Presentation expressions*

 

Starting

 

Good morning/afternoon/evening (everyone, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues)

 

Thank you very much for inviting me to speak here today.

 

I am honored to have the opportunity to share our research with you here today.

 

I am happy to have this chance to speak to you (all) today about...

 

Introducing topic

 

Today I’m going to talk about...

 

As you can see, I’m here today to talk to you about...

 

Explaining structure

 

(Especially important if the structure of your talk is a little different from normal, or you have a very long presentation with many parts).

 

I’ve divided my presentation into two/three/four/several parts.

 

First, I’ll explain XXX and then I’ll move onto talk about...

 

Showing respect for listener’s knowledge

 

As you may know,

 

As you can see,

 

As you may be aware,

 

I know many of you are familiar with...

 

Many of you may have performed...

 

I am sure, you are all familiar with X’s work on

 

 

So let me start by... explaining the background

 

So I’ll start with...

 

Right, so first...

 

Well moving onto...

 

Next I’ll talk about...

 

Right, was that clear? So I’ll move onto...

 

Well, what does this all mean? So what is the significance of this?

 

Let’s take a moment to look at a few other reports...

 

So what have other people said about this?

 

OK, so what’s next...

 

Right, I’ll introduce/share our materials and methods.

 

So finally,

 

That brings us to my last point.

 

Looking at visuals

 

Now let’s look at...

 

May I focus your attention on the table / chart/ figure

 

You’ll notice that...

 

OK so you can see a summary of our results here...

*(from Scarlett)