ill show you the last
  slide.

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• 4. Lets look at what I have talked.
• 5. To end my presentation, Id like to show you
  the last slide.
• 6. Finally, I am going to talk about.

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• Closing your presentation
• 1. Thank you for your attention.
• 2. Thank you for listening

3. Thats all I want to show you about Thank
you.
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• 4. Thats all for my presentation. Thanks for
  your attention.
• 5. Ladies and gentlemen, thats the brief
  introduction about my work. I welcome all
  comments. Thank you.
• 6. Thats all for my talk. If you have any
  questions, please dont hesitate to ask me. Thank
  you.

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• 7. ladies and gentlemen, thanks for your
  attention and I am quite willing to discuss with
  you anytime. Thank you.
• 8. Then thank you for the privilege of being
  present of this conference.
• 9. Thats all of my talk. Thank you for the
  opportunity of sharing my view with you.

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• Inviting questions
• 1. Now Id like to answer questions ,if any.
• 2. Now I am ready for questions, if any.
• 3. So, lets throw it open to questions.
• 4. I would be glad to try and answer any
  questions.

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Inviting the repetition of question

• Pardon, I couldnt hear what you said.
• I am sorry I forget your first question. Would
  you please be so kind as to repeat it?
• Well, I am not quite sure what your question is.
  Does it mean?

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• Are you referring to the significance of the
  difference?
• Are you suggesting that ?
• Sorry, I dont quite catch that. Could you please
  say it again?
• If I understand you correctly, you are
  asking/saying that.

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• Pardon. I didnt quite get the last point of your
  question
• I beg your pardon, I didnt catch what you said.

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Welcoming the question

• Thank you. I appreciate that question.
• This is a hard question.
• Id be delighted to answer your question
• In answer to your question, I would say that.

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• Thank you for your question. Ill try to answer
  it briefly.
• Thats a very good/interesting/big question. I
  ll try to explainbriefly here and I wish to
  have a further discussion with you on after the
  meeting.

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• I appreciate your interest in my research, but
  this needs further study.
• I I think it will be possible to answer your
  question when more experiments are completed.
• The only answer I can give at present is to .

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• We are now working on this problem and, if you
  agree, Ill answer your question in a few weeks
  by email.
• This is a question worth further discussion.
  Perhaps I could answer it in the seminar
  tomorrow.
• I think thats something we could look into in
  details later.

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Part II. Exchanging ideas at discussion

• Indicating that you have a question and asking a
  question
• Excuse me, did you say that?
• Pardon. You mean that youve tested it in?
• Well, I am not quite understand how you reached
  the conclusion. Could you please explain?

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• Yes. It shows the. Well, my question is?
• Excuse me, if how(about/to do/could it)?
• Sorry, I dont quite understand . Could it be
  possibly changed if?

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Expressing different ideas at a discussion

• Dr. Smith, have you ever. And if we take into
  account, perhaps .
• Perhaps we could.
• I suppose that but the fact is
• Sorry, I am not quite convinced that . Perhaps,
  we need.

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• Yes. Any could bring about. But .
• In case of , the result could be different.
• If I may say so, withoutwe cant .
• If I may ask(?????)

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Part III. Initiating a conversation

• Excuse me, arent you Dr. Engleton?
• Excuse me, Dr. I amfrom China. I am interested
  in. Could you ?
• Hello, Dr. xxx. Nice to meet you. Id appreciate
  the chance to talk to you sometime because I.

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• Part IV. Communicate with people
• Example
• Dr. Kerridge, may I introduce you to Dr. Hyman?
• Gld to meet you.
• Glad to meet you , too.
• Im pleased to meet you at last. Ive heard so
  much about you from Dr. Liu . I believe youre
  doing research in the field of Agri-economy.
• Thats right.

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• I was most interested in hearing about your
  recent paper on the immigrants from country to
  urban areas. Do you think you could let me have a
  copy?
• Id be delighted to. In fact, Ive got a few
  copies with me. Ill bring one with me tomorrow.
• Thank you very much.

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