Anatomy of the Presentation

Greetings
The Chair
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Let me begin by welcoming all of you and
acknowledging .I thank you all for coming.
Good morning and welcome to the . Conference .. It's an honor for
me to address this audience for the first time as president of.
..
Ladies and Gentleman,
Let me start by thanking the ..Association for offering me the opportunity to
open this conference on ... Indeed, these are subjects very dear to the .and
closely interlinked.
Speakers
Good morning.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman/ Ms Chairwoman, and good afternoon, Ladies and
Gentlemen.
Ms. Chairwoman, Members of the Board, Esteemed Colleagues, Ladies and
Gentlemen, Allow me to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude to our host
today..for having successfully prepared and organized this meeting in the best
tradition of its legendary hospitality, as well as for its most dynamic
chairmanship-in-office of .
Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf of the Romanian delegation I
would like first of all to offer the .. my sincere thanks for their hospitality

Opening Remarks

The title of my presentation is.

Id like to talk today about..
My topic today is.
My subject today is.

The plan
I have divided my talk into four sections:.
The first point Im going to make concerns

 The second point Id like to make..

The third part will touch upon.
Finally, Id like to raise the issue of./ I shall address the problem of
Opening the main section

Let me start by posing the question of

Id like to begin by suggesting
Id like to start by drawing your attention to.
Let me begin by noting that.

Moving to a new point

Let me now turn to.

Id like to turn now to the question of
Let me now turn to the issue of.
Moving on now to the question of.
If we now look at
Having looked atlets now turn to the subject of.
Can we now turn to

Elaborating a point

Id like to look at this in a bit more detail.

Can I develop this point a bit further?
Let me elaborate on this point
The first aspect of this issue is

Postponing

Ill be returning/ coming back to this point later.

As Ill show later
As it will be shown later
Later Ill come on to

Referring back

Getting back to the question of.

Coming back now to the issue which I raised earlier..
Can I now go back to the question I posed at the beginning/
As I said/ mentioned earlier..
As you will remember
Id like now to return to the question of

Highlighting

The interesting/significant/important thing about.is..

The thing to remember isWhat you have to remember is
Strangely/ Funnily/ Oddly enough
What we have to realise is

Indicators

Okay..
Right..
Right then
Good
Now
Well
Well now
Well then..

Summarizing

The main points that have been made are

Summing up/To sum up then
As a conclusion..
To conclude
By way of summary, the main points in the study seem to me to be.

Thanking the audience

Thank you
Ill finish there. Thank you.
And let me finish there . Thank you.