Professional English • Presentations
Presentation Signposting: Guide Your Audience Clearly
Help listeners follow your message from the opening to the final summary.
Guide the listener
Signposting phrases show the audience where you are, why a point matters, and what comes next. They reduce effort for the listener and make you sound organised.
Four useful moments
Opening: Today I would like to focus on…
Structure: I will cover three main points.
Transition: Let us now turn to…
Closing: To sum up, the key message is…
Mini presentation
Today I would like to explain our new onboarding process. I will cover the schedule, the support available, and the first-week goals. Let us begin with the schedule. Now that we have looked at timing, let us turn to support. To sum up, the process is designed to give every new colleague a clear and confident start.
Useful transitions
- The first point to consider is…
- This brings me to…
- Let us look at this in more detail.
- Before I finish, I would like to…
Practice
Choose the best phrase to introduce the final section: “First of all”, “This brings me to my final point”, or “For example”.
Answer
This brings me to my final point.
Production task
Prepare a one-minute presentation with an opening, two transitions, and a clear closing summary.