The document provides a comprehensive guide on structuring a presentation, including greeting the audience, introducing oneself, outlining the talk, moving to the main body, summarizing main points, concluding, and inviting questions. Examples of phrases for each section are given to assist presenters in effectively communicating their message. Additionally, it suggests various topics for preparing a talk.

1. How to Structure a
Presentation
A Guide with
Examples
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2. The Structure of Presentations
Greet audience
Introduce yourself Outline your talk
Move to the body
Summarize main points
Conclude your talkInvite questions
Accept questions and comments

3. Greeting the Audience
• Good morning/afternoon/evening.
• Hello everybody.
• It’s very nice to be here.
• I’m very pleased to be here with you.
• It’s a pleasure to be here today.

4. Introducing Yourself
• My name’s John Doe and I’m from XYZ
Ltd. I’m here today to talk to you about
…...
• I am Jane Doe and I represent ABC Co.
I’ve come here today to explain ……
• I think you all know me. I’d like to talk
to you about….

5. Outlining Your Talk
• I’ve divided my talk into three parts. I plan to
speak for about fifty minutes. I’ll be happy to
answer your questions at the end of my talk.
• My talk will focus on three areas and will take
about thirty minutes. Please feel free to
interrupt me if you have a question.
• In the first part I will look at …..
The second part will deal with …..
In the final part I’ll ……

6. The Main Body
• I’d like to start now by looking at ….
To begin with, I’m going to …..
• Moving on now to my next point : …..
Let’s turn now to ……
• Could you please look at the screen for a
moment?
I’d like to show you an example of what I
mean.
• As I’ve already said ….
I’ll go into this in more detail at a later stage.

7. Summarizing
• I’d like to end now by summarizing the
main points of my talk.
• What we have looked at here today is
…..
∑

8. Conclusion
• I’d like to end now by thanking you for
your attention.
• That’s all I have to say about this
subject for now.

9. Inviting Questions
• I’ll be happy to answer your questions
now.
• We have some time for questions and
comments.
• If you have any questions, I’ll be
pleased to answer them now.

10. Handling Questions and
Comments
• That’s an interesting comment. Thank
you for that.
• That’s an interesting question. I’ll try to
answer.
• I don’t think I can answer that just now
but I’ll find out for you.

11. Your Turn
• Choose one of the following topics and
prepare a talk about:
- ELISA- Why people get sick?
- DULCE – Religions.
- JUDITH – The best heritage.
- LEON – World’s crisis.
- SERGIO – The importance of family.