Speaking credit

Role-plays
 How to start
• How is life? • Not too bad, thank you.
• How are you doing? • Doing fine, thanks.
• Hi, nice to meet you. • Nice to see you too.

• Hi, how are you? • Fine, thanks. And you?

• Me too.
 Closing the Conversation
• I really must go.
• I have a long day tomorrow.
• I must be off.
• I have to get up early tomorrow.
• Thank you. It was a lovely evening.
• It was great to see you again. See
you next week.
 Partings
• See you (next week/ • See you too.
on Monday/soon,
etc.)
• Have a nice day
• Thanks, the same
to you.
• It has been nice
talking to you but I • See you.
really have to go now.
Agreeing and Disagreeing
• Yes, I totally agree with you.
• You’re absolutely right.
• Yes, I think that’s a good point.
• I’m not sure I agree with you.
• I’m afraid I have to disagree
with you.
 Making suggestions
• Why don’t we get/buy…?
• Getting/buying a … would be a good
idea, wouldn’t it?
• I’d like to suggest that we should…
• I suggest buying a …
• A good idea might be to get/buy a …
• What do you think about getting a …
 Giving your opinion
• As far as I’m concerned/know, …
• In my opinion, …To my mind, …
• To be honest, I haven’t thought about it
before…
• I don’t really know much about it, but I
imagine...
• If you ask me, …
• From my point of view,…
• My personal view is that …
 Making something clear
• Sorry, I didn’t quite catch that.
• Sorry, could you explain what “traffic” is?
• Tell me what that means.
• I’m not sure I completely understand.
• Sorry, could you speak more slowly, please?
• Could you ask me that again, please?
• Would you mind repeating the question?
Keeping the conversation going

• Really? How often? How? Where?

Why?
• How
nice/interesting/sad/wonderful!
• Yes./Right./I understand./I see.
Individual talk
 Comparing and contrasting
pictures
• This is a photo of…, while the other is
of…
• The first point I’d like to make…
• Another similarity is that…
• On the one hand… On the other hand…
• A key difference is…
• Another way in which they differ is
that…
 Charts/ graphs/tables
• The graph / table shows / indicates /
illustrates / reveals / represents
• It is clear from the graph / table
• It can be seen from the graph / table
• As the graph / table shows,
• As can be seen from the graph I table,
• As is shown by the graph / table,
• As is illustrated by the graph / table,
• From the graph / table it is clear
• More or less the same number of
people/ respondents...
• Roughly equal number of people...
 Changing subject
• I’ll now turn to....
• I’d like to deal with...
• Returning to (the issue of..../ the
point about....)
• To restate the main argument...
 Correcting yourself
• What I meant to say was....
• Or to put it another way...
• In other words....
• What I’m trying to say is...
• The point I’m trying to make is....
 Other phrases to express
your opinion
• It is interesting how much....
• It is undoubtedly true/highly likely
that...
• It is right/wrong to suggest that...
• It would be hard to deny that...
• What surprises me is how....
• Sure, I admit that pretty soon....