UNGKAPAN PENTING

IELTS SPEAKING

adapted from (Veza, 2015)

 Giving strong
Introductory Phrases opinion

1. I am going to talk about ... 1. In my honest opinion …

2. I would like to talk about ... 2. I’m convinced that …
3. I want to to talk about ... 3. I really think that …
4. Frankly speaking …
4. I’m going to describe ... 5. I strongly believe that …
5. What I’m going to talk about is ... 6. I’m absolutely certain that …
7. I’m positive that …
8. It seems clear to me that …
Giving opinion 9. I would definitely say that
10. … without a doubt …
1.I think (that)…  
2. I believe (that) … Giving Weak Opinions/Expressing
3.What I think is …
Uncertainty
4. As far as I’m concerned …
5. In my opinion … 1. I’m (pretty) sure it’s …
6. It seems to me that … 2. If what I read (online) is right, …
7. If you ask me …. 3. It could/might/may/must be …
8.I strongly believe that … 4. I (would) guess/I (would) imagine/I suppose…
9.In my view … 5. I don’t remember very well, but …
6. If I remember correctly, …
7. This is just a guess but …
8. It’s something like …
9. It’s very difficult to predict the future but …
10. It could/might/may/must have been …
 Developing Phrases
1. First of all ...
2. Secondly ...
3. Additionally ...
4. Another thing ...
5. Another reason why ...
6. Furthermore ...
Background Phrases
1. It happened ...
2. It took place ...
3. It’s been going on for/since ...
4. At that time ..
Impression Phrases
1... impressed me
2. ... motivated me
3.... moved me
4. ... touched me deeply
5. ... had an effect on me
6.... affected me
7.... influenced me
8........ disturbed me
Talking About Things You Like
1. I like … most of all
2. I enjoy …
3. I love doing ...
4. … really appeals to me because …
5. I take great pleasure in …
Generalising
1.In general …
2.Generally …
3.The vast majority of people …
4. People in my generation …
5. People my age …
6.There are exceptions of course but …
7. … tend to …
8.In most cases …
Talking About Personal Experience Expressing Preferences

1.I have …
1. My favourite … is …
2. I have personal experience of this. 2. I prefer … to …
3.(Just) the other day…/A couple of weeks ago 3. I’m really into …
4. A few years ago, … 4. I’m quite fond of …
5.A memorable experience I had was … 5. I really don’t like …
6.An experience of this which stands out is … 6. I don’t really like …
7. I had a bad experience with this. 7. I (absolutely) adore …
8. I hate …
8. I have found that … 9. I detest.. 
9.I have only experienced this once but …
10. I once …
Giving Examples
11. I will never forget the time when …
12. I’d like to share my experience of …
13. In my (limited/substantial) experience, … 1. To give an example of what I mean, …
14. My first/last experience of this was … 2. For example, …
3. For instance ...
15. My own experience of this is …
4. …, e.g. …
16. One day, … 5. I’m not sure if this is a good example, but …
17.Something happened to me when … 6. The best way of explaining what I mean is with
18.When this happened to me … the example
19. When I was in my (early/ mid/ late) teens,… 7. The first thing/person/place that comes to mind
20.I was affected by this when … when I think of this is …
Pausing For Thought
Asking For Confirmation

1. Well …
2. Let me think. 1. I’m sorry but could you explain this word here?
3. Let me see. 2. Can you say that another way?
4. I’ve never really thought about that before. 3. Are you asking me about …?
5. That’s a difficult question. 4. Can I (double) check (if you mean …)?
6. Let me think about it for just a moment. 5. Can you repeat the question/ the first part/ the last word?
7. I’ve never thought about that before. 6. Can you say it again one more time (more slowly)?
8. I can’t think of the word (in English) but it’s a 7. Did you say … or …?
kind of … 8. Do you mean … or …?
9. Let me have a look at the question again. 9. Does that mean ....?
10. What else was I supposed to say? Oh yes, … 10. Does the question mean …?
11. What was the last point again? Oh yes, … 11. Does … count as …?
12. Excuse me. Can I ask what one word means?
13. I didn’t catch the first/ middle/ last part (of )
Comparing And Contrasting 14. I didn’t understand the last word/ last part of the question.
15. I guess/ suppose you mean … Is that right?
1. It’s (exactly/almost exactly/more or less) the same 16. It depends what you mean by …
as … 17. I’m not quite clear about …
2. It’s very similar to … 18. Sorry, I’m (still) not quite sure what you mean.
3. more … than …/ less … than … 19. Should I talk about … (or …)
4. (not) (nearly) as … as …
5. Compared to …, …
6. Unlike …, …
7. …, whereas …
8. In contrast, …
 Correcting Yourself
Predicting The Future

1. I meant to say …
2. Let me try to answer that again. I … 1. I hope that …
3. I mean … 2. It’s possible that …
4. Let me start again. 3. I can see that …
5. That’s wrong. What really happened was … 4. If possible, I’d like to see …
6. I’m not sure that I’ve explained myself properly … 5. We should plan to …
7. I said … but in fact … 6. It might be that …
7. We can assume that …
8. Probably, …
Checking That You Have Answered The
9. I expect that …
Question
 
1. “Sorry, what was the question again?”
2. “Does that answer your question?” Ending The Talk
3. “What’s the other thing I was supposed to talk about? 1. “I think I’ve answered all the questions.”
Let me see. 2. “That’s all I can think of to say on the
4. Here it is …” topic.”
3. “That’s the end of my presentation
Not Answering The Question

1. “Sorry, I still don’t really

understand what you mean.”
2. “I’m afraid I really don’t know.”
3. “I can’t really remember.