Glossary: Signpost Language: Summarising and concluding

'Signpost language' refers to the words and phrases that tell your audience what has just happened and what is going to happen next. Such language is useful when guiding your listeners through your presentation.

8. Summarising and concluding

Using the right words and phrases to indicate that the end of your presentation is coming up is important. It allows your audience to prepare themselves for a summary of your topic. There are a few things you could say to do this:

To sum up ...
To summarise ...
Let's summarise briefly what we've looked at ...
If I can just sum up the main points ...
Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we've covered ...
To conclude ...
In conclusion ...
That brings us to the end of the presentation. I'd like to summarise by saying ...
That concludes my presentation. However, I'd like to quickly summarise the main points.
And on that final note, that concludes my presentation.
So, this concludes the focus of discussion today. To finish, I'd like to highlight ...
In short ...
So, to remind you of what I've covered in this talk ...
(if you run out of time) Unfortunately, I seem to have run out of time, so I'll conclude very briefly by saying that ...
I'd now like to recap on ...