Welcoming and greeting the audience
.Hello, everyone. I’d like, first of all, to thank the organizers of this meeting for inviting me here today.
.Good morning everyone and welcome to my presentation. First of all, let me thank you all for
coming here today.
.Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It’s an honour to have the opportunity to address such a
distinguished audience.
Hallo/Hi everyone.Thanks for coming.
Introducing yourself(name, position,responsibilities)自我介绍
.Let me introduce myself. I’m Jan Novak from
.Masaryk University in Brno,Czech Republic…
.Let me start by saying just a few words about my
.wn background. I’m a PhD student of Geography at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.
.For those of you who don’ t know me already, my name’ …. and I’m responsible for…
Saying what your topic/title/subject is…
.What I’d like to present to you today is..
.As you can see on the screen, our topic today is…
.The subject/focus/topic/title of my presentation/talk/speech is…
In this talk,/we would like to concentrate ….，
In my presentation I would like to report on….
.I’m here today to present…
Explaining why your topic is relevant for your audience
.Today’s topic is of particular interest to those of you who…
.My talk is particularly relevant to those of you who…
.By the end of this talk you will be familiar with…
Stating your purpose/objective
.The purpose/objective/aim of this presentation is ….
.Today I’d like to give you an overview of…
.l’d like to update you on/inform you about/put you in the picture about/give you the background to/present the results of my research…
.During the next 20 minutes we’ Il be…
.This talk is designed to act as a springboard for discussion.
.This morning I’m going to be talking to you about/ telling you about/showing you how to deal with/taking a look at the recent development in/reporting on the results of the study we carried out..
.What I’m going to do/What I intend to do is describe to you/show you/tell you about…
Presenting the outline/organization/structure of your presentation
.I’ve divided my presentation into three main parts.
.In my presentation I’ll focus on three major issues.
.We thought it would be useful to divide our talk into three main sections.
.We can break this area down into the following fields…
.The subject can be looked at under the following heading… .
.We have organized this talk in the following way…
.This presentation is structured as follow….
.This talk will cover two current theories on the topic ..
Sequencing
.My first point concerns…
●’ll begin/start off by.. Then I’ll move on to… Then/
.Next/After that,I’ II be looking at..
.First/First of all, I’ d like to give you an overview of…
●Secondly/Then/Next,Ill focus on…
.Thirdly/And then, we’ll consider…
.Finally/Lastly/Last of all, I’ll deal with…
.So, I’ll begin by flling you in on the background to/ bringing you up-to-date on/giving you an
overview of the history of/ making a few observations about/outlining…
●And then, I’ll go on to highlight what | see as the main points of/ put the situation into some kind of perspective/discuss in more depth the implications of/ take you through/make detailed recommendations regarding…
.One thing I’ll be dealing with is the issue …..
Timing
.This should only last 20 minutes.
.My presentation will take about 20 minutes
.It will take about 20 minutes to cover these issues.
Handouts
.Does everybody have a handout/brochure/copy of the report? Please take one and pass them on.
.’ll be handing out copies of the slides at the end of my talk.
.I can email the PowerPoint presentation to anybody who wants it.
.Don’t worry about taking notesl’ ve put all the important statistics on a handout for you.
Questions
.If you have any questions,feel free to interrupt me at any time.
.Please interrupt meif there is something which needs clarifying. Otherwisethere’ll be time for
discussion at the end.
.lf you have any questions you’d like to ask, I’ II be happy to answer them.
.lf you don’t mind, we’ll leave questions till the end.
.There will be time for questions after my presentation.
