ESSENTIAL PRESENTATION PHRASES © Chris Snuggs
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 ...

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 ...