Giving Effective

Pr esentations
English for Car eer Pr epar ation
Tips for A Good English Speech
 Useful Phr ases & Sentences
 At the beginning of each presentation, you should welcome
your audience. Depending on who you are addressing, you
should extend a more or less formal welcome.

Examples:
▧ Good morning/afternoon/evening,
ladies and gentlemen/everyone.

▧ On behalf of “Company X”,

allow me to extend a warm welcome to you.

▧ Hi, everyone. Welcome to “Name of the event”.

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 INTRODUCING THE SPEAKER
The level of formality of your welcome address will also apply to how you introduce
yourself. Customize it to match your audience.

Examples:
▧ Let me briefly introduce myself. My name is “[ Name & Surname]”
and I am delighted to be here today to talk to you about…

▧ First, let me introduce myself. My name is “[ Name & Surname]”

and I am the “Position” of “Company X”. Today I’d like to talk to
you about…

▧ I’m “[ Name & Surname]” from “Company Y” and today I’d

like to talk to you about…
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 INTRODUCING THE TOPIC
After the welcome address and the introduction of the speaker comes the presentation of the
topic. Here are some useful introductory phrases.

Examples:
▧ Today I am here to talk to you about…
▧ What I am going to talk about today is…
▧ I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you
about…
▧ I am delighted to be here today to tell you about…
▧ I want to make you a short presentation about…
▧ I’d like to give you a brief breakdown of…
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 Greeting your audience, introducing yourself, and telling your
purpose (1)

Hello everyone. Welcome to my presentation. My

name is Somchai Rakrian. I’m reading biology at
Chiangmai University. Today I will be talking about
the current situation of climate changes in
Thailand.
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 Greeting your audience, introducing yourself, and telling your
purpose (2)

 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I’m

Somwang Rakchart and I’m the business
development manager at this company. I am
here today to talk to you about why our new
software was created, who is benefiting from it
and how you can implement this kind of
technology in your stores
 Useful Phr ases & Sentences
 Greeting your audience, introducing yourself, and telling your
purpose (3)

 Good morning, everyone. I’m Somwang

Rakdee. I’m a second-year student, majoring
in psychology. Today I’m gonna make a short
presentation about the students’ stress and
anxiety during the spread of Covid 19.
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 Greeting your audience, introducing yourself, and telling your
purpose (s)
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 Greeting your audience, introducing yourself, and telling your
purpose (s)
 Useful Phrases & Sentences
 Greeting your audience, introducing yourself, and telling your
purpose (s)
 Useful Phrases & Sentences
 Greeting your audience, introducing yourself, and telling your
purpose (s)
Contents of This Template
Here’s what you’ll find in this Slidesgo template:
1. A slide structure based on a multi-purpose presentation for business, which you can
easily adapt to your needs. For more info on how to edit the template, please visit
Slidesgo School or read our FAQs.
2. An assortment of pictures and illustrations that are suitable for use in the presentation
can be found in the alternative resources slide.
3. A thanks slide, which you must keep so that proper credits for our design are given.
4. A resources slide, where you’ll find links to all the elements used in the template.
5. Instructions for use.
6. Final slides with:
 The fonts and colors used in the template.
 A selection of illustrations. You can also customize and animate them as you wish
with the online editor. Visit Storyset to find more.
 More infographic resources, whose size and color can be edited.
 Sets of customizable icons of the following themes: general, business, avatar,
creative process, education, help & support, medical, nature, performing arts,
SEO & marketing, and teamwork.

You can delete this slide when you’re done editing the presentation.
 Table of Contents

01 02
Company Pr oduct
Topic of the section Topic of the section

03 04
Mar k et Analysis
Topic of the section Topic of the section
 0
1
Company
You can enter a subtitle here if you need
it
Introduction
Here you could give a brief description of
the topic you want to talk about. For
example, if you want to talk about Mercury,
you could say that it’s the smallest planet in
the Solar System
 Our Company
Here you could give a brief
description of the topic you
want to talk about. For example,
if you want to talk about
Mercury, you could say that it’s
the closest planet to the Sun and
Company Logo the smallest one in the Solar
System
Your tagline here
 Our History

2015
2009 2021
2018
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