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Verbal structuring aids
Opening the speech
What I’d like to do this morning is to I would like to tell you about ….
present the results of …
I’d like to give you some information I’m going to talk about ….
on …
The subject of my speech is … This afternoon I want to deal
with/look at ...
I think you already know something I would like to talk about …
about ...
During the speech
To open my talk, I will … I’d like to begin by …
I would like to divide my speech into We can divide it up into
3 main areas … 3 headings.
I’ll be developing 3 main points. I’d just like to run through the main
points.
The first thing we have to consider is … First/Firstly/To start with …
Second/Secondly/To go onto my Finally/My third and last point is …
second point …
I would like to turn to … …and that was a little bit about …
There is one other thing to think about. On top of that …
Let’s now consider … An interesting feature is …
A significant point is … A major consideration is …
Now let us move on to … So, as we can see, …
Closing the speech
Let me summarise the main To sum up/Finally/To round off …
issues/points.
…and I would like to sum it up … … well, I think that’s all I have to
say on ….
To go back to my initial argument … I would just like to remind you that .…
Now I am going to link this back to … This relates to my first point …
I would like to conclude by … To summarise, …
I do hope you have gained an insight To round off my speech, …
into … To recapitulate, …
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From the beginner to the mentor (Supporting strategies of education of teachers in Zlin region)
Fund of Educational Policy project, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
