Target 9 speaking techniques

OK, well in reality, I suppose that to some 
extent… Alright, I guess that on the one 
hand… Well certainly in some ways… 
Now make your first statement (eg. It is 
fairly important…). Develop the first 
statement using a linking structure: 
…especially when you consider that… 
…particularly if you think about the point 
that… …especially with regard to the point 
that… …and this is definitely the case 
with… 
Now you need to introduce your ‘No’ 
answer. First use a linking phrase: 
But people also have to understand that… 
Even so, one could also say that… At the 
same time one could say that… 
After describing your ‘No’ answer, you can 
‘round off’ the answer with one of the 
following phrases: 
So all in all I guess my answer would have 
to be yes and no. So on the whole I 
suppose the answer has to be yes and no. 
So all things considered I guess the answer 
is both yes and no. So in the main, I 
suppose the answer is probably yes and 
no. 
Some ‘yes/no’ questions in Part 1 cannot 
use this ‘yes/no’ style of response. For 
example: Is watching TV a popular activity 
in your country? Can you play a musical 
instrument? Are friends important to you? 
With questions like this it is probably much 
easier to give a ‘yes’ answer. 
Question Type 7: ‘Would’ Questions 
‘Would you like to move to another city in the 
future?’ 
‘I would like to change cities if I had the 
chance.’ Or ‘If I had the chance I would like to 
move to another city’. 
When you add a reason or detail, you need 
to use more second conditional structures: 
eg: ‘Would you like to move to another city 
in the future?’ 
‘I would like to change cities if I had the 
chance, because if I lived in a different city I 
would make lots of new friends and I could try 
lots of new kinds of food. Also I might be able 
to find a well-paid job.’ 
You may even use some examples with 
‘might’ and ‘could’. For some of these 
questions it is possible to use a negative 
form. 
eg: ‘Would you like to move to another city?’ 
‘No I wouldn’t like to move to another city, 
because if I lived in another city I wouldn’t have 
any friends.’ 
For negative ‘Would’ questions you may 
begin your response with following 
structures. 

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