Handige zinnen voor je Engelse presentatie

Hoe verwelkom je je publiek?

• Welcome everybody, my name is … and I work at …
• Welcome ladies and gentlemen to my presentation, today … I am … from … and …
• Welcome, my name is … and my function is head of …
• As you know, I’m … I’m in charge of / responsible for …
• Good morning, good afternoon, good evening everybody, welcome to … my name is … and …
• It’s good to see you all here.
• I know that you have all travelled a long way …
• I’m very grateful / happy that you could come to this presentation.

Handige uitleg tijdens de presentatie

• Today I am going to talk to you about how we can do this.
• Today we’re going to talk about …
• As you can see on the screen, our topic today is … / today’s topic is …
• My presentation is in two parts.
• My presentation is divided into four main sections.
• Firstly, secondly, thirdly, finally …
• I’m going to … take a look at… [or]  talk about… [or]  examine … [or] demonstrate …
• I’d like to talk about / I’d like to present to you today is …
• This afternoon I’ll tell you something about the background … [or] give you some facts and figures …
• This morning I’ll fill you in on the history of … [or] concentrate on … [or] limit myself to the question of …

Vragen?

• Please feel free to interrupt me if you have (any) questions.
• There will be time for questions at the end of the / my presentation.
• I’d be grateful if you could ask your questions after the presentation.

Het hoofddeel van je presentatie

• Now I’ll give the floor to my colleague / partner / fellow-student …
• As I said at the beginning …
• This, of course, will help you (to achieve the 20% increase).
• As you remember, we are concerned with …
• This ties in with my original statement …
• This relates directly to the question I put to you before …

Het publiek blijven boeien

• Ok … indeed … right … sure …
• I’d now like to move on to …
• I’d like to turn to …
• As I mentioned before, we …
• That’s all I have to say about …
• Now I’d like to look at …
• So, let’s move to …
• This leads me to my next point …
• [pause for a few seconds, this will alert your audience too]

De uitleg bij je dia’s (visuals or slides)

• This graph [grafiek] shows you …
• Take a look at this …
• If you look at this, you will see …
• I’d like you to look at this …
• This chart illustrates the figures …
• This graph gives you a break down of …
• As you can see in this chart / graph / diagram …
• This clearly shows …
• From this, we can understand how / why …
• This area of the chart is interesting, because …

Samenvatten

• That brings me to the end of my presentation. I’ve talked about …
• Well, that’s about it for now. We’ve covered …
• So, that was our marketing strategy. In brief, we …
• To summarize, I …
• Right, that’s all I wanted to say about …

Relateer het einde van je presentatie aan het begin ervan

• So I hope that you’re a little clearer on how we can achieve sales growth of 20%.
• To return to the original question, we can achieve …
• So just to round the talk off, I want to go back to the beginning when I asked you …
• I hope that my presentation today will help you with what I said at the beginning …

Hoe ga je om met vragen?

• Thank the audience for their attention and invite questions.
• Thank you for listening – and now if there are any questions, I would be pleased to answer them.
• That brings me to the end of my presentation. Thank you for your attention. I’d be glad to answer any questions you might have.
• Thank you. So you would like further clarification on our strategy?
• That’s an interesting question. How are we going to get voluntary redundancy?
• Thank you for asking. What is our plan for next year?
• Does this answer your question?”
• Do you follow what I am saying?”
• I hope this explains the situation for you.
• I hope this was what you wanted to hear!
• That’s an interesting question. I don’t actually know off the top of my head, but I’ll try to get back to you later with an answer.
• I’m afraid I’m unable to answer that at the moment. Perhaps I can get back to you later.
• Good question. I really don’t know! What do you think?
• That’s a very good question. However, we don’t have any figures on that, so I can’t give you an accurate answer.
• Unfortunately, I’m not the best person to answer that.
• I should look that up for you.

Wat zeg je als iets verkeerd gaat?

• Let me just say that in another way.
• Perhaps I can rephrase that.
• Put another way, this means …
• What I mean to say is …

Kun je even niet op een woord komen?

• I can’t remember the word for this … it’s about … and …
• Sorry, I forgot the right word for this. Perhaps I’ll remember it later and I’ll come back to that later.

Hoe gebruik je je stem

Spreek niet monotoom of te zacht. Dat kan je publiek in slaap doen vallen of men pakt zijn of haar telefoon en gaat andere dingen doen. Overigens kan te luid spreken ook irritant zijn. Goede strategieën zijn echter pauzes inlassen, zodat het publiek even kan nadenken over wat je hebt gezegd en de klemtoon/nadruk leggen op bepaalde woorden. Bijvoorbeeld:

• The first strategy involves getting to know our market (pause) and finding out what they want… (pause) Customer surveys (pause) as well as staff training (pause) will help us do this.

Meer lezen over indruk maken met je Engelse presentatie? Bekijk hier mijn blog over de vier C’s: confidence, credibility, clarity, charisma.

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