- I would like to start with
- Let me start with
- What we have discovered over the past X years, is that...
- Let me show you the data.
- Here in this study, we...
- test the hypothesis
- To put that in context,...
- Do you remember those X? (Mentioned in a presentation before)
- We can ask a very different question.
- Let me just tell you about...
- It's no secret that...
- co-occuring, significally interrelated
- Unlike X
- a missing piece, an explanatory puzzle
- The question now is whether...
- So that's an example of...
- But as a deeper dive, I want to focus on this:
- At this point, you might be thinking...
- The analogy would be...
The speaker opens the presentation with a pun and immediately has the audience's attention and interest. The talk is perfectly cohesive as the speaker uses introductory and other phrases to organise the talk and to help the audience follow it. Another way to help the listener feel drawn into the talk is the occasional use of questions and language that regards "YOU" (You might now think...).
The presentation is about the importance of sleep as the "most powerful elixir of life". Matt Walker illustrates it by exposing the effects of sleep deprivation on the brain and the body systems.