The vocabulary and expressions you need when giving a presentation
Introductions and welcome
Good morning, ladies and gentleman. My name’s ……….. I’m head of sales at ……… …
I would like to thank you for inviting me here today to talk about… …
I would like to thank you all for attending this presentation. I plan to be brief. …
I shall only take about fifteen minutes of your time. …
If you have any questions, I’d be very happy to answer them at the end. …
Feel free to interrupt me if you have any questions during my presentation. … (Not recommended unless your English level is good.)
Explaining the purpose of your presentation
I’d like to give you a brief presentation about… …
The subject of my talk is… …
I’m going to talk about… …
My topic today is… …
My talk is concerned with… …
The purpose of my talk is to… …
Giving an overview of the presentation
I’m going to divide this talk into four parts. …
There are a number of points I’d like to make. …
Basically, I have three things to say. …
This talk is designed to be a springboard for discussion on the topic of… …
I’d like to begin by… …
Let’s begin by… …
First of all, I’ll discuss… …
and then I’ll go on to talk about …
Then… / Next,… …
Secondly,… / Thirdly,… …
Finally,… / Lastly,… …
Finishing a section.
That’s all I have to say about… …
So, in this section, we’ve looked at… …
Well, I think I’ve said enough about… …
Starting a new section
Moving on now to …
Turning now to… …
Let’s turn now to …
So that brings me now to the topic of… …
The next area I’d like to focus on next is …
Now, we’ll move on to… …
I’d now like to discuss… …
Let’s now look at… …
Analysing a point in your presentation
Where does that lead us? …
Let’s consider this in more detail… …
I’d like to elaborate on what I said earlier about …
What does this mean for…? …
Translated into real terms, this means that… …
Why is this important? …
The significance of this is… …
On the one hand,… …
…on the other hand,… …
Giving examples
For example,… …
A good example of this is… …
As an illustration, I’d like to mention… …
To give you an example,… …
To illustrate this point,… …
Referring to photos, graphs or tables
If you’d like to look at this graph, you’ll see… …
Take a look at this table. Here, we can see quite clearly that… …
This chart illustrates… …
Let me show you a pie-chart that will make everything much clearer. …
Paraphrasing and clarifying
Simply put,… …
In other words,… …
So what I’m saying is,…. …
To put it more simply,… …
To put it another way,… …
Summarising the content of your presentation
To sum up,… …
To summarise,… …
In short,… …
Right then, 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. …
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 now like to recap on the points I’ve mentioned. …
Closing the presentation
To conclude,… …
In conclusion,… …
Well, that covers all I wanted to say today. …
Before I finish let me say just one last thing. …
That brings me to the end of my presentation. …
It just remains for me to say, thank you very much for coming and I hope you have found this presentation useful. …
Invitation to ask questions
Does anyone have any questions or comments? …
Please feel free to ask questions. …
If you would like me to elaborate on any point I’ve made today, please ask. …
Would you like to ask any questions? …
Any questions? …
Checking comprehension
Does that answer your question? …
Is that clear? …
May we go on then to the next question? …
I hope I’ve made that clear. …
So what you’re saying is,… …
…is that right? …
It seems I don’t have time to answer any more of your questions now. But please feel free to come and talk to me later on today. …
