PRESENTATION SKILLS ­ GUIDELINES
1. Stating your purpose & introduction:
OK, let's get started. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for coming. I'm....
I'd like to thank you all for coming to this economic forum...
Let me introduce myself and my colleague: my name is ..., this is ... and we are representatives of the World
Bank/IMF/...
This morning I'm going to be:
talking to you about... / showing you how... / taking a look at... / reporting on... / telling you about...
...so, I'll begin by:
filling you in on... / making a few observations about... / giving you an overview of... / bringing you up-to-date
on...
...and then I'll go on to:
highlight what I see as... / put the situation into some kind of perspective... / make detailed recommendations
regarding... / discuss in more depth...
2. Signposting ­ telling what comes next in a presentation
make your next point To move on to our next point
change direction To turn to last year´s figures
refer to an earlier point To go back to what I said earlier
repeat the main points To recap on the main figures
give a wider perspective To expand on this a bit more
do a deeper analysis To elaborate on this particular feature
give the basics To summarize the points
depart from your plan To digress from
when
you
want
to
finish your talk
you
say
To conclude
vocab.
digress from ­ odbočit od
3. Commenting on visuals
To highlight important information in a visual, you can use the following:
us to look at this part of the graph in more detail.
us to focus our attention on one particularly important feature.
you to think about the significance of this figure here.
to point out one or two interesting details.
I'd
like
to draw your attention to to the upper half of the chart.
4. To ask your colleague to carry on:
Now I would like to hand over to Mark. / Jane, over to you. / Thomas, the floor is yours.
And Lucy will tell you more details about... / Let's ask Bill to explain the ... to us.
5. To conclude:
Thank you for your attention and if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
You can also ask the audience to ask questions during your speech by saying:
If you have any questions during my talk, don't hesitate to interrupt me/feel free to ask.