• Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
• Good morning, gentlemen.
• Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman.
• Good afternoon, everybody.
• Hello / Hi everyone.
• First of all, let me thank you all for coming here today.
• It’s a pleasure to welcome you today.
• I’m happy / delighted that so many of you could make it today.
• It’s good to see you all here.

• Let me introduce myself. I’m Mike Hancock from…
• For those of you who don’t know me, my name is…
• Let me just start by introducing myself. My name is…
• As some of you know, I’m the purchasing manager.
• I’m the key account manager here and am responsible for…
• I’m here in my function as the head of …
• I’m the project manager in charge of…

• What I’d like to present to you today is…
• I’m here today to present…
• In my presentation I would like to report on…
• The subject / topic of my presentation is…
• My topic today is…
• Today’s topic is…
• I am going to talk today about...
• Today I’m going to talk about…
• I’ll be talking about…
• My talk is concerned with…
• The subject / topic of my talk is…
• In my talk I’ll tell you about…

• I’ve divided my presentation into three (main) parts.
• In my presentation I’ll focus on three major issues.
• Point one deals with…, point two…, and point three…
• First, I’ll be looking at…, second…, and third…
• I’ll begin / start off by…. Then I’ll move on to…. Then / Next / After that… I’ll end with…
• To start with I'll describe the progress made this year.
• Then I'll mention some of the problems we've encountered and how we overcame them.
• After that I'll consider the possibilities for further growth next year. Finally, I'll summarize my presentation (before concluding with some recommendations).

• Today’s topic is of particular interest to those of you / us who…
• My talk is particularly relevant to those of us who…
• My topic is / will be very important for you because…
• By the end of this talk you will be familiar with…
• The purpose / objective / aim of my presentation is to introduce our new range of...
• Our goal is to determine how / the best way to…
• What I want to show you is…
• My objective is to…
• Today I’d like to give you an overview of…
• Today I’ll be showing you / reporting on…
• I’d like to update you on / inform you about…

• My presentation will take about 30 minutes.
• It will take about 20 minutes to cover these issues.
• This won’t take more than…

• Does everybody have a handout / brochure / copy of the report? Please take one and pass them on.
• Don’t worry about taking notes. I’ve put all the important statistics on a handout for you.
• I’ll be handing out copies of the slides at the end of my talk.
• I can email the PowerPoint presentation to anybody who wants it.

• Do feel free to interrupt me if you have any questions.
• If you have any questions, feel free to interrupt me at any time.
• Feel free to ask questions at any time during my talk.
• I'll try to answer all of your questions after the presentation.
• I plan to keep some time for questions after the presentation.
• There will be time for questions after my presentation.
• We will have about 10 minutes for questions in the question and answer period.

Einen Überblick über
die Präsentation
geben

• I’m going to divide this talk into four parts.
• There are a number of points I'd like to make.
• Basically / Briefly, I have three things to say.
• I'd like to begin / start by...
• Let's begin / start by...
• First of all, I'll... … and then I’ll go on to…
• Then / Next...
• Finally / Lastly...

Einen Unterpunkt
("Section") beenden

• That's all I have to say about...
• That’s all I wanted to say about…
• We've looked at...
• So much for point two.
• This brings me to the end of my first point…

Einen neuen
Unterpunkt
("Section") beginnen

• This leads directly to my next point.
• This brings us to the next question.
• Moving on now to…
• Turning to...
• Let’s turn now to…
• The next issue / topic / area I’d like to focus on…
• I’d like to expand / elaborate on…
• Now we'll move on to...
• I'd like now to discuss...
• Let's look now at...

Analyse des
dargestellen
Unterpunktes
und Empfehlugen

• Where does that lead us?
• Let's consider this in more detail...
• What does this mean for...?
• Translated into real terms...
• Why is this important?
• The significance of this is...
• We’d suggest…
• We therefore (strongly) recommend that…
• In my opinion we should…
• Based on the figures we have, I’m quite certain that…

• For example,…
• A good example of this is...
• As an illustration,...
• To give you an example,...
• To illustrate this point...

Wichtige Punkte
nochmals
hervorheben

• Simply put...
• In other words...
• So what I’m saying is...
• To put it more simply...
• To put it another way...

• I’m afraid I didn’t (quite) catch this.
• I’m sorry; could you repeat your question, please?
• So, if I understood you correctly, you like to know whether…
• Does that answer your question?
• If you don’t mind, we'll be examining this point in more detail later on...
• I'd like to deal with this question later, if I may...
• I'll come back to this question later in my talk...
• Perhaps you'd like to raise this point at the end.
• I won't comment on this now...

• To conclude,…
• In conclusion,...
• Now, to sum up...
• To summarise...
• Right, let's sum up, shall we?
• So let me summarise / recap what I've said.
• Let's summarise briefly what we've looked at...
• If I can just sum up the main points...
• Finally, may I remind you of some of the main points we've considered.
• Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we've covered.
• To conclude...
• In conclusion...
• In short...
• So, to remind you of what I’ve covered in this talk, …
• Unfortunately, I seem to have run out of time, so…
• I’ll conclude very briefly by saying that …

Dank an die Zuhörer /
das Publikum

• Many thanks for your attention.
• I’m happy to answer any queries / questions.

Einladung, Fragen
zu tellen

• I’m happy to answer any queries / questions.
• Now I'll try to answer any questions you may have.
• Can I answer any questions?
• Would you like to ask any questions?
• Please feel free to ask questions.
• Any questions?
• Are there any questions?
• Do you have any questions?
• Are there any final questions?
• Does anyone have any questions or comments?
• If you would like me to elaborate on any point, please ask.

• Let’s now look at the next slide which shows…
• To illustrate this, let’s have a closer look at…
• The chart on the following slide shows…
• I have a slide here that shows…
• The problem is illustrated in the next bar chart…
• According to this graph, our net profit has doubled.
• You can see the test results in this table.
• As you can see here, …

• First, let me quickly explain the graph.
• You can see that different colours have been used to indicate…
• The new models are listed across the bottom.
• The biggest segment indicates…
• The key in the bottom left-hand corner…

Informationen hervorheben

• I’d like to stress / highlight / emphasize the following points.
• I’d like to start by drawing your attention to…
• Let me point out that…
• I think you’ll be surprised to see that…
• I’d like you to focus your attention on…
• What’s really important here is…
• What I’d like to point out here is…
• Let’s look more closely at…

Trends / Tendenzen beschreiben

• Sales increased slightly in summer.
• Consumer spending fell / declined sharply.
• Interest rates have risen steadily.
• Food prices went up significantly.
• There was a sudden increase in prices.
• In August, we saw a moderate fall.
• This was followed by a gradual decline.
• There was a sharp slump in sales.
• Ticket sales have started picking up.

• We introduced this method to increase flexibility.
• The purpose of this step is to expand to foreign markets.
• Our aim was to…

• What’s the reason for this dramatic decrease?
• The unexpected drop was caused by…
• This was because of…
• As a consequence / Consequently sales went up significantly.
• As a result…
• The venture resulted in a sharp fall in share prices.
• Our new strategy has led to an increase of 10%.