The document provides a vocabulary bank of phrases for structuring a monologue. It includes phrases for signalling introduction of topics, highlighting priority or importance, getting to the point, self-correcting, rephrasing, moving on to another point, and concluding. Some examples are "I'm going to talk about...", "Most importantly," "To get to the point," "Or rather...," "On the other hand," and "To sum up..." The vocabulary bank gives options for organizing ideas and connecting different parts of a monologue.
The document provides a vocabulary bank of phrases for structuring a monologue. It includes phrases for signalling introduction of topics, highlighting priority or importance, getting to the point, self-correcting, rephrasing, moving on to another point, and concluding. Some examples are "I'm going to talk about...", "Most importantly," "To get to the point," "Or rather...," "On the other hand," and "To sum up..." The vocabulary bank gives options for organizing ideas and connecting different parts of a monologue.
The document provides a vocabulary bank of phrases for structuring a monologue. It includes phrases for signalling introduction of topics, highlighting priority or importance, getting to the point, self-correcting, rephrasing, moving on to another point, and concluding. Some examples are "I'm going to talk about...", "Most importantly," "To get to the point," "Or rather...," "On the other hand," and "To sum up..." The vocabulary bank gives options for organizing ideas and connecting different parts of a monologue.
The document provides a vocabulary bank of phrases for structuring a monologue. It includes phrases for signalling introduction of topics, highlighting priority or importance, getting to the point, self-correcting, rephrasing, moving on to another point, and concluding. Some examples are "I'm going to talk about...", "Most importantly," "To get to the point," "Or rather...," "On the other hand," and "To sum up..." The vocabulary bank gives options for organizing ideas and connecting different parts of a monologue.
Signalling introduction Referring to points under discussion and generalising
I’m going to talk about ... Regarding ... I’d like to talk about ... As to ... I am going to talk about an issue which concerns As a rule, everyone ... As usual, My topic is ... For the most part, My/this talk focuses on the issue of ... Generally, The theme of my talk is ... Generally speaking, What I’m going to cover is ... Ordinarily, Usually Highlighting priority/importance Giving emphasis Primarily, In fact, Of primary importance ... Actually, Most importantly, Indeed, Not only ... but also ... Above all, Indeed, Truly
Getting to the point Giving an opinion
Anyway, to get to the point, Well, I think/suppose/would say ... Anyway, the main point I want to make is that ... I think most people would agree that ... ... for two/several reasons.
Self-correcting Giving an example
Or rather ... Take ..., for example.
I mean ... Look at ..., for instance. Or, should I say ... A good example of this is...
Rephrasing Introducing alternative views
What I mean is ... On the other hand,
What I want to say is ... Or, to look at it another way, What I’m trying to say is ... Then again, In essence, Alternatively, In other words, Conversely, Namely, Instead That is, That is to say, To put it differently
Moving on to another point Concluding
I’d like now to move on to .... So, that’s why I think … Turning now to! ... Anyway, that’s why… Now, let’s turn to .... So, to return to my original point, I now want to turn to .... So, to sum up... Moving on now to .... In conclusion (we can say that) ... Having looked at ..., I‘d now like to As can be seen, consider .... Generally speaking, The next point is .... Given these points, Another interesting point is .... All things considered, The next aspect I‘d like to consider is .... In the long run, I‘d now like to turn to .... As has been noted, In a word, In summary/ To summarize, In short/in brief, In essence, Overall