Functional English: Starting a conversation/discussion

 

Useful Phrases to start the conversation

• I see ...
• Well ...
• I say ...
  
• First ...
• First of all ...
• To begin with ...
• Look here ...
• Talking about ...
• Speaking about ...
• Let me see ...
• Let me think ...
• Just a minute ...
• Just a moment ...
• That reminds me ...
• To come back to ...
• May I have my say? ...
• In fact ...
• The fact is that ...
• On the one hand ...
• On the other hand ...
• And now for ...
• As far as I know ...