Note: while some of the expressions use the word ‘talk’ you can simply remove it to use with an office or meeting presentation.
Greet audience and thank them for coming
Welcome, and thank you for taking the time out to come and see me and my talk. It’s great to see so many of you here.
Firstly, let me thank you for coming here today. I hope you get something from my talk that you can take away and use.
I’d like to welcome you all here today and thank you all for coming.
It’s good to see so many faces here today and I’d like to thank you all for being here.
Welcome everybody. Thanks for coming. I hope you will find this useful and go away with something to think about.
Introduce yourself
For those of you who have not seen me before, I’d like to briefly introduce myself….
To start, I’d like to tell you a little bit about myself and what I do…
Secondly, I’m just going to say a few words about myself…
Before we start, I’d like to tell you who I am, what I do, and why I am here…
Introduce your presentation…
Now, I’m going to talk to you today about…. and…..
My talk today is going to be on…. And…..
Today we are going to look at ….. and ……..
I am here to talk about...
Outline your talk and save questions until the end
In this talk I want to talk about …. and ways we can….. And how we….
I’m going to talk about….
We are going look at …. And….. and lastly….
I will firstly talk about ... and .... and then move on to ....
Note: It’s important to make sure it’s clear that any questions be asked at the end. You can simple do this by saying ‘If you do have any questions about anything that comes up, then please save them to the end where I will then try to answer them”
Give the main points of your talk
Linking the presentation
Let's move onto…
Now let’s look at
Moving onto...
Moving away from… and to…
Having talked about … let’s now talk about...
Referring Back
As I mentioned before…
Going back to what I said on…
And again if we go back to…
So, let me say it again…
Just like in…we also..
Highlighting
As we can see in….
… shows….
If we look at… we can see..
Between… and… we…
What we see here is…
Let’s focus on…
If we draw our attention to..
Let's highlight.....
Emphasis
This is SO important
This is PARAMOUNT
THIS is a must..
This NEEDS TO...
We HAVE TO…
If we WANT TO… we.. HAVE TO
Let me MAKE it CLEAR…
This is WITHOUT DOUBT..
Examples
A perfect example of this is…
If we look at … we can see…
To highlight this we can see…
For instance…
Like...
Improvements
Not only does ... have ... but ..
A major step is..
We have managed to increase/improve….
We have taken the next step. We have…
Improvements we have made are..
We are in the process of...
We are working on...
Every day we are....
Giving opinion
This is worrying
This is (very) alarming
This is an area we need to…
I/we predict that…
If the trend keeps going like this…
In this area we have/need to...
Comparing
In comparison with...
If we take… and … we see..
The changes between … and...
In we can see and....
Describing charts and numbers
Depending on your presentation you might need to describe trends in the form of graphs or charts. The two below images – which have been designed for IELTS writing part 1 – are excellent for explaining different treads in your presentation.
