Oral Summaries of published news articles-Levels B2, C1

Giving Oral Summaries of Articles

Zero Waste Collection Design: Daniel Silverstein

Here is an Amazing account of how Daniel Silverstein makes sure nothing goes to waste when he designs a collection.  He was featured on the blog "Trash is for Tossers" by Lauren Singer in New York City.

http://www.trashisfortossers.com/2014/10/the-piece-project-part-one.html

For selected students, you will read this article and orally summarize it in class, using the expressions we have studied.

All other students: you already have your article cut from the New York Times' Luxury Conference special newspaper supplement.

Everyone will have to summarize the main points and use some of these expressions:

Objectives:
-What I'd like to present to you today is...
-I'm / we're here today to present a summary of...
-Today's topic is...
-The subject of my/ our presentation is...
-In my/our presentation I/we would like to give you an overview of...
-In our summary, we'll tell you about...
-The purpose / objective / aim of our presentation is...
-Our goal is to give you a summary of...
-What we'd like to show you is...
-Today, we'll be showing you... /we'll be explaining the main points of...

Sequencing & dividing your presentation or oral summary
-we've divided our summary into (2) parts...
-In our presentation, we'll focus on (2 ) parts...
-First, we'll be looking at... / second... / and third...
-We'll begin / start off by talking about....... & then move on to...
  (then) (next) after that...
-Point one deals with...
Point two... and point three with...
-We'll end with...

Transitioning between points:
Introducting a point:
    -So, let me give you a brief overview of...
   -So, let's take a look at the first point.
    - This now leads us to....(point number 2)
     -Let's turn now to the next point / topic / issue
     -Let's turn our attention to...
     -Moving on to point three, you will notice how different it is...

concluding points
 - And that's how a zero waste collection is planned.
- This brings me to the end of my first point
-That's the background on... / that's the summary of the second point.
-That's all to be said about (point number 3)

Referring Back to something you have already said
-As I said / mentioned earlier / before
-Let me come back to what I said before
-Let's go back to what we were disucssing earlier
-As I've already explained
-As I pointed out in the first part...