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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