How to give a presentation :1 How to give a presentation Presentation Signposting CECILIA AMO BUSINESS ENGLISH EOI VALENCIA


Helpful tips :Tuesday, 16th December 2008 2 Helpful tips Use of collocations and key expressions Short sentences Check the audience Speed: slow down to let the audience think, even pauses Signposting: expressions to help the listener


Signposting :Tuesday, 16th December 2008 3 Signposting Starting: Good morning/afternoon/evening (everyone, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues) Thank you very much for inviting me to speak here today I am honoured to have the opportunity to share our research with you here today I am happy to have this chance to speak to you (all) today about… Introducing topic: Today I´m going to talk about… As you can see, I´m here today to talk to you about… Explaining structure: I´ve divided my presentation into X parts First, I´ll explain X and then I´ll move onto talk about…


Signposting :Tuesday, 16th December 2008 4 Signposting Showing respect for listener´s knowledge As you may know, As you can see, AS you may be aware, I know many of you are familiar with… Many of you may have performed… I am sure, you are all familiar with X´s work on Looking at visuals Now let´s look at… May I focus your attention on the table/chart/figure You´ll notice that… OK so you can see a summary of our results here… Please focus on …


Signposting :Tuesday, 16th December 2008 5 Signposting Moving from section to section So let me start by… explaining the background So I´ll start with… Right, so first… Well moving onto… Next I´ll talk about… Right, was that clear? So I´ll move onto… Well, what does this all mean? So what is the significance of this? Let´s take a moment to look at a few other reports… So what have other people said about this? OK, so what´s next… Right, I´ll introduce/share our materials and methods So finally, That brings us to my last point


Signposting :Tuesday, 16th December 2008 6 Signposting Underlining points Please remember that… It´s important/significant because… You´re probably thinking that… and you´re right/but this would be a mistake… Please notice that… Note this point Referring backwards and forwards You´ll remember I said… Just to repeat what I said earlier, As I mentioned earlier… Do you remember I said…? I´ll talk more about this later Don´t worry if this isn´t so clear now, I´ll explain the details later… More on this later on The details will come later Can I come back to this point?


Signposting :Tuesday, 16th December 2008 7 Signposting Referring to study weaknesses You may be able to see the weaknesses in our study Of course our study can´t conclusively say that… We need to look at X in more detail and a further study with Y might confirm our findings Summarizing OK, so in summary… So where does this leave us? Well we need to… We can agree that… Our maing point is that… We have raised the following questions Our study has proved that We believe our study presents conclusive proof that… We believe our study raises many questions about… We believe our study may be the first step in…


Signposting :Tuesday, 16th December 2008 8 Signposting Finishing up I hope my rather rapid explanation was clear Thank you very much for your attention Thank you for listening Well that’s all from me today. It’s been a great pleasure to share this with you today Thank you very much Starting question-time I’ll be happy to answer questions... If you have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer them Does anyone have any questions? OK, so question time! Anyone...? Unfortunately we seem to have run out of time If anyone has any questions, I’ll be happy to try to answer them privately.../ you can see my email address here...


Signposting :Tuesday, 16th December 2008 9 Signposting Replying to tricky questions Thank you... it’s a good question and one we are trying to address in our follow up studies Ah yes. That occurred to us too. We tried to account for it by... I’m afraid I have no idea! Perhaps we can look at that in more detail in a follow up study. Do you have any suggestions? Let me check I understand you clearly. Do you mean...? So do you mean...? So are you saying...? Could you repeat that? I didn’t quite catch that... I’m not sure I’m following you... Ah... I’m afraid I don’t have that information with me now. If I can get your email address after this session, I’ll mail it to you.