Useful Phrases

After you have greeted your guests, you will begin to go through the main body of your presentation. It's very useful to have some visual aids - some slides, pictures or graphs that help explain what you are saying. Sometimes they can also help to keep your audience interested in your presentation!

问候你的客人后你会直奔主题吗？一些辅助的工具，比如幻灯片，图片，图是·非常有用的，能帮助你更好的解释你说的话。有时候这些能吸引听者的视线。

Imagine you are giving a presentation and using some visual aids. What phrases might you use to draw your audience’s attention to these slides?

假设你正在做一个报告并且使用了一些辅助工具，你会用什么样的话语把听者的视线吸引到幻灯片上？

Useful Phrases

If you look at this first graph（图表，曲线图）As you can see… Now let’s look at… …a good example of… a key factor If you look at this slide a good illustration（插图，例证，说明）of…

Transcript¹ “If you have a look at this first graph, you can see that our sales topped 50 million the year before last. Then last year sales dropped to 40 million, with a slight recovery at the end of the financial year. However, this year sales have continued to drop to an all time low of 30 million. Now let’s look at our market share. As you can see, we have 25% of the market share, 10% down on last year.”

“A good example of how important internal communications are is shown by some findings from research that we have recently undertaken. Good communications is a very key factor in staff motivation. If you look at this slide, you will see how important it is to get the basics in place. You need to identify（识别，鉴定） your communication requirement, agree your objectives and success criteria（标准）, identify your target audiences, define the content of your message and determine the style of delivery. A good illustration of the communication process is when all those basics fall into place naturally.”

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n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。