Great speakers know how to open a speech in a way that hooks the audience into the presentation immediately.
Phrases for a lecture:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/learning_english/leap/voc/lecture/
Thank you, Katrin!
from MIT's Introduction to Algorithms
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2333306016564732003
We are going to get started
Handouts are by the door if anybody didn’t pick up one
If you are having an issue…
Seems it has run out
Pass it around
I did secure a copy
Before we’ll go to a content of a course lets briefly go over course information
Some administrative things we have to do
You should bookmark it [course website] and go there regularly
We will do distance learning this term
You can look lectures online if you choose to do that
You need…[to do what] ... to take this course successfully
People who don’t have this background should not be in this class
If you have any questions, please come to talk to us after class
Students must attend a 1 hour recitation session each week.
Mis asi on ‘recitation’? http://www.ece.msstate.edu/pipermail/ece3163/2008-January/000018.html
Unlike the lectures there will be no materials available
A recitation has a final say on your grade
Some students find this course particularly challenging
We have posted weekly office hours on the course website
Your best bet is to try to do your homework before …
I highly recommend to you
The grading policy
No effect on your grade
Giving your Opinion
- In my opinion / view...
- Generally speaking, I think...
- Personally, I haven’t the faintest idea about / whether... (starting with this expression may be interpreted as off-hand and could suggest that you have nothing else to say!)
- To my mind...
- I’d just like to say...
- As far as I’m concerned...
- I’m quite convinced that...(only use this expression to express a very strong opinion!)
- To be quite honest / frank...
- If you ask me...
Finally, I’d just like to say that the negative of ‘I think he does...’ sounds more natural as ‘I don’t think he does...’ rather than ‘I think he doesn’t...’ The latter is not necessarily wrong, it just sounds less natural, in my opinion.
By Danny, teacher at EC Malta English school
Maybe not so very useful to use - but it would help to know them when communicating with native speakers:
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