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Useful Vocabulary

THE BEGINNING OR THE INTRODUCTION

Getting the audience's

Right.

Let's begin.

attention and signaling

Well.

Can we start?

 

the beginning.

 

 

 

OK.

Shall we start?

 

Good.

Let's get the ball rolling.

 

Great.

Let's get down to business

 

Fine.

OK. If we're all here, let's

 

 

begin.

 

 

If everyone's ready, let's

 

 

start.

 

 

 

Welcoming the audience

Hello

ladies and gentlemen

 

Good morning

members of the jury

 

Good afternoon

esteemed guests

 

Good evening

members of the board

 

 

fellow colleagues

 

 

dear friends

 

 

everyone

 

 

dear guests

 

 

 

 

It’s a pleasure to welcome you today.

 

It’s good to see you all here.

 

Thank you all for coming.

 

 

 

 

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Introducing yourself or

Let me introduce myself, I’m Mike Petrov from…

someone

I'd like to start by introducing myself. My name is...

 

 

I am very pleased and proud to introduce ...who is....

 

Now I'll turn the floor over to today's speaker, … (to

 

take the floor, to have the floor, to give the floor to

 

someone.)

 

 

Giving your position,

I am a student at the BMSTU... /I am a doctoral

function department

candidate…/

 

I am a researcher from ...

 

 

Introducing your topic

The subject/ topic of my presentation is...

 

In my presentation I would like to report on…

 

The theme of my talk is...

 

Today I'm going to talk about...

 

What I’d like to present to you today is…

 

I've been asked to give you an overview of...

 

 

Saying why your topic is

I’ve chosen to speak about this because...

relevant for your

Today’s topic is of particular interest to those of

 

audience

you/us who…

 

 

My topic is/will be very important for you because…

 

By the end of this talk you will be familiar with…

 

 

Stating your purpose

The purpose/objective/aim of this presentation is to…

 

My objective is to…

 

 

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Today I’d like to give you an overview of…

 

What I would like to do today is to explain…/ to

 

illustrate.../to give you the essential background

 

information on.../ to outline.../ to have a look at...

 

What I want my listeners to get out of my speech is...

 

 

Structuring and

I’ve divided my presentation into three main parts.

sequencing

In my presentation I’ll focus on four major issues.

 

 

First I’ll be looking at…, after that I’ll move on to…,

 

next/then/after that…. And finally/ I’ll end with...

 

I’ve broken my speech down/up into X parts.

 

In the first part I’ll …/ In the next section I’ll…/ In

 

part three, I am going to show.../ and in the last part

 

I’d like to…

 

 

Timing

My presentation/talk will take/will last about…

 

It will take about 15 minutes to cover these issues.

 

I have limited my speech to…

 

 

Handouts

Does everyone have a handout? Please take one and

 

pass them on.

 

Don’t worry about taking notes. I’ve put all the key

 

information on a handout for you.

 

I’ll be handing out copies of the slides at the end of

 

my presentation.

 

I can email my presentation to anybody who wants it.

 

 

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Questions and comments from the audience

I'd ask you to save your questions for the end.

There will be time for your questions at the end of my talk.

Feel free to ask questions at any time during my talk.

You may interrupt me at any moment to ask questions or make comments.

Please stop me if you don't understand anything I say but could you keep any specific questions until after I've finished.

EFFECTIVE OPENING

Asking a question or

Have you ever heard of...?

recognizing the

You may already know...

 

knowledge of the audience

 

 

I feel sure that some of you...

 

Every day you encounter...

 

You've probably seen countless times...

 

You may have wondered...

 

 

Problem to think about

Imagine you had to… What would be your first step?

 

 

Interesting fact

Did you know that…?

 

I’d like to share an amazing fact/figure with you

 

 

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THE MAIN BODY

Saying what is coming

Now let us turn to point one.

 

In this part of my presentation, I’d like to talk about…

 

 

Indicating the end of a

This brings me to the end of my first point.

section

So much for point two.

 

 

That’s all I wanted to say about…

 

 

Moving on to the next

This leads us directly to my next point.

point

This brings us to the next point/issue/problem.

 

 

Let’s now move on to/ turn to…

 

Let’s now take a look at…

 

 

Referring to

As I have already said/ mentioned/ explained earlier...

what you have said

As we saw in part one...

previously

To repeat what I've already said...

 

 

 

Giving an example

Now let's take an example.

 

An example of this can be found...

 

To illustrate this...

 

Let's see this through an example.

 

For example/ for instance /e.g.

 

 

Rephrasing

Let me rephrase that,

 

In other words

 

Another way of saying the same thing is…

 

 

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That is to say, for example ...

 

 

Summarizing a point

Before I move on, I’d like to recap the main points.

 

I’d like to summarize what I’ve said so far…

 

To summarize…/ To sum up…

 

Let me summarize by saying

 

So that concludes my overview

 

Briefly said…/ In short,…

 

What I've tried to show in this part...

 

 

Emphasizing a point

What is very significant is...

 

What is important to remember...

 

I'd like to emphasize the fact that...

 

I'd like to stress the importance of...

 

To highlight.../To underline...

 

What I tried to bring out...

 

What we need to focus on...

 

 

Referring to what is

We will see this a little later on.

coming

This will be the subject of part 3.

 

 

We will go into more detail on that later.

 

 

Referring to

I quote the words of ...

what an expert says:

In the words of...

 

According to...

 

 

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...Here I'd like to quote

 

 

As Mr. Brown says in his book...

 

 

There is a famous quotation that goes...

 

 

 

Referring to

 

As you all may well know...

common knowledge

 

It is generally accepted that...

 

 

As you are probably aware (of)...

 

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

 

 

 

Indicating the end of

I’m approaching/ nearing the end of my presentation.

your talk

Well, this brings me to the end of my presentation.

 

 

As a final point, I’d like to…

 

Finally, I’d like to highlight one key issue.

 

 

Summarizing points

To conclude/sum up/ In conclusion, I’d like to…

 

Let me go over the key issues again.

 

I'd like to summarize/sum up the main points of my talk…

 

At this stage I would like to run through/over the main

 

points...

 

So, as we have seen today....

 

In conclusion I would like to say that...

 

 

Making

As a result I suggest that...

recommendations

In the light of what we have discussed today I suggest

 

 

that...

 

 

 

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My first proposal is...

 

My final comments concern...

 

 

Inviting questions

Are there any questions?

 

I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have

 

If there are any questions please feel free to ask.

 

Thank you very much for your attention and if there are

 

any questions…

 

 

DEALING WITH QUESTIONS

 

 

Clarifying a question

I’m afraid I didn’t quite catch that.

 

I’m sorry, could you repeat your question, please?

 

If I understood you correctly, you would like to know

 

whether…

 

If I could just rephrase your question, you’d like to

 

know…

 

Does that answer your question?

 

 

Avoiding giving an

I’m afraid that’s not really what we were discussing

answer

today.

 

I saw that in the work of...

 

 

Admitting you

Sorry, that’s not my field./ Sorry, that’s off the top of my

don’t know

head.

 

 

I’m afraid I’m not in a position to answer that question at

 

the moment.

 

I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to your question, but I

 

 

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will try to find it out for you.

 

 

Delaying the answer

I'm glad you asked that question.

 

That's a good question/point/remark.

 

Can I answer that question later?

 

If you don’t mind, I’ll come back to this point later in my

 

presentation.

 

Can we get back to this point a bit later?

 

Would you mind waiting until the question and answer

 

session at the end?

 

 

Agreeing

I agree with you 100 percent.

 

I couldn't agree with you more.

 

That's true.

 

That's for sure.

 

You're absolutely right.

 

Absolutely.

 

That's exactly how I feel.

 

Exactly.

 

I'm afraid I agree with Peter.

 

I have to side with Dad on this one.

 

No doubt about it.

 

(weak) I suppose so./I guess so.

 

You have a point there.

 

 

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I was just going to say that.

 

I agree with you but there is another way of looking at it.

 

 

Disagreeing

I don't think so.

 

(strong) No way.

 

I'm afraid I disagree.

 

(strong) I totally disagree.

 

That's not entirely true.

 

On the contrary…

 

I'm sorry to disagree with you, but…

 

Yes, but don't you think…

 

That's not the same thing at all.

 

I'm afraid I have to disagree.

 

I'm not so sure about that.

 

I must take issue with you on that.

 

It's unjustifiable to say that...

 

I beg to differ.

 

(strong) I'd say the exact opposite.

 

Not necessarily.

 

That's not always true.

 

That's not always the case.

 

No, I'm not so sure about that.

 

 

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