大学学术英语-Lecture-Language.docx

Lecture Language Topic and Big Picture Topic My topic today is… We’ll be talking about… What I want to talk about today is.. Today I’ll be discussing… Today, I want to consider… Let’s go back to our discussion of… Let’s continue our discussion of… Big Picture First, we’ll look at… and then we’ll move on to look at… I’m going to cover…and then… We’ll discuss several reasons for… I’m going to give you a few types of… (P3P8) Example Let’s get started because the topic today is really interesting. What I want to talk about is how people spend money. This is a really popular topic because everyone has a personal story about spending money. Okay, so first we’ll look at the spending habits of wealthy people and then we’ll move on to the spending habits of the poor.(P3) Transitions for Ideas Transitions (for the 1st point) Let me start with… What I want to focus now is… I want to focus on… First, let’s look at… First of all, …/In the first place, …/To begin with… Transitions (for the next point) That’s all I want to say about… Having looked at…, I’d now like to consider… The next aspect I’d like to consider is… That’s enough about… Let’s move to the next point. We’ve seen that… Let’s move on to… Now that we have talked about… Let’s talk about… (P22P26) Example Marriage and work is an interesting topic. So, let me start with the point that married couples have reacted in a variety of ways to the pressures they feel when both the husband and the wife work. We’ve seen that it’s a struggle for some couples, and somehow other couples can make it work. Let’s move on to some of the polling data I collected with my colleagues last summer so that we can discover some of the reasons for these reactions.(P23) Definitions, Examples and Explanations Definition What I mean by… is…(By… I mean…) … is… In other words, … What’s…? It’s… Examples Here is a perfect example of what I mean. Let’s look at a couple of examples of… Explanations Let me clarify… Let’s look at how this works… How