FLUENCY

Useful Phrases for Presentations in English

August 17, 2022December 11, 2022 teacherjulieta2 Comments

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

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FLUENCY

How to Give Feedback

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 teacherjulietaLeave a comment

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Giving and getting feedback is part of effective communication. Giving feedback is a good way to encourage and motivate others. Getting feedback gives people the opportunity to reflect on their learning/ teaching process or their performance at work.

What does feedback mean?

According to Cambridge Dictionary, feedback is:

“an opinion from someone about something that you have done or made”

If there are things that need to be improved you can provide constructive criticism to help others advance in their learning/ teaching process or careers.

The purpose of giving feedback and constructive criticism is to lead others to improve in the longer term. Therefore, when giving feedback it is important that you avoid judging or giving negative comments or remarks.

Here you have some sentence starters that you can use to give positive feedback:

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PRACTICE TIME

Imagine that you are a manager in a tech company. One of your assistants has developed a software that will help the company save a lot of money. However, the software is not user friendly (difficult to use). Your assistant has presented his/ her project in the last weekly meeting. Give him/ her some feedback.

Write your feedback in the comments below.