Presentations

Presentations are essential in both academic and professional settings. A well-designed presentation can make the difference in how the audience processes information, leading to successful outcomes. Presentations come in various forms, such as speeches, product demonstrations, video clips, and automated PowerPoint presentations. Careful planning and execution are necessary to achieve the intended goals.

To create a powerful presentation, understanding the audience’s interests and needs is crucial. Incorporating “bites” of relevant information and graphics and audience involvement can help capture and maintain audience attention, keeping them engaged throughout the presentation. Such variation helps emphasize important points, ensuring that the audience remembers critical aspects of the presentation. In both academic and business settings, where information overload is common, “bites” of information can provide a comprehensive yet digestible overview of the topic at hand – though care must be taking to to overload the audience with “bites” resulting in information overlaod.

Looking for ways to structure and link your presentation ideas effectively in English? Look no further! We’ve compiled 30 useful phrases to help you out:

Introduction
• Good morning/afternoon everyone, welcome to my presentation. Thank you all for being here today!
• Let me start by telling you a bit about my background.
• As displayed on the screen, our topic for today is…
• This talk is particularly relevant to those of you who…
• Let’s use this talk as a springboard for discussion.
• Today, we’ll be diving into recent developments in…

Presentation structure
• I’ll be focusing on three major issues throughout my presentation.
• Here’s how my presentation is structured…
• We can break down the subject into different headings, these being …
• Let’s look at this area through these different fields…

Timing
• It’ll take us roughly X minutes to cover all of these topics.
• I envisage that the presentaiton will take X minutes.
• The presentation should be over X minutes time, when we can open the discussion for Q and A.

Handouts
• Do you all have a copy of my handout/report?
• I’ll be handing out copies of the slides after the presentation.
• If you’d like, I can e-mail you the PowerPoint presentation.
• Don’t worry about taking notes – I’ve prepared a handout with all the relevant statistics.

Questions
• Feel free to ask any questions you might have – I’m happy to answer them.
• Let’s save questions for the end of the presentation, or we can hold a Q&A session later on.

Sequencing phrases
• First things first – let’s dive into my first point: …
• To start us off, I’d like to give an overview of…
• Next up, we’ll be focusing on…and then moving onto…
• After that, I’ll highlight what I see as the main points of…
• Lastly, let’s address the problem of…/I’ll briefly raise the issue of…

Highlighting information
• Let me put this situation into perspective for you.
• There’s a lot to discuss when it comes to the implications of…
• To make things clearer, here are some detailed recommendations regarding…
• Take a moment to think about the significance of this figure here.
• No matter how you look at it, the underlying trend is clear.

Conclusion
• To wrap things up, I’d like to leave you with the words of a famous scientist/politician/author…
• Now that we’ve covered all of these topics, let’s go out and create opportunities for…!