Making presentations
The following phrases are used when making presentations.
· Introducing your talk
Today we’re going to look at…
I’d like to begin with…
Then we’ll go on to…
Finally, we’ll turn to
· Referring to visuals
If you’d like to look at the screen, you’ll see…
As you can see…
· Signaling
Moving on to…
So, now I’d like to turn to…
Expressing hindsight
We can talk about past mistakes in the following ways.
With hindsight, we should have/could have…
What we should have/could have done is…
If we’d…, we wouldn’t have…
Here are some questions that you could ask a new colleague or client if you want to be friendly and start a conversation:
Did you have a good journey?
Is that your first visit to…?
Do you need any help or information?
When did you actually arrive?
Where are you staying?
Whereabouts do you come from in…?
The following phrases are used when making presentations.
· Introducing your talk
Today we’re going to look at…
I’d like to begin with…
Then we’ll go on to…
Finally, we’ll turn to
· Referring to visuals
If you’d like to look at the screen, you’ll see…
As you can see…
· Signaling
Moving on to…
So, now I’d like to turn to…
Expressing hindsight
We can talk about past mistakes in the following ways.
With hindsight, we should have/could have…
What we should have/could have done is…
If we’d…, we wouldn’t have…
Here are some questions that you could ask a new colleague or client if you want to be friendly and start a conversation:
Did you have a good journey?
Is that your first visit to…?
Do you need any help or information?
When did you actually arrive?
Where are you staying?
Whereabouts do you come from in…?