LANGUAGE FOCUS IN PRESENTATION

LANGUAGE FOCUS IN PRESENTATION

Signposting

Signposts help to guide the audience through a presentation. Look at the
phrases given below. These will help you to guide your audience through a
presentation.
to move on              to go back                to summarize
to expand on            to recap                    to turn to
to digress                 to conclude             to elaborate on
to illustrate

Choose one of the signpost expressions from above for the following
situations:

i When you want to make your next point To………………………
ii When you want to change direction To………………………
iii When you want to refer to an earlier point To………………………
iv When you want to repeat the main points To………………………
v When you want to give a wider perspective To………………………
vi When you want to give an example To………………………
vii When you want to do a deeper analysis To………………………
viii When you just want to give the basic points To………………………
once again
ix When you want to deviate from your plan To………………………
x When you want to finish your talk To……………………....

More Signposting

Here are some more helpful signposts which you could use in the middle stage
of your presentations.
Showing steps
First of all let’s look at…………………………
Then………………………..
Next………………………..
Lastly………………………

Visuals too are included in the middle of a presentation. 

Using Visuals

Visuals like bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, pictograms, maps,
photographs, charts, PowerPoint slides are commonly used in presentations to
present statistical information or to make comparisons.

 ways to present them:
Introducing a visual

I’d like to show you……………………
Have a look at this……………………..
This graph shows / represents………….
Here we can see………………………..
Let’s look at this……………………….
As you can see in this graph / table……
Comparisons This compares x with y
Let’s compare the………………
Here you see a comparison between…………..

Conclusion                     And here is some language input for the end of your

                                               presentation

Comparisons                       

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This compares x with y

                                                Let’s compare the………………

                                                Here you see a comparison between…………..

Closing                    

                                 Finally, to sum up…………………….
                                 I’d like to sum up now………………..
                                 That concludes my presentation.

Questions / Discussion

At the end of a presentation you are required to invite the audience to ask any
questions that they may like to ask. Alternatively you could also permit them
to ask questions whenever they want in the course of your presentation. This
has to be told to them in the very beginning.

Inviting questions                

 Are there any questions?
If there are any questions I’ll be glad to try to answer

I’ll be glad to answer any questions you may have.
Now we could have a discussion on…………