Pitch your project in english!

[Music] it's time to pitch your project you know your projects the best now you need to convince everybody else your pitch needs to be clear concise and compelling compelling is a good word in English and it means that people want to find out more there are three parts of your pitch that you need to work on the content delivery and Body Language Point number one content your pitch needs to be short and to the point you need to use a minimum amount of words for Maximum Impact every word counts you have to explain what your

game is and how it works what players will learn and why it's the best it's really important to get people's attention right from the start so maybe be open with a question or an anecdote or a story don't waste words talking about your team identify a problem and then provide a solution for example wouldn't it be good if HTML was easy well with our game it is once you've got their attention pitch your product but focus on the audience what can they gain from it why do they need it explain what your game is and

how it works what makes it different from all the other games you need to know and explain your USP your unique selling proposition your audience needs to understand your game quickly and easily they have to be able to imagine themselves playing the game finally end with a strong finish or call to action the audience has to know that your pitch is over do not finish by saying and that's it instead say vote for our game play it now and now some tips about the English you're going to use choose your words carefully make it about

the audience use the word you more than the word we don't talk about what you've done so don't say we have made a great design but say the design makes it easy for you to follow your progress word choice use strong verbs and the imperative form this is the key to being concise and convincing in English write what you want to write in your script and then make it shorter so instead of saying our game is great because it will teach you algorithms the easy way you can shorten it to learn algorithms the easy way

examples of some useful verbs are play learn challenge win beat or master so Point number two delivery this is all about how you say your pitch you've got your script it's short it's compelling and now you have to pay attention to to how you're going to say it you're going to need intonation pronunciation and practice ination means stressing certain words or syllables more than others English is a very up and down language so you want to create an engaging Rhythm and Pace by placing more emphasis on certain parts of your sentence or your word pronunciation

is also important you need to speak clearly and pay attention to words that end in s or start with h anytime there's an S at the end of the word we need to hear it otherwise it will sound grammatically incorrect for example the rules are easy pick up five cards place the pieces on the board we have to hear the S at the end of the word and if there's a h at the beginning of the word we need to hear that too how to play move to a higher level make sure you pronounce the

h at the beginning of the word and finally practice the more you practice the better your pitch will be and if you make a mistake just carry on so Point number three body language you make your first impression before you even open your mouth how you hold your body is important start by taking a deep breath Stand Tall control your hands smile use eye contact you should be looking at the audience more than your notes and look confident even if you don't feel it so to recap concentrate on content start and finish strong choose your

words explain your USP and make it about the audience delivery make sure you use intonation and be careful with your pronunciation and thirdly body Lang language look confident and smile so now you know what you have to do get [Music] pitching