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Cae Speaking Phrases Part 34 Gap Fill

This document provides phrases for speaking English, organized into categories such as starting a conversation, giving opinions, agreeing/disagreeing, making conclusions, personalizing responses, and asking for repetition. It includes common transitional phrases and expressions for structuring responses as well as tips for effective communication such as making eye contact and active listening.

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Cae Speaking Phrases Part 34 Gap Fill

This document provides phrases for speaking English, organized into categories such as starting a conversation, giving opinions, agreeing/disagreeing, making conclusions, personalizing responses, and asking for repetition. It includes common transitional phrases and expressions for structuring responses as well as tips for effective communication such as making eye contact and active listening.

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CAE Speaking Phrases part 3+4

Starting Opinion
What _____ we do first? As ________as I’m concerned,
_______ I start? ______ I see it,
Do you _________ if I start? From my ________ of view,
We could start _______ talking about... In my __________ opinion,
________ talk about ..first. I’d _________ that…
________ we start with…?
Giving yourself time Rephrasing
________a big question! What I ________ is...
I haven't given it much ________ until now. What I'm trying to ________ is...
Let me ________ In other __________
How _______ I put this? To put it another __________
Well, it's difficult to say really. ___________what you are saying is...
That's an ____________ question.
Agreeing Disagreeing
We _______ eye to eye. We _________ see eye to eye.
Yeah, I’d _______ along with that. I take your ________ but…
Absolutely! I _________ to disagree with you there.
You took the ________ right out of my _______. That’s not always the ___________.
I ____________ agree more. I __________ to differ
You have a ___________ there. Isn’t it more a __________ of…
I’m with you 100% _______ this one.
Starting to make a conclusion Asking for opinion
Let’s ________ down to the nitty gritty. What’s your take _____….?
The bottom ________ is we have to choose Where do you ______ on….?
one… In my opinion…., would you go along with that?
It’s a tough one, I’m torn ___________ … and …. What are your thoughts on this?
_________we go with ….?
Personalising Impressive structures
Speaking ________ personal experience,… Another point I’d like to add about … is…
_______me personally,.. It’s also worth bearing in _______ that…
This is a topic that is particularly close to my Coming _______ to what (Javi) was saying about
__________… …. I’d also like to point ______ that…
It’s funny I was just thinking _________ this the I think it’s important not to forget that…
other day. The ______ majority of people tend to think
My gut/initial __________ is… that…
At the _______ of the day…
When all’s said and ________…

Tips Asking for repetition


Eye-contact I beg your ________, I didn’t catch that.
Active listening Sorry would you ________ repeating that?
Open body language Could you __________ the question please?
Speak up
Don’t dominate

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