A INTRODUCTIONS
1 Good morning/afternoon/evening, ladies and gentlemen.
2 I'm delighted to have been invited to talk to you this morning about ...
3 I'd like to talk to you this afternoon about ...
4 I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to talk to you about ...
5 We're here today to look at/consider/examine the subject/question of ...
6 I'd like to begin by discussing/talking about/outlining/describing ...
B SEQUENCE OF IDEAS
1 There are three (main) things/areas/points to consider/to be considered.
2 First of all/Firstly/Secondly/Thirdly, ...
3 Before going on to consider X, I'd like to review Y.
4 Let's first look at X, and then I'll return to Y later.
5 At this stage, I'd like to deal with (the question of) X before going on to talk about Y.
C CHANGING DIRECTION
1 That concludes what I have to say about ...
2 I'd like to conclude this part of my presentation by ...ing ....
3 I'd like to move on now to the question of ...
4 It's time to turn now to ...
5 Let me now turn to ...
6 Moving on to the question of ..., I ...
7 Now I'd like to move on to discuss/talk about ...
D REFERENCE TO VISUALS
1 As you can (clearly) see from this chart/graph/table/picture, ...
2 This chart/graph etc. clearly shows ...
3 If we look at this chart/graph etc. we can clearly see ...
4 Looking at the top/bottom left-hand/right-hand corner of this chart , it is clear that ...
5 These figures clearly show ...
E AMPLIFICATION
1 If we look at this more closely, we can see that ...
2 Looking at this more closely, we can see that ...
3 To expand on this, I'd like to ...
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F REPETITION
1 that is to say.../in other words, .../to put it another way, ...
2 Let me repeat what I said before about ...
G EMPHASISING A POINT
1 The main point/basic question to consider is ...
2 The fundamental thing to be considered is ...
3 I would like to stress/emphasise the importance of ...
4 What is vital/important/essential to remember here is that ...
5 What I am really saying is that ...
6 I can't stress too often the importance of ...
H REFERRING BACK
1 As I said at the beginning (of my presentation), ...
2 As I suggested earlier, ...
3 It's clear from what has been said before that ...
4 To summarise/recap on what I said earlier, ...
I GIVING EXAMPLES
1 As an example of this, we can consider ...
2 This is an excellent example of ...
3 Another example of the same phenomenon is ...
J COMPARING
1 If we compare X with Y we can clearly see that ...
2 Clearly, there is no comparison between X and Y.
3 X/this compares very well with Y.
4 I'd like to draw a parallel between X and Y.
K CONCLUSION
1 What conclusions can we draw from this?/What can we conclude from this?
2 We can only conclude from this that ...
3 Finally, we must not forget that ...
4 I'd like to conclude/finish/end my presentation by ...ing ...
5 In conclusion, I would like to say that ...
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