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Signposting in Presentations (1) 2

This document provides tips for signposting a presentation, including greeting the audience, expressing the purpose, giving the structure and timing, handling questions, using visual aids, transitions, examples, summarizing, digressing, summing up, concluding, closing, and handling questions. Key elements include introducing the purpose and structure at the beginning, noting the timing, and concluding by summarizing and opening to questions.

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Signposting in Presentations (1) 2

This document provides tips for signposting a presentation, including greeting the audience, expressing the purpose, giving the structure and timing, handling questions, using visual aids, transitions, examples, summarizing, digressing, summing up, concluding, closing, and handling questions. Key elements include introducing the purpose and structure at the beginning, noting the timing, and concluding by summarizing and opening to questions.

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Signposting in Presentations

Greeting the audience

• Good morning/afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

• Good morning/afternoon, everyone.

Expressing the purpose

• My purpose/objective/aim today is...

• What I want to do this morning/afternoon/today is...

• I'm here today to...

Giving the structure

• This talk is divided into four main parts.

• To start with/Firstly, I'd like to look at...

• Then/Secondly, I'll be talking about...

• Thirdly...

• My fourth point will be about...

• Finally, I'll be looking at...

Giving the timing

• My presentation/talk/lecture will take/last about 20 minutes.

Handling questions

• At the end of my talk, there will be a chance to ask questions.

• I'll be happy to answer any questions you have at the end of my presentation.

Visual aids

• As you can see here...

• Here we can see...

• If we look at this slide...

• This slide shows...

• If you look at the screen, you'll see...

• This table/diagram/chart/slide shows...


• I'd like you to look at this...

• Let me show you...

• Let's (have a) look at...

• On the right/left you can see...

Transitions

• Let's now move on to/turn to...

• I now want to go on to...

• This leads/brings me to my next point, which is...

• I'd now like to move on to/turn to...

• So far we have looked at... Now I'd like to...

Giving examples

• Let me give you an example...

• Such as...

• For instance...

• A good example of this is...

Summarising

• What I'm trying to say is...

• Let me just try and sum that up before we move on to...

• So far, I've presented...

Digressing

• I might just mention...

• Incidentally...

Summing up

• Summing up...

• To summarise...

• So, to sum up...

• To recap...

• Let me now sum up.


Concluding

• Let me end by saying...

• I'd like to finish by emphasising...

• In conclusion, I'd like to say...

• Finally, may I say...

Closing

• Thank you for your attention/time.

• Thank you (for listening/very much).

Questions

• If you have any questions or comments, I'll be happy to answer them now.

• If there are any questions, I'll do my best to answer them.

• Are there any more questions?

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