Useful Phrases for Presentations in English

Presentations are very common in academic and work settings, and they can be a bit challenging.

Here you can find some sentence starters that will help you organize your ideas to sound professional and fluent.

1 Greeting the Audience

• Good morning/ good afternoon/ good evening everyone
• Welcome to my presentation
• If you don’t know me, my name is …
• I work/ study in … department/ program/ lab
• I’d like to thank you all for coming today
• It’s a great pleasure to be here with you today

2 Introducing the topic

• Today I’m going to talk about/ show you …
• I’m here today to present…
• What I want to talk about today is…
• As you can see on the screen, our topic today is…
• I’ve divided my presentation into three main parts
• As you can see from the agenda/ outline I’ll be talking about…
• Before we begin I want to point out that all the slides/ the proposal/ the final report will be sent to you by (day) at (time)
• I’ll be handing out copies of the slides at the end of my presentation
• I can email the PowerPoint presentation to anyone who would like it
• I would like to start by (+ing verb) …

3 Connecting your ideas

• First, I would like to talk about/ show you …
• First, I’d like to give you an overview of….
• Next, I’ll focus on… and then ….
• What I am going to focus next is…
• This leads directly to my next point
• This brings us to the next point/question
• Let’s now move on to/turn to…
• Then I’ll go on to highlight what I see as the main points of….
• Finally, I’d like to address the problem of…

4 Highlighting important information

• One thing that I want to stress is…
• I’d like to stress/highlight/emphasize the following points…
• The interesting/significant/important thing about…. is….

5 Summarizing ideas

• Before I move on, I’d like to recap the main points
• Let me briefly summarize the main issues
• I’d like to summarize what I’ve said so far…

6 Describing visuals

• As you can see here, …
• Now, let’s look at/let’s have a look at/take a look at/
• As the graph/table shows/indicates…
• From Table/ Figure … we can see/conclude/show/estimate/calculate/infer that…
• The chart/ graph compares…

7 Closing

• Well, this brings me to the end of my presentation/talk
• That covers just about everything I wanted to say about…
• Thank you for your attention

8 Questions and comments

• If you have any questions, I am happy to answer them
• Are there any questions?
• If you have any questions, I’d be pleased to answer them.
• And now I’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have

9 If there are some technical problems

• I’m sorry about the (tech/sound) problem. Ex. I’m sorry about the slow connection
• Thanks for bearing with me = Thanks for your patience
• It will be just one moment
• I apologize for not having enough time/ handouts/ chairs/ samples