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Discussion phrases
| · As far as I am concerned… | |
| · To my mind | |
| · Personally, I feel… | |
| · totally | |
| · absolutely | |
| · extremely | |
| · You may be right | |
| · Exactly | |
| I agree to a point, but… | |
| That may be true to a certain extent, but… | |
| · I don't think that's right. | |
| · I don't totally agree with what you say. | |
| · I’m not sure that I agree with you. | |
| · I don’t really see it that way. | |
| I understand what you’re saying. However,… | |
| I might have to disagree with you there. | |
| · Sorry, but can I say something? | |
| · Could I come in here? | |
| · Can I just say something? | |
| I’m sorry I didn’t quite catch that. Could you say that again? | |
| Sorry to interrupt, but I didn’t understand that. | |
| Could you run it by me one more time? | |
| Would you mind repeating that for me again? | |
| I don’t think I got your meaning. | |
| So what you are saying is… Does that sound right? | |
| If I understand you correctly, you think that/it’s…. | |
| Would you mind going into a bit more detail about that? | |
| Could you explain what you mean? | |
| · If I understand correctly, you mean that… | |
| · I think what you’re saying is… | |
| · Just so I can get this clear, do you mean that… | |
| · Okay, to sum up… | |
| · To summarise what we’ve said… | |
| · In a nutshell, we all think that… | |
| · So, in conclusion, we can say that… | |
| · Does that make sense? | |
| · Would you agree? | |
| · Have you had a similar experience? | |
| Maybe that’s not clear. How can I rephrase that? | |
| · How can I put it another way? | |
| · Sorry, that might not make sense. Let me rephrase that. | |
| · What I’m trying to say is… | |
| Let’s talk about…shall we? | |
| I wonder if we could start our discussion | |
| I’d like to start off by asking | |
| This morning we are going to examine… | |
| So, you know we’re talking about discussions, and the topic is… …ok who wants to go first? |