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SPEAKING PHRASES FOR THE MONOLOGUE

1) INTRODUCING A POINT    

First of all, / To begin with, I would like to point out… The main problem/ issue is… The question of… Speaking of…/Talking of... Regarding/concerning …

2) ENUMERATION OF POINTS (if you provide several reasons, factors or arguments in a row)     

First of all, I would like to say… In addition to that… Moreover, … / Furthermore, … Further on… Firstly,… Secondly,… Thirdly… Finally, … /Lastly,

3) MOVING TO THE NEXT POINT        

This leads directly to my next point This brings us to the next question Let’s now move on to… /Moving on to… After examining this point, let’s turn to… Let’s now take a look at… Another point to consider is… We shouldn’t forget that… It’s also worth bearing in mind that…

4) GOING BACK ( to talk about something which has already been mentioned)     

As I mentioned earlier/ before /above… Let me come back to what I said before… Let’s go back to what we were discussing earlier. As I’ve already explained, … As I pointed out in the first section, …

5) STATING SOMETHING AS A FACT ( As everybody knows…)      

The vast majority of people tend to think that… It is generally accepted that… There can be no doubt that… It is a well-known fact that… Nobody will deny that… According to…

6) GIVING YOUR OPINION NEUTRALLY    

I think…/ I believe that… I feel that… In my humble opinion, … As far as I’m concerned…

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The way I see it… In my view… I tend to think that… From my point of view… I’d say that…

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7) GIVING A STRONG OPINION     

I’m absolutely convinced that… I strongly believe that… I have no doubt that… /There is no doubt that… I am absolutely certain that… I am inclined to believe that ...

8) EXPRESSING UNCERTAINTY   

I definitely doubt if that…(s+ will) I am not sure/certain that… As far as I know…/ As far as I’m concerned,

9) GIVING REASONS   

The reasons for this is (that)…That’s why…/ That’s the reason why … I base my argument on… I tell you all this because…

10) GIVING EXAMPLES       

For example/ For instance … …like/such as… ...and so on An example of this is ….Another example of this is… To illustrate this point, Take the case of… One of the most striking features/aspects of this topic/issue/question is…

11) REPHRASING OPINIONS (if we think it needs to be clarified)      

What I meant to say was… Let me put this another way, Perhaps I’m not making myself clear… The basic idea is…/ It all comes down to… One way of looking at it is… Another way of looking at it is…

12) INDICATING THE END OF YOUR TALK    

I’m now approaching the end of my presentation. Well, this brings me to the end of my presentation. As a final point, I would like to say /add … Finally, I would like to highlight/ stress one key issue.

13) DRAWING CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMING UP   

To conclude, …/In conclusion, we can say that… To sum up, Last but not least…

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In a nutshell, ../ In brief,…/ In short, … The only possible solution/conclusion is… On the whole, To cut a long story short,

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