Presentation Tips

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

USEFUL ENGLISH PHRASES FOR A PRESENTATION

How to structure your Presentation + What to say

1. Welcome
2. Introduction + Introducing the topic
3. Explain your Goal
4. Structure
5. Starting point

6. End of a section

7. Tansition/Overgang

8. Examples

9. Links

10. References to sources

11. Images/

12. Paraphrasing

13. How to deal with Questions

14. Conclusion/Ending

                      Welcome 

WELCOME

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.

Good morning/afternoon/evening, ladies and gentlemen/everyone.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to my presentation.......

Welcome all, on this very sunny/dreary/cold ....day

EXPLANATION OF GOALS

This will help the audience to understand what you want them to learn from your presentation. 

* The purpose of this presentation is…

* My objective/goal today is…

* I hope that you will understand more about......

* My goal is to improve/advise/inform/help....

Structure of the Presentation

* My talk/presentation is divided into “x” parts.

* I’ll start with…/First, I will talk about…/I’ll begin with…

* …then I will look at…

* …next…

* and finally…

Starting Point

• Let me start with some general information on…
  
• Let me begin by explaining why/how…
  
• I’d like to give you some background information about…
  
• Before I start, does anyone know…
  
• As you are all aware…
  
• I think everybody has heard about…, but hardly anyone knows a lot about it.