Be ready to give an oral presentation of it.

Exercise 29 You are a participant of the international scientific conference ‘European HSR’. Make a report basing on the text (or any other source including Internet) and present it to the audience. Remember that there are some universal rules and language to build and frame your report.

Opening phrases: Dear friends (colleagues)! Honoured members of the organizing committee! It’s my privilege today to be talking to professional experts in this field. I represent…

Stating the target: The goal of my report / This presentation is to discuss the issues of (to review, to consider, to highlight, to analyse) …

Besides, I am going to focus on the matters of …

I would like to give special emphasis to …

I am here to report on the latest developments in…

That brings me to the next point.

Well, now we’ve given the main outline, we can...

Conclusion: Now let me summarize the main points. (To sum up)…

Well, I think that covers it.

That’s about all I wanted to say. Thank you for your attention. If there are any questions, I’ll be glad/happy to answer them.

It is my very great pleasure to thank you on behalf of this meeting. Just before we break up, may I on behalf of …, say a few words of thanks to...

Use the following phrases to present and develop your arguments:

personally, obviously, what is more, that is why, generally speaking, another point is that, all things considered, on the one hand (on the other hand), to sum up, one (dis)advantage is that, for instance, to my mind, finally, on the plus side, however.

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