Starting As a matter of fact First of all To begin with I’d like to talk about… I’ve chosen to talk about… I’m going to talk about… What I am going to cover is.. Commenting As a rule, Essentially Generally speaking Actually Evidently Seemingly Apparently Naturally Obviously… Of course… Certainly Definetly It goes without saying that… It is clear that As I have said before… It’s quite likely that It’s possible that Adding information Besides Moreover In addition to Futhermore Another point is that.. What is more.. not only … but also Additionaly Incidentally Explaining Most importantly, … By … I mean… That is to say… What I mean is that.. In other words to be more precise

Expressing condition If Unless Provided that Whether In case Comparing like /likewise equally as well as just as Similarly Analogous to corresponds to akin to related to If you compare.. with In the same way At the same time Neither .. nor Either.. or resemble Contrasting ideas However Nevertheless/nonetheless Notwithstanding Although / even though Despite Otherwise In spite of/ irrespective of the fact that/ regardless On the one hand, …on the other hand Unlike… Whereas.. In theory… , but in practice… Meanwhile At the same time In contrast On the contrary While this is true… Expressing Purpose in order that so that so as to to

Giving your opinion I think/I don’t really think… I believe/I don’t believe… Personally, I think… In my opinion… From my point of view It seems to me that… I suppose so The first point I’d like to make is that… Frankly speaking, Honestly, I would say that I doubt that I feel I imagine I realize It appears that From my perspective Emphasizing especially particularly exactly because The more… Obviously Undoubtedly/ There’s no doubt that… As a matter of fact/ In fact Telling about cause and result On account of Since Because of The main reason why… One reason for this is It is possibly due to It may come from the fact that The immediate cause of this This has resulted in This has led to One of the causes of this is Due to this/ owing to The reason for For this reason, So/therefore Consequently This is why As a result Hence Thus

Expressing Partial Agreement To some extent, So to speak In a way More or less, Almost, Exemplifying Let me give you an example. Let me explain why I think that. Consider …, for example. Take … as one example of.. In case of … Another example of… For instance… … such as.. Namely Specifically as an illustration To demonstrate/ to illustrate A good illustration of this is If we take an example Evidence for this is provided by We can see this when Giving an alternative viewpoint I am not sure that I agree with… Wel, I don’t think so really Well, my point of view is rather different To be honest, no, because I am afraid I can’t agree with that idea, because I am afraid I think.. Well I don’t know for sure, but… I would say the opposite Possibly, but … I tend to believe… Yes, in theory … but in practice … I am not in favour of I am unconvinced that…

Answering the 3rd part I’m not an expert, but… I read somewhere that… It has many implications. There’s a question mark over.. It’s difficult to say because I… I haven’t thought about it before, but it seems to me.. plays an important role in… That’s crucial. Advantages One definite plus is that The great advantage is One of the main arguments in favour of …is … Disadvantages One problem is that... Another big disadvantage is… A big minus is.. One of the main arguments against … is… Balancing Weighing everything up, On balance, taking everything into account, If we look at both sides of the argument Summarising Finally, All in all On the whole Summing up/ to sum up In short/ to cut a long story short In conclusion…/ to conclude In brief.. by and large Last but not least With this in mind To put it in a nutshell