C1 SPEAKING PHRASES FOR THE MONOLOGUE

1) INTRODUCING A POINT

 First of all, / To begin with, I would like to point out…

 The main problem/ issue is…
 The question of…
 Speaking of…/Talking of... Regarding/concerning …

2) ENUMERATION OF POINTS (if you provide several reasons, factors or arguments in a row)

 First of all, I would like to say…

 In addition to that…
 Moreover, … / Furthermore, … Further on…
 Firstly,… Secondly,… Thirdly…
 Finally, … /Lastly,

3) MOVING TO THE NEXT POINT

 This leads directly to my next point

 This brings us to the next question
 Let’s now move on to… /Moving on to…
 After examining this point, let’s turn to…
 Let’s now take a look at…
 Another point to consider is…
 We shouldn’t forget that…
 It’s also worth bearing in mind that…

4) GOING BACK ( to talk about something which has already been mentioned)

 As I mentioned earlier/ before /above…

 Let me come back to what I said before…
 Let’s go back to what we were discussing earlier.
 As I’ve already explained, …
 As I pointed out in the first section, …

5) STATING SOMETHING AS A FACT ( As everybody knows…)

 The vast majority of people tend to think that…

 It is generally accepted that…
 There can be no doubt that…
 It is a well-known fact that…
 Nobody will deny that…
 According to…

6) GIVING YOUR OPINION NEUTRALLY

 The way I see it…

 I think…/ I believe that…
 In my view…
 I feel that…
 I tend to think that…
 In my humble opinion, …
 From my point of view…
 As far as I’m concerned…
 I’d say that…

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7) GIVING A STRONG OPINION

 I’m absolutely convinced that…

 I strongly believe that…
 I have no doubt that… /There is no doubt that…
 I am absolutely certain that…
 I am inclined to believe that ...

8) EXPRESSING UNCERTAINTY

 I definitely doubt if that…(s+ will)

 I am not sure/certain that…
 As far as I know…/ As far as I’m concerned,

9) GIVING REASONS

 The reasons for this is (that)…That’s why…/ That’s the reason why …
 I base my argument on…
 I tell you all this because…

10) GIVING EXAMPLES

 For example/ For instance …

 …like/such as…
 ...and so on
 An example of this is ….Another example of this is…
 To illustrate this point,
 Take the case of…
 One of the most striking features/aspects of this topic/issue/question is…

11) REPHRASING OPINIONS (if we think it needs to be clarified)

 What I meant to say was…

 Let me put this another way,
 Perhaps I’m not making myself clear…
 The basic idea is…/ It all comes down to…
 One way of looking at it is…
 Another way of looking at it is…

12) INDICATING THE END OF YOUR TALK

 I’m now approaching the end of my presentation.

 Well, this brings me to the end of my presentation.
 As a final point, I would like to say /add …
 Finally, I would like to highlight/ stress one key issue.

13) DRAWING CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMING UP

 To conclude, …/In conclusion, we can say  In a nutshell, ../ In brief,…/ In short, …

that…  The only possible solution/conclusion is…
 To sum up,  On the whole,
 Last but not least…  To cut a long story short,

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