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- Good morning / afternoon ladies and gentlemen / colleagues. My names
Im (Im responsible for )
- Ladies and gentlemen. Its in an honour to have the opportunity to address such a distinguished audience.
- Its my privilege today to be talking to you about
- Good morning. Let me start by saying just a few words about my own background. I started out in
- Thank you all for coming. Shall we start?
- Id like to welcome you all here this morning.
- OK / Right / Good / So, lets get started.
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- I plan to say a few words / give you a talk about
- Id like to give you an overview of
- Im going to talk about / brief you on / inform you about / present the recent / describe
- The theme of my presentation is
- The subject / topic of my talk / speech/ paper is
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- My talk will take about ten minutes.
- My presentation will take about two hours but therell be a twenty minute break in the middle.
- After my talk therell be time for a discussion and any questions.
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- Ive divided my talk into (three) parts.
- My talk will be in (three) parts.
- First Second Third
- In the first part Then in the second part Finally
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- So that concludes the introduction. / Thats all for the introduction.
- Now lets move on to the first part of my talk, which is about
- To start with, Id like to consider
- To begin with
- First of all, Id like to look at
- Lets start / begin with
- First / Firstly,
- At the first stage
- There are three things to consider. First
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- Those are the main points on
- Thats all I have to say about
- That completes / concludes my overview of
- That covers
- So thats the general picture for
- Overall/ To put it briefly / In a nutshell
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- Now, lets move on to / turn to
- Moving on to / Turning to
- So we come to
- The next point Id like to make is about
- This brings / leads me to my next point
- A connected point is
- Second / Secondly
- Let me now go on to consider
- The next step is to
- Now, lets look at
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- There are three things to consider. First Second Third
- There are two kinds of The first is The second is
- We can see four advantages and two disadvantages. First Second
- Lets look at / consider two options One way to solve the problem is.. Another is
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- There are (seven) different stages of the process. First / then / next / after that / then / after theres / last
- There are two steps involved. The first step is The second step is
- There are four stages to the project. At the beginning later then finally
- Ill describe the development of the idea. First the background, then the present situation, and then the prospects for the future.
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- Right, that ends (the third part of) my talk.
- Thats all I want to say for now on
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- I'd like to end by emphasising the main points.
- Id like to finish with a summary of the main points / some observations based on what Ive said / some conclusions (recommendations) / a brief conclusion.
- There are two conclusions / recommendations.
What we need is
I think we have to
- That concludes my talk. Thanks for listening. Now Id like to invite your comments.
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- Now we have half an hour for questions and discussion.
- Right. Now any questions or comments?
- So, now Id be very interested to hear your comments.
- That brings me to the end of my presentation. Are there any questions?
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- Thats a difficult question to answer in a few words.
- I would say / It could be
- In my experience
- I dont have much experience in that field.
- Im afraid thats outside the scope of my talk.
- Ill have to come to that later, perhaps during the break as were short of time.
- Sorry, Im not sure Ive understood. Could you repeat?
- Do you mean?
- I didnt catch (the last part of) your question.
- If I understood you correctly, you mean? Is that right?
- Thats not really my field.
- Does that answer your question?
- Is that okay?
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