LA Participation Expressions
LA Participation Expressions
LA Participation Expressions
opinion and comment on the opinions of the teacher and other students. Use the following expressions to be successful in communicating clearly and connecting your ideas to the ideas of others. Expressing an opinion I think I believe It seems to me that In my opinion Asking for clarification What do you mean? Will you explain that again? I have a question about that. Getting a friend to comment What do you think? Do you agree with that? What is your opinion? Id like to know what ___ thinks. Individual Reporting I discovered from ___ that I found out from ___ that ____ pointed out to me that ____ shared with me that Disagreeing I dont agree with you because I came to a different conclusion. I have a different opinion. I have a different perspective. Predicting what will happen I predict that I imagine that I hypothesize that Based on ___, I infer that Paraphrasing what someone said So you are saying that In other words, you think What I hear you saying is Acknowledging ideas of others I agree with ____ that My idea builds upon ____s idea. My idea is similar to ____s idea. I agree with ___ because Partner or Group Reporting We decided/agreed that We concluded that Our group sees it differently. We had a different approach. Offering a suggestion Maybe we/you could What if you tried Have you thought of I have a suggestion.
Affirming/Agreeing Thats an intriguing idea. I hadnt thought of that. I see what you mean. Thanking a classmate for a suggestion Thanks, I like that idea. I appreciate your input. I think Ill try that. Im glad you thought of that. Helping when someone gets off the topic
Holding the floor As I was saying What I was trying to say was If I could finish my thought
Getting back to what we were saying Were digressing. Lets continue with our discussion. I believe we were discussing