B2 (ISE II)

Language functions
Initiating and maintaining the conversation
Expressing and expanding ideas and opinions
Highlighting advantages and disadvantages
Speculating
Giving advice
Expressing agreement and disagreement
Eliciting further information
Establishing common ground
Inititiate and Respond.

This means that you need to ask and answer questions.

Candidates must be clear on how to form short questions (What is

your take on this?), full questions (How long have your been working in

this way?), negative questions (Wouldn´t it be a better idea to ask for

permission first?) and also question tags (It is really amusing, isn´t it?)
 Develop and Maintain the conversation.
• Candidates need to give their opinions on the topic and also make sure the conversation does not end too quickly, it should last for
about 3-4 minutes. They need to (develop) offer new and interesting information to expand the scope of the topic. It is important to
make it interesting!

• Link to other topic. To expand on topics and make them more interesting it is important to relate your points to other topics or to
your personal experiences. It is fine to have a strong opinion, but it needs to be reinforced with a good link.

• Linking phrases:

• As I have said before…

• With respect to the point on…

• Regarding…

• Like I have said…

• In relation to…
Give your opinion
• In my opinion, …
• In my eyes, …
• To my mind, …
• As far as I am concerned, …
• Speaking personally, …
• From my point of view, …
• As for me / As to me, …
• My view / opinion / belief / impression /
conviction is that …
• I hold the view that …
• I would say that …
• It seems to me that …
• I am of the opinion that …
• My impression is that …
• I am under the impression that …
• It is my impression that …
• I have the feeling that …
• My own feeling on the subject is that …
• I have no doubt that …
• I am sure / I am certain that …
• I think / consider / find / feel / believe /
suppose / presume / assume / reckon that …
• I hold the opinion that …
• I dare say that …
• I guess that …
• I bet that ….
• I gather that …
• It goes without saying that …
Asking or an opinion
• What's your idea?
• What are your thoughts on all of this?
• How do you feel about that?
• Do you have anything to say about this?
• What do you think?
• Do you agree?
• Wouldn't you say?
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
ADVANTAGES
• I agree with you 100 percent.
• I couldn't agree with you more.
• That's so true.
• That's for sure. You're absolutely
right.
• Absolutely.
• Definitely.
• That's exactly how I feel
• Exactly.
• I'm afraid I agree with James.
• No doubt about it.
• (weak) I suppose so./I guess so.
• You have a point there.
• I was just going to say that.
• I see what you mean
DISADVANTAGES

• I don't think so.

• I'm afraid I disagree.
• I beg to differ.
• Not necessarily.
• That's not always true.
• That's not always the case.
• No, I'm not so sure about that.
• (strong) No way.
SPECULATING
• MODALS COULD, MAY, MIGHT

IF WE SPECULATE ABOUT THE PAST WE USE A PERFECT TENSE AND THEN THE
MODAL

• EXPRESSIONS:
PEOPLE SAY...., I HAVE HEARD...
• ADVERBS SUCH AS :
APPARENTLY, SUPPOSEDLY, MAYBE, PERHAPS, POSSIBLY
IMPOSSIBILITY
PERSUADING AND DISCOURAGING
Grammar
• Second and third conditionals
• Simple passive
• Used to
• Relative clauses
• Modals and phrases used to give advice and make suggestions, eg should/ought to,
could, you’d better
• Modals and phrases used to express possibility and uncertainty, eg may, might, I’m
not sure
• Discourse connectors, eg because of, due to
• Present perfect continuous tense
• Past perfect tense
• Reported speech
• Linking expressions, eg even though, in spite of, although