Oral Presentation Structures.

These are some structures and phrases you may find helpful when planning your oral presentation.
Refer to pages 193 to 219 in your TCS 1 coursebook and pages 135 to 146 in your TCS 2 coursebook for help, if needed.
Help will be made available on-line very soon.

Introductions

Good afternoon, everyone. My name is ....name.... of ...company... and I am here today to talk about ...topic of presentation... .


Signposting

This tells the listeners where you are going; ie/ what your talk is about and how it is organised.


First, I'm going to talk about ...point 1... .
Then I'll move on to ...point 2...
After that I will look at ...point 3...
And finally I will finish my presentation with ...point 4...


Starting the presentation

Let's begin with ...point 1... .


Moving on to the next point

I would now like to look at ...point 2... .
Now let's move on to ...point 2

Referring to a visual

As you can all see from the ...graph/chart/diagram..., ............


Developing a point

Furthermore .............
And also ..............


Back referencing

To go back to what I was saying ......
As I said earlier .........


Dealing with questions

That's a good question. May I come back to it later?


Concluding

I'd like to finish by saying .........
To sum up ......
Let's remind ouirselves of the main points: ...........


Ending the presentation

And that concludes my presentation. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.


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