ECCE SPEAKING Useful language & expressions

GIVING YOUR OPINION

• If you ask me…• Well, I feel that ….• I’m sure / not sure that….• As for me….• Personally, I think….

ADVISING

if I were you, I’d …. You could always… Why don’t you… It would be a good idea to…

SUGGESTING

How / What about….ing? I suggest that we…. I think we should…. It would be a good idea to… It would be better if we…. Perhaps we could…

GIVING EXAMPLES

For example, for instance… And another thing… Besides… There’s also the fact that… Such as/ like …

GIVING REASONS

I think that’s right because… That’s the reason why… For one thing… For another…. On the one hand… but on the other hand… I think it’s because…

SOLVING A PROBLEM

One of the main problems / issues is… The main cause is… One solutions is… Another solution is… It’s hard to know what to do, but first of all I

believe you should…

CLARIFYING

What I’m trying to say is… What I mean is… That is to say… In other words…