SPEAKING.

Advice by Heike

 Why don´t we..?

 Shall we…?
 I don´t like it so much
 What/ How about + ..ing?
 It´s a good idea but we don´t know her shoes sizs.
 I think we could…
 It would be a good idea to…
 Let´s…, Go…
 I prefer tea to coffee / I prefer drink tea to coffee
 I would prefer to go out rather than stay at home
 I would rather go out than stay at home
 Would you rather live…?

Para empezar la conversación (entre dos)

 Would you like to speak first? Or to begin?

 Shall I start?
 Do you prefer to start

You agree / Positive reaction

 Yes, I agree with you

 That´s true
 You´re right (tienes razón
 You´ve got a point there (ahí, llevas razón)
 That´s cool / great (mola)

You disagree / Negative reaction

 I´m not sure about that

 You might be right, but…. (quizás sea cierto, pero…)
 I disagree, because…
 I see your point, but I´d rather go to the beach.
 Poor you! (pobrecilla!)
 Oh dear! (vaya!)
 Let me think… (déjame pensar)
 Let me see (vamos a ver, déjame ver)
 Well.. (bueno, a ver..)
 Where was I? (¿por dónde iba?)
 What I mean is.. (lo que quiero decir es…)
 So… (entonces…)

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 SPEAKING. SOME ADVICE

1) DIVIDIR TU MONÓLOGO

 I’ve divided my presentation/speech/monologue/ into three/four main parts.

 In my presentation/speech/monologue I’ll focus on three/four major issues.

2) TO GRAB THE ATTENTION OF THE AUDIENCE, YOU MAY EMPLOY

 Rhetorical questions

Example: Are children and teenagers watching too much TV these days?

Remember that when you ask a rhetorical question you don’t have to answer it, it’s just
used to make the audience think and make your topic more interesting.

 Interesting facts

Examples: according to an article I read recently, … / Did you know that…? / I would
like to share an amazing fact/figure with you.

 Stories

Examples: Let me tell you what happened to me…/ Suppose…/ Imagine…/ Say…
(=imagine)

 Problems to think about

Examples: Suppose you wanted to…/ Imagine you had to… / what would be your first
step?

 Quotations (citas, cosas que alguien conocido/ famoso ha dicho)7

Examples: as … once said, …/ To quote a well-known writer, … / To put it in the words

of…

3) INTRODUCING A POINT

 First of all, I would like to point out…

 The main problem is…
 The question of…
 Speaking of…

4) 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, …
 Another example of this is…
 First, second, third…
 Finally, …

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5) 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…
 After examining this point, let’s turn to…
 Let’s now take a look at…

6) GOING BACK (para mencionar algo que se ha dicho anteriormente)

 As I said/ mentioned earlier…

 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, …

7) STATING SOMETHING AS A FACT

 As everyone knows…
 It is generally accepted that…
 There can be no doubt that…
 It is a fact that…
 Nobody will deny that…
 Everyone knows that…

8) GIVING YOUR OPINION NEUTRALLY

 I think…
 I feel that…
 In my opinion, …
 As far as I’m concerned…
 As I see it…
 In my view…
 I tend to think that…
 From my point of view…

9) GIVING A STRONG OPINION

 I’m absolutely convinced that…

 I’m sure that…
 I strongly believe that…
 I have no doubt that…
 There is no doubt that…
 I am absolutely certain that…

10) EXPRESSING UNCERTAINTY

 I definitely doubt if that…

 I am not sure that…
 I am not certain that…
 As far as I know…

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11) GIVING REASONS

 The reasons for this is (that)…

 I base my argument on…
 I tell you all this because…

12) REPHRASING OPINIONS (para volver a explicar algo, si pensamos que no ha

quedado claro)

 What I mean to say was… (lo que he querido decir es…)

 Let me put this another way (voy a decirlo de otra forma)
 Perhaps I’m not making myself clear…
 The basic idea is…
 One way of looking at it is…
 Another way of looking at it is…
 What I want to say is…

13) 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…
 Finally, I would like to highlight one key issue.

14) DRAWING CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMING UP

 The obvious conclusion is…

 Last but not least…
 The only possible solution/conclusion is…
 In conclusion we can say that…
 To cut a long story short, …
 Just to give you the main points again, … (en resumen, resumiendo)

Web: pages

 http://lawebdelingles.com/nivel-b1/como-estructurar-un-monologo/
 http://lawebdelingles.com/vocabulario/monologos-escuela-oficial-idiomas/
 http://elblogdelingles.blogspot.com/2012/03/como-preparar-el-monologo-de-los-
examen.html
 https://inglesensagunto.es/2015/02/19/modelos-de-examenes-b2-de-la-
escuela-oficial-de-idiomas/