Presentation Signpost Expressions

Presentation Signpost Expressions
Starting Moving from section to section

Good morning/afternoon/evening (everyone, ladies and gentlemen, So let me start by….. explaining the background.
colleagues) So I’ll start with….
Right, so first…
Thank you very much for inviting me to speak here today.
I am honored to have the opportunity to share our research with you Well moving onto…
here today. Next I’ll talk about….
I am happy to have this chance to speak to you (all) today about…… Right, was that clear? So I’ll move onto…
Introducing topic Well, what does this all mean? So what’s the significance of this?
Today I’m going to talk about…..
Let’s take a moment to look at few other reports….
As you can see, I’m here today to talk to you about…. Ok, so what’s next….
Explaining structure Right, I’ll introduce/share our materials and methods.

(Especially important if the structure of your talk is a little different
from normal, or you have a very long presentation with many parts) So finally,
That brings us to my last point.
I’ve divided my presentation into two/three/four/several part.
Looking at visuals
First, I’ll explain……. And then I’ll move onto talk about….. Now let’s look at….
May I focus your attention on the table/ chart/ figure
Showing respect for listener’s knowledge You’ll notice that….
As you may know, Ok so you can see a summary of our results here….
As you can see,
As you may be aware, Please, focus on the second row/ the post operative findings in patient 2
I know many of you are familiar with….
Many of you may have performed… Finishing up
I am sure, you are all familiar with X’s work on I hope my rather rapid explanation was clear.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Underlining points: Thank you for listening.
Please remember that…. Well that’s all from me today. It’s been a great pleasure to share this with you
It’s important to remember that…. today.
This is important/significant because…. Thank you very much
You’re probably thinking that…. And you’re right/ but this would be
a mistake…. Starting question-time
Please notice that…. I’ll be happy to answer question…..
Note this point: If you have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer them.
Does anyone have any questions?
Referring backward ad forwards OK, so question time! Anyone…?
You’ll remember I said…..
Just to repeat what I said earlier, Unfortunately, we seem to have run out of time.
As I mentioned earlier…. If anyone has any questions, I’ll be happy to try to answer the privately…./ you
Do you remember I said….? can see my email address here…..
I’ll talk more about this later. Responding to tricky questions

Don’t worry if this isn’t so clear now, I’ll explain the details later…. Thank you…. It’s a good question and one we are trying to address in our follow
More on this later on. up studies.
The details will come later.
Can I come back to this point? Ah yes. That occurred to us too. We tried to account for it by….
Referring to study weaknesses I’m afraid I have no idea! Perhaps we can look at that in more detail in a follow
You may be able to see the weaknesses in our study. up study. Do you have any suggestions?
Of course our study cannot conclusively say that…
We need to look at X in more detail and a further study with Y might Let me check I understand you clearly. Do you mean…?
confirm our findings. So do you mean….?
So are you saying….?
Summarizing
OK, so in summary…. Could you repeat that?
So where does this leave us? Well we need to: I didn’t quite catch that…
We can agree that… I’m not sure I’m following you…
Our main point is that:
I’m afraid my English is failing me.
We have raised the following questions:
Our study has proved that: Ah… I’m afraid I don’t have that information with me now. If I can get your
We believe our study presents conclusive proof that…. email address after this session. I’ll mail it to you.
We believe our study raises many questions about…
We believe our study may be the first step in….

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Starting Moving from section to section

Explaining structure Right, I’ll introduce/share our materials and methods.

I’ll talk more about this later. Responding to tricky questions

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