Unit 5 Product Prentation
Product prentation is an important part of lling a product to prospective customers. Effective prentation is vital to give a good first impression of your company and your product.
It is not the employer who pays wages; he only handles the money.
It is the product that pays wages.
Henry Ford(1863-1947) American industrialist
Learning Objective
1．To talk about specifications and sizes of products
2qq头像女生可爱萌．To describe the features of products
3．To make a brief product prentation
Warm-up Practice
What information do you think the audience expects to get from a product prentation?
Size; special features; cost; delivery time; cost of delivery; length of guarantee period; lling points; market prospect.
Listening Practice
1. Listen to a phone call about the supply of some office systems and complete the chart below. (1:30)
Specification Item | Height | Length | Width | Thickness /Depth | Unit price | Guarantee period |
Partition | 1.8m | 颁奖词范文3.3m | 5cm | | $50 | 1 year |
Computer desk | 65cm | 95cm | 40cm | | $30 | |
Printer | 10cm | 20cm | 15cm | | $ 250 | |
Fill cabinet | 1.76m | | 90cm | | $125 | 15 months |
computer | 30cm | | 40cm | 25cm | $800 | 2 year 立春的习俗 |
| | | | | | |
2. Listen to ten ntences on the tape and write them down. (5:05)
1) What are the dimensions of the photocopier?
2) What’s the diameter of the disk?
3) Do you provide a money-back guarantee for your products?
4) This product is attractive, inexpensive, ur-friendly and environment-friendly.
5) This model comes in three colors: white, black and gray.
6) What’s the shape of the product?
7) Is it made of plastic or stainless steel?
8) The container has a volume of 45 cubic centimeters.蛋糕的英语
9) What are the lling points of your products?
10) This high-tech product is well received both at home and abroad.
Language Focus
Talking about specifications and sizes
1. Measurements
How long/wide/high/thick/deep is it? It’s 10 centimeters long/…
What’s its length/width/height/thickness/depth? The length/… is 10 cnentimeters.
Note: When we describe the dimensions of an object, we ldom u “dimension” words. We just say “by”:
15 x 8 x 10 cm fifteen by eight by ten centimeters
We can also ask about measurements/dimensions/specifications like this:
What are its dimensions/measurements/specifications?
What size is it?
How big is it?
We have a complete range of specifications.
2. Diameter (radius), area or volume
What’s the diameter/area/volume of …? It’s … is …cm, square cm, cubic cm.
It has/covers an area of 30 square meters.
3. Weight and capacity
How heavy is it?
What does it weight? It weights …
What’s the weight? The weight is …
How much can it carry/ hold? It can carry/ hold…
What’s its maximum load?
4. Shapes, colors and materials
What is the shape of this product? /What’s its shape? /What does it look like?
It has the shape of … /It is shaped like…/It is rounded/pear-shaped./It looks like…
What color is it? How many colors does it come in? (light/pale, dark/deep)
It is red/light blue. /It comes in three colors: red, yellow, blue.
What’s it made of/from?
Can you give the English equivalents of the following?
1) 厘米 centimeter 2）米 meter
3）毫米 minimeter 4）平方米 square
5）立方米 cubicmeter 6）公里 kilo
7）英里 mile 8）英尺 foot
9）英寸 inch 10）码 yard
11）公斤 kilogram 红楼梦名人名言 12）克 gram
13）磅 pound 14）盎司 ounce
15）升 litre 16）加仑 gallon
Below are some words ud to describe shapes.
Nouns Adjectives Chine
1) circle circular 圆
2) mi-circle mi-circular 半圆
3) square square 中学生入团申请书 正方 那一刻我懂了
4）oval oval 椭圆
5）triangle trianglar 三角
