Matching Exercises (Answers)
1. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen
2. Today I would like to---
3. Let me just start by introducing myself.
My name is---
4. It’s a pleasure to welcome you today.
5. In my presentation, I would like to
report on---
6. The topic of today’s presentation is---
7. I suggest that we begin now.
8. I’m aware that you all have very tight
schedules---
9. For those of you who don’t know me,
10. Feel free to
11. This won’t take more
12. I’ll be passing out
13. This part of the presentation will take
14. I’ll start off by giving you
15. There’s no need
16. There will be time
17. On the next page
18. My next slide shows
19. As you can see
20. Let me just show you some
21. To illustrate this
22. Let’s now have a closer look
23. Here we can see how many
24. I have a slide
25. What I’d like to do
Hi, everyone
What I want to do today is---
As you know. I’m---
It’s good to see you all here.
In my talk I’ll tell you about---
Today I’m going to talk about---
OK, shall we get started?
I know you are all very busy---
I’m Bob Kay in charge of the software division
ask questions at any time.
than 20 minutes of your time.
handouts in a few minutes.
about 10 minutes.
an overview of our product range.
to take notes. Everything is on the handout.
for questions after my talk.
you will see a photo of the new XTK model.
how much the market has changed.
from this picture, the design is absolutely new.
interesting details.
I’ll show you our latest poster.
at the figures on the next page.
customers have complained about the service.
which shows the market development in 2005.
is discuss the latest sales figures.
26. I’d like to highlight the
27. So what are the reasons
28. I’d like to point out how
29. It’s interesting to note that
30. I should repeat that our
31. What we can’t do is
32. So, just how good
main problem areas.
for our success?
important advertising is for us.
this model is selling quite well in the U.S.
turnover last year was excellent.
increase our budget.
is the quality of these programs?

33. Did you know that American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one
olive from each salad served in first-class?

34. I read in an article somewhere that can’t is a four-letter word. I tend to agree with
that!

35. Imagine you won a million euros. Who would you tell first?

36. Can you really compete with the Chinese? Of course we can!

37. Before I move on to my next point, let me go through the main issues once
more.

38. This brings us directly to my next question.

39. This leads to the next point, which is price.

40. Let’s now turn to the issue of customer service.

41. As I mentioned before, I’d like to give you a brief overview of our activities.

42. I’d like to come back to this question later.

43. Let’s go back to what we were discussing earlier.

44. As I said earlier, I’ll be focusing on our new sales strategies.