GREETINGS

·         Good morning/afternoon/evening.

·         I'd like, first of all, to thank the organizers of this meeting for inviting me here
today.

 GETTING ATTENTION

·         Can I have your (kind) attention, please?

·         So, ladies and gentlemen.

 OPENING

·         The title of my presentation is ...

·         I'd like to talk today about...

·         My topic today is ...

·         My subject today is ...

·         I'm here to present ...


 ORGANIZATION

·         I have divided my talk into four sections.

·         I have divided the subject into four sections.

·         I shall divide my talk in the following way.¨


·         The first point I'm going to make concerns...

·         My first point concerns...

·         The first point I'd like to make is ...

·         The first part of my talk will concern...

·         First, I'll tell you about...

·         To start with I'll tell you about...

·         To begin (with) I'll tell you about...


·         My second point concerns ...

·         The second part will concern ...

·         My third point concerns ...

·         In the third part I deal with the question of…


                                                OR

·         Next, I'd like to show you...

·         After that, I'd like to describe...

·         Then, I'll tell you about...

·         Finally, I'd like to talk a little about...

·         And finally, I shall raise briefly the issue of ...

·         Finally, I shall address the problem of ...

·         And finally, I want to discuss...

·         And to finish (off), I want to discuss...


OPENING THE MAIN SECTION & PROVIDING background

·         Let me start by posing the question ...

·         I'd like to begin by saying that ...

·         I'd like to start by drawing your attention to ...


 MOVING TO A NEW POINT

·         So, having looked at (this subject)...

·         Okay, ...

·         Right (then), ...

·         So (then), ...

·         Now, ...

·         Then, ...

·         …let me now turn to (the issue of)...

·         …I'd like to turn now to the question of ...

·         …let's now turn to ...

·         …let's now take a look at...

·         …let's now move on to take a look at...

·         …if we now look at ...

·         …if we (now) turn (our attention) to...


·         I'd like to bring up the point about...

·         I'd like to bring up the question of...

·         Now I'd like to talk about...

·         Now I'd like to move on to...

·         I'd now like to draw your attention to...

·         Next I'd like to concentrate on...



SUMMARIZING THE MAIN IDEA

·          So, ...

                  ·         …we can see then that...

                  ·         …as you can see then...

                  ·         …it seems/appears then that…

                  ·         …what we can see then is that ...

                  ·         …to sum up then...



INTERACTING WITH THE AUDIENCE

·          Is everyone

·         Are you all

·         Any questions?

                        ·         still

                                       ·         with me

                                       ·         following me

                                                             ·         so far?




DEVELOPING A POINT

·         I’d like to look at this in a bit more detail.

·         Can I develop this point a bit further?

·         Let’s look at this problem in a bit more detail...


 POSTPONING

·         I'll be coming back to this point later.

·         I'll come to this later...

·         Later, I'll come to ...

·         Later, I'll be coming back to...


 REFERRING BACK

·         Can I now go back to the question I posed at the beginning?

·         As I said earlier...

·         As I mentioned earlier...

·         I’d like now to return to the question...

 HIGHLIGHTING

·         The interesting/significant/important thing about ... is...

·         The thing to remember is...

·         What you have to remember is …

·         What I find most interesting about ... is...


INDICATORS

·         Okay...

·         Right…

·         Good...

·         Now...

·         Well ...


CONCLUSION

·         So, the main points that have been made are: ...

·         In conclusion I'd like to say...

·         Summing up then...

·         Let me end by saying that...

·         I'd like to finish by saying that...

·         So, ...

                 ·         …in summary...

                 ·         …in conclusion...

                 ·         …to summarize...

                 ·         …to conclude...

                 ·         …to sum up...

                                            ·         …there are three main...

                                            ·         …this report finds...

                                            ·         …our new method...

                                            ·         …the module system we use...


 THANKING THE AUDIENCE

·         Thank you.

·         I’ll finish here/there. Thank you.

·         And let me finish there. Thank you.

·         Thank you for your attention.

DEALING WITH QUESTIONS

·         Right, I’m sure you’ve all got lots of questions?

·         Okay, any questions or comments?

·         If you have any questions, I’ll try/do my best to answer them.