1. The first step in making a presentation is to greet your audience, and you can use the following opening lines.
Good morning/ofternoon, lodies ond gentlemen/ ever yone.
Thonk you for coming.
I’m very hoppy thot you’ve come here todoy.
2. Next, a short self-introduction.
First of oll, I’d like to introduce myself.
My nome is.
3. Quickly get to the point and introduce our topic for today: Todoy, I’m going to todoy.
Todoy, I’m going to tolk obout….
I’d like to tolk to you todoy obout…
I’m going to present the recent .. /”Inform you obout… The subject/topic of my tolk/presentation is …
4. The objective/purpose todose to your presentation is to let the audience understand why they should sit down and listen to your presentation.
The objective/purpose todoy is to updote you on …
In my presentotion todoy I’ll be discussing …. /’m going to exploin…
5. Briefly summarise the general framework of today’s speech to help you smooth out your thoughts and better understand your content.
I’ve divided my presentotion into four ports. they ore .
My presentotion will consist of …
Right, I’d Like to begin with my first point.
Firstly/First of oll…I will …
Secondly/then/nex.. I would Like to.
Thirdly / ond then we come to …
After thot/Loter..t’m going to tolk obout 1 Look ote…
Finolly/lostly/lost of oll I’d Like to onolyze/discuss/look ot/consider/exploin/tell you obout/ show you how/speok to you obout. Let me begin by exploining why/how…
2. After each part, we can make a short summary to make it easier for you to understand and remember what you’ve said.
Before 1 move on, I’d like to recop the moin points.
Let me briefly summorize the moin issues.
I’d like to summorize whot I’ve soid so for…
3. If the next part of the lesson is related to the previous one, we can cue the previous part of the lesson and deepen the audience’s memory.
Let me come bock to whot soid before…
Let’s go bock to whot we were discussing eorlier.
As I’ve olreody exploined… As 1 pointed out in the first section,…
ConI now 90 bock to the question I posed ot the beginning?
4. During the presentation, it’s important for the audience to follow your thoughts, so remind them that your content is relevant to them.
Todoy’s topic is of porticulor interest to those of you …
My tolk is porticulorly relevont to those of you who…
By the end of this tolk you will be fomilior with…
5. We can use interactive methods to keep the audience’s attention.
Is everyone still with me?
Are you oll following me so for?
We can also focus the audience by guiding them through the PPT.
Let’s now Look ot the next slide which shows…
Now, Let’s look ot/Let’s hove Look ot/toke Look ot/ I’ d
Like you toI look ot…
To illustrote this, let’s hove closer look ot…
The chort on the following slide shows…
As you con see| here,.
6. If it is a group presentotion, don’t forget to “take up the slack” among the group members.
After summarising your part of the lesson, you can say: here now is xxX (the name of the next student) or “up next is xxX (the name of the next student). If there is no transition at all, it may confuse the teachers and students.
6. After the previous steps, you can start your content.
The first point I would Like to oddress is .
Let me first roise .
7. When presenting, interact more and ask more questions: I’d be glod to on .
I’d be glod to onswer ony questions ot the end of my tolk.
If you hove ony questions, pleose feel free to interrupt.
8. Between the various parts of your presentation, you can make natural transitions like this.
Now we come to…
Thot brings us to…
I’d Like to move on/drow your ottention to my next point.
Let’Smoveonto…
Let’s Look now ot . .h. Next thing I’ Like tolk obout is…
This leods directly to my next point.
This brings us to the next question.
g. And finally, to give a magnificent ending to my presentation: Thot brings me to the end of the presentation.
Thot brings me to the end of my presentotion.
Thot completes my presento tion.
Thot covers ollI wont/wonted to soy todoy.
Thonk you for your ottention 1 being so ottentive/ listening.
There are also some tips to help you differentiate yourself from others in the presentation process.
1. In order to make your point clearer, you can give some examples during your presentation to make it easier for the audience to understand.
A good exomple of this is ….
To illustrote this point, …
To support whot I’ve soid…
I’d like to give you some exomples …
..for instonce…
For eromple.
Such 05…
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