Oral presentations: Useful phrases

Dear all,

Here you can find different phrases or expressions that you can use in your oral presentation. Make sure you can use at least one from each section.

Useful phrases for the Introduction

Getting the audience’s attention

• Good/Right/Well.
• Shall/ Can we start?

Saying Hello

• Good morning, miss and classmates
• Good afternoon everyone.
• Good afternoon classmates.

Expressing purpose

• My purpose/objective/aim today is …..
• What I would like to do this morning is ……
• I’m here today to …
• The subject of my presentation is …

Signposting

• This talk is divided into four parts: firstly, … etc.
• Let me begin with/To start with/Firstly, I’d like to look at ….
• Then/Secondly, I’ll be talking about …
• Thirdly, ….
• My fourth point will be about ….
• Finally, I’ll be looking at ….

Inviting questions

• If anyone has any questions, please feel free to interrupt me at any time.
• If you have any questions, please stop me at any time, and I will be happy to answer them.
• Please stop me at any time if you have any questions.

Discouraging questions

• At the end of my talk, there will be a question and answer session. I would  appreciate it if you could keep your questions until then.
• I’d ask you to save your questions for the end.
• I’ll be happy to answer any questions you have at the end of my presentation.

Useful phrases for the body

Moving on

• Let’s now move on to/turn to …

• I now want to go on to …

• I’d like to move on to/turn to …

Giving examples

• Now let’s take an example.

• Let me give you an example.

• To illustrate this …

• Such as …

• For instance …..

Summarising

• What I’m trying to say is …..

• Let me just try and sum that up before we move on to …

Using Visual Aids

• I’d like you to look at this ….

• Let me show you …

• As you can see …

• Let’s have a look at …

• Let’s look at …

• If you look at the screen, you’ll see …

Useful phrases for the conclusion

Summarizing

• So, to sum up, …

• To summarise, …

• To recapitulate/recap, …

• Let me now sum up, ….

Concluding

• Let me end by saying ….

• I’d like to finish by emphasizing …

• In conclusion, I’d like to say …

Closing 

• Thank you for your attention/time.

• Thank you for listening.

• Thank you very much.

Information extracted and adapted from: http://www.prolancom.com/oral-presentations/360-phrases4