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Common and Universal Lexical Chunks for Fluent Speech (B2 Level)

Category Lexical Chunks


Time Expressions On a daily basis, From time to time, In the
long run, At the moment, As time goes by,
In the near future, For the time being
Frequency Phrases Once in a while, Most of the time, On
occasion, Hardly ever, Every now and then,
On a regular basis, All the time
Cause and Effect As a result of, Due to, Because of, Leads to,
Results in, Brings about, Is caused by
Contrast and Comparison In contrast to, Compared to, In the same
way, On the other hand, In comparison
with, Similarly, Whereas
General Use Adverbials In general, At first, On the whole, To some
extent, At least, For the most part, In
particular
Descriptive Chunks A wide range of, The majority of, A great
deal of, A small number of, The vast
majority of, A significant portion of
Opinion Phrases I’m of the opinion that, To my mind, As far
as I’m concerned, I tend to think that, It
seems to me that, From my perspective
Expressions of Certainty/Uncertainty There’s no doubt that, It’s highly likely that,
It’s unclear whether, I’m not entirely sure
about, It’s possible that
Expressions of Quantity A large amount of, A small percentage of, A
considerable number of, The majority of
people, A handful of, The bulk of
Linking Phrases On the other hand, In addition to, What’s
more, As well as that, For instance, Not to
mention, At the same time
Everyday Actions Take care of, Pay attention to, Keep track
of, Lose sight of, Make use of, Put up with,
Get rid of
Work and Study Meet deadlines, Set goals, Make progress,
Achieve success, Keep up with, Focus on,
Fall behind
Talking About Changes Has increased significantly, Has gone up,
Has remained stable, Has decreased
slightly, Has improved a lot, Is getting
worse
Expressions of Time Relations At the same time, In the meantime, By the
time, For the time being, Over the years,
For the past few years, Since then
Describing Preferences I’d rather, I’m more into, I have a
preference for, What I like most is, I lean
towards
Expressing Agreement/Disagreement I totally agree with, I’m afraid I don’t agree,
You’re absolutely right, I see where you’re
coming from, but, That’s not how I see it

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