hi everybody and welcome back to love
English I'm Sabra today I have a video
to help you with your formal or your
academic English so it's got lots of
different purposes as many of you know
I'm an academic English teacher at a
university so it's my job to help
students pass their exams to get to
university and to use lots of lovely
academic phrases in their speaking or
their writing these are also formal
English phrases which you'll find very
useful if you're in the workplace in a
business English meeting or any
situation really just slightly formal
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everybody so when I give you the phrase
I'm going to give you an example
sentence and situations where you might
use it the first group are all for
giving your opinion or giving your ideas
about something so number one is from my
perspective from my perspective you can
say it with me guys as it's quite a
difficult word to say perspective from
my perspective this means in my opinion
but it's more academic from my
perspective
number two is from my viewpoint from my
viewpoint again another more academic
phrase more academic than in my opinion
or anything like that or of course I
think in business meetings if you save
from my viewpoint you sound a little bit
more serious you sound like you know
what you're talking about in an IELTS
speaking you're more likely to get a
higher score but using phrases like from
my viewpoint then I think or I believe
number three is to my mind to my mind
it's still useful but it's less academic
than from my perspective or from my
viewpoint this is more for business
meetings around the office to my mind to
my mind we should really try this new
strategy or to my mind we really need to
cut the budget on this one number four
it could be argued it could be argued
this is a great phrase for academic
essays so for any formal kind of essay
writing formal emails it could also be
used it's a passive form so we've said
it could be argued it's passive because
you can see that we have the verb to be
but then we have the past participle
this is how we make the passive with
modal verbs here were trying to be
objective the statement seems objective
and not too personal because we put it
in passive when not stressing who has
said it so it sounds more formal and
more researched and less subjective so
less personal by using the passive
number five is very similar it is it
could be said that it could be said is
not as strong as it could be argued
however it could be said still shows the
person's opinion their view if you put
it in an essay introduction for example
you might say it could be said that
plastic is a growing problem all around
the world here we can see that it's the
author's opinion even though they're not
saying in my opinion they're saying it
could be said that it's something that
it could be said it's possible that we
can say it you can also use it in the
workplace because if you want to be a
bit more careful about giving your
opinion you could say hmm well it could
be said though we do need to cut down a
bit on the money for that project or it
could be said that the manager sometimes
a little bit difficult this next group
are all verb phrases which have a
similar meaning or a similar function to
the verb show however show is a simple
word and it's not always that useful in
academic writing so let's have a look at
some of these more useful and more
academic verb number 6 indicates that
something indicates that so this means
something is signaling to in a car for
example when you indicate you sure you
want to go left or right so when we use
indicate we're saying this is pointing
towards so let's have a look at an
example sentence the results of this
survey indicate that the climate is
getting warmer the results from this
survey indicates that the climate is
getting warmer another useful verb for
the optimist well you can say these
figures indicate that we need to invest
more money here or this person has
indicated that she wants to do that
project it's a useful verb number 7th is
quite similar it is something suggests
that so suggests can mean something is
implying it's a little bit like code in
an academic context something suggests
that it's saying this is possible the
evidence is showing to a certain extent
or to a degree this so research or
evidence suggests that it's a useful
verb as well in many formal situations
number eight to claim to claim something
to claim means that something has been
said the
hasn't necessarily been proved so if you
say someone has claimed that this means
that it hasn't necessarily been FAC to
proved in any way it's just their
opinion you can use this to talk about
what other people say or you can use it
to talk about a source for example in an
academic essay you could say someone has
claimed this let's look at an example
sentence Smith has claimed that by the
year 2050 we'll be using Holograms and
not computers number 9 points towards
very similar to indicate suggests things
like that some think points towards
meaning it literally is pointing towards
that let me give you an example sentence
the evidence points towards Layla as the
thief of the missing chocolate cake
number 10 onwards this group of phrases
is all about looking at the different
sides of an issue or a problem and using
phrases to describe the fact that a
situation is not simple number 10 number
10 is it's a complex issue it's a
complex issue this means it's a
complicated issue it's not simple so
this is a great phrase to use if you
want to say that something is
complicated you can say well the issue
of whether we should ban smoking
internationally is a complex issue
people have lots of different opinions
about it number eleven is it's a
controversial issue here we are talking
about the fact that the issue causes
argument for lots of very different
opinions it's an issue which causes
people perhaps even to get angry so
controversial issues can be abortion
euthanasia immigration taxes it's a
useful phrase to use if the issue is
controversial number twelve there are
benefits and drawbacks there are
benefits and drawbacks this is an
upgrade for the more advanced version of
there are pros and cons and their
advantages and disadvantages there are
benefits and drawbacks you're saying the
same but it just sounds a little bit
more academic number thirteen I'm going
to give you a replacement phrase to
every coin has two sides
on the other hand things like that you
can say there are several perspectives
on this issue or there are many
perspectives on this issue either is
fine but you're showing that there are
different opinions and again it's not a
simple issue so the next couple of
phrases I have for you are all phrases
which are when we want to see more about
something so we can use words like
moreover furthermore in addition of
course they're very very useful but you
can also use a phrase and this makes you
stand out from the crowd a little bit
it's a little bit more unusual than
saying moreover anyone can learn more
over these phrases show that you can use
the language in a bit more of an
advanced way number 14 to develop this
point further to develop this point
further I'm saying I want to develop
this point you know I want to keep going
at this point number 15 to expand on
this point even better I would say this
phrase to expand on this point I'm going
to expand the point I've been talking
about me and I'm going to say more about
it expand means to make something bigger
number 16
something has illuminated something
illuminated means that light has been
put on this thing so this thing has been
lit so it's become clearer usually so
for example the evidence has illuminated
the depth of the problem the evidence
has illuminated the depth of the problem
it means it's really brought it to
attention it's become much much clearer
something has illuminated something
really really lovely formal or academic
verb number 17 you could also use
something has shed light on so we can
actually use the more literal version of
this something has shared light on this
this new research in the scientific
field of breast cancer has shed light on
the causes number 18 when nearly there
guys only three to go so stay with me
we're nearly at the end something has
demonstrated something has demonstrated
demonstrated means shown very clearly
shown so it's not a weak verb for
example you could say the public survey
has demonstrated the need for new
leadership so it's shown it it's
demonstrated to demonstrate is to show
before
your eyes so these last verbs these are
concluding phrases so they're phrases
when we want to bring a meeting to a
close or we want to bring an essay or an
email or anything like that in a formal
way we want to bring it to a close
number 19 slightly simple but very
useful to sum up or to summarize to sum
up or to summarize they literally mean
I'm sorry singh and putting my main
points together this is coming to the
end
to sum up or to summarize number 20 a
little bit of a more academic phrase to
bring or to draw this to the conclusion
to bring or to draw this to a conclusion
so you could say in an office
environment let's bring this meeting to
a conclusion you could also use it in an
essay to bring this to a conclusion so
now guys I'm going to bring this video
to a conclusion so guys I hope this
video was useful and that these phrases
are going to be something you can use in
an academic situation or in a work
environment please leave me a comment
and try to use them in a sentence or
tell me where are you going to use them
are you going to use them at work are
you going to use them at university also
if you know any other academic phrases
or any other formal phrases do please
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