Advanced Phrases For Presenting In English

Learn more than 30 advanced phrases for presenting in English in this short lesson. This is a follow-up lesson to "40 Useful Phrases For Presenting In English", which I uploaded in September 2020.

Welcoming your audience
It’s lovely to see so many familiar faces here today.
I’m very grateful to you all for taking the time to be here today.

Introducing yourself
For those of you who don’t know me, I’m …..
Let me start by telling you a little bit about my own background. I’m …

Stating the goal of your presentation
What I intend/plan/hope to do is …
The reason I’m here today is to talk about …
I’m here to say a few words about … (informal)

Explaining why the topic is relevant
This talk should be of particular interest to those of you who ….
By the end of this afternoon’s talk, you’ll know how to/you’ll be familiar with …
What I hope you’ll get from my talk/presentation is a clearer view/better idea of …

Introducing the first topic
I’d like to begin by drawing your attention to …
Let’s begin by looking at …

Finishing atopic
That’s all I want to say about this topic for the time being. (for the time being means at the moment – you may come back to the topic later)
So that’s the background on …

And continuing with another
The next point I’d like to talk about is …
This leads me directly to my next point, which is …

Highlighting information
As far as I’m concerned, the main issue here is …
The significance of this is, …
I cannot emphasise this strongly enough.

Paraphrasing
In other words, …
Put simply, …
To put it another way, …

Common knowledge
As you’re all aware, …
As I’m sure you all know, …

Referring to points you mentioned earlier
If you remember, I touched upon this point earlier.
As I mentioned/pointed out earlier …

Digressing
While we’re on the subject of …, I’d like to briefly mention …
If I can just digress for a moment, …

Getting back to the topic
Coming back to the main point …
Getting back to my main point …

Summarising
Finally, let me remind you of the main points we covered/looked at/considered today.
Let me briefly summarise the main points.

Concluding
I’d like to finish with something (name of well-known person) once said: (quote)
Let me just finish with a question: (thought-provoking question)

Thanking the audience and inviting them to ask questions
Thank you very much for being such an attentive audience. If you have any questions, I’d be happy to answer them now.
Any questions?

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:45 Welcoming the audience and introducing yourself
2:13 Stating your objective and explaining why it's relevant
3:14 Signposting phrases
4:13 Highlighting information
4:48 Paraphrasing
5:15 Common knowledge and referring to points you mentioned earlier
5:58 Digressing
6:26 Ending the presentation

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Music credits: Intro music: Far Away by MK2
Background music: Honey and Milk by The 126ers

[YinHtwe-fwur]

These are really helpful phrase for non- English native speaker to use. Thanks. Liked and subscribed!!

[suzieobradagain]

Really helpful and wonderful tips! Sharing with my students. Thanks Derek!

[MedicalEnglishMel]

These are great tips! (And I love the way you organized them.)

[ibtissambenguedach]

I have attended 2 videos, I like them too much very helpful very clear & easy to understand the content and the pronunciation is very clear appreciated dear

[hoangyen]

Thank you for your sharing! Hope to see more lessons from you in the future.

[evadailyevadailyonline]

These are great tips. Thanks so much dear.

[marymungai]

Well done Derek you are of great help to us. Thank you for sharing

[priyankarao]

Thank you so much, great lessons you are delivering...very easy to use...

[delfinoramirezperez]

thank you so much teacher ...very interesting topic..

[saidfarid]

Hi teacher
Thanks a lot for your help and advice

[martinjokes]

I haven't given it much thought until now

[BikeTaiwan]

The lessons are really helpful! I enjoyed the lessons very much. Thank you!

[basappamudamall]

Sir, simply you are great ! Please post or prepare the usage of phrases words presentation.... simply sentence, that are so effective

[martinjokes]

This shows beyond doubt that I am right

[pavicreation]

Thank you sir, it's a amazing explaination from ur side.
Can u suggest me, how to handover to someone in grp presentation?

[rajsaggar]

Derek, in general day to day affairs, there is very minimal time we have to use diplomatic or customary phrases. We show our disgust and displeasure most of the time. Please do a long comprehensive video on nasty phrases and abuses we can use to win over our opponents. Thanks