英语演讲经典用句
ORAL PRESENTATIONSKILLS
1. THEBEGINING/INTRODUCTION
1) Getting the audience’s attention
Right. Well. OK. Erm.
Good. Fine.Great.
Let's begin.
Can/Shall we start?
Let's get the ball rolling.
Let's get down to business.
2) Greeting audience
Hello ladies and gentlemen.
Good morningmembers of the jury.
Good afternoonesteemed guests
Good evening members of the board
Fellow colleagues
Mr. Chairman/Chairwoman
3) Introducing yourself/other speakers
Introducing yourself
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce myself.
Good morning everyone, I'd like to start by introducing myself.
My name is...
I am a student at the INT
I am a doctoral candidate,
I am X. Y. from 3 Com. I'm the manager of…
I am a researcher from … I've been working on the subject now for X years...
I've had wide experience in the field of...
Good morning, my name is Lawrence Couderc. I am a student at the INT and Iwould
like to talk to you today about some of my findings in a study I did on…
Introducing others
I am very pleased and proud to introduce …who is…. He/she isknown for…
Now I'll turn the floor over to today's speaker. (to take the floor,to have the floor, to
give the floor to someone.)
4) Giving the title and introducing subjects
Giving the title
I plan to speak about...
Today I'm going to talk about...
The subject of my presentation is...
The theme of my talk is...
I've been asked to give you an overview of...
Explaining the reason
I have chosen to speak about this because...
I was asked to speak about X because...
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8) Setting the time scope I will not speak about... I have limited my speech to… My talk will last about 15 minutes. I will speak for 15 minutes. Introducing the subject Have you ever heard of...? You may already know… I feel sure that some of you… Every day you encounter... Have you ever heard of/seen X? You've probably seen countless times... You may have wondered... Giving your objectives (purposes, aim, goals) My purpose in doing this paper is to give you a solid background on the subject oforal presentation skills so that in the future, at the INT or elsewhere, you can delivera successful speech in front of a group. What I would like to do today is to explain… to illustrate... to outline... to have a look at... to give you the essential background information on... What I want my listeners to get out of my speech is... If there is one thing I'd like to get across to you today it is that… Announcing your outline I have broken my speech down/up into X parts. I have divided my presentation (up) into Y parts. … Reminding the audience of the time for questions and comments I'd ask you to save your questions for the end. There will be plenty of time at the end of my speech for a discussion. You may interrupt me at any moment to ask questions or make comments. Please stop me if you don't understand anything I say but could you keep anyspecific questions until after I've finished. Making a transition between the introduction and the body
Now let us turn to point one.
Let us now move on to the second part, which is, as I said earlier….
2. THE MIDDLE/BODY
1) Signaling where you are
Listing information
There are three things we have to consider:one, two, and three/A, B, C.
Now let us look at the first aspect which is...
First of all,…
In the first place… Linking ideas §ions
That's all I would like to say about... (subject of part A) and now let us turn to ....
Now that we've seen... let us turn to…
Outlining options
There seem to be two possible ways of dealing with this...
We've looked at this from the point of view of the manufacturer but what about if
we were to...
A number of options present themselves at this point....
What exactly are the benefits?
On the plus side we can add...
This is not the only weakness of the plan...
We cannot ignore the problems that such an action would create...
We do not need to concern ourselves with…
Of lesser interest are…
2) Using examples, rephrasing, summaries
To give an example:
Now let's take an example.
An example of this can be found...
To illustrate this… Let's see this through an example.
For example,
For instance,
e.g.
To rephrase:
Let me rephrase that, In other words
Another way of saying the samething is
That is to say
i.e.
To summarize:
To summarize
To sum up,
Let me summarize by saying
So that concludes my overview
In conclusion
Briefly said
In short,
What I've tried to show in this part... To recap what we've seen so far...
To emphasize
What is very significant is...
What is important to remember...
I'd like to emphasize the fact that...
I’d like to stress the importance of...
to highlight...
to underline...
What I tried to bring out... What we need to focus on...
To refer to what you have saidpreviously:
As I have already said earlier...
As we saw in part one...
To repeat what I've said already…
To refer to what you will say:
We will see this a littlelater on.
This will be the subject ofpart 3.
We will go into moredetail on that later. For now, suffice to say...
To refer to what anexpert says:
I quote the words of ...
In the words of…
According to...
Here I'd like to quote…
As Mr. X says in his book... There is a famous quotation thatgoes...
To refer to common knowledge:
As you all may well know...
It is generally accepted that...
A s you are probably aware (of)…
3) Showing visuals (graphs, charts, maps, photos, video etc.)
Reminding audience of the visuals
Let's look at the current distribution of the market, as you can see...
I'm going to show you now the most recent figures available...
My next slide concerns the method by which... As you can see....
Highlighting some points
The first line of figures is the most revealing...
Notice/observe how the increase has had an effect on the...
What is important here is the way that...
Rephrasing the points
In other words the number of employees has a direct effect on the...
Or to look at it in another way every time you...
That is to say no matter what technique is used, the results remain… 4) Creating interest
Raising rhetorical questions
Have you ever seen/heard/experienced...?
How can we explain this? What does that mean?
What can be done about that?
What does this imply for you, as a consumer?
Emphasizing/Highlighting your points
The important thing to remember is...
The essential element is...
We experimented with the concept over a period of three years.
We did see a noticeable difference.
What I'd like to show today is the difference between the two products.
Good it may be, easy it isn't.
As I've said before...
Let me repeat
This method is clearer, cheaper and more consistent.
Quality is not something that affects the bottom line, it is the bottom line.
3. THE END/CONCLUSION
1) Ending the presentation
Summarizing the main points
I'd like to summarize/sum up
At this stage I would like to run through/over the main points...
So, as we have seen today....
As I have tried to explain this morning BT finds itself in....
Making suggestions
As a result we suggest that…
In the light of what we have seen today I suggest that...
My first proposal is...
I've prepared a slim folder of the proposals...
In the sheets that are now being distributed you will find a breakdown ofthe...
Concluding the talk
In conclusion I would like to say that...
My final comments concern...
I would like to finish by reminding everyone that...
Inviting questions/comments
I'd be happy to answer any questions....
If there are any questions please feel free to ask.
Thank you very much for your attention and if there are any suggestions
orcomments
2) Dealing with difficult questions
Just a minute please. What is a...? How can I put it?
I'm glad you asked that question. That's a good question/point/remark. Can I answer that question later? I saw that in the work of…
I agree with you but there is another way of looking at it.