TO INTRODUCE A POINT OF VIEW

PHRASES FOR EXPRESSING OPINIONS

PHRASES FOR EXPRESSING AGREEMENT

PHRASES FOR EXPRESSING DISAGREEMENT

PHRASES FOR EXPRESSING INTERRUPTION

PHRASES TO SIGNAL
 TO STATE A SITUATION OR TASK GIVEN

 I’m glad to have this opportunity to…

 I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you about…
 Today, I would like to talk (to you) about…
 Today, I’m here to talk to you about…
 My topic today is…
 I’m delighted to be here to tell you about…
 I would like to share some thoughts on (topic)…
 What I am going to talk about today is…

TO INTRODUCE A POINT OF VIEW

 I think …
 I feel…
 I guess…
 In my view…
 From my perspective…
 From my point of view…
 I’m of the opinion that…
 I believe…
 In my opinion…
 I’d like to point out that…
 I hold the view that…
 What I think is…
 TO INTRODUCE THE FIRST POINT
 Let me start by …
 To begin with …
 I’ll begin with…
 I’d like to begin by…
 First of all…
 First I will talk about…
 First we’re going to look at…
 Turning then to my first point…

TO SIGNAL A MAIN POINT

 My main point is…

 It is important to …
 What I would like to stress is…
 Now I would like to focus on…
 The main problem I would like to focus on is that of…
 The most important factor is…

TO ILLUSTRATE A POINT

 Let me illustrate…
 To illustrate…
 To elaborate…
 Let me elaborate…
 Let me explain…
 To give you more information…
 Let me give you some details…
 TO PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE

 For example…
 For instance…
 To give you an example…
 A good example of this is …
 Let me give you an example…

TO START A NEW POINT

 My next point is…
 Next, I would like to …
 This leads me to my next point, which is…
 I would like to turn to my next point, which is…
 Moving on now to…
 Moving on, I’d like to look at …
 That brings me to…

TO SIGNAL CAUSE AND EFFECT

 The reason why…is…

 Because…
 Because of…
 Since…
 As a result…
 As a consequence…
 Therefore…
 Due to that…
 Owing to this…
 For this reason…
 That’s why…
 That’s the reason why…