2. Starting the Presentation
• Good morning/good afternoon ladies and
gentlemen…
• Thank you for coming…
• The topic of my presentation today is ...
• What I'm going to talk about today is ...
3. Why are you giving this presentation?
• The purpose of this presentation is ...
• This is important because ...
• My objective is to ...
• What I/we plan to prove is…
4. The Main Ideas
• The main points I will be talking about are
- firstly ...
- secondly...
- next…
- finally...
• we're going to look at ...
• I’d like you to consider / think about…
• It’s important to note that…
5. The First Point (Opening)
• Let’s start/begin with…
• First, let’s look at…
• Starting with…
• I’ll begin by…
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6. Showing Visuals
• I'd like to illustrate this by showing you...
• Take a look at this…
• This visual shows you that…
• According to this visual,…
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7. Changing Topics/Slides
• Now let's move on to...
• Moving right along…
• Next up,…
• OK, our next point is…
• Let me turn now to…
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8. Giving More Details
• I'd like to expand on this aspect / problem /
point…
• Let me elaborate on that…
• Would you like me to expand on/elaborate on
that?
• To clarify this point…
• So that leads us to this…
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9. Moving briefly to other topics
• Different topic –
-I’d like to turn to something completely
different for a moment…
-I’d like to digress here for a moment and
mention that…
• Earlier topic –
-Let me go back to what I said earlier about…
-If you remember, I mentioned earlier…
10. Summary or Restating Main Points
• I’d like to recap the main points of this
presentation…
- first I covered
- then we talked about
- finally we looked at
• I'd now like to sum up the main points which
were:…
11. Conclusion
• I'm going to conclude by saying that/inviting
you to/ quoting...
• In conclusion, let me leave you with this
thought/invite you to…
• Considering all the information presented, we
can conclude that…
• Right, let’s sum it up, shall we…
• From what we can see…
