The document provides guidance on giving talks and presentations. It offers tips for introducing topics, checking audience understanding, referring to visual materials, inviting and addressing questions, introducing different sections of the talk, summarizing, and concluding the presentation. Transitional phrases are suggested for moving between topics and signaling questions.
The document provides guidance on giving talks and presentations. It offers tips for introducing topics, checking audience understanding, referring to visual materials, inviting and addressing questions, introducing different sections of the talk, summarizing, and concluding the presentation. Transitional phrases are suggested for moving between topics and signaling questions.
The document provides guidance on giving talks and presentations. It offers tips for introducing topics, checking audience understanding, referring to visual materials, inviting and addressing questions, introducing different sections of the talk, summarizing, and concluding the presentation. Transitional phrases are suggested for moving between topics and signaling questions.
GIVING TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS I mentioned earlier the importance of…
I´ll say more about this later. INTRODUCING THE TOPIC We´ll come back to this point later. This morning I´m going to talk about Today, I´d like to describe… CHECKING UNDERSTANDING The aim of my presentation this morning is to explain… Is that clear? I´ve divided my presentation into… Are there any questions ? My talk will be in three parts… First, I´d like to give an overview of … REFERRING TO VISUAL INFORMATION After that we´ll deal with … This transparency/diagram shows… Finally, we´ll consider… If you look at this graph you can see… What is interesting in this slide is … REFERRING TO QUESTIONS I´d like to draw your attention to this chart… Feel free to/Do interrupt me if there´s anything you don´t understand. REFERRING TO COMMON KNOWLEDGE If you don´t mind, we´ll leave questions till the end. As you know … As I´m sure you are aware… INTRODUCING EACH SECTION So, let´s start with… CONCLUDING Now, let´s move on to… That concludes my talk. Let ´s turn our attention to That brings me to the end of my presentation. This leads me to … If you have any questions, I´d be pleased/ Finally, let´s consider… I´ll do my best to answer them. Thank you for your attention. SUMMARIZING A SECTION That completes my description of … DEALING WITH QUESTIONS So, to summarize , there are five key points… That´s a good point. I am glad you asked that question. Can I get back to you on that later? I am afraid I don´t have the information at present. I am afraid I am not the right person to answer that. MEV