Signposting

Moving on (paragraphing)

OK. To begin, let’s look at …

Let’s now move on/ turn to …

I now want to go on to …

That leads/ brings me to …

I’d now like to move on/ turn to.

So far, we’ve looked at …Now I’d like to …

My next example is …

Following on from this …

Firstly… Secondly…Lastly …

Moving on …/ To move on to my next point, …

To turn now to a different matter, …

Time’s moving on, so let’s turn to the third area

To digress for a moment

 

Finishing off a part of your presentation

That’s all I have time for on (technical skills)

I think that covers everything on (technical skills)

 

Coming back to the point

To go back to what I was saying (earlier)

Going back for a moment to …

But I’m digressing. Let’s go back to …

To say a bit more about that

 

Adding more detail and information

To expand on …/ I’d like to expand on … here.

To elaborate on …

Let’s just put this into some kind of perspective.

Perhaps I should expand on that a little

 

Summarising

Let me sum up. Firstly we looked at …, secondly at …, and last, but not least, at …

So, to sum up, …

To summarise,

To recap (on) (the main points),

Let me just try and sum up before we move on to …

I would like to sum up by (saying …)

What I am trying to say is…/The point I am trying to make is …

Now that I am reaching the end of my talk I would like to draw together …

 

 

Concluding

That brings me to the end of my talk.

Let me end by saying, …

I’d like to finish by emphasising …

Finally, may I say…

In conclusion, …

And so to my closing point …

I have one final observation…

I’d like to conclude by …

 

Making a recommendation

So, what I would suggest is that we …

So, I would recommend that …