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6. Presenting yourself

Beginning your presentation

1. Introduction

   1. greet the audience and introduce yourself

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2. state your topic

1. Introducing the topic

The subject of this talk/presentation …

I’m going to talk about …

My topic today is …

I ‘d like to talk today about …

I’m here today to …	review
My purpose today is to …	present
What I want to do today is to …	introduce
My objective today is to …	analyze
My main aim this afternoon is to …	describe
	outline
	discuss
	examine
	show
	demonstrate
	investigate
	consider
	clarify

2. Outline the speech

a) outlining the structure of your talk

There are 3 main points to consider … first I’ll talk about … then …and finally …

I am going to divide my talk into 3 sections…

I have divided	the talk	into three (four, etc.)	sections
	my report		parts
	our findings
	this presentation

b) presenting the talk’s organization

The first part of my talk will concern/ will deal with …

Firstly,	I’d like to	talk about
To start with,	I want to	go over
Secondly,	I’m going to	look at
Thirdly,	I shall	review
After this		present
Next		analyse
Then,		consider
Finally,		discuss
	I shall be talking about / going over / looking at / reviewing / analyzing etc.

Handling questions

Signaling your readiness to answer the questions. After you have made the last conclusion of your presentation, tell the audience that you are ready to answer their questions:

1. Thank you (very much) for your attention. If there are any questions I will do my best to answer them.

2. If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them.

Handling Interruptions.

That’s a very interesting	question	and I’ll be coming onto that later.
	comment	and I’ll come back to it at the end.
	idea	can I come back to it at the end?
		perhaps I can deal with it more fully after this talk.

Asking for repetition

I’m sorry, I didn’t hear. Which slide was it?

Sorry, could you repeat that?