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Useful Phrases For FCE Speaking Part 2

The document provides useful phrases for comparing pictures and situations in the FCE Speaking Part 2 exam. It lists phrases for starting a comparison, talking about similarities and differences, and introducing answers to questions. It also gives sample follow-up questions and phrases for answering them, drawing from personal experience or justifying a choice.

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Useful Phrases For FCE Speaking Part 2

The document provides useful phrases for comparing pictures and situations in the FCE Speaking Part 2 exam. It lists phrases for starting a comparison, talking about similarities and differences, and introducing answers to questions. It also gives sample follow-up questions and phrases for answering them, drawing from personal experience or justifying a choice.

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FCE Speaking Part 2: Useful Phrases to Compare Pictures

In this section, we’ll see useful expressions that you can use in any comparison. However, as a
basic tip, in order to compare, most of the connectors you’ll have to use are contrasting
connectors. Let’s see.

Starting your comparison


Both of these pictures show…

These two pictures show…

The two situations in these pictures are…

Talking about similarities …

These two pictures/situations are similar because …/in that…

In both pictures we can see…

One similarity between these two pictures/situations is that…

Another similarity might be that…

One thing that these two pictures/situations have in common is that…

One thing that these two pictures share is that…

The most obvious similarity is that…

These two pictures share the fact that…

Both pictures (…) in the same way.

Talking about differences


One of the most obvious differences (between these two pictures) is that…

Another difference is that…

Something that makes these two pictures different is…

What makes these two situations (so/completely) different is…

While the first picture …, the second one…

The first picture…. However, the second one…

The first picture… whereas the second one…

Although the first picture…., the second one…


On the one hand, the first picture shows… . On the other hand, the second one…

Introducing the answer to the question


As for + (paraphrased question)

As to + (paraphrased question)

In relation to the question,…

In response to the question, I’d say that…

As regards the question,…

Regarding the question of the task,

With regard to + (paraphrased question)

FCE Speaking Part 2: Useful Phrases for the Follow-up Question


Although this part of the task does not follow a particular structure, given that it depends on the
topic of the pictures, you are typically asked to draw on your own experience in connection with
the topic or to choose one of the pictures and justify your answer. For instance, in the task above,
the question for Candidate B would be something like: «where would you prefer to live?«

So let’s see some expressions to answer this question correctly:

As far as I’m concerned,…

The way I see it,…

If I had to choose one of these two (…), I would (definitely) go for…

In my experience,…

In my case,…

Well, it’s not an easy choice, but I think I’d prefer to…

I would (…) no doubt.

I would definitely prefer/choose…

I believe that it’s more important to…

There is no specific formula to answer this follow-up question, given the broad spectrum we’re
dealing with, but the expressions above will definitely help you answer more appropriately.

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