Comunicative english

Find common topic to talk about • Never ask private questions.. Time flies Ving • It’s lovely to talk to you.. Introducing others• The handsome, young man here is… • The attractive lady

Speaking effectively in

discussion

REVISION

• Hi, I’m …

• Good morning /afternoon/ evening/ day, I’m …

• Hello, I’m John and you are …

• Hey! Sam here and you …?

Find common topic to talk

about

• Never ask private questions.

• Should talk about the weather, living

Take your leave when you decide you have finished

talking or have to go  

• Oh gosh! I’d better go off now! See you later

• I’ve got to talk to others now Bye!

• Time really flies speaking to you Talk to you some other time! (Time flies Ving)

• It’s lovely to talk to you I must go now See ya.( see you again)

Introducing others

• The handsome, young man here is…

• The attractive lady here is… 

• I’d like to introduce…. 

• The one sitting next to me is… 

• May I present…. 

• This is …… 

• Let me introduce…

• *** Use their titles followed by their surnames

• President; Professor; Dr.; Dean Mr (may be married

or unmarried); Mrs (married); Ms (may be married

or unmarried);Miss (unmarried); Madam(may be

married or unmarried; address indicating rank) 

• I see what you mean, but

• That's true, but on the other hand

• The problem with that is…

• That idea is not really good… 

•

The most common way to disagree is to

agree or indicate that you understand what the person has said and then disagree  

Asking for repetition

• Would you mind repeating…?

• Please mention that point you’ve just made…

• Could you say it again?

• Pardon?

• I beg your pardon?

Asking for clarification

• What is it? Please tell me again. 

• What do you mean?

• Is that what you mean?

• Will you elaborate on what you mean by…?

• I’m kind of confused about what you are saying….Do you mean…?

• Could you explain more about ?

• I don’t really understand Will you care to elaborate?

• So what you are really saying… 

Asking for ideas/opinions

• What do you think about that…(name)?

• Do you have any ideas/opinions?

• How about you?

• What is your take on this matter/issue?

• Anything you deem important?

• Any thoughts, anyone? 

To begin/start a

discussion

• Let’s discuss about….

• We need to talk about…

• We will first look at….

• The main thing to discuss is…

• It seems that we have to talk about…

• Let’s deal with the important issues…

• The question here is asking us to

• The problem to solve here is….

• The first thing is that… 

Putting your ideas/opinions across

Responding to someone

interrupting you

• Let me finish what I am saying…

• Hold on…

• I haven’t said what I wanted to yet

• Hang on let me finish what I have to say… 

• Can I add here that…

• Can I add something?

• Can I say something?

• Have you got it/that?

• Do you understand so far? 

• Well, um

• Well, let’s see

• Mmm, I’ll have to think about that

• Good/interesting question

• Well, what is your opinion?

Taking things into

consideration

• Bearing in mind…

• Considering…

• If you remember…

• Allowing for the fact

• When you consider that… 

Moving on to the next

issue

• Let’s move on to…

• What is the next thing we should be discussing about?

• Let’s go on to what’s next…

• Should we go on to…? 

Going back to the topic of

discussion

• We are out of point Let’s focus…

• Is this the topic we are discussing about?

• Are we supposed to be talking about ?

• Let’s get back to the point of discussion… 

• Wait Let’s go back to…

• What was the point we’ve mentioned

before? Let’s discuss

• that again

Illustrating your point

• For example,

• For instance,…

• Take for example…

• For one thing…

• To give you an idea

• By way of illustration… 

Closing and summarizing

• That’s all then

• We’ve finished our discussion

• Alright, we’re done. 

• So, we have discussed about…

• In summary,… In conclusion, … To sum up,… In general,…

Providing alternatives

• Also, …

• Another way of looking at this is…

• On the other hand…

• Yes, but…

• Alternatively