Język prezentacji (1) - wprowadzenie


Każdy kto pracuje zawodowo w korporacji, niejednokrotnie uczestniczył w anglojęzycznej prezentacji, albo też sam stanął przed takim wyzwaniem. Zatem wie on także, że wiele czynników składa się na sukces naszego wystąpienia. Dzisiaj rozpoczniemy cykl artykułów na temat profesjonalnych prezentacji, a zaczniemy od tego co najważniejsze, od języka. Zaprezentujemy Wam szereg przydatnych, aczkolwiek standardowych, zwrotów, podzielonych na człony strukturalne, ułatwiające kompozycję wypowiedzi. 

Zasygnalizowanie rozpoczęcia prezentacji:
  1. If I could have everybody's attention.
  2. If we can start.
  3. Perhaps we should begin?
  4. Let's get started.

Powitanie zebranych:
  1. Welcome to Zone company.
  2. Thank you for coming today.
  3. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
  4. On behalf of Zone team, I'd like to welcome you.
  5. Good morning everyone.

Przedstawienie się:
  1. My name's Peter Smith. I'm responsible for the accounts.
  2. For those of you who don't know me, my name's Jill Goldman.
  3. As you know, I'm in charge of marketing department.
  4. I'm the new Finance Director.

Wprowadzenie do tematu:
  1. This morning I'd like to present our new evaluation system.
  2. Today I'd like to discuss our failures in the Russian market and suggest a new approach.
  3. This afternoon, I'd like to report on my study into the Japanese market.
  4. What I want to do this morning is to talk to you about our new organisation chart.
  5. What I want to do is to tell you about our successes and failures in introducing new working patterns.
  6. This will take about 45 minutes.
  7. I shall take about half an hour of your time.

Prośba o nie/zadawanie pytań:
  1. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them as we go along.
  2. Feel free to ask any questions.
  3. Perhaps we can leave any questions you have until the end?
  4. There will be plenty of time for questions at the end.
  5. If you have any questions, please feel free to interrupt.


(29 stycznia 2011 roku)

Język prezentacji (2) - część główna


Podanie planu prezentacji:
  1. I'd briefly like to take you through today's presentation.
  2. First, we're going to ...
  3. After that, we'll be taking a look at ...
  4. Once we've identified ... we will be able to ...
  5. Finally, I'll outline what ...

Wprowadzanie pierwszego punktu:
  1. To start with, I would like to consider ...
  2. First of all, I would like to look at...

Wprowadzanie następnego punktu:
  1. Now I would like to examine/present/consider ...
  2. Now I want to deal with .../proceed to ...
  3. Now let's move on to ...
  4. The next point I would like to make is ...
  5. This brings me to my next point.
  6. Taking into consideration what we have said about X, we can see that Y ...

Kończenie danego punktu:
  1. Now we have looked at .../dealt with ...
  2. That's all I have to say about ...
  3. Those are the main points on ...

Podawanie przykładów:
  1. For example, ...
  2. For instance, ...
  3. Let me illustrate, ...
  4. To illustrate, ...


Stosowanie pomocy audiowizualnych:
  1. As you can see from this graph representing ...
  2. If you could just take a look at ...
  3. Looking at X we can see that ...
  4. Let's look at this graph ...
  5. Have a look at this chart ...
  6. I would like you to look at this diagram.
  7. I would like to draw your attention to ...

(30 stycznia 2011 roku)

Język prezentacji (3) - część główna, podsumowanie



Nawiązywanie do czegoś, co już zostało powiedziane:
  1. As I mentioned earlier ...
  2. Going back to something I said earlier ....
  3. I’d like to go back to ...
  4. In the first part of the talk I said ...
  5. I would like to refer back to .../go back to .../return to ...

Zapowiedź poruszenia danej kwestii później:
  1. I will come to that later.
  2. I will return to this point in few minutes.
  3. I will comment on this in my conclusions.

Zapowiedź dygresji:
  1. I’d like to digress here for a moment and just say that ....
  2. Digressing for a moment, I’d like to say a few words about ...

Zapowiedź rozszerzenia, szczegółowego omówienia danej kwestii:
  1. I’d like to expand more on ...
  2. Would you like me to expand a little more on that or have you understood enough?
  3. I don’t want to elaborate any more on that as I’m short of time


Wzmiankowanie problemów:
  1. Obviously, this has led to some problems with ...
  2. Unfortunately, this means that ...
  3. As a direct result of X, we are having problems with Y...
  4. This also causes ...

Zapowiedź streszczenia, podsumowania głównych punktów:
  1. I would like to quickly recap the main points of my presentation.
  2. Recapping quickly on what was said before lunch, ....

Podsumowanie prezentacji:
  1. I’d like to conclude by leaving you with this thought ...
  2. If I may conclude by quoting ...
  3. Finally, I would like to summarise/ go over/review the main points of my presentation.
  4. Firstly / Secondly/ Thirdly I talked about .../ discussed .../analysed.../looked at.../showed you ... and I pointed out .../ suggested.../explained.../recommended...
  5. In conclusion, ...
  6. To conclude, ...
  7. To summarize, ...
  8. To sum up, ...

Zakończenie prezentacji:
  1. Thank you very much for your attention.
  2. That concludes my talk.
  3. I think that covers most of my points.