BUSINESS ENGLISH COMMUNICATION

PRESENTATION

I. Opening/Introduction

Greetings

Introduce Self

State Objectives
 Outline Structure

Length

Questions

Link to Start

Greetings

Good morning and welcome to …

Thank you all very much for coming today.

I hope you all had a pleasant journey here today.

Introduce Self

My name is … and I am responsible for …

My name is … from ..., where I am responsible for …

Let me introduce myself; my name is … and I am responsible for …

State Objectives

The purpose of today’s presentation is

to …
 The purpose of my presentation today is
to …
In today’s presentation, I’d like to
show you … / explain to you how …
In today’s presentation, I’m hoping to
give you an update on… / give you an
overview of …
In today’s presentation, I’m planning
to look at … / explain …

Outlining Presentation

In today’s presentation I’m hoping to cover three points:

Firstly, … , after that we will look at … , and finally I’ll …

In today’s presentation I’d like to cover three points:

Firstly …, secondly …, and finally …

I’m going to divide this talk into four parts.

There are a number of points I'd like to make.

 Basically/ Briefly, I have three things to say.

I'd like to begin/start by …

Let's begin/start by …

Questions
If you have any questions you’d like to ask, please leave them until the end.

Please feel free to interrupt me if you have questions.

There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

I'd be grateful if you could ask your questions after the presentation.

II. Body

Part 1
 Closing 1st Part

Opening Part 2

Sequencing

Closing/Moving On

Highlighting

Closing

Starting the Presentation

To start/begin with …

Let’s start/begin by looking at …

I’d like to start by looking at …

 I’ll start with some general information on …

I’d just like to give you some background information about …

Before I start, does anyone know …?

Closing a Section

So, that concludes [title of the section] …

So, that’s an overview of …

I think that just about covers …

That's all I have to say about …

We've looked at …

So much for …

Beginning a New Section

Now, let’s move on to …

Now, let’s take a look at …

Next, I’d like to take a look at …

Moving on to the next part, I’d like to …

 Moving on to the next section, let’s take a look at …

Let’s turn now to …

The next issue/topic/area I’d like to focus on …

I’d like to expand/elaborate on …

Now, we'll move on to …

I'd like now to discuss...

Let's look now at …

III. Ending

Signal End
 Summarize

Conclude

Thanking/Finishing

Handle/Invite Questions

Closing

Signal End

Well, that brings us to the end of the final section.

That brings us to the end of the final section.

That concludes my presentation.

Summarizing

So to summarize the main points of my talk…

Just a quick recap of my main points…

Right, let's sum up, shall we?

Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we've covered…

So, to remind you of what I’ve covered in this talk, …

Well, that's about it for now. We've covered …

So, that was our marketing strategy. In brief, we …

Concluding

To conclude, I’d like to say that …

I’d like to finish by saying …

In conclusion …

Finishing and Thanking

Thank you for your attention.

That brings the presentation to an end.

That brings us to the end of my presentation.

Finally, I’d like to finish by thanking you (all) for your attention.
 Finally, I’d like to end by thanking you (all) for coming today.

I’d like to thank you (all) for your attention and interest.

Inviting questions

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask them now.

Does have anyone have any questions?

I will be happy to answer your questions now.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

I’m happy to answer any queries/ questions.

Does anyone have any questions or comments?

Please feel free to ask questions.

If you would like me to elaborate on any point, please ask.

Would you like to ask any questions?

Dealing with (difficult) Questions

Positive Response

That’s a good / an interesting question.

 I’m glad you asked that question. It allows me to say …

Thank you for that question.

Checking

Is that clear now?

Is that okay?

Does that answer your question?

I hope this was what you wanted to hear.

I hope this explains the situation for you.

Clarifying

If I understand you correctly, you want to know …

You’re asking me about … Is that right?

Sorry. I didn’t quite follow/catch/hear the question/ Could you repeat that

for me, please?

In other words, you’re asking …

Referring Back

As I said at the beginning …

As you remember, we are concerned with …

As I said earlier in the first section / at the end of the last part …

Yes, I mentioned in the introduction …

As said / pointer out / explained earlier …

I think we’ve already made clear that …

Wrong Person

Unfortunately, I'm not the best person to answer that.

I’m afraid I can’t really answer that.

That’s not really my area / field, I’m afraid.

I don't have any figures on that, so I can't give you an accurate answer.

Wrong Topic/Confidentiality

I’m afraid that question goes beyond the subject of today’s presentation.

I’m afraid that’s confidential.

I’m afraid I’m not at liberty to give you that information.

I’ll come back to that question later if I may.

I'm afraid I'm unable to answer that at the moment. Perhaps I can get back

to you later.

Visual Aid: Describing Charts

The pie chart is about ...

The bar chart deals with ...

The line graph (clearly) shows ...

The slices of the pie chart compare the ...

 The chart is divided into ... parts.

This graph shows you …

Take a look at this …

If you look at this, you will see …

I'd like you to look at this …

This chart illustrates the figures …

This graph gives you a breakdown of …

As you can see …

This clearly shows …

From this, we can understand how / why …

This area of the chart is interesting …

It highlights ...

Describing Change

Upward
 Verbs Nouns

rise a rise

increase an increase

grow growth

go up an upward/rising/increasing trend

improve an improvement

jump a jump

surge a surge

shoot up

soar

rocket

Downward Change
 Verbs Nouns

fall a fall

decrease an decrease

drop

decline a decline

go down a downward/decreasing/falling trend

slump a slump

plummet

shoot up

soar

rocket

Frequent Change
 Verbs Nouns

fluctuate fluctuation

No Change

Verbs

remain stable/constant, stay at the same level, stabilize

At the Top

Verbs

reach a peak, peak., reach its/their highest point

At the
Bottom
 Verbs

reach/hit a low (point), hit/reach its/their lowest point

Other Important Phrases

 Phrases
has the largest (number of) ...

... has the second largest (number of) ...

... is as big as ...

... is twice as big as ...

... is bigger than ...

more than ... per cent ...

only one third ...

less than half ...

The number ... increases/goes up/grows by ...

The number ... decreases/goes down/sinks by ...

The number ... does not change/remains stable