Seminar 英语讨论 句式整理

Make a suggestion:
Maybe we could…?
How about if we…?
Acknowledging an idea and making an alternative suggestion:
I see what you mean, but what about….?
That’s a possibility – or we could…
Asking for suggestions:
How do you feel about…?
How are we going to do that?
Asking for a volunteer to do sth:
It would be good to start by reminding people of what the company produces.
Maybe we could download one of their adverts from Youtube and show them that? Would you be able to do that, Carlos?
So we need to end with a set of recommendations, don’t we?
Yes, how do you feel about putting those as a series of bulllet points- just on one slide so they’re quite memorable. Who wants to do that?
Asking a particular person to do sth:
We need to give the audience some time at the end to ask questions. How are we going to do that? Well, I think it's best if just one person deals with the questions. Perhaps you could that, Kate, as you’re the speaker in the presentations.
I think it’s best if just one person deals with the questions. Maybe Christian could do it?
That’s a possibility. Or we could all sit at the front and take the questions that are to do with our part of the presentation.
I’m not sure of the best way of presenting all these tables. They wouldn’t look good projected on screen.
How about if we put them on a handout? We could give that out at the beginning. You’re good at that kind of thing Francoise. Can you sort that out?
Offering to do sth:
We’ve really got to grab their attention. I think we jump straight in and talk about the company’s problems.
I see what you mean, but what about the history of the company? Wouldn’t it be more sensible to do that before talking about the problems it’s facing today? Shall I do that?
Generating ideas and report:
Expressions for reporting back
Right, well, we thought that this picture was showing that people in different cultures greet each other differently. So in some cultures people shake hands, for example while others avoid contact and might just bow. There’s also the question of gender here which prompted us to talk about the different behaviour of men and women, er, your know, childcare, household tasks…
One member of the group suggested that in some cultures men and women greet each other in different ways. So Zubadah, er, mentioned that for most groups in Indonesia it wouldn’t be appropriate for men and women to touch when they greet each other. Erm, turning now to the third question, we came up with a number of other aspects that could be investigated. One possibility would be to look at …
Expressions for referring to what people in other groups have said
….how young people treat their elders. Kerry said sth similar for group one. So, for example, do they show respect in particular ways? We also taked about attitudes to punctuality. This was sth that group two talked about as well. We thought it would be interesting to see whether people from different cultures thought it was OK to turn up late for lecture.
Reaching a consensus
Give reasons for a preferred order
It’s sensible to put how antibiotics work first.
Well, that’s possible, but it seems more logical to talk about their discovery before saying how they work. We can start with how….
Well, we can’t really introduce side-effects before we’ve talked about how antibiotics work. So we need todo side-effects later.
…I think the presentation would flow better if we had impacts….
Reaching a consensus
We haven’t got much time left and we need to agree an order for presenting these.
Ok, Most people are in agreement that we start with…
Right, the consensus seems to be that we talk about how antibiotics work….
Right, that’s it then. Our agreed order is…
Joining in discussion
Indicate that you want to make a point
If I could add…
Can I add sth here?
Give your own view
Could I just say that…
In my view…
The way I see it is that…
I think…
Agree with the last speaker an add a further point
Iris makes a good point, and another thing is ….
I think that’s intersting, and sth else to consider is…That’s right, and also…
Disagree politely with the last speaker and add a point That may be the case, but don’t you think…
I see what you mean, but maybe…
That’s partly true, but you’ve also got to think about…
Asking for and giving more information
Asking for information
Could you give an example of that?
Have you got any other examples of …
What did you mean by…
What did you mean when you said…
You used the term/word …- What’s that?
I didn’t quite understand (what you said about)..
So are you saying that..
What does that mean..
You said that …., why is that?
Introducing more information
What I meant was that…
The main reason is..
It’s to do with…
What I’m saying is that…
What it means is that….
Saying that you don’t know
I’m sorry, I don’t know
I’ll have to find out and let you know
I need to go away and look at that a bit more
To be honest, I don’t know。