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    MONOLOGUE LANGUAGE BANK

    Clarifying
    Introduction In other words…
    I’m going to talk about / discuss… That is to say…
    The subject of my talk is…
    Enumeration of points
    Explaining structure First of all… / In the first place… / To begin with…
    To start with, I’ll deal with… To start with, I’d like to say / mention that…
    First of all, I’ll examine… Second… / Secondly… / In the second place…
    I’ll start by discussing… In addition to that…
    Then, I’ll look at / mention… Apart from that…
    After that, I’ll move on to / describe… Besides… / Moreover… / Furthermore…
    Finally, I’ll focus on / tell (you) about… Another example of this is…
    Finally… / Lastly… / Finally, and perhaps most importantly,…
    Introducing each point
    The 1st / 2nd / next / last point (that) I would like to discuss / deal with is… Going back
    First of all, I’d like to point out that… As I said / mentioned / pointed out earlier…
    I want to begin by looking at… Let me come back to what I said before…
    Another important point is… As I’ve already explained..
    Now, I would like to turn to…
    Concerning / Regarding / As regards… Giving and reporting opinions
    … or you may begin by stating something as a fact… Giving your opinion:
    As everyone knows… As far as I’m concerned…
    It is generally accepted that… As I see it… / To my mind… / If you ask me…
    There can be no doubt that… In my view… From my point of view…
    It is a fact that… It seems to me that…
    Nobody will deny that… I have the impression that…
    I tend to think that…
    Moving to the next point To my knowledge…
    This leads directly to my next point.
    This brings us to the next question. Giving a strong opinion
    Now, we’ll move on to… I’ve no doubt that…
    Let’s now turn to… / Turning to… I’m absolutely convinced that…
    After examining this point, let’s turn to… I strongly believe that
    Let’s now take a look at… I’m absolutely certain that…
    I’d like now to discuss… If you want my honest opinion…
    To tell you the truth… / To be honest… / To be frank…
    Concluding
    So, I have talked about… Expressing uncertainty
    To sum up… / To summarise… / If I can just sum up the main points… I’m uncertain that… / I’m not sure that…
    In conclusion… / All in all… It’s very doubtful whether…
    All things considered… As far as I know…
    I believe it is clear that… Reporting somebody else’s opinion:
    I’d like now to recap… Many people would say that…
    Let’s summarise briefly what we’ve looked at… It’s often said that…
    Finally, let me remind you of some of the issues we’ve covered… It is generally accepted that…

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