PRESENTATIONS

   STRUCTURE

   

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   |Beginning|INTRODUCTION|  o welcome your audience                       |
   |         |            |  o introduce your subject                      |
   |         |            |  o explain the structure of your presentation  |
   |         |            |  o explain rules for questions                 |
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   |Middle   |BODY        |  o present the subject itself                  |
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   |End      |CONCLUSION  |  o summarise your presentation                 |
   |         |            |  o thank your audience                         |
   |         |            |  o invite questions                            |
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   |                         Questions and Answers                         |
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   INTRODUCTION

   

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   |Function                     |Possible language                                             |
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   |1 Welcoming your audience    |  o Good morning, ladies and gentlemen                        |
   |                             |  o Good morning, gentlemen                                   |
   |                             |  o Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman                      |
   |                             |  o Good afternoon, everybody                                 |
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   |2 Getting attention          |  o Can I have your attention, please?                        |
   |                             |  o So, ladies and gentleman.                                 |
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   |2 Introducing your subject   |  o I am going to talk today about...                         |
   |                             |  o The purpose of my presentation is to introduce our new    |
   |                             |    range of...                                               |
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   |3 Outlining your presentation|  o To start with I'll describe…                              |
   |                             |  o Then I'll mention…                                        |
   |                             |  o After that I'll consider the …                            |
   |                             |  o Finally, I'll summarize my presentation (before concluding|
   |                             |    with some recommendations).                               |
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   |4 Giving instructions about  |  o Do feel free to interrupt me if you have any questions.   |
   |questions                    |  o I'll try to answer all of your questions after the        |
   |                             |    presentation.                                             |
   |                             |  o I plan to keep some time for questions after the          |
   |                             |    presentation.                                             |
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   BODY

   

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   |Function                    |Language                                                       |
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   |Introducing the subject     |  o I'd like to start by...                                    |
   |                            |  o Let's begin by...                                          |
   |                            |  o First of all, I'll...                                      |
   |                            |  o Starting with...                                           |
   |                            |  o I'll begin by...                                           |
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   |Finishing one subject...    |  o Well, I've told you about...                               |
   |                            |  o That's all I have to say about...                          |
   |                            |  o We've looked at...                                         |
   |                            |  o So much for...                                             |
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   |...and starting another     |  o Now we'll move on to...                                    |
   |                            |  o Let me turn now to...                                      |
   |                            |  o Next...                                                    |
   |                            |  o Turning to...                                              |
   |                            |  o I'd like now to discuss...                                 |
   |                            |  o Let's look now at...                                       |
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   |Analysing a point and giving|  o Where does that lead us?                                   |
   |recommendations             |  o Let's consider this in more detail...                      |
   |                            |  o What does this mean for ABC?                               |
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   |Giving an example           |  o For example,...                                            |
   |                            |  o For instance,…                                             |
   |                            |  o A good example of this is...                               |
   |                            |  o As an illustration,...                                     |
   |                            |  o To give you an example,...                                 |
   |                            |  o To illustrate this point...                                |
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   |Dealing with questions      |  o I'd like to deal with this question later, if I may...     |
   |                            |  o I'll come back to this question later in my talk...        |
   |                            |  o Perhaps you'd like to raise this point at the end...       |
   |                            |  o I won't comment on this now...                             |
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   |Summarising and concluding  |  o In conclusion,...                                          |
   |                            |  o I'd like now to recap...                                   |
   |                            |  o Let's summarise briefly what we've looked at...            |
   |                            |  o Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we've     |
   |                            |    covered...                                                 |
   |                            |  o If I can just sum up the main points...                    |
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   |Ordering                    |  o Firstly...secondly...thirdly...lastly...                   |
   |                            |  o First of all...then...next...after that...finally...       |
   |                            |  o To start with...later...to finish up...                    |
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   CONCLUSION

   

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   |Function                |Possible language                                                  |
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   |1 Summing up            |  o To conclude,...                                                |
   |                        |  o In conclusion,...                                              |
   |                        |  o Now, to sum up...                                              |
   |                        |  o So let me summarise/recap what I've said.                      |
   |                        |  o Finally, may I remind you of some of the main points we've     |
   |                        |    considered.                                                    |
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   |2 Giving recommendations|  o In conclusion, my recommendations are...                       |
   |                        |  o I therefore suggest/propose/recommend the following strategy.  |
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   |3 Thanking your audience|  o Many thanks for your attention.                                |
   |                        |  o May I thank you all for being such an attentive audience.      |
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   |4 Inviting questions    |  o Now I'll try to answer any questions you may have.             |
   |                        |  o Can I answer any questions?                                    |
   |                        |  o Are there any questions?                                       |
   |                        |  o Do you have any questions?                                     |
   |                        |  o Are there any final questions?                                 |
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   Adapted from: http://www.englishclub.com/business-english/presentations.htm