Toyo Gakuen University Introduction to Business English 1B: Our Company Presentation project

Today we will continue working on our presentation project, and practice presentation skills. First, let's look at a company profile of a Japanese company called Logos.




Now let's watch a very bad presentation. How many mistakes can you find? What are the mistakes?



OK, now let's review the project outline. Click this link: Our Company.
In your presentation you must explain your company's corporate values and mission. Here are some links to some real company's mission statements:

• Starbucks' Mission Statement .  NB (注意せよ) In Starbucks' mission statement "partners" means "employees (従業員)"
• Microsoft's Mission Statement
• McDonald's Mission Statement
• Nike's Mission Statement

Now let's practice some vocabulary. Click this link: Presentation vocabulary

Finally, here are the presentation assessment criteria (評価基準). You can use this as a checklist.

Content (内容) 10 points


Your presentation must contain the following information:

• When the company was founded
• Where the company was founded
• Who founded the company
• The number of offices
• The locations of the offices
• The number of employees
• The company's product or service
• Annual revenues
• The company's corporate values (see p. 79 of  your textbook)
• The company's mission, services and benefits to its customers (see p. 133 of your textbook)

Presentation
A. Slides (5 points)

• 4 slides
• 30 point fonts
• An image on every slide.
• The URL of the sites where you got your images.
• No more than 10 words on each slide.

B. Speaking (15 points)

• Speech is 4 minutes long, each speaker speaks for 2 minutes, and the speech is memorised (Yes = 10 points; No = 0 points)
• Speech is clear, easy to hear, and easy to understand (scale (尺度) from 0-5)

Have fun!! Your presentation is next week Thursday the 10th of December.