Presenting Data

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 7 minStartup EnglishLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: present a metric as a data story — headline with a money figure, benchmark and compounding context, situation-complication-resolution, the hard question pre-empted.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Make the number land

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Presenting Data

    Read a 409-word text about Presenting Data

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Data Presentation Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: A model data story

    Read a 355-word text about A model data story

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: data-presentation language

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the tool to its job

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Practice: Data Presentation Dialogue

    Role-play: You're presenting quarterly metrics to your board of directors. (7 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: tell the data story

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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lead with the headlineprovide contextvisual hierarchytrend linebenchmarkdata storytellingbackup slidedata point

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