How to Initiate Your Speech: Multiple Expressions & Phrases Used Worldwide

COMMUNICATION SKILL: Day-1 [Expressing: Views/Opinion/Thoughts]

How to Initiate/ Your Sentences/ Speech: Sentence Starter

• In an informal conversation where people express their opinion:
• I would say……………………

 e.g., I would say smoking should be banned.

• The prevalent ways of introducing one’s opinion are:

I think, I believe, I feel, I suppose, I assume, I regret, I find, I mean, I say, I mind, I find, I recommend,…

e.g., I think teachers should be paid much more.

• The way to introduce a negative opinion is generally:

I don’t think/feel/believe/ suppose/ recommend/assume/regret/say/mind/mean…

(e.g.: I don’t think teachers are well paid)

• Slightly formal ways of introducing one’s opinion:***
• To my mind,……………………
• In my opinion……………………..
• In my view,………………………
• From my point of view,……………….
• It seems to me, ……………………..
• It appears to me,……………………..

e.g., In my opinion, smugglers are the countries enemy.

• In a more formal discussion, to introduce one’s opinion:***
• As far as I can see………………………..
• As far as I am concerned…………………
• As far as I know…………………………..
• As much as I believe………………..
• As much as I feel……………….
• In a more formal discussion, to introduce one’s opinion:***
• As far as Education…………..
• As far as Sanitation…………………..
• As far as Health System is concerned………………….

e.g., As far as I can see, dowry is a curse…………………

• The expression ’I am convinced’ is an emphatic way of introducing one’s opinion:
• ’I am convinced’ ……………………………

I’m convinced that ‘child -Labor is a crime’.

• Few more to be used:
• I would better say that…………………
• I want to say that………………….
• I just have to say that,… ……………
• I would like to say that…………………….

How to Practice over the daily Lessons:

1. Use the expressions to Frame Stories, in a beautiful story,
2. Entire conversation should end within the Lesson,
3. Real examples/Events based discussion.
4. How to cover the Topic to speak

Intro- Body - Conclude

Body: Pointwise/ Aspects: social/technological/environmental/political/ Economic/Cultujral aspects

Topic:

• Education during the COVID-19
• Economy slows down during COVID-19
• Save the Tree, Save the Tigers
• Forest Reservation,
• Globalization,
• Mental Stress during the COVID-19
• People suffering due to COVID19(The POOR AND THE LABOURER)