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SOME USEFUL PHRASES FOR PRESENTATIONS

STARTING

At the beginning of each presentation, you should welcome the audience.

Good morning/good afternoon/good evening (everyone) and welcome (to my presentation).

INTRODUCING THE SPEAKER

- Let me introduce myself. My name is (Name) and I am the (Position) of (Company)


- My name is (Name)

INTRODUCING THE TOPIC

- I am going to talk about…


- The topic of my presentation today is…
- I want to make you a short presentation about…
- Today I am here to talk to you about…
- I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you about about…

WHY ARE YOU GIVING THIS PRESENTATION (OBJECTIVES)

- The purpose of this presentation is…


- This is important because…
- My objective is…

STARTING THE MAIN POINTS

After presenting the topic and your objectives, give the listeners an overview of the
presentation´s structure. Your audience will then know what to expect in detail.

- My presentation is divided into X parts.


- The main points I will be talking about are: Firstly, … Secondly, … Next, … Finally, we´re
going to look at…
- I´ll start/begin with…/First, I will talk about…Then, … I will look at…, and finally, I will
consider…

INTRODUCING THE MAIN POINT

After the preparation, you can finally get started with the main part of the presentation.

- Let´s start/begin with…


- First, I will talk about…
- I´ll begin with…

SHOWING GRAPHICS, TRANSPARENCES, SLIDES, IMAGES,…

- If you look at this bar chart/flow chart/line chart/graphic/table, you can see that…
- I´d like to illustrate this by showing you…
- Looking at this slide, we can see…
- Have a look at these figures…
- As you can see on the screen,…

TO GIVE EXAMPLES

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- For example/for instance…
- A good example of this is…
- To give you an example…
- To illustrate this point,…

REFERENCES TO SOURCES

- According to our study…


- Our data show/indicate…

QUESTIONS

- I am happy to answer your questions now.


- If you have any questions, please don´t hesitate to ask.
- Are there any questions?/Do you have any questions?

To ensure that a presentation is not disrupted by questions, it is advisable to answer questions


at the very end. Inform the audience about this.

- I´ll answer any of your questions at the end.


- I´d be grateful if you could ask your questions after the presentation.

INQUIRES

After answering a question from the audience, check that this person has understood your
answer.

- Does this answer your question?


- Did I make myself clear?

PARAPHRASE

At times it might happen that you expressed yourself unclearly and the audience did not
understand your point. In such case, you should paraphrase your argument using simpler
language.

- In other words, …
- What I mean to say is…
- To put it more simply…

LINKS

If you want to link to another point in your presentation:

- As I said at the beginnig, …


- Let me go back to what I said earlier about…

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

At the end of the presentation, you should summarize the important facts once again.

- In conclusion, let me sum up the main points. /To sum up, to conclude,…

Say thank you at the end.

- Thank you for listening/your attention/your time. Thank you for listening/It was a
pleasure being here today.
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