d30 Key Phrases To Use When Giving A Presentation In English
30 Key Phrases to use when giving a Business Presentation in English
You’ve been asked to give a presentation to an English-speaking audience and while you may know your subject inside out, how do you make it clear in English? Help is at hand! These 30 key phrases can act as the ‘skeleton’ of your planning and will give you lead-ins to sentences and explanations. Remember ……….
a) Introduction b) Main Body c) Conclusion d) Prepare for Questions
a) Introduction
- Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
- Today, I’m going to talk about…
- The subject of my talk is…
- The theme of my presentation is…
- I’d like to give you an overview of…
- I’d like to give you a brief outline
- The presentation will take about (thirty) minutes…
- Please interrupt if you have any questions.
- After my talk there’ll be time for a discussion and any questions.
- So that concludes the introduction.
- Now let’s move to the first part of my talk, which is about…
b) Main Body
- I’ve divided my talk into (three) parts. First… Second… Third … In the first part…. Then in the second part… Finally,
- When introducing a visual: I’d like to show you… This (graph) shows / represents
- When making comparisons: Let’s compare the… Here you see a comparison between…
- We can see four advantages and two disadvantages. First, advantages…….
- One is … Another is … A third advantage is … Finally…
- On the other hand, the two disadvantages. First… Second…
- When linking: Beginning a new part Let’s move to (the next part which is)…So now we come to…
- I’ll describe the development of the idea.
- First the background, then the present situation, and then the prospects for the future ………
- That’s all I want to say for now on
c) Conclusion
- I’d like to end by emphasizing the main point(s).
- …..a summary of the main points.
- …..some conclusions and recommendations – a brief conclusion.
- That concludes (the formal part of) my talk;
d) Questions
- (Thanks for listening)… Now I’d like to invite your comments.
- Now we have (half an hour) for questions and discussion.
- So, now I’d be very interested to hear your comments.
- I’m afraid that’s outside the scope of my talk / this session. If I were you I’d discuss that with…
- I’ll have to come to that later, perhaps during the break since we’re running out of time.
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Signposting
| Section of presentation | Signpost language |
| Introducing the topic | The subject/topic of my talk is … I’m going to talk about … My topic today is… My talk is concerned with … |
| Overview (outline of presentation) | I’m going to divide this talk into four parts. There are a number of points I’d like to make. Basically/ Briefly, I have three things to say. I’d like to begin/start by … Let’s begin/start by … First of all, I’ll… … and then I’ll go on to … Then/ Next … Finally/ Lastly … |
| Finishing a section | That’s all I have to say about… We’ve looked at… So much for… |
| Starting a new section | Moving on now to … Turning to… Let’s turn now to … The next issue/topic/area I’d like to focus on … I’d like to expand/elaborate on … Now we’ll move on to… I’d like now to discuss… Let’s look now at… |
| Analysing a point and giving recommendations | Where does that lead us? Let’s consider this in more detail… What does this mean for…? Translated into real terms… Why is this important? The significance of this is… |
| Giving examples | For example,… A good example of this is… As an illustration,… To give you an example,… To illustrate this point… |
| Summarising and concluding | To sum up … To summarise… Right, let’s sum up, shall we? Let’s summarise briefly what we’ve looked at… If I can just sum up the main points… Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we’ve covered… To conclude… In conclusion … In short … So, to remind you of what I’ve covered in this talk, … Unfortunately, I seem to have run out of time, so I’ll conclude very briefly by saying that ….. I’d like now to recap… |
| Paraphrasing and clarifying | Simply put… In other words……. So what I’m saying is…. To put it more simply…. To put it another way…. |
| Invitation to discuss / ask questions | I’m happy to answer any queries/ questions. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Please feel free to ask questions. If you would like me to elaborate on any point, please ask. Would you like to ask any questions? Any questions? |
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