SIGNALLING AND
TRANSITION WORDS

Language to state the aim and purpose of the talk

Signaling language

Referring to visual aids

Language to present findings

Introduce the topic

This presentation will investigate/ examine/ identify/ the effects of ...

My topic today is ...

The topic I intend to discuss is ...

Our team/group will be discussing ...

Provide an outline of the presentation

I want to start by ..., and then I’ll ...

Let’s begin by ... , before looking at ...

I’m going to divide this talk into three parts.

There a four main points I’d like to discuss: X, Y, Z and A.

The effects of ... will be shown by a comparison of x and y.

Draw the audience’s attention to the visual

Now, let's look at the position for ...

Now, I'll show you ...

As you can see here ...

I’d like to point out ...

The diagram indicates ...

Let's move on and look at the graph of ...

The next slide indicates ...

Explain what the visual is indicating

This chart compares the production in two countries ...

The upper part of the slide illustrates ...

You can see here the development over the past ten years ...

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To sum up ..

In conclusion ...

To recapitulate ...

In summary ...

To summarise ...

Inconclution

First

Now let consider to ....

etc ...