ENGLISH PILL 65/365: PERFECT PHRASES FOR PRESENTATION

WELCOME
OK, let’s get started. / Good morning everyone and welcome to … / Can everybody see? / Before I begin, I’d like to thank (name) for inviting me here today. / It’s good to see so many people here today. / I’m very happy to be here.

PERSONAL INTRODUCTIONS
Let me start by introducing myself. My name’s … / Just a few words about myself, … / Perhaps I should introduce one or two people in the room.

OBJECTIVE
The title of my presentation is … / This morning I’m going to talk about … / The aim of this short talk is to … 

GET ATTENTION AND INTEREST
Let me ask you a question. / Take a look at this picture. What does it tell you about …? / Somebody once said … (quotation) / Did you know that …?

AUDIENCE BENEFIT
I hope this presentation will enable you to … / By the end of my talk you will …

STRUCTURE
I’ll speak for about thirty minutes. / I’ve divided my talk into four main sections. / First, I’d like to … / Then I’ll talk a little about … / After that I’ll move on to … / Finally, I’ll … / If you have any questions, please feel free to interrupt. / OK, let’s begin with the first slide, which is …

SIGNPOSTS
OK, let’s move on to … / Let’s turn our attention to … / This leads me to my next point, which is … / Earlier I mentioned … / I’ll say more about this later. / I’ll come back to this in a moment. / Just to digress for a moment, …

FOCUS
Basically, … / To put it simply, … / So, for me, the main issue here is … / I’d like to stress that … / Let me emphasise that …

REFER TO VISUALS
As you can see on this next slide, … / I’d like to highlight two things on this diagram…/ What is interesting on this slide is … / I’d like to draw your attention to … 

ASK FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Are there any questions so far? / Does anyone have any comments? / How does this relate to your own particular context?

SUMMARIZE
Just to summarize the main points again, … / So, to sum up, we …

CONCLUDE
I’d like to finish by saying … / So, in conclusion, I hope that this talk has given you some … / Thank you all for coming. / I hope it’s been useful.

PRACTICAL MATTERS
I’ve got some handouts here. / Here’s my email in case you want to get in touch.

INVITE QUESTIONS
Do you have any questions? / Now, if you have any questions, I’ll do my best to answer them.

DEAL WITH QUESTIONS
That’s a very good point. / I’m glad you asked me that. / Sorry, can you explain that again? / So, if I understand you correctly, you’re asking … / That’s an interesting question. What’s your own opinion? / Has anyone else experienced the same thing? / I think that’s outside the scope of this presentation, but I’m happy to discuss it with you afterwards. / OK, I think there’s time for one last question.