Pitch Delivery & Storytelling
Present with confidence using storytelling techniques, pacing, and body language
Who it's for
Written for B1 (intermediate) students who handle everyday English and are ready for longer answers.
English for founders: pitches, investors, demos and startup vocabulary. More Startup English lesson plans
Skills it practises
- Speaking: discussion questionsevery lesson
- Vocabulary: a target word listevery lesson
- Reading: a text or news storyevery lesson
- Controlled practice: gap-fills, matching, sorting and moreevery lesson
- Role-play: a dialogue to act outevery lesson
- An answer framework to structure what they say1 of 8 lessons
Lessons
- Opening with ImpactGoal: open your pitch with a hook — statistic, story or question — that captures a tired investor in the first ten seconds and earns the next five minutes.1 hr 13 minFree
- Telling Your Founder StoryGoal: tell a 45-second founder story that proves your connection to the problem — the moment of realisation, the insight, why you, and the bridge to the product.1 hr 7 minOutline
- Pacing and PausesGoal: control pace and use strategic silence — pause-marked delivery that makes your biggest numbers sound as big as they are.1 hr 7 minOutline
- Body Language on StageGoal: make your body tell the confident story — power stance, purposeful gestures, distributed eye contact, and deliberate movement with stillness on the key lines.1 hr 7 minOutline
- Handling NervousnessGoal: manage pitch nerves with a routine and a recovery — preparation that simulates the real thing, box breathing, and the pause-breathe-anchor move for live wobbles.1 hr 7 minOutline
- Storytelling FrameworksGoal: tell your startup story inside a named framework — Before-After-Bridge, Hero's Journey, or Problem-Agitation-Solution — and know which one fits your company.1 hr 7 minOutline
- Building Emotional ConnectionGoal: make investors feel the problem — one specific human scene, vivid before/after language, and the data bridge that turns empathy into an investable market.1 hr 7 minOutline
- The Perfect CloseGoal: end the pitch with the three-move close — one-sentence recap, genuine urgency, and a concrete dated next step — plus the rehearsed reply to “I need to talk to my partners”.1 hr 7 minOutline
How to use it in a lesson
- Lessons run 67 to 73 minutes, with a timing on every stage, so you can see before you start what fits your slot.
- Start with "Opening with Impact": its whole plan is on this site, stage by stage, with the target vocabulary, free to read and to teach from on any video call.
- For a shorter slot, skip a practice stage or cut the discussion short: the stages are a guide, not a script.
Teach Pitch Delivery & Storytelling with your student
Lesson 1 of this course is free. A free account opens it in the interactive player, and the rest of the course is included with Starter. Teaching it live with your student in the Tuton classroom starts with a 7-day free trial.
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