Inglés C1 – Dra.

Mª Ángeles Conde Parrilla

SPEAKING: USEFUL PHRASES
Face2facelanguages, “FCE Speaking Part 2” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-EA4nqsNTQ
Oxford Online English, “How to compare and contrast” — https://www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/compare-contrast

USEFUL PHRASES DESCRIPTION AND COMPARISON OF TWO PHOTOGRAPHS

 Hi / Hello / Good morning / Good afternoon. (individual task)
How are you? / Pleased to meet you.  This is a photograph of ...
 Bye / Goodbye. Both photographs show …
 I don’t know what you call it, but it’s like … In the picture, there’s a ...
I can’t remember the word in English, but ... In the background / On one side / On the left
It’s like a ... / It’s a sort of ... Behind the ... there’s / In front of ...
It looks like ... / It’s shaped like a ...  There’s a man who might / could be ...
You use it to ... / It’s used for ... I think the woman is ...
It’s what you do when you ... They’re probably ...
 I’m sorry. Do you think you could explain it again, please?  The people in photo A seem much happier because ...
I’m sorry. I didn’t catch what you said. The two places look very similar / different, but ...
Can you say that again, please? Photo A looks ... whereas photo B is ...
Sorry, I’m not sure what you mean.  They’re quite similar because they both show ...
I don’t really understand. Both of them have / show ... in them.
Do you want me to ...? Another similarity is ...
 I don’t think I explained that very well. The main similarity between the photos is …
What I mean is ... Similarly,...
What I’m trying to say is ...  There are some differences. One photo ... and the other ...
Photo A looks more ... than B.
The one on the left is / has ... but the one on the right is ...
INTERVIEW ON PERSONAL INFORMATION (individual task) The top one is / has ... but the bottom one is ...
 There are four of us in my family. This one is not as ... as the other one.
I’ve lived here all my life, and ... It’s quite difficult to compare them.
I’ve been living here for seven years.  To begin with,...
 I’m at university, studying Translation and Interpreting. On the one hand,...
I’m doing a degree on Translation and Interpreting at the On the other hand, ...
UPO. ... whereas ...
I’m in the first year. ... while ...
One of my favourite subjects is English. In contrast, ...
 I haven’t really decided yet, but ... However,...
One ambition of mine is to ...  I can’t quite make out ...
 Although I don’t have much free time, I like ... I can’t really tell ...
When I can, I like / love / enjoy ... To be honest, I’m not sure ...
I don’t really like ... / I’m not very keen on ...

DISCUSSION ON THE TOPIC OF THE PHOTOS (task in pairs) CONVERSATION AND DECISION BASED ON THE PHOTOS
 As I said earlier, I think ... (task in pairs)
That’s a good question. I suppose ...  What do you think about ...?
As you said, there’s ... How about ...?
 To my mind,... Do you think we should ...?
As far as I’m concerned,... Why don’t we ...?
Personally,... Perhaps we should ...
In my opinion, X is not true / better / easier because ...  I’d like to suggest ...
 To be honest, I’m not sure, but ... One possibility is ...
I’ve never really thought about that, but ... I think X is a bad idea.
Well, that’s an interesting question, but ... X is important because ...
The best thing to do is ...
In my opinion / view, X would be best because ...
I think / feel / reckon X would be the best choice.
I’d rather do X because ...
 Absolutely.
I completely agree, and ...
You’re right / I agree with you.
That’s a good point, and ...
In a way, you are right.
I partly agree with you, but ...
I agree to a certain extent, but ...
I’m not sure about that.
 I’m afraid I don’t agree because ...
I have to disagree. Don’t you think ...?
 So, let’s decide which one ...
So, which do you think we should choose?
If you ask me,...
 To sum up, then, we’ve chosen ...
So we’ve decided that X would be the most ...