Towards Successful Student Presentation

What is a presentation?
A short talk by one person to a group of people introducing and describing a particular subject.

Presentation Structure
Beginning

Short Introduction

• Welcome your audience
• Introduce your subject
• Explain the structure of you presentation
• Explain rules for questions

Middle
Body of Presentation

• Present the subject itself

End
Short Conclusion

• Summarize your presentation
• Thank your audience
• Invite question

Questions and Answers

Language for Introductions
Function
Possible language
Welcoming your audience

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen
Good morning, ladies
Good morning, gentlemen
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen
Good afternoon, everybody


Introducing your subject

I am going to talk today about …
The purpose of my presentation is to introduce …

Outlining your structure

To start with I’ll describe …
Then I’ll mention …
After that I’ll consider …
Finally, I’ll summarize my presentation.

Giving instructions about questions

Do feel free to interrupt me if you have any questions.
I’ll try answer all of your questions after the presentation.
I plan to keep some time for questions after the presentation.


Laguage for the body
Function
Possible language
Introducing the subject

I’d like to start by …
Let’s begin by …
First of all, I’ll …
Starting with …
I’ll begin by …

Finishing one topic

Well, I’ve told you about …
That’s all I have to say about …
We’ve looked at …
So much for …
So much for …

Starting another topic

Now we’ll move on to…
Let me turn now to…
Turning to …
I’d like now to discuss …
Let’s look now at…

Analyzing a point & giving
recommendations

This is important because ...
Let’s consider this is more detail.
What does this for ____?

Giving an example

For example
For instance
A good example of this is …
To illustrate this point, …
To give you an example, …

Sequence of ideas

First ..., secondly …, thirdly …, finally
First of all …, then …, next …, after that …, finally
To start with …, later …, to finish up


Laguage for the body
Function
Possible language
1. Summing up

To conclude, …
In conclusion,…
Now, to sum up …
So let me summarize what I’ve said
Finally, may I remind you of some of the main points we’ve considered.

Giving
recommendations

In conclusion, my recommendations are...
I therefore suggest/propose/recommend the following strategy.

Thanking your audience

Many thanks for your attention.
May I thank you all for being such an attentive audience.

Inviting questions

Now I’ll try to answer any questions you may have.
Can I answer any questions?
Are there any questions?
Do you have any questions?
Are there any final questions?