- •Unit 1. Leading Companies of Oil and Gas Industry
- •Chevron: Providing Energy for Human Progress
- •Preparing for an interview
- •Category 2. Questions about Education
- •Modal Expressions: Ability and Inability
- •Unit 2. Business Conduct and Ethics Code of an Engineer
- •Code of Business Policies of tnk-bp
- •Canons of Professional Conduct
- •Modal Expressions: Scale of Likelihood
- •Improbability:
- •Impossibility:
- •Unit 3. Delivering Innovative Technology
- •Delving Deeper: Unlocking Offshore Energy
- •Presentation as a Special Communicative Genre
- •1. Communicative act
- •2. Attention Curve
- •3. Mode of Delivery
- •Types of Public Speeches
- •Informative speeches
- •Persuasive speeches
- •Goodwill (ceremonial) speeches
- •The Structure of a Presentation
- •Introduction
- •Conclusion
- •Information Organisation Patterns
- •1. Field m Development History
- •2. Drilling in Extreme Northern Regions
- •3. Abiogenic Petroleum Origin
- •Modal Expressions: Obligation
- •Unit 4. Company Profile and Records
- •Language of Presentations: Style and Typical Constructions
- •1. Style: communication instead of performing
- •Most audiences prefer a relatively informal approach. Compare the two variants with different degree of formality. Which one do you prefer?
- •Predominance of passive voice
- •Long attributive groups
- •Typical constructions
- •1. Introducing the topic
- •2. Previewing your speech
- •4. Closing a point / Changing the subject
- •11. Concluding your speech
- •12. Distributing support documentation
- •13. Closing formalities
- •14*. Transitions in a group presentation (combination of one speaker’s summary and another speaker’s preview) – should provide natural and logical flow of ideas.
- •Effective Vocal Techniques
- •1. Articulation / Word Stress
- •2. Pausing
- •3. Sentence Stress
- •4. Intonation
- •Body Language
- •Powerpoint Presentation Building Tool
- •Illustrations
- •Prepare a ‘Cue-Card’ Outline
- •1. Signaling your readiness to answer the questions
- •2. Handling Interruptions
- •5. Offering help to clarify information
- •A) Agree to a request q: Could we see that slide again?
- •Evaluation form
- •Modal expressions with perfect infinitive
- •Unit 5. Communication at Work
- •Questionnaire: Are You a Model Employee?
- •1. Understanding Responsibilities
- •2. Meetings (I)
- •3. Meetings (II)
- •4. General Workplace Communication
- •5. Regulations
- •6. Purpose of Job
- •Play Well With Others: Develop Effective Work Relationships
- •Department / departmental meeting
- •Roles at the meeting: chairperson
- •Roles at the meeting: participant
- •Meetings: Politeness strategies
- •Present Tenses
- •Present Simple and Present Continuous
- •Present Perfect
- •Unit 6. Safety at the Working Place
- •The Role of hse Issues in Petroleum Technology
- •Development of Petroleum Technology
- •The Ways to Combat Pollution from Petroleum Industry
- •Information Accentuation Techniques
- •1. Emphasis
- •Intensification
- •Emphatic attitude
- •Stressing auxiliaries and negatives
- •2. Rhematization – main idea at the beginning
- •3. Rhetorical questions
- •4. Creating rapport
- •Question tags
- •Negative question forms
- •Past tenses
- •Past Simple and Past Continuous
- •Past Perfect
- •Unit 7. Geology
- •Bodies of rock
- •Types of rock
- •Geological processes
- •Geologic features
- •Miscellaneous
- •Geology Quiz – Rocks and Minerals
- •Geoscience: introduction
- •Petroleum geology
- •Active vs Passive Voice
- •Unit 8. Formation Evaluation
- •Investigation of Reservoir Rocks
- •Interrelationships between Formation Evaluation Methods.
- •Conditionals
- •Unit 9. Oilfield Exploration and Reserves
- •Oilfields and Reserves
- •Comparison of adjectives
- •Use Of Visual Aids
- •Key Points for Successful Presentation of Statistical Information
- •1. Graphs and Charts
- •Ex. 25. Match the following types of visuals to their functions.
- •Commenting On a Visual
- •Ex. 31. Study the following patterns. Cause, Effect and Purpose
- •Relative clauses
- •Unit 10. Reservoir Engineering
- •Miscellaneous
- •Reservoir engineering
- •Reading Units of Measure
- •Gerund and Infinitive
- •Unit 11. Drilling Engineering
- •Structures
- •Other equipment
- •Miscellaneous
- •The Basics of Drilling Technology
- •Various types of bit:
- •Subordinate clauses of result and purpose
- •A subordinating conjunction followed by a verb
- •Unit 12. Well Completion and Production Technology
- •Well treatment techniques
- •Reservoir treatment techniques
- •Well Completion and Treatment
- •Countable and uncountable nouns
- •Unit 13. Research and Development in Oil and Gas Industry
- •Technological Progress in Oil and Gas Industry
- •Adjectives and adverbs
- •Unit 14. Environmental Monitoring in Oil and Gas Industry
- •Types of environmental damage
- •Types of tanks
- •Protective methods and equipment
- •Miscellaneous
- •Oil Spill Prevention and Response
- •Cleanup and Recovery
- •Prepositions of place
- •Unit 15. Academic Writing and Scientific Research
- •Types of research
- •Research professionals
- •General terms
- •Writing a Research Paper
- •1. Why a Scientific Format?
- •2. The Sections of the Paper
- •3. Section Headings
- •Introduction
- •A) Title, Authors' Names, and Institutional Affiliations
- •Oil Mobility in Transition Zones
- •Ex. 12. Read the second part of the text and note down the most useful recommendations.
- •1. Abstract
- •Ex. 13. Read an abstract of a research paper and find the following elements in the text:
- •3. Materials and methods
- •4. Results
- •5. Discussion
- •6. Acknowledgments (include as needed)
- •7. Literature cited
- •8. Appendices
- •Language of Research Papers
- •Bibliography
Typical constructions
1. Introducing the topic
The subject of this talk/presentation …
I’m going to talk about …
My topic today is …
I ‘d like to talk today about …
I’m here today to … |
review |
My purpose today is to … |
present |
What I want to do today is to … |
introduce |
My objective today is to … |
analyze |
My main aim this afternoon is to … |
describe |
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outline |
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discuss |
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examine |
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show |
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demonstrate |
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investigate |
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consider |
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clarify |
2. Previewing your speech
a) outlining the structure of your talk
There are 3 main points to consider … first I’ll talk about … then …and finally …
I am going to divide my talk into 3 sections…
I have divided |
the talk |
into three (four, etc.) |
sections |
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my report |
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parts |
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our findings |
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this presentation |
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b) presenting the talk’s organization
The first part of my talk will concern/ will deal with …
Firstly, |
I’d like to |
talk about |
To start with, |
I want to |
go over |
Secondly, |
I’m going to |
look at |
Thirdly, |
I shall |
review |
After this |
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present |
Next |
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analyse |
Then, |
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consider |
Finally, |
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discuss |
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I shall be talking about / going over / looking at / reviewing / analyzing etc. |
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There are also more specific constructions that help to state your purpose more clearly.
OK, let’s get started. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for coming. I’m ( your name).
This morning I am going to be :
talking to you about …
telling you about …
showing you how to …
taking a look at …
reporting on the results of …
… so, I will begin by:
filling you in on the background of
making a few observations about …
outlining …
giving you an overview on the results of …
bringing you up-to-date on the latest findings …
… and then I will go on to:
highlight what I see as …
put the situation into some kind of perspective.
make detailed recommendations regarding …
discuss in more depth the implications of the data in the files in front of you.
Ex. 12. Refer to the topic you developed in Unit 3 in Exercise 22 and make an introductory statement, including statement of the topic and an outline of the speech, using the phrases in this section.
Listening
Ex. 13. Listen to introductions to two presentations and fill in the blanks with the phrases that you hear. You will hear the recording twice.
After that, practice repeating the talk sentence by sentence after the speaker, keeping the intonation as close as possible to what you hear.
Clip 1
“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much (1) __________. I hope my presentation isn’t going to take too long and that you will find it interesting. (2) __________ how we can improve internal communications within our company.
(3) __________ explaining that I’d like to talk about the business case for better communication; secondly, (4) __________ different styles and methods; and finally (5) __________ by talking about some of the basics we need to have in place to deliver good quality, consistent communications across the company. (6) __________ to invite you to ask questions at the end of the session and I’m sure there’ll be plenty of time for us to discuss some of the points (7) __________.”
Clip 2
“Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. (8) __________ to come and join me for this presentation this afternoon. My name is Tim Mason, I‘m a retail consultant, and many of you will have seen me shadowing you in your jobs and looking through the accounts and so on in the company over the last week. I’ve invited you here today (9) __________. First, I’d like to have a look at the performance of the company, the sales of the company over the last three years; then (10) __________ our market share in the womenswear market and look at our competitors; and thirdly, I’d like (11) __________ in our range of womenswear. At the end I’d be happy to answer any of your questions.”
Ex. 14. SIGNPOSTING. In a long talk, it is necessary to give the audience some clues helping them to follow you in your speech. This can be done by simple signposting verbs.
Match the following verbs with their functions.
to move on b) to go back c) to recap
to expand on e) to conclude f) to summarize
to digress h) to turn to i) to elaborate on
1. When you want to make your next point.
2. When you want to change direction.
3. When you want to refer to an earlier point.
4. When you want to repeat the main points.
5. When you want to give a wider perspective.
6. When you want to do a deeper analysis.
7. When you just want to give the basics.
8. When you want to depart from your plan.
9. When you want to finish your talk.