Business presentation
Opening words
Can everyone see and hear me?
Are we ready to begin?
Welcoming your audience
Good morning / afternoon, ladies and gentlemen / everybody.
Welcome everybody.
Welcome to English in Britain. It is good to see so many of you here.
I’d like to welcome… We are very happy to have you with us today…
On behalf of our company I’d like to…
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for inviting me to talk to you today.
I appreciate that you’re sacrificing one hour of your valuable time to listen to me.
Thank you for giving me your attention.
Introduction
Let me introduce myself… / I’d like to introduce myself.
My name is x and I am the Marketing Manager at …
My role is to … / I work for… / I am responsible for…
This is my colleague Tom who has come to talk about…
Introducing the subject / purpose
I am here today to talk about…
I am going to talk today about...
I have been asked to give you an overview of the trends of our main products…
The purpose of my presentation is to introduce our new range of...
I’m trying to give you an overview of our…
My talk is concerned with...
The topic / subject of this presentation is a breakthrough in the field of…
The purpose of this presentation is to show you…
The aim of the next hour is to give you an overview of…
I’m so glad that we have the opportunity to discuss this matter.
Outlining your structure
I’m going to divide my talk into x parts.
There are x points I’d like to make.
I’d like to outline…
There are a number of points I'd like to make.
Basically/ Briefly, I have three things to say.
Let’s first look at an overview of my presentation.
I’ve put an agenda on the flip chart / screen so we can see….
First of all…
I’d like to spend the first 10 minutes talking about….
To start with I'll describe ….. Then I'll mention …. After that I'll consider …. Finally, I'll
summarize my presentation (before concluding with some recommendations).
If you bear with me, the presentation will consist of the following. First, I’d like to deal
with …, then we can move on to…, followed in the next part by our….
Describing the sequence
First of all,…
Secondly…
Thirdly…
After the next…
Instructions about questions
Don’t hesitate to interrupt me when you have a question.
Do feel free to interrupt me if you have any questions.
I can take your questions at any time during my presentation.
or
I'll try to answer all your questions after the presentation.
I plan to keep some time for questions after the presentation.
If there are any questions I’d prefer to deal with them after presenting the information.
Handouts
Let me give you the handouts with some space for notes.
Could you pass on these handouts, please?
I’ll give you the handouts at the end of the presentation.
I can email the presentation to anybody interested so you don’t need to take notes.
The presentation will be available online on our website for download in case anybody
is interested.
Starting the presentation itself
I’ll go straight into my first topic and that is describing…
Right…/ I’d like to start by looking at…
I’d now like to describe to you the main features of…
Let’s start with…/ Let’s begin by looking at…/ To begin with…
Moving on to the next point
Now… / Let’s move on to… / Let’s turn to..
Daniel Baruch
Fichardstraße 38
60322 Frankfurt am Main
www.business-english.net
Tel.: (069) 5 97 04 11
Fax: (069) 95 52 94 61
dan@englishinbritain.de
I’d like to turn to… / Next I like to look at... / Moving on to...
Let’s now go on to look at the main arguments…
This leads us to…
Now we’ll go on to talk about...
And finally let’s take up the subject of...
Giving more details
I'd like to expand on this aspect/problem/point
Let me elaborate on that
Would you like me to expand on/elaborate on that?
Referring to something which is off the topic
I'd like to digress here for a moment and just mention that ...
Referring back to an earlier point
Let me go back to what I said earlier about…
Visuals
Here you can see a graph of…
Have a look at this pie chart of …
Here you can see ….in a flow chart.
As you will notice…
As you can see…
You will note that…
Have a look at this…
This table shows…
The figures indicate…
A good example of how important…
If you look at this slide, you will see...
If you have a look at this first graph, you can see that…
Giving examples
For example,... / A good example of this is... / To give you an example,...
As an illustration,... / To illustrate this point...
Summarizing
In other words… / Now, to sum up... / To summarise.../ To put it in a nutshell…
In short .../ To put it more simply....
So let me summarise/recap what I've said.
Finally, may I remind you of some of the main points we've considered.
If I can just sum up the main points...
Let's summarise briefly what we've looked at...
Daniel Baruch
Fichardstraße 38
60322 Frankfurt am Main
www.business-english.net
Tel.: (069) 5 97 04 11
Fax: (069) 95 52 94 61
dan@englishinbritain.de
Right, let's sum up, shall we?
Concluding
To conclude... / In conclusion,...
Let me conclude by saying…/ I’d like to finish by…
In conclusion, my recommendations are...
I’d like to conclude by stating that…
I therefore suggest/propose/recommend the following strategy…
I’d like to round off by saying…/ Let me end by saying that…
Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we've covered...
So, to remind you of what I’ve covered in this talk, …
Unfortunately, I seem to have run out of time, so I’ll conclude very briefly by saying
that …..
So that was it for today.
Thanking
May I thank you all for being such an attentive audience.
Many thanks for your attention.
Thank you for your attention.
Inviting questions
Now I'll try to answer any questions you may have.
Can I answer any questions?
Are there any questions?
Do you have any questions?
Are there any final questions?
If anyone has any questions do not hesitate to ask…
If you would like me to elaborate on any point, please ask.
Answering questions
Let me think about that for a moment.
I’m sorry, I’m not sure I quite understood the question. Could you repeat the question,
please?
I’m not sure about that. Is there anyone here who can help?
I’m afraid I don’t know off hand. I’ll find out as soon as I’m back in the office and then
I’ll send you an email.
This is connected to what we will be talking about this afternoon. Could we take it up
then?
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Daniel Baruch
Fichardstraße 38
60322 Frankfurt am Main
www.business-english.net
Tel.: (069) 5 97 04 11
Fax: (069) 95 52 94 61
dan@englishinbritain.de