Presentations in English

Presentations in English

1. Starting

   • Welcoming
     • Good morning and welcome to ...
     • Thank you all very much for coming today.
   • A new section
     • Now, let’s take a look at … .
     • Moving on to the next part, I’d like to … .
     • Now I’d like to move on to … .

2. Introductions

   • Introducing yourself
     • My name is X and I am responsible for …
     • Let me introduce myself; my name is X and I am responsible for …
   • Introducing the subject
     • The purpose of today’s presentation is to...
     • In today’s presentation I’d like to … show you … . / explain to you how … .
     • In today’s presentation I’m hoping to … give you an update on… . / give you an overview of … .
     • In today’s presentation I’m hoping to cover three points: firstly, … , after that we will look at … , and finally I’ll … .

3. Opening to questions

   • If you have any questions you’d like to ask, please leave them until the end, when I’ll be happy to answer them.
   • If anyone has any questions, I’ll do my best to answer them.
   • If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask them now.
   • I’ll / We’ll come back to that question later in my presentation.
   • I’ll / We’ll look at that point in more detail later on.

4. Ending the presentation

   • Thank you for your attention
   • That brings the presentation to an end.
   • I’d like to thank you (all) for your attention and interest.
   • Finally, I’d like to end by thanking you (all) for coming today.

5. Referring to a topic previously mentioned

   • As I mentioned earlier … .
   • As we saw earlier … .
   • You may recall that I explained … .

6. Summing up

   • I think that just about covers … .
   • That’s an overview of … . Now, just to summarise, let’s quickly look at the main points again.
   • That brings us to the end of the final section. Now, if I can just summarise the main points again.
   • That concludes my presentation. Now, if I can just summarise the main points.

7. Bonus: Key-words

   • I’ll outline
   • here we can see
   • to illustrate this point
   • to illustrate this point