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Giving Presentations - Survival English

04 Jun 2023

If you get your facts wrong.

I am terribly sorry. What I meant to say was this.
Sorry. What I meant is this.

If you have been going too fast and your audience is having trouble keeping up with you.

Let me just recap on that.
I want to recap briefly on what I have been saying.

If you have forgotten to make a point.

Sorry, I should just mention one other thing.
If I can just go back to the previous point, there is something else that I forgot to mention.

If you have been too complicated and want to simplify what you said.

So, basically, what I am saying is this.
So, basically, the point I am trying to get across is this.

If you realize that what you are saying makes no sense.

Sorry, perhaps I did not make that quite clear.
Let me rephrase that to make it quite clear.

If you cannot remember the term in English.

Sorry, what is the word I am looking for?
Sorry, my mind has gone blank. How do you say 'escargot' in English?

If you are short of time.

So just to give you the main points.
As we are short of time, this is just a quick summary of the main points.
 

Using Prepositions of Place

Complimenting Someone at Work

Achieving Emphasis in Business Writing

Making Introductions in a Business Setting

Avoid Weak Sentence Starts

"For" vs. "Since" vs. "Ago"

Accepting and Refusing Business Invitations

Interviewing in English

Vertical Lists: Using Bullets or Numbers

Agreeing to and declining requests

Removing Unnecessary Verb-Noun Combinations

Making Polite Requests - Different Requests for Different Situations

Usage of Commas

Introducing yourself at Work Part 2

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