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Trang 1Starting
As a matter of fact
First of all
To begin with
I’d like to talk about…
I’ve chosen to talk about…
I’m going to talk about…
What I am going to cover is
Commenting
As a rule,
Essentially
Generally speaking
Actually
Evidently
Seemingly
Apparently
Naturally
Obviously…
Of course…
Certainly
Definetly
It goes without saying that…
It is clear that
As I have said before…
It’s quite likely that
It’s possible that
Adding information
Besides
Moreover
In addition to
Futhermore
Another point is that
What is more
not only … but also
Additionaly
Incidentally
Explaining
Most importantly, …
By … I mean…
That is to say…
What I mean is that
In other words
to be more precise
Expressing condition
If Unless Provided that Whether
In case
Comparing
like /likewise equally
as well as just as Similarly Analogous to corresponds to akin to
related to
If you compare with
In the same way
At the same time Neither nor Either or resemble
Contrasting ideas
However Nevertheless/nonetheless Notwithstanding
Although / even though Despite
Otherwise
In spite of/ irrespective of the fact that/ regardless
On the one hand, …on the other hand
Unlike…
Whereas
In theory… , but in practice…
Meanwhile
At the same time
In contrast
On the contrary While this is true…
Expressing Purpose
in order that
so that
so as to
to
Giving your opinion
I think/I don’t really think…
I believe/I don’t believe… Personally, I think…
In my opinion…
From my point of view
It seems to me that…
I suppose so The first point I’d like to make is that…
Frankly speaking, Honestly,
I would say that
I doubt that
I feel
I imagine
I realize
It appears that From my perspective
Emphasizing
especially particularly exactly because The more…
Obviously Undoubtedly/ There’s no doubt that…
As a matter of fact/ In fact
Telling about cause and result
On account of Since
Because of The main reason why… One reason for this is
It is possibly due to
It may come from the fact that
The immediate cause of this This has resulted in
This has led to One of the causes of this is Due to this/ owing to
The reason for For this reason, So/therefore Consequently This is why
As a result Hence Thus
Trang 2Expressing Partial Agreement
To some extent,
So to speak
In a way
More or less,
Almost,
Exemplifying
Let me give you an example
Let me explain why I think that
Consider …, for example
Take … as one example of
In case of …
Another example of…
For instance…
… such as
Namely
Specifically
as an illustration
To demonstrate/ to illustrate
A good illustration of this is
If we take an example
Evidence for this is provided by
We can see this when
Giving an alternative viewpoint
I am not sure that I agree with…
Wel, I don’t think so really
Well, my point of view is rather different
To be honest, no, because
I am afraid I can’t agree with that idea,
because
I am afraid I think
Well I don’t know for sure, but…
I would say the opposite
Possibly, but …
I tend to believe…
Yes, in theory … but in practice …
I am not in favour of
I am unconvinced that…
Answering the 3rd part
I’m not an expert, but…
I read somewhere that…
It has many implications
There’s a question mark over
It’s difficult to say because I…
I haven’t thought about it before, but it seems to me plays an important role in… That’s crucial
Advantages
One definite plus is that The great advantage is One of the main arguments in favour of
…is …
Disadvantages
One problem is that
Another big disadvantage is…
A big minus is
One of the main arguments against … is…
Balancing
Weighing everything up,
On balance, taking everything into account,
If we look at both sides of the argument
Summarising
Finally, All in all
On the whole Summing up/ to sum up
In short/ to cut a long story short
In conclusion…/ to conclude
In brief
by and large Last but not least With this in mind
To put it in a nutshell