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This document provides useful phrases for expressing opinions, agreeing, disagreeing, asking for repetition or opinions, starting and moving discussions forward, reaching consensus, speculating, expressing similarities and differences, and reacting to statements in English. Phrases are organized into categories for giving opinions, agreeing, disagreeing, asking for clarification or opinions, and directing discussions.

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This document provides useful phrases for expressing opinions, agreeing, disagreeing, asking for repetition or opinions, starting and moving discussions forward, reaching consensus, speculating, expressing similarities and differences, and reacting to statements in English. Phrases are organized into categories for giving opinions, agreeing, disagreeing, asking for clarification or opinions, and directing discussions.

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Useful language

Giving opinions:
❖ As far as I´m concerned … /As far as I know …. /As far as I can tell …
❖ To the best of my knowledge …
❖ To my way of thinking …
❖ In my book …
❖ My take on this is that …
❖ I´m inclined to believe that …
❖ To be honest, I haven´t quite thought much about that but if you ask me, I daresay that …

Agreeing:
❖ I´m glad we both see eye to eye.
❖ I couldn´t possibly agree more.
❖ I could not have put it better myself.
❖ I´m glad we´re both on the same wavelength/page.
❖ I hadn´t thought of that myself, but now that you mention it, I agree.

Disagreeing:
❖ I beg to differ.
❖ I´m afraid I don´t see eye to eye with you.
❖ I´m afraid we´re on different wavelengths.
❖ Sorry, but I just can´t go along with what you say.
❖ I agree with you up to a point. However, I´m inclined to believe that …
❖ I´m afraid we´ve reached an impasse, so let´s agree to disagree.

Asking for repetition:


❖ I beg your pardon?
❖ Could you repeat that? please.

Asking for opinions:


❖ What´s your take on this?
❖ What are your thoughts on this?

Starting a discussion:
❖ Shall we start by talking about …?
❖ Why don´t we start by discussing …?
Moving the conversation forward:

❖ Shall we move on to the next idea/question?


❖ Let´s now discuss the next idea, shall we?

Reaching consensus:

❖ Top of the list for me would be …


❖ I´d put … above ….
❖ In my book, … would be the highest priority for me.
❖ So out of these skills/factors/ideas, … would be the most/least …

Speculating:

❖ It/he/she looks like + noun/clause.


❖ It/he/she looks as if/though + clause.
❖ It/he/she must/might/may/can´t ….
❖ It/he/she/ must have/might have/can´t have + Vpp.

Expressing similarities

❖ Both of the pictures/photos show/portray/depict …


❖ Neither of the pictures/photos shows/portrays/depicts …

Expressing differences

❖ While/whereas the first photo shows …., the second one portrays ….
❖ On the one hand, the first picture depicts … On the other hand, the second photo portrays …

Reacting to statements:

❖ I see eye to eye with people who hold that particular view/idea because in my book …
❖ I´m afraid such an idea/ a statement is a travesty/caricature of the truth because …
❖ To be honest, I´m a bit ambivalent about that but if you ask me I daresay that …

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