WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS

According to De acuerdo con As far as I know - Por lo que yo s I think so Creo que s I dont think so Creo que no In fact De hecho As far as I am concerned Por lo que a mi respecta As I said before Como dije antes Its no my business No es mi problema Of course not Por supuesto que no It isnt worthwhile No merece la pena / No vale la pena On the one hand on the other hand Por un lado por otro lado To a certain extent / To some extent Hasta cierto punto In spite of (the fact that) A pesar de (el hecho de que) For instance = For example Por ejemplo Im afraid that Me temo que Consequently Por consiguiente / Consecuentemente Despite A pesar de At last Por fin At least Al menos / Por lo menos Due to (the fact that) Debido a (el hecho de que) It is often said that A menudo se dice que Last of all = To finish Para terminar No matter who / what / where No importa quien / que / donde For a change Para variar By the way / On purpose A propsito As a rule Como regla general To have nothing to do with No tener nada que ver con Who the devil? Quin diablos? What on earth? Qu demonios? After all Despus de todo Above all Sobretodo In my opinion En mi opinin Generally speaking En trminos generales / Generalmente hablando In other words En otras palabras From my point of view Desde mi punto de vista ... And the lot - Y todo eso As a matter of fact De hecho / En realidad Its out of the question Est fuera de duda If I were you = If you were in his / her shoes Si yo fuera tu Firstly Secondly Finally En primer lugar En segundo lugar Finalmente The truth is that La verdad es que Thats the reason why Esa es la razn por la que In short En resumen The trouble is El problema es To agree with Estar de acuerdo con (I agree/disagree with you) To share an opinion Compartir una opinin Nowadays Actualmente / Hoy en da

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS RELACIN ADITIVA And Y As well Adems / Tambin In addition to this Adems And whats more Y lo que es ms Not only but also - No solo sino tambin Also / Too Tambin Besides / Moreover - Adems RELACIN ALTERNATIVA Or / Either or - O o Neither nor - Ni ni Whether or - Tanto si como si Otherwise En otro caso / Si no RELACIN CONTRASTIVA But Pero Still Sin embargo / Todava Despite A pesar de However Sin embargo Nevertheless No obstante While Mientras On the other hand Por otra parte RELACIN CAUSA - EFECTO So Por lo tanto / As Consequently En consecuencia / Consecuentemente Therefore Por esta razn / Por lo tanto Because / Because of Porque / Debido a Due to the fact that Debido al hecho de que / Debido a que

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS WRITING CONSTRUCCIN ARGUMENTO On the one hand on the other hand Por una parte por otra First of all En primer lugar Secondly En Segundo lugar On the contrary Por el contrario Finally - Finalmente DAR EJEMPLOS For example Por ejemplo For instance Por ejemplo EXPLICAR CAUSAS Y RESULTADOS Therefore / So Por lo tanto For this reason Por esta razn As a result Como resultado Consequently Por consiguiente Because Porque Due to the fact that Debido a que RELACIN ALTERNATIVA Or / Either or O o Neither nor - Ni ni Otherwise En otro caso / Si no PAUSA PARA EXPLICAR I mean / That is Es decir In other words En otras palabras

EXPRESANDO OPININ O PUNTO DE VISTA In my opinion En mi opinin In my view Desde mi punto de vista Personally - Personalmente

RELACIN CONTRASTIVA But Pero / Sino Still / However Sin embargo Nevertheless No obstante Despite A pesar de While / Whereas Mientras que Although - Aunque

AADIENDO Besides / Moreover / Futhermore / In addition to this Adems As well Adems / Tambin And what is more Y lo que es ms Again Por otra parte Not only but also - No solo sino tambin

PARA LLEGAR A UNA CONCLUSIN Anyway / In any case De todos modos After all Despus de todo As it is Sea como sea

EXPRESANDO CONFORMIDAD In fact De hecho Of course / Naturally Por supuesto / Naturalmente Really Realmente Actually En realidad / Actualmente

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS SPEAKING SIMILARITIES / DIFFERENCES Both pictures show In the first picture whereas in the second one SPECULATING I get the impression its a stressful life I expect / imagine / suppose he travels a lot He probably spends a lot Perhaps she doesnt have She might / may have a wide

LOOKS + ADJECTIVE This place looks popular

LOOKS LIKE + NOUN

LOOKS AS IF + VERB PHRASE It looks like the type of This resort looks as if place where young people its very popular with go tourists

PREFERENCES Id prefer to spend a holiday there rather than in this place Id rather go to a campsite than stay in a hotel GIVING OPINIONS In my opinion To my mind From my point of view Personally, I think I strongly believe GATHERING THOUGHTS Im not quite sure, but I think I havent thought about it before, but perhaps I dont really know, but I imagine AGREEING AND DISAGREEING I totally agree with you I think so, too I agree up to a point I really dont think so I completely disagree with you BUYING TIME Well Let me see What else (can I say)? Is there anything I can add to that?

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS PART 3 4 SPEAKING

OFFERING A TENTATIVE OPINION Im not sure Probably / Perhaps / Maybe Its very difficult but I think Its not something I feel very strongly about, but OFFERING A STRONG OPINION Actually, I feel quite strongly that Im quite certain that I know for a fact that I really dont think it is right that INITIATING/FOCUSING So we have to Shall we talk about first? Shall we start with this picture? I think we need to We have to choose What do you thing about?

DEVELOPING THE DISCUSSION Id like to add something Theres something else Id like to say I couldnt have put it better myself.

EXPRESSING AGREEMENT Could I just add that ? Exactly!

CONCLUDING So, what shall we say? So, what do you think? I think this is the best idea because OK. Shall we say? Do you agree?

OPINIONS / VIEWS / IDEAS

What do you think about? It seems to me that / I think What do you think? From what I know / In my opinion As far as Im concerned Personally speaking Could I just add that ? If I might come in here Dont you think? Ive heard / Im sure

AGREEING Thats a good point I think youre right about that I hadnt really thought of that Thats a good idea! Thats exactly what I think

DISAGREEING I see what you mean, but dont you think ? Yes, but isnt it true that? Im not so sure about that. Do you think? I dont really agree with you about that because But do you really think its a good idea to? Thats a good point but I think because