I’m from the HR department/IBM.

Introductions:

Hi, my name is X.

I’m from the HR department/IBM.

I represent the HR department/IBM.

Good morning/afternoon /evening, my name is X

Welcome

Thank you for coming…

It’s nice to be here…

Objectives:

Today, I’m going to be talking about X.

This morning, I’m going to tell you about X.

This talk is all about X.

Questions (how to handle them):

If you have any questions, please keep them to the end.

I’ll take questions at the end.

Feel free to ask any questions during/at the end of the presentation.

Please feel free to interrupt me if there is anything you don't understand

Please hold your questions until the end.

I won't comment on this now...

We'll be examining this point in more detail later on...

I'd like to deal with this question later, if I may...

I'll come back to this question later in my talk...

Perhaps you'd like to raise this point at the end...

Introducing the first subject:

So let’s start with…

I'd like to start by...

Let's begin by...

First of all, I'll...

Starting with...

I'll begin by...

Starting a new subject:

Now we'll move on to...

Let me turn now to...

Next...

Turning to...

I'd like now to discuss...

Let's look now at...

Now let's move on to...

Let’s go on to…

This leads me

Let's turn our attention to...

Sign post language:

Firstly,

Then,

Next,

Afterwards,

After that,

Following on from that…

Now let’s look at…

Referring to what is coming:

I’ll talk about that in more detail later.

I’ll be coming back to that later.

Soon, we’ll learn about…

As we’ll see…

As I was saying earlier…

Returning to my earlier point…

As I said before…

As I previously stated…

Referring to…

Questions (responding to them):

That’s a good question.

I’m glad you asked that because…

I’ll be coming back to that later.

I’ll answer your questions at the end…

Visual aids:

As you can see from this slide/diagram/handout…

If we look at X, you will see Y.

The next slide shows X.

This diagram shows X.

Referring to this chart…

Please direct your attention to…

Checking understanding:

Is everything clear so far?

Is that clear?

Does everyone understand?

Would you like me to go over anything again?

OK?

Are you with me?

Are there any questions?

Would anyone like to give me an example?

What do you think about…?

Useful language:

Anyway…

Well…

In that case…

However…

Although…

Even though…

In spite of…

Despite…

Unless…

As long as…

First of all…

Moreover…

Furthermore…

Therefore…

Before…

So…

When…

Basically…

Can everyone hear/see me OK?

Conclusion:

In conclusion…

Finally…

Just to summarise…

In the end…

Just to sum up…

If I can just sum up the main points...

Just to remind you of the main points once again…

To conclude…

Right, let's sum up, shall we?

So, we looked at X, Y and Z.

In this talk, I told you about X…, which should help you with…

To recap, …

Today, we’ve covered…

This completes my...(

To wrap up…

Any questions?

Does anyone have any questions?

Is there anything you’d like me to go over?

Listening and taking part in a presentation:

Sorry, could you go over X again?

I’d like to hear more about…

Can you give me an example of…?

Will you be going into more detail on…?

What did you mean by…?

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