Present fluently in English

Practical support for all those who want their ideas to shine, even in a foreign language

Present fluently in English Finding yourself in a situation where you need to effectively present your ideas or products in English can be challenging. Even if your English is good, achieving a fluent and lively presentation in a foreign language remains demanding.

Orbium has concrete advice to enable you to master the situation: increase your vocabulary. Provide yourself with a wide range of expressions for those all-important moments in a presentation, such as introducing yourself, outlining the topic, opening the floor for discussion, and rounding up. Using a variety of expressions brings fluency to your presentation, making attentive listening enjoyable for the audience.

Listed here today are a range of phrases for three key moments in a presentation. Look at the expressions, learn a selection, and use them as appropriate. This will increase the fluency of your delivery and, in addition, provide you with increased confidence. Have fun!

Introducing a topic	Illustrating a point	Summarizing / Concluding
I plan to say a few words about … I’m going to talk about ... The subject of my talk is ... The theme of my presentation is ... I’d like to give you an overview of ... Let me start by ... I’ll start by ... First of all, I’ll ... Starting with ... I’d like to begin by ...	For example ... A good example of this is ... To illustrate this point ... Let me give you an example that I think really brings out graphically what I intend to show. I’d like to show you this ... Have a look at this ... This (graph) shows ... This (graph) represents ... Here we can see ... Let’s look at this ... Here you see the trend in ...	Let’s recap, shall we? I’d like to sum up now. Let me summarize briefly what I’ve said Let me remind you, finally, of some of the points I’ve made. I’d like to summarize the main points of our discussion. If I can just sum up the main points ... Right, that ends (the third part of) my talk. That’s all I want so say for now. I’d like to finish with ... There are two conclusions ... I think we have seen that we should ...

If you are interested in more useful tips for English language presentations, then we can recommend our seminar “Presenting in English” with Betty Boden.

Open seminar 10th and 11th November 2011

In-house seminar description