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ACADEMIC VOCABULARY How to navigate: • On the slide with list of sentence openings, click on the topic you will use • To change topics, click on ……………. to take you back to home list

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Page 1: ACADEMIC VOCABULARY How to navigate: On the slide with list of sentence openings, click on the topic you will use To change topics, click on ……………. to

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

• How to navigate:

• On the slide with list of sentence openings, click on the topic you will use

• To change topics, click on ……………. to take you back to home list

Page 2: ACADEMIC VOCABULARY How to navigate: On the slide with list of sentence openings, click on the topic you will use To change topics, click on ……………. to

Category Links

Expressing an opinion Responding Disagreeing Soliciting a response Asking for clarification Interrupting Offering a suggestion Predicting Paraphrasing Acknowledging ideas Affirming Holding the floor Reporting a partner’s idea Reporting a group idea

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Expressing an Opinion• “I think…”

• “I believe…”

• “In my opinion…”

• “It seems to me that…”

• “Not everyone will agree with me, but…”

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Responding• “I agree with what _____ said.”

• “You are right about that.”

• “I am not sure.”

• “That is an interesting idea.”

• “I had not thought of that before.”

• “I thought about that also.”

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Disagreeing

• “I do not agree with you because…”

• “I see it another way.”

• “My idea is slightly different from yours.”

• “I have a different answer than you.”

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Soliciting a Response

• “Do you agree?”

• “What do you think?”

• “We haven’t heard from ______ yet.”

• “What answer did you get for number___?”

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Asking for Clarification• “Could you repeat that?”

• “Could you say more about that?”

• “In other words, you think that…(paraphrase)”

• “Could you give me an example of that?”

• “I have a question about that.”

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Interrupting

• “May I interrupt for a moment?”

• “May I add something here?”

• “I’m sorry to interrupt, but…”

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Offering a Suggestion

• “Why don’t you/we…”

• “Maybe you/we could…”

• “Here is something you/we might try….”

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Predicting

• “I guess/predict/imagine that…”

• “Based on…, I infer that…”

• “I hypothesize that…”

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Paraphrasing

• “So, you are saying that…”

• “In other words, you think…”

• “What I hear you saying is…”

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Acknowledging Ideas

• “My idea is similar to/related to ___’s idea.”

• “I agree with ____ that…”

• “My idea builds upon _____’s idea.”

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Affirming

• “That’s an interesting idea.”

• “I hadn’t thought of that…”

• “I see what you mean.”

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Holding the Floor

• “As I was saying…”

• “If I could finish my thought…”

• “What I was trying to say was…”

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Reporting a Partner’s Idea

• “____ shared with me that…”

• “____ pointed out to me that…”

• “____ emphasized that…”

• “____ concluded that…”

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Reporting a Group’s Idea

• “We decided/agreed that…”

• “We concluded that…”

• “Our group sees it differently.”

• “We had a different approach.”