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Useful Phrases For Speaking Test

This document contains a list of useful phrases for speaking in English organized into categories such as silence fillers, speculating, giving opinions, describing similarities and differences, politely asking for repetition, commenting on unknown topics, expressing likes and dislikes, asking for other opinions, and putting forward other points of view.

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Useful Phrases For Speaking Test

This document contains a list of useful phrases for speaking in English organized into categories such as silence fillers, speculating, giving opinions, describing similarities and differences, politely asking for repetition, commenting on unknown topics, expressing likes and dislikes, asking for other opinions, and putting forward other points of view.

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USEFUL PHRASES (SPEAKING)

Silence fillers:

 To start with…
 To begin with…
 Well, now, let me see…
 Let me have a look…
 Let me think…
 Well, err... I’d say that...
 I’m not quite sure what this picture/ photo might be illustrating but…
 Possibly, ...
 At first sight, it seems... , but it could also ...
 I would say that...
 It’s difficult to say exactly but ...

Speculating:

 I suppose this might/ could well (be)


 It looks like....
 It looks like as if...
 This must (be)…

Giving your opinion:

 From my point of view…


 As far as I know…
 As far as I’m concerned…
 In my opinion/ view…
 Generally speaking, I think…
 Personally, I would say that…
 To my mind…
 I’d just like to say/add that…
 I’m quite convinced that…
 To be (quite) honest/ frank…
 If you ask me…
 I'm absolutely convinced that…
 I strongly believe that…
Describing similarities and differences:

 Compared to…
 In contrast to…
 On the other hand…
 It’s similar/ almost identical to…
 Slightly/ completely different from…
 In a similar/ different position to…

Politely asking someone to repeat something:

 I’m sorry I didn’t catch your point of view…


 I’m sorry I didn’t quite catch that...
 Sorry, what was that again?
 Sorry, could you say that again, please?
 I’m so sorry but I’m not sure I understood correctly…
 What was that again?
 Do you mean...?

Commenting on something you know nothing about:

 Actually, I don’t have any first - hand experience on ... but ...
 Personally, I’ve never had a similar experience but...
 It’s rather difficult to say but I would imagine that...
 Well, I’ve never been interested in ... but …

Expressing likes and dislikes:

 I prefer/ like…
 I’d rather…
 What I like the best is ...
 My favourite ...
 I personally ...
 I hate/ loathe/ detest/ can’t stand ...
 What I hate most is ...
Asking for the opinion of others:

 What / how about you?


 Would you agree that?
 What are your views on...?
 What’s your opinion?
 What do you think?
 How do you see the situation?

Asking if somebody agrees:

 Do / Would you agree with...?


 You agree, don’t you?
 I wonder if you would agree with...
 Do you really think that...?
 Do you go along with that?
 Wouldn’t you say that...?
 Surely you don’t think that...?

Putting forward another point of view:

 Yes, but on the other hand, don’t you think that ...
 But to look at it from another point of view ...
 Surely you can’t really believe that...?
 But wouldn’t you agree that...?
 In addition to what you’ve just said…

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