Presentation Useful language

Welcoming the audience

Good morning/ afternoon, ladies and gentlemen

Hello/ Hi, everyone

First of all let me thank you all for coming here, today.

I/m happy/ delighted to see you.

Introducing yourself

Let me introduce myself, I’m…

For those who don/t know me, my name is…

As you probably know, I’m…

Saying what your topic is

As you can see on the screen, our topic today is…

Today’s topic is…

The subject of my presentation is…

Let’s start with my presentation. …

I would like to begin by …

Involving the audience

OK, what is..?

How many of you have heard of..?

I’d like us to focus our attention on …..

I’d like you to think about …

Emphasizing

I just like to highlight…

I’d like to stress the importance of…

What is interesting / important here is …..

It is important to notice that …

Changing subject

OK, I’ll move on to…

Turning now to…

Now I’ll show you …

Let’s now turn to …

Let me then turn to the third and final option …

Commenting

I think that’s interesting because…

I think what this means is…

The significance of this is …

As we can see …

In addition, …

Summing up

Let me just go over the key points again. …

To sum up …

We can conclude that …

Let me summarize what we’ve looked at. …

I’ll briefly summarize the main issues. …

I’d like to summarize. …

So, we’re now at the end of our presentation. Let’s …

So, that brings me to the end of my presentation. …

Thank you for listening. …

Thank you for your attention. …

Referring to visuals

Let’s look at the chart…

Let me draw your attention to the table

Examples:

1. So, let’s start then. I will start by telling you what the greenhouse effect is.

2. Firstly, I’ll give the background to the project.

3. Then, I’ll tell you about the present situation.

4. My first point will be to show you the structure of the department.

5. My second point will be suggestions for greater efficiency.

6. So, we’re now at the end of our presentation.