S

The body of your

presentation

The main

body: your

best shotThis is the reason people

are listening to you. For

information, ideas, somet

hing they didn’t know.

You need to do your best

in this section. You can

start by making sure

people know what’s

happening

BEST SHOT

S B – briefly state your topic again

S E – explain the objective of your talk

S S – signal the beginning of a part

S T - talk about THAT part

BEST SHOT

S S – signal the end of a part

S repeat S-T-S for all the parts of your talk

S H – highlight the important points by…

S O – outlining them in bullet points

S T – tell them you’ve finished the main part

Saying what’s coming

S In this part of my presentation I’d like to tell you about…

S So, let me give you a brief overview of…

Moving on to the next point

S This leads directly to the next part of my talk.

S Now, I’d like to move on to…

S OK, let’s move on to …

S Let’s now turn to…

Indicating the end of a part

S So much for…

S So that’s the background to …

S I’d like to leave … now and move on to …

S This brings me to the end of my second point.

Referring back

S As I said earlier…

S Let me now come back to what I said earlier…

S I’d like to return to what I was talking about earlier…

S Coming back to…

S Let’s go back to what we were discussing earlier.

S As I mentioned before, …

Summing up

S I’d like to sum up the main points.

S Let me briefly summarize what I’ve said so far.

In your talk, you may want to

do the following:

Add ideas

S In addition to this…

S Moreover / Furthermore, …

S As well as that,…

S Apart from …, …

Refer to other points

S … in connection with /

concerning …

S … regarding / with regards to /

as regards …

S With respect to …

S According to …

Final remarksYour talk should be about yourtopic. Do not change thingsjust to make yourself feelcomfortable. Stay on target.

Be organised.

Remember, your listeners can be your fans or your haters. They determine if your talk issuccessful or not.