Réussir sa présentation orale en anglais (phrases et expressions)

Voilà une liste non-exhaustive de phrases qui vous permettraient d'effectuer une présentation en anglais. Que vous soyez étudiants ou professionnels, j'espère que cet article vous sera utile.

Gardez en tête que vous devez rester concis, et ne pas vous dispersez dans de longues explications au risque de perdre l'attention de votre public. Informer votre public que des questions pourront être posées à l'issue de votre présentation si vous estimez que des interruptions pourraient vous déstabiliser.

Accueillir votre audience:

• Good morning and welcome to [name of company, name of conference hall, hotel, etc.].
• Good morning / afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.Hello / Hi everyone.
• Thank you all very much for coming today.
• I hope you all had a pleasant journey here today.
• It’s a pleasure to welcome you today
• It’s good to see you all here

S'introduire auprès du public:

• My name is Marie Lajambe and I am responsible for … .
• My name is Marie Lajambe from [name of company], where I am responsible for … .
• Let me introduce myself; my name is Marie Lajambe and I am responsible for ...
• Let me introduce myself. I'm Marie Lajambe from...
• For those of you who don't know me, my name is...
• Let me just start by introducing myself. My name is...
• As some of you know, I’m the purchasing manager.
• I’m the key account manager here and am responsible for …
• I’m here in my function as the head of …
• I’m the project manager in charge of …

Introduire votre présentation:

• The purpose of today’s presentation is to … .
• The purpose of my presentation today is to … .
• In today’s presentation I’d like to … show you … . / explain to you how … .
• In today’s presentation I’m hoping to  give you an update on… / give you an overview of … 
• In today’s presentation I’m planning to … look at … . / explain … .
• In today’s presentation I’m hoping to cover three points:
• firstly, … , after that we will look at … , and finally I’ll … .
• What I’d like to present to you today is …
• I’m here today to present … 
• Today’s topic is …
• The subject / topic of my presentation is …
• In my presentation I would like to report on … 
• In my talk I’ll tell you about … 
• Today I’m going to talk about … 
• I’ll be talking about …
• In today’s presentation I’d like to cover three points:
• firstly, … , secondly … , and finally … .

Le timing:

• My presentation will take about 25 minutes
• It will take about 20 minutes to cover these issues.
• This won’t take more than …

Proposer une copie de la présentation:

• Does everybody have a handout / brochure / copy of the 
  report? Please take one and pass them on.
• Don’t worry about taking notes. I’ve put all the important 
  statistics on a handout for you.
• I’ll be handing out copies of the slides at the end of my 
  talk.
• I can email the presentation to anybody who 
  wants it

Expliquer qu'il y aura des questions à la fin de la présentation:

• If you have any questions you’d like to ask, please leave them until the end, when I’ll be happy to answer them.
• If there are any questions you’d like to ask, please leave them until the end, when I’ll do my best to answer them.
• There will be time for questions after my presentation
• We will have about 10 minutes for questions in the 
  question and answer period.

Se montrer ouvert aux questions pendant la présentation:

• If anyone has any questions, I’ll be pleased to answer them.
• If anyone has any questions, I’ll do my best to answer them.
• If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask them now.
• If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask them and I’ll do my best to answer.
• Feel free to ask questions at any time during my talk.

Commencer la présentation:

• To begin/start with...
• Let's start by looking at...
• I'd like to start by looking at..
• Let's start with...
• Let's start by looking at..

Fermer une partie de la présentation:

• So, that concludes [title of the section] … .
• So, that’s an overview of … .
• I think that just about covers … .

Commencer une nouvelle partie de la présentation:

• Now, let’s move on to … .
• Now, let’s take a look at … .
• Now I’d like to move on to … .
• Next I’d like to take a look at … .
• Moving on to the next part, I’d like to … .
• Moving on to the next section, let’s take a look at … .

Conclure et résumer la présentation:

• Well, that brings us to the end of the final section. Now, I’d like to summarise by..
• That brings us to the end of the final section. Now, if I can just summarise the main points again.
• That concludes my presentation. Now, if I can just summarise the main points.
• That’s an overview of … . Now, just to summarise, let’s quickly look at the main points again.

Conclure et remercier:

• Thank you for your attention.
• That brings the presentation to an end.
• That brings us to the end of my presentation.
• Finally, I’d like to finish by thanking you (all) for your attention.
• Finally, I’d like to end by thanking you (all) for coming today.
• I’d like to thank you (all) for your attention and interest.

Faire référence à un point précédemment mentionné:

• As I said earlier...
• As we saw earlier … .
• You may recall that we said … .
• You may recall that I explained … .
• Let’s go back to what we were discussing earlier.
• As I’ve already explained, …
• As I pointed out in the first section, …

Faire face aux questions difficiles:

• I’ll come back to that question later if I may.
• I’ll / We’ll come back to that question later in my presentation.
• I’ll / We’ll look at that point in more detail later on.
• Perhaps we can look at that point at the end / a little later.

Autres phrases fréquemment utilisées dans les présentations :

briefly	=	‘very quickly’
take a look at	=	‘look at’
take a brief look at	=	‘quickly look at’
return to	=	‘go back’, ‘explain again’
I’ll outline	=	‘I will explain’
here we can see	=	to draw attention to a specific point on a slide
as you can see here	=	to draw attention to a specific point on a slide
(let’s) move on to	=	to start a new subject
(let’s) continue with	=	to start a new subject
(let’s) continue by looking at	=	to start a new subject
to illustrate this point	=	when giving an example
let’s, we can, we will	=	using ‘we’ and ‘us’ instead of ‘I’ connects you to your audience