Greeting

Formal

 Good morning, ladies and gentleman

 Good afternoon, fellow colleagues, Mr. Chairman.

 Thank you very much for coming along here today.

 Thank you for finding the time to come and join me for this presentation today.

More friendly

 Morning, everyone.

 Thanks for coming.

 Thank you for coming today.

Self-introducing

Formal

 Let me introduce myself. My name is…

 I’d like to start by introducing myself. My name is …. I am a doctoral candidate at….

Less formal

 I’m ….

 I’m a student from … university.

State the purpose of presentation

 The purpose of my presentation is to introduce …

 This morning I’d like to present…

 Today I’d like to report on my study into…

 What I would like to do today is to explain/ illustrate/ give a general overview/ have a look at…

 What I want to do this morning is to talk to you about…

Outline the structure

 I will concentrate on the following points…

 I have broken my speech down into … parts.

 I have divided my presentation into … parts.

 To start with I’ll describe…. Then I’ll mention…. After that I’ll consider…. Finally, I’ll summarize my presentation.

 In the first part I give a few basic definitions. In the next section I will explain…. In part three, I am going to show…. In the last place I would like to give a practical example

Various openings

 Today I am going to talk about collecting cards, a hobby that is both fascinating and financially rewarding. I would like to explain the basic kinds of collectable postcards, why they are valuable, and how collectors buy and sell their cards.

Body-introducing the subject

 I’d like to start by…

 Let’s begin by…

 Now let us look at the first aspect which is…

 In the first place,…

 First of all, I’ll…

 Starting with…

 In the first place,…

Body- finishing one subject

 Well, I’ve told you about…

 That’s all I have to say about…

 We’ve looked at…

 So much for…

Body-starting another idea

 Now we’ll move on to…

 Let me turn now to…

 Now let us turn to…

 Next…

 Turning to…

 I’d like now to discuss…

 Let’s look now at…

 The next point is that…

 Ok, now I am going to talk about…

 Right. Now I’d like to explain…

 However, we must not forget that…

 But, it’s important to realize that…

Body- giving an example

 For example, …

 A good example of this is…

 As an illustration,…

 To give you an example,…

 To illustrate this point…

 A case in point is…

Body- ordering

 Firstly…secondly…thirdly…lastly…

 First of all…then…next…after that…finally…

 To start with…later…to finish up…

Body- to rephrase

 In other words,…

 Another way of saying the same thing…

 That is to say…

Body- to summarize

 To sum up,

 Let me summarize by saying…

 To summarize,

 In conclusion,…

 Briefly said,…

 In short,…

 What I’ve tried to show in this part…

 To recap(重申) what we’ve seen so far…

Body- to emphasize

 What is very important is…

 What is important to remember…

 I’d like to emphasize the fact that…

 To stress/ highlight/ underline…

 What we need to focus on…

Body- to refer to what you have said previously

 As I have already said earlier…

 As we saw in part one…

 To repeat what I’ve said so far…

Body- to refer to knowledge

 As you all may have known…

 It is generally accepted that…

 As you are probably aware of…

Body- to refer to what you will say

 We will see this a little later on.

 This will be the subject of part 3.

 We will go into more detail on that later.

Body- to refer to what an expert says

 I quote the words of…

 There is a famous quotation that goes…

 In the words of…

 According to…

 Here I’d like to quote…

 As… says in his book…

Conclusion

 Deliver a good summary. Recap the key points and provide a concise reminder of what you want the audience to remember from your presentation. You may say it differently, or repeat key words or phrases to remind listeners that you’ve come full circle.

 Thank your audience