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The Language of Presentation

The document provides guidance on the structure and language for presenting, including introducing the topic, outlining main points, presenting arguments, making recommendations, concluding, and taking questions. The introduction involves greeting the audience, introducing yourself and the topic, and outlining the presentation structure. The main part introduces and analyzes points, and moves from one point to the next. Recommendations are made and the presentation is concluded before taking questions.

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The Language of Presentation

The document provides guidance on the structure and language for presenting, including introducing the topic, outlining main points, presenting arguments, making recommendations, concluding, and taking questions. The introduction involves greeting the audience, introducing yourself and the topic, and outlining the presentation structure. The main part introduces and analyzes points, and moves from one point to the next. Recommendations are made and the presentation is concluded before taking questions.

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The language of presentation

Amina Kamenjašević
Sarajevo, 2020
Introduction ● Greeting your audience,
● Introducing yourself,
● Giving the topic of your presentation,
● Justifying the topic of your
presentation
● Giving the outline of your presentation

The main part ● Introducing your first main point


● Referring to research/ topic
● Referring to visual data presenting a
point of view
● Analyzing an argument , important
points
● Moving to another point
● Making recommendations

Conclusion ● Summarising your main point


● Finishing your presentation

Q and A ● Asking for questions


● Answering questions
● Dealing with difficult questions
Introduction: greeting your audience, introducing
yourself and giving the topic of your presentation

● Dear colleagues, thank you for coming today to my….


● I’m going to talk about TOPIC
● I got interested in this area because…
● Since my presentation will last (...) minutes, I will start by briefly explaining the outline…

Giving the outline:

● I have divided my talk into the following main areas…


● Firstly I am going to look at…
● Secondly, I’ll move on to the issue of…
● Then I‘ll move on to examine…
● Lastly/Finally, I’ll look at/ focus on…
● I am going to divide my presentation into two main parts. First I’m going to
describe… and then I’ll move on to look at…
● In this part of my presentation I’ll be showing you some data/charts/tables…
● In the third part of my presentation I’ll put forward some ideas about…
● I’ll also be offering some recommendations on how we can solve/address/tackle the
issue of…. Then I’m going to suggest some possible measures to solve these
difficulties.
Main parts

Introducing your first main point:

● Now, I am going to start by…


● First we are going to look at… The first problem I’d like to focus on is that of….
● To begin with, I would like to say few things about…

Presenting a point of view:

● Some people claim that…… but others….


● I think it’s fair to say that…
● Evidence does seem to show that...
Emphasizing important points:

● It must be remembered that…


● It should be emphasized that..
● I would like to draw your attention to this point…

Losing your way:

● Now, where was I? Oh yes…


● If you’ll bear with me for a moment while I just glance at my notes, right,...
● Erm, I’ll just need a minute to sort out the technology and I’ll be with you...
Moving to another main point:

● OK, so now I’d like to turn to my next point, which is…


● Moving on, I’d like yo take a look at…
● Now let’s turn to the issue of..
● Moving on now to...
Making recommendations

● Now I’d like to look at some of the measures that can be taken to alleviate the
problems of…
● In order to solve these problems, the following actions should be considered..
● The most important thing that should be done to combat the problem of… is…
● Other possible solutions would be to...
Finishing your presentation

● OK, we’re coming to the end of the presentation so I’d like to thank you for
listening…
● OK. That brings us to the end of my presentation..
● Thank you for listening, I hope you found it interesting.
Questions

Asking for questions

● Would anyone like yo ask any questions?


● I am ready to take any questions now..
● If anyone has questions I’ll be happy to answer them.

Answering questions

● Thanks for your question..


● Good question. I think…
● That’s an interesting question! As I see it…
● Yes, that’s an interesting point..
Dealing with difficult questions

● Thank you for your question, but I am afraid I don’t have that information at my
disposal right now, but I would be happy to find it out and get back to you later, if that is
acceptable.

Asking questions to the presenter

● Excuse me. Can you say a bit more about…


● Could you please repeat your point about…
● Excuse me. I have a question about…

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