SHOW AND TELL

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS FOR AN ORAL PRESENTATION

Effective Openings  In order to grab the attention of the audience you may employ one of the following devices: 1. Rhetorical questions 2. Interesting facts According to an article I read recently, … Did you know that … ?   I’d like to share an amazing fact / figure    with you. 3. Stories and scenarios Let me tell you what happened to me … Suppose ... Imagine ... 4. Problems to think about  Suppose you wanted to … .  How would you go about it?  Imagine you had to … . What would be your first step? 5. Quotations. As … once said, … To quote a well-known writer, …  To put it in the words of …	Introducing a Point First of all I'd like to point out ... The main problem is ... The question of ... Speaking of ... Going back As I said / mentioned earlier, … Let me come back to what I said before Let’s go back to what we were discussing earlier. As I’ve already explained, … As I pointed out in the first section, … Moving to the next point This leads directly to my next point. This brings us to the next question. Let’s now move on / turn to … After examining this point, let’s turn to … Let’s now take a look at …
Rephrasing Expressions What I meant to say was… Let me rephrase that… Let me put this another way… Perhaps I'm not making myself clear… The basic idea is… One way of looking at it is… Another way of looking at it is… What I want to say is…	Stating something as a fact As everyone knows ...  It is generally accepted that ...  There can be no doubt that ...  It is a fact that ...  Nobody will deny that ...  Everyone knows that ...
Indicating the end of your talk I’m now approaching / nearing the end of my presentation. Well, this brings me to the end of my presentation. That covers just about everything I wanted to say about … As a final point, I’d like to … Finally, I’d like to highlight one key issue.	Drawing conclusions and summing up The obvious conclusion is ... Last but not least ... The only alternative (left) is ... The only possible solution/conclusion is ... In conclusion we can say that ... To cut a long story short Just to give you the main points again, ...