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English for Cancer (,'onferencos, Kdinburuh Presenting papers (2) techniqucs

Signalling language : reference

a. announcing the topie

Pd like to talk to you about .

Pm going to talk about ..

Pm going to present to you a brief account of a study ..

I want to tell you about some of our experiences in relation to..

I want today to deal with ..

The subject of my paper is ..

The talk I am going to give deals with, is concerned with, is about ..

b. enumerating points

First, firstly (not at first)    next, other, additional

Second, secondly    a second point is that

.........    Another difficulty was that

also, in addition, furthermore Last, lastly (not at last)

c. "signposting the route ahead "

First I will present a brief account .

First of all, I want to concentrate on / focus on / deal with / outline Next I shall take you through ..

Then Pil compare ..

And finally I will discuss some of the implications .. which Pil come to later on, which Pil come back to

d. indicating the start of a new section

Now

So

Turning to ... Going on to .. Moving on to ..Looking next at.. Let us look at.. , Now let us consider ..

So what about..? What are the ..?

So that was the X. Now let us look at the Y Having discussed the defmition ... let us now look at

e. referring to a slide

This slide shows .. The slide shows .. The next slide shows ..This shows . This is /these are some data from a recent study ..

Here you can see .. On this slide you can see ....

As you can see,

Here are the figures for..

The X is/are shown here