Welcoming the Audience

FORMAL

• Good morning/afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
• First of all, let me thank you all for coming here today.
• It's a pleasure to welcome you today.
• It’s an honor to have the opportunity to address you …

INFORMAL

• Hello/Hi everyone.

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• It's good to see you all here.

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• I'm happy/delighted that so many of you could come here today.

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• It's a pleasure to welcome you today.

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Introducing �Saying Name

FORMAL

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• Let me introduce myself. My name ‘s …
• For those of you who don't know me, my name is ...
• Let me just start by introducing myself.
• Let me start by saying a few words about my own background.

INFORMAL

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• My name is…

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• I’m …

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Giving your Position

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• I work for…

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• I’m in charge of…

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• I’m responsible for…

Presenting the Title/Subject

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• I’d like to talk to you today about…
• I’m going to present you… (inform you about… describe…)
• The subject of my presentation is ...
• What I'd like to present to you today is ...
• I'm here today to present...

Presenting the Title/Subject

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• Today's topic is...
• In my presentation I would like to report on ...
• In my talk I'll tell you about...
• Today I'm going to talk about...
• I'll be talking about...

Structuring the Presentation

Structuring the Presentation

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• My presentation will be in ... parts.
• I've divided my presentation into ... parts/sections. They are ...
• In my presentation I'll focus on three major issues.

Signposting the �Presentation

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• First/Firstly/First of all/In the first place…
• To start/begin with ....
• Second/Secondly…
• After this (that) /Afterwards…
• Next/Then, ...
• Lastly/Finally last of all…

Signposting the �Presentation

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• I’ll start off by…

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• Then I’ll move on to…

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• I’ll end with…

Timing

Timing

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• During the next 30 minutes we’ll be…
• My presentation will take about 30 minutes.
• It will take about 20 minutes to cover these issues.
• This won't take more than ...

Moving

• Let's move /go onto ... Now we come to ...
• That brings us to ...
• This leads directly to my next point.
• This brings us to the next question.
• After examining this point, let's turn to ...
• Let's now take a look at...

MAKING a START

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• Ask a question

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• Start with an interesting fact

• Tell them a story or anecdote

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• Give them a problem to think about

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• Use a quotation

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Getting the Audience’s Attention

Going Back

• Let's go back to ...
• As I said/mentioned earlier,...
• Let me come back to what I said before ...
• Let's go back to what we were discussing earlier.
• As I've already explained,...
• As I pointed out in the first section,...

Adding Ideas

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• In addition to this, I'd like to say...
• Moreover/Furthermore, there are other interesting facts we should take a look at.
• Apart from being too expensive, this model is too big.

Highlighting

Highlighting

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• I'd like to stress/highlight/ emphasize the following point(s).
• I'd like to start by drawing your attention to ...
• Let me point out that...
• I think you'll be surprised to see that...

Highlighting

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• What's really important here is ...
• What I'd like to point out here is ...
• Let's look more closely at...
• I'd like you to focus your attention on ...

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Giving Еxamples

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• For example, For instance…
• Such as …
• A good example of this is ...
• To illustrate this point, ...

Introducing a Visual

Introducing a Visual

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• Now, let's look at the position of ...
• Now, I'll show you the ...
• The next slide shows ...
• The (upper) part of the slide gives information about ...
• You can see here the …

Introducing a Visual

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• Let's now look at the next slide which shows ...
• According to this graph,
• This chart compares ...and ...
• As you can see here,...

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Indicating the End of your Talk

• I'm now approaching/nearing the end of my presentation.
• That covers just about everything I wanted to say about...
• OK, I think that's everything I wanted to say about...
• As a final point, I'd like to ...
• Finally, I'd like to highlight one key issue.

Summarising/Concluding

Summarising/Concluding

• I'd like to sum up now.
• Let me summarize briefly what I've said.
• Before I stop, let me go over the key issues again.
• In conclusion, ...To conclude, ...
• As you can see, there are some very good reasons ...
• I'd like to leave you with the following thought/idea.

Recommending

• My/our suggestion/proposal/ recommendation would be/is to …
• We recommend/I'd like to suggest/I propose setting up....
• We therefore (strongly) recommend that...
• In my opinion, we should ...
• Based on the figures we have…
• I'm quite certain that…

Question & Answer Sessions

Asking for clarification

• I’m sorry. Could you repeat your question, please?

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• I’m afraid I didn’t quite catch that.

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• I’m afraid I don’t quite understand your question.

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Crediting

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• "Thank you for asking that..."

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• "That's a difficult question...“

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• “That’s a very interesting question…”

Bridging

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• Does that answer your question?

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• Are there any other questions?

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Avoiding giving an answer

• Perhaps we could deal with that later.

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• Could we leave that till later?

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• If you don't mind, could we discuss that on another occasion?

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• Well, actually I'd prefer not to discuss that today.

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Admitting you don’t know the answer

• I'm afraid that's not my field.

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• I don't have the figures with me.

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• I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to your question, but I’ll try to find out for you.

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