My projekt was about the Chelsea football club




You are going to work with business correspondence "Yours Faithfully" during the oral presentations of our London project . You are asked to note down the general formalities and to gather phrases and vocabulary used for the various kinds of business correspondence e.g. offer, order etc.





and put these words in Presenting an argument:
e.g. BEGINNING
• I would like to begin by …
• I would like to mention briefly that …
• There are three points I would like to make …


e.g. ORDERING
• First of all, …
• To begin with …
• Firstly, … Secondly, … Thirdly, … Finally, … (Do not use At first!)
• First, … Second, …


e.g. INTRODUCING A NEW POINT
• The next issue I would like to focus/concentrate on is …
• I would now like to turn to …


e.g. ADDING
• In addition …
• I could add that …
• As well as …, there is also …
• Furthermore …
• Moreover …


e.g. GIVING AN EXAMPLE
• Let me give an example …
• For example …
• For instance …


e.g. BALANCING
• On the one hand …, but on the other hand …
• Although …, we mustn’t forget …
• Despite the fact that …, I …
• Nevertheless …


e.g. GNERALISING
• In general …
• By and large …
• All in all …
• Genarally speaking …


e.g. STATING PREFERENCES
• I would rather …, than …
• I prefer …, to …


e.g. CONCLUDING
• Let me conclude by saying …
• I would like to conclude by stating that …
• In conclusion, I would like to repeat …
• In a nutshell …
• To put it in a nutshell, …


Opinions

e.g.
• I think/believe that …
• I strongly/firmly sincerely believe that …
• In my opinion/view …
• It’s my opinion that …
• …, to my mind.
• In my mind, …
• I changed my mind.
• As I see it, …
• As far as I am concerned …
• From my point of view …
• I am absolutely convinced that …
• It’s quite clear that …
• I am certain that …
• It seems to me that …


Agreeing and disagreeing

e.g. AGREEMENT
• I completely/thoroughly agree.
• I agree entirely with your point of view.
• I am of the same opinion.
• I am in total agreement.
• I agree.
• I think you are right.
• I agree in principle, but …

SOFTENING STRONG DISAGREEMENT
• Frankly,…
• To be quite frank,…
• To put it bluntly,…
• I am afraid …


DISAGREEMENT
• I totally disagree with you.
• I don’t agree at all.
• I disagree entirely.


Clarifying

e.g.
• Correct me if I am wrong, but …
• Am I correct in asuming that …?
• When you say …, do you mean that …?
• Basically, what you are saying is …
• I am afraid I don’t understand what you mean.


Questioning

e.g.
• Would you mind if…?
• May I ask …?
• Could you be a little bit more specific/precise/explicit