Expressions for Oral Presentations

During your oral presentations, I will be listening for some , not all, of these expressions:

Welcoming your audience:

• Good morning / afternoon. My name is________, and I'm here to talk about_______.
• Thank you for coming. My name is_____________ and this presentation deals with_______________ / in this presentation I will discuss________ and________.

Introduce your topic and your main points:

• The purpose / objective of my talk / presentation / discussion today is to_________________. I will discuss three main points / steps, 1)______________, 2)______________, and 3)___________.
• Please wait until the end of the presentation to ask questions.
• You may interrupt at any time to ask questions. I'll be happy to answer them.
• Today's topic is of particular interest to those of you who....
• By the end of this topic, you will be familiar with.......
• Let me / Allow me to give you a brief overview of the main points:  First, _____. Second,__________. And third, ____________.

Explain how your presentation is structured:

• I've / We've divided my / our presentation into three parts:   Person A will talk about _____; Person B then goes on to discuss _________; (and Person C_________). 
• This presentation will focus on 3 major issues, / points/  ideas/ descriptions

Sequencing:

• To begin with, we need to consider_____________ first. Please take a look at / read_____.
• First, I'll / we'll look at_________________. 
• Let me start off by asking you to look at this picture / watch this short / brief video / listen to this short audio clip.
• Let's begin with a question: Have you ever asked yourself:________________________

Moving on to the next point

• Moving on....the second / third point examines.......
• Going on to our next point, we may see how.....
• Suppose you had to do a similar project. What would you do about___________?
• This brings us to the next question / point / issue:____________.

Making reference to something you said / showed earlier:

• As I said / mentioned earlier
• Let me come back to point number ______ for a moment.
• As I've already explained, ___________
• As I pointed out in ______section / on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, slide_______________.

Introducing examples:

• For example,
• For instance,
• As we may see from ______, it is clear that________
• As an example, we may take_________
• Take____________: 
• One example includes_______
• Just to give you an example:______________
• Just to give you an idea of what I / we mean, let's look at_______
• To better illustrate what I / we  mean, let's look at an example.

Adding ideas:

• In addition to this, ...
• Moreover,....
• Furthermore,....
• Besides being_____________, this topic is also____________.

Explaining Cause and Effect:

• If you do A first, you will quickly see how important it is because....
• By doing A first, you will see how point B becomes secondary.
• This is caused by....
• This happened because...
• Because of A, B may not proceed first.
• As a consequence...
• Consequently....
• As a result...
• This results in...
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Concluding a point/section:

• What conclusion can we draw from this?
• So, what does this mean?
• At this point, we need to ask:....?
• Why would this be important?  It matters because.....

Making reference to visuals:

• If you could just look at the photo / video for a moment, you will see that....
• If you would listen to the brief audio clip, you will hear that....
• To better explain what I / we mean, let's look at this next slide.  
• According to this graph, we can observe that 58 % of people do not use________. Therefore...
• As you can see here....
• I'd like to focus your attention on....
• I think you'll be surprised to see that...
• What's really important to observe here is how...

Concluding your presentation:

        ---> Summarize the main points presented in the talk.

•  Let me just briefly go over the key points one more time. We have seen that...
• To conclude, this presentation has presented  A, B, and C. We discussed how.....
• In conclusion, my / our talk / presentation has discussed points A, B, and C and why ....
• To sum up, points A, B, and C have illustrated how....
• And now I'll  / we'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.
• We just have a few minutes for a couple of questions.

Useful verbs:

1. clarify
2. depend on
3. focus on
4. go over
5. highlight
6. point out
7. bring your attention to...
8. illustrate
9. indicate
10. lead to
11. mention
12. move on to
13. notice
14. see
15. show
16. summarize
17. sum up
18. conclude
19. understand
20. vary