How To Structure A Presentation

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How to Structure a

Presentation

A Guide with
Examples

The Structure of Presentations


Greet audience
Introduce yourself

Outline your talk


Move to the body
Summarize main points

Invite questions

Conclude your talk

Accept questions and comments

Greeting the Audience

Good morning/afternoon/evening.
Hello everybody.
Its very nice to be here.
Im very pleased to be here with you.
Its a pleasure to be here today.

Introducing Yourself
My names..... and Im from ...... Im
here today to talk to you about ...
I am ..... and I represent ....... Ive come
here today to explain
I think you all know me. Id like to talk
to you about.

Outlining Your Talk


Ive divided my talk into three parts. I plan to
speak for about fifty minutes. Ill 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 Ill

The Main Body


Id like to start now by looking at .
To begin with, Im going to ..
Moving on now to my next point : ..
Lets turn now to
Could you please look at the screen for a
moment?
Id like to show you an example of what I
mean.
As Ive already said .
Ill go into this in more detail at a later stage.

Summarizing
Id like to end now by summarizing the
main points of my talk.
What we have looked at here today is
..

Conclusion
Id like to end now by thanking you for
your attention.
Thats all I have to say about this
subject for now.

Inviting Questions
Ill be happy to answer your questions
now.
We have some time for questions and
comments.
If you have any questions, Ill be
pleased to answer them now.

Handling Questions and


Comments
Thats an interesting comment. Thank
you for that.
Thats an interesting question. Ill try to
answer.
I dont think I can answer that just now
but Ill find out for you.

Thank you for your attention.

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