国际会议时的开场,过渡,结尾,以及其他的常用表达.doc

国际会议时的开场，过渡，结尾，以及其他的常用表达
Presentation in International Conferences

Part 1. Conference Presentation
Prepare by reading your script and handle the time accurately.
Practice your presentation with the visual aids for the best match.
1. Visual aids to help your speech
＊PPT: large enough, color, layout (pink, purple are not suitable)
＊Overhead projector (distinguishing)
＊Slides (operation)
＊Gesture (assisting your speech )
＊Posture (position, proper)

2. Oral presentation---Well Begun Is Half Done.
Your presentation should
－ catch attention
－ arouse interest
Catch attention
Eye contact- audience
Salutation – language expressions
---Choose suitable language expressions for opening your speech
Thank you Mr. Chairman
Thanks for the chairman’s introduction.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to address this distinguished audience today.
我非常荣幸地能有此机会发言.
Thank you and good morning. It’s a pleasure to be here and an honor to present my …
Good afternoon. I am pleased to
participate the symposium and I am
also honored to speak here.
I am privileged to be here with you this afternoon.
Ladies and gentlemen.
It is a great pleasure for me to share my work with this distinguished group of scholars.
★I am honored to have been invited to speak at this symposium.
★I owe a great debt to gratitude to the Organizing mittee of the conference for asking me to speak here today. I wish also to thank my American hosts for their generosity and hospitality.
★I would like to thank Dr. Huang for permitting me the privilege to speak to this audience.

Arouse interest
Don’t start your speech with a tedious introduction
Go directly to your topic.
Topic: not too long using noun phrase repeating your topic in proper time once
Use visual aid to start. (map, figure, table, diagram etc.)
Make a startling statement.
Good morning, everyone, I appreciate the opportunity to be with you today.
I am here to talk to you about a disease.
Some of you may already be infected; most of you will in some way be touched by this disease.
If this disease can’t be eradicated, it will have a direct and serious impact on every person in this room.

3. Presenting your speech
Pronunciation: Clear, full vowel sound
Rhythm:
making every meaning block coherently presented;
avoid repeating unnecessarily/too quickly;
proper pause

Language expressions for beginning your presentation
＊ I would like to start by briefly reviewing …
＊Let us start with the theoretical basis of this new technique.
＊To begin with, I have to review the previous work in ….
＊ I think it would be best to start out by looking at/into….
The first point I’d like to make is …
First , I shall explain to you …

Language expressions for indicating your topic
I would like to concentrate on the…
I prefer to confine my talk to the latest development in…
In today’s talk, I restrict myself to …
In my presentation this morning, I’ll limit myself to three major points on…only.
What I’m going to present today is ….
I shall devote myself to the ….(specific topic)

Language expressions for introducing outline briefly
My talk consists of two parts. One is …and the other is…
I’ve divided my presentation into two parts.
My presentation will be given in four parts. The first part deals with…The second part relates to…The third part concerns and the last part discusses…

Language expressions for expressing purpose
The purpose of my study is …
My purpose of the study is to …
The talk is designed for the purpose of…
To realize the purpose of… , I conducted the research in…
For the purpose of…, I and my team studied…

Language expressions for shifting to the next main point
Well. Let’s move on to the next point.
We will now e to the second problem.
Turning to the next question, I’ll talk about the stages of the procedure.
At the second topic, I shall stop here. Now let’s turn our attention to the third topic.

Language expressions for indicating summary
To sum up,
In summary,
To summarize,
Finally, as a summary statement,

Language expressions for conclusion
In recognition of the above, we may conclude that…
Allow me to conclude by listing out all the factors influencing the efficacy.
In conclusion, I would like to point out the following aspects.
Let me conclude my talk with the following ments.
I’d like to leave you with the following conclusion.

Language expressions of referring to the next topic
I’ll deal with it later.
I’ll touch upon that point in a moment.
I shall tell you in detail shortly.
I shall discuss it in the second part of my speech.

Language expression for explaining PPT/slides etc.
The diagram on this slide displaces…
This chart depicts…
The curve in this PPT shows…
This table presents…
The flow-hart points out…
This figure exhibits…

Closing
Before you close your presentation, pause for a while.
Using one or two sentences to end your presentation.
1. Well, that brings me to the end of my presentation. The last slide is a brief summary of what I have talked about.
2. Before I finish, let me just say….
3. To close my speech, I’ll show you the last slide.
4. Let’s look at what I have talked.
5. To end my presentation, I’d like to show you the last slide.
6. Finally, I am going to talk about….

Inviting the repetition of question
Pardon, I couldn’t hear what you said.
I am sorry I forget your first question. Would you please be so kind as to repeat it?
Well, I am not quite sure what your question is. Does it mean…?
Are you referring to the significance of the difference?
Are you suggesting that …?
Sorry, I don’t quite catch that. Could you please say it again?
If I understand you correctly, you are asking/saying that….
Pardon. I didn’t quite get the last point of your question
I beg your pardon, I didn’t catch what you said.

Weling the question
Thank you. I appreciate that question.
This is a hard question.
I’d be delighted to answer your question
In answer to your question, I would say that….
Thank you for your question. I’ll try to answer it briefly.
That’s a very good/interesting/big question. I’ll try to explain…briefly here and I wish to have a further discussion with you on… after the meeting.
I appreciate your interest in my research, but this needs further study.
I think it will be possible to answer your question when more experiments are pleted.
The only answer I can give at present is to ….
We are now working on this problem and, if you agree, I’ll answer your question in a few weeks by email.
This is a question worth further discussion. Perhaps I could answer it in the seminar tomorrow.
I think that’s something we could look into in details later.

Part II. Exchanging ideas at discussion
Indicating that you have a question and asking a question
Excuse me, did you say that…?
Pardon. You mean that you’ve tested it in…?
Well, I am not quite understand how you reached the conclusion. Could you please explain…?
Yes. It shows the…. Well, my question is…?
Excuse me, if …how…(about…/to do…/could it…)?
Sorry, I don’t quite understand …. Could it be possibly changed if…?

Expressing different ideas at a discussion
Dr. Smith, have you ever…. And if we take … into account, perhaps ….
Perhaps we could….
I suppose that … but the fact is…
Sorry, I am not quite convinced that …. Perhaps, we need….
Yes. Any …could bring about…. But ….
In case of … , the result could be different.
If I may say so, without…we can’t ….
If I may ask…(对敏感问题)

Part III. Initiating a conversation
Excuse me, aren’t you Dr. Engleton?
Excuse me, Dr…. I am…from China. I am interested in…. Could you …?
Hello, Dr. xxx. Nice to meet you. I’d appreciate the chance to talk to you sometime because I….

Part IV. municate with people
Example:
Dr. Kerridge, may I introduce you to Dr. Hyman?
Glad to meet you.
Glad to meet you , too.

I’m pleased to meet you at last. I’ve heard so much about you from Dr. Liu .
I believe you’re doing research in the field of Agri-economy.
That’s right.

I was most interested in hearing about your recent paper on the immigrants from country to urban areas.
Do you think you could let me have a copy?
I’d be delighted to.
In fact, I’ve got a few copies with me. I’ll bring one with me tomorrow.
Thank you very much.