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Speaking Bank

The document provides phrases for speaking bank including giving opinions, asking for opinions, agreeing or disagreeing, making and accepting suggestions, asking for and offering help, filling conversation, checking and showing understanding, showing interest, giving a presentation, describing a photo, and talking about the past. Phrases are categorized by function to facilitate conversation.

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Speaking Bank

The document provides phrases for speaking bank including giving opinions, asking for opinions, agreeing or disagreeing, making and accepting suggestions, asking for and offering help, filling conversation, checking and showing understanding, showing interest, giving a presentation, describing a photo, and talking about the past. Phrases are categorized by function to facilitate conversation.

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Speaking bank

Giving opinions
➢ Personally
➢ I think that
➢ I don’t think that
➢ I’m convinced that
➢ I don’t really know if
➢ In my view
➢ In my opinión
➢ As I see it
Asking for opinions
➢ What do you think?
➢ What’s your opinion / view?
➢ Do you agree?
➢ What about you?
Agreeing or partially agreeing
➢ I (totally) agree (with you) (that)
➢ I agree to an extent (that)
➢ That’s true
➢ You’re right
➢ You’ve got a point
➢ I take your point
➢ I see what you mean
Disagreeing or partially disagreeing
➢ I (totally) disagree (with you) (that)
➢ I agree to an extent, but
➢ That’s true, but
➢ You’ve got a point, but
➢ I take your point, but
➢ I see what you mean, but
➢ I’m not sure that’s true,
➢ But what about…?
Making suggestions
➢ Do you fancy (coming)?
➢ Why don´t…?
➢ How about… + ing?
➢ Let´s
➢ Shall…?
Accepting suggestions
➢ Yes, I’d love that
➢ Great!
➢ Ok
➢ Why not?
➢ Fine
➢ Yes, let’s
➢ Good idea
Rejecting suggestions
➢ Sorry, I can’t
➢ I prefer to…
Asking for help
➢ Would you mind …+ing?
➢ Could you give me a hand…+ing?
➢ Could you help me to…?
Offering to help
➢ Would you like any help?
➢ How can I help?
➢ Can I help you?
➢ Do you want me to…?
➢ Shall I…?
➢ How about if I do it for you?
Accepting offers of help
➢ Thanks!
➢ That would be great!
Filling the conversation
➢ Err…
➢ Well…
➢ The thing is…
➢ I’m not (really/totally/completely) sure but…
➢ Maybe…
➢ You know…
➢ I think…
➢ I imagine…
➢ It looks like…
➢ I imagine that…
➢ Let me think…
➢ What do you think?
Checking understanding
➢ Pardon?
➢ Could you repeat that, please?
➢ Sorry, I didn’t catch that
➢ Sorry, I missed that
➢ Sorry, can you say that again?
➢ Sorry, could you speak more slowly?
➢ Sorry, did you say…?
➢ I’m not sure I undestood
Showing you understand
➢ I see
➢ Ok
➢ That’s great
➢ Right
➢ Really?
Showing interest
➢ Really?
➢ That’s interesting
➢ That’s incredible
➢ I see
➢ Do you?
➢ Me too

Giving a presentation
Beginning a presentation
➢ I’d like to begin by saying…
➢ I’m going to talk about…
Introducing arguments
➢ Firstly,
➢ First of all,
➢ Secondly,
➢ Another thing is that…
➢ It’s also true that…
➢ Furthermore,
➢ What’s more,
Giving examples
➢ For example,
➢ For instance,
➢ Look at the case of…
➢ Concluding,
➢ Finally,
➢ To sum up,
➢ Last, but not least,
➢ The point I’m trying to make is…
➢ In short,
Describing a photo
Starting
➢ In the picture I can see…
➢ The picture shows…
➢ This is a picture of…
Position
➢ In the foreground
➢ In the background
➢ At the top of the picture
➢ At the bottom of the picture
➢ In the middle of the picture
➢ On the right
➢ On the left
➢ In the top/bottom right/left corner
Speculation and deduction
➢ I think
➢ I imagine
➢ (It) must be
➢ (it) may/might/could be
➢ (it) can’t be
➢ (He/She/It/They) is/are probably
➢ It seems that
➢ (it) looks as if / like
➢ I’m not sure but
➢ (it) must have been
➢ (it) may/might/could have been
➢ (it) can’t/couldn’t have been

Talking about the past


Expression of time and sequence
➢ At first
➢ First
➢ First of all
➢ Next
➢ Then
➢ Suddenly
➢ Later
➢ A few seconds/minutes/hours/days later
➢ After ten minutes/half an hour/a while
➢ After that
➢ Finally
➢ In the end

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