HOW YOU BEGIN YOUR PRESENTATION

INTRODUCTION
Is your presentation
FORMAL
INFORMAL
NB! Most audiences prefer
a relatively informal approach

Why do we use
A SIGNALLING LANGUAGE?

Signalling language (signposting)
helps to orientate the audience
provides clearer structure
signposts the route through a presentation

Opening a speech
First of all, let us consider
Let us begin with/by …
To begin, …
I propose to consider first …
The first thing that must be said is/needs to be said that …
It would be useful to consider …
Let us first of all look at …
The first question that arises is …
The first point …

Marking the stages
Next, …
Then …
The second/third … point …
The following/ next/second/third.. part
The second/third factor

Concluding a speech-1
To sum up …
To recap …
In the final analysis
All in all …
What conclusions can be drawn from all this?
The conclusions which can be drawn from … are …

Concluding a speech-2
The most sensible/satisfactory/convincing conclusion …
All this goes to show …
The lesson to be learned from …
The final/inescapable conclusion …
Ultimately/finally
It would appear, then
I have demonstrated/shown that…
To conclude, …
In conclusion, …

STATING YOUR PURPOSE
do this clearly and effectively
use a few simple presentation verbs:
Take a look at…, report on…, give an overview of …

Introducing the topic
The subject of this talk/presentation …
I’m going to talk about …
My topic today is …
I ‘d like to talk today about …

SIGNPOSTING-useful verbs
to move on, to expand on
to digress, to go back
to recap, to conclude
to turn to
to elaborate on
to summarise

Outlining the structure
There 3 main points to consider … first I’ll talk about … then …and finally …
I am going to divide my talk into 3 sections…
I have divided the talk into three (four, etc.) sections…

Presenting the talk’s organization
The first part of my talk will concern/ will deal with …
Firstly, I’d like to talk about…
To start with, I want to go over…

Presenting the talk’s organization
Secondly, I’m going to look at…
Thirdly, I shall review…
Then, consider…
Finally, I shall be talking about…

Closing a point or selection
or Changing the subject
Well, I think that’s all I want to say on …
I think that concludes what I have to say about …
Moving on now to …
Let me turn now to …
If we can now look at …

Linking subjects in your talk /Referring back
As I said earlier, …
As I mentioned earlier, …
As we saw earlier, …
I will be coming back to this later.
I will return to this point later.
Later, I will be talking about …

Involving your audience
As you all know …
As I’m sure you are all aware (of) …

Checking that your listeners understand
Are you with me so far?
Is that clear?

Giving examples
For example …
For instance …
Such as …
X can be shown/ illustrated/exemplified by …

Analysing
The main explanation for this is …
A particular reason is …
A key problem …
There are two reasons/explanations for this. First, … Second, …
This is/can be explained by two factors. First, … Second, …
This is due to … and also to …
One reason for this is … Another reason is …

Giving your opinion
My (own) (personal) view (on this matter) is that …
Personally. I think that …
The way I look at it is this: …
As far as I can see, …

Signalling the end
Summarising
So, we have looked at … and we’ve seen that…
To put it in a nutshell, …
To put it briefly,…
To summarise, I ‘d like to …

Thanking the audience
I would like to thank you for your interest and attention.
Thank you (very much) for your attention.