Licence d'anglais: Oral Presentations, HELPFUL EXPRESSIONS

Attention Licence students! Here are some useful expressions for your presentation!

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS AND VOCABULARY FOR A TALK

Introducing a point with authority

It seems quite clear that…

There can be no doubt that…

I am (absolutely) convinced that… and I shall set out to prove my point to you.

I sincerely believe that…

The most important point I wish to make is that…

My first point is…

First, I’d like to focus on…

To start with, I’d like to draw your attention to…

I intend to demonstrate that…

In the course of this talk / presentation, we shall see that…

There are two/three main arguments supporting my position…

In fact the subject is not clear-cut, but the two main positions are as follows:

Some people would have us believe that…, however it is quite clear that that view is misguided and that…

Stressing or underlining the importance of a point

I would like to stress that…

I ought to point out that…

The central problem is …

The principle argument is…

And here, I would like to underline the importance of this point…

Transitions (winding up and moving on)

Let me recap briefly on the main points here…

So what I’ve been concentrating on here essentially is…

In other words,…

In a nutshell, what it amounts to is this…

To sum up what I’ve been focussing on so far is…

Let me leave you with a final thought on this point…

And now let’s turn out attention to…

Now I / we shall move on to…

The next point to consider is…

In a similar way,…

Concluding

And that brings us to the end of the discussion,…

Perhaps I could conclude by saying…

What it all boils down to essentially is this:

So I leave you to ask yourselves whether…

And here is a final thought for you to consider…