Good morning / afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Hello / Hi everyone.
First of all, let me thank you all for coming here today.
Its a pleasure to welcome you today. Im happy / delighted that so many of you could make it today.
Its good to see you all here.
Introducing yourself
Let me introduce myself. Im Ann Brown from
For those of you who dont know me, my name is
Let me just start by introducing myself. My name is
Giving your position, function, department, company
As some of you know, Im the purchasing manager.
Im the key account manager here and am responsible for
Im here in my function as the head of
Im the project manager in charge of
Introducing your topic/subject
I am going to talk today about...
The purpose of my presentation is to introduce our new range of...
What Id like to present to you today is
Im here today to present
Todays topic is
The subject/topic of my presentation is
In my presentation I would like to report on
In my talk Ill tell you about
Ill be talking about
The purpose/objective/aim of this presentation is to
Our goal is to determine how / the best way to
What I want to show you is
My objective is to
Today Id like to give you an overview of
Today Ill be showing you / reporting on
Id like to update you on / inform you about
During the next few hours well be
Saying why your topic is relevant for your audience
Todays topic is of particular interest to those of you / us who
My talk is particularly relevant to those of us who
My topic is / will be very important for you because
By the end of this talk you will be familiar with
Effective openings
Rhetorical questions
Is market research important for brand development?
Do we really need quality assurance?
Interesting facts
According to an article I read recently,
Did you know that ?
Id like to share an amazing fact/figure with you.
Stories and anecdotes
I remember when I attended a meeting in Paris,
At a conference in Madrid, I was once asked the following question:
Let me tell you what happened to me
Problem to think about
Suppose you wanted to
How would you go about it?
Imagine you had to... What would be your first step?
The middle/main part
Saying what is coming
In this part of my presentation, Id like to talk about
So, let me first give you a brief overview.
Indicating the end of a section
This brings me to the end of my first point.
So much for point two.
So, thats the background on
Thats all I wanted to say about
Summarizing a point
Before I move on, Id like to recap the main points.
Let me briefly summarize the main issues.
Id like to summarize what Ive said so far
Moving to the next point
This leads directly to my next point.
This brings us to the next question.
Lets now move on / turn to
After examining this point, lets turn to
Lets now take a look at
Going back
As I said / mentioned earlier,
Let me come back to what I said before
Lets go back to what we were discussing earlier.
As Ive already explained,
As I pointed out in the first section,
Referring to other points
I have a question in connection with/concerning payment.
There are a few problems regarding the quality.
With respect / regard to planning, we need more background information.
According to the survey, our customer service needs reviewing.
Adding ideas
In addition to this, Id like to say that our IT business is going very well.
Moreover/Furthermore, there are other interesting facts we should take a look at. Apart from being too expensive, this model is too big.
Talking about (difficult) issues
I think we first need to identify the problem.
Of course well have to clarify a few points before we start.
We will have to deal with the problem of increasing prices.
How shall we cope with unfair business practices?
The question is: why dont we tackle the distribution problems?
If we dont solve this problem now, well get / run into serious trouble soon.
We will have to take care of this problem now.
We are currently having difficulties with
Rhetorical questions
What conclusion can we draw from this?
So, what does this mean?
So, just how good are the results?
So, how are we going to deal with this increase?
So, where do we go from here?
Why do I say that? Because
Do we really want to miss this opportunity to ?
Structuring
Ive divided my presentation into three (main) parts.
In my presentation Ill focus on three major issues.
Sequencing
Point one deals with , point two , and point three
First, Ill be looking at , second , and third
Ill begin/start off by Then Ill move on to
Then/Next /After that Ill end with
Timing
My presentation will take about 30 minutes.
It will take about 20 minutes to cover these issues.
This wont take more than
Handouts
Does everybody have a handout/brochure/copy of the report? Please take one and pass them on.
Dont worry about taking notes. Ive put all the important statistics on a handout for you.
Ill be handing out copies of the slides at the end of my talk.
I can email the PowerPoint presentation to anybody who wants it.
Questions
There will be time for questions after my presentation. We will have about 10 minutes for questions in the question and answer period.
If you have any questions, feel free to interrupt me at any time.
Feel free to ask questions at any time during my talk.
Conclusion
Indicating the end of your talk
Im now approaching/nearing the end of my presentation.
Well, this brings me to the end of my presentation.
That covers just about everything I wanted to say about
OK, I think thats everything I wanted to say about
As a final point, Id like to
Finally, Id like to highlight one key issue.
Summarizing points
Before I stop, let me go over the key issues again.
Just to summarize the main points of my talk
Id like to run through my main points again
To conclude/In conclusion, Id like to
To sum up (then), we
Making recommendations
Wed suggest
We therefore (strongly) recommend that
In my opinion, we should
Based on the figures we have, Im quite certain that
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?
And now Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Quoting a well-known person
As once said,
To quote a well-known businessman,
To put it in the words of
Referring back to the beginning
Remember what I said at the beginning of my talk today?
Let me just go back to the story I told you earlier. Remember,
Thanking your audience
Many thanks for your attention.
May I thank you all for being such an attentive audience.
