I would like to give my impressions. – I have the impression that … – After studying this text, I feel as if … – The fact speaks for themselves. – It’s a controversial issue. – Opinions on the subject may be divided. – It goes without saying that … – It is well-known that … – Everyone knows that … – People usually think that … – If we look at it from that point of view, we can’t help thinking that … – It is generally acknowledged that … – People tend to believe that … – That makes me think of … – This reminds me of … – If I understand the author rightly … – Assuming this to be true … – What is striking is that … – What I find both surprising and funny is that …

   What strikes me as interesting is that … – I’m very much impressed by … – He’s all the more convincing as … – He sets out his ideas very clearly. – In my opinion, he sounds very convincing. – Taken as a whole, the passage … – What I was interested in from the beginning was … – What I found particularly humorous was … – We are shown true-to-life characters, which is attractive. – I must say I share his views. – He puts his arguments forward with accuracy. – All the descriptions are accurate. – He doesn’t take sides. – He remains neutral. – He never forces his point of view upon the reader. – He leaves us free to imagine … – I entirely sympathise with his point of view. – The impression of reliability we get results from …

  He has a biased judgement. – He doesn’t seem to be impartial. – He doesn’t appear to be objective. – He doesn’t remain neutral. – He takes sides for … – He blends the themes. – One gets confused. – All the ideas seem to be confused. – The text lacks coherence. – His position is too extreme. – His arguments don’t convince me. – It isn’t very convincing. – I must say I’m not convinced at all. – I find it difficult to approve of … – I can’t share his opinion when he says that … – I’m afraid most of his arguments are worthless. – I don’t appreciate that kind of humour. – He always tries to justify himself. – The central issue remains unsolved. – The main problem hasn’t even been tackled. – The problem is hardly touched upon. – The main question isn’t even alluded to. – It isn’t even evoked. – He doesn’t say much about … – He says very little about … – He fails to deal with the most significant aspects. – In my opinion he insists too much on … – What I find particularly shocking is … – I don’t like the way he deals with … – I’m convinced such ideas shouldn’t go unchallenged. – I believe him up to a point.

In conclusion we can say that … – To conclude, I’ll quote … – By way of conclusion I will first list the main points again. – In my conclusion I’d like to … – All this leads to the conclusion that … – I can now draw my conclusion. – What conclusion could we draw from all that? – It remains to be said that … – Of course we must weigh the pros and cons. – To sum up, I’d like to compare … – All this converges to show that … – It remains to be seen whether … – To conclude I’ll give my personal opinion about …

 The text could be divided into three parts. – This passage falls into four parts. – In my opinion it would be convenient to divide the text into … – It is important to see how the text is organised. – It would be easier to cut this text into paragraphs. – This text is made up of … – The first part runs from … to … – The second part can be clearly defined. – I’d like to follow this idea. – The first part concerns … – Let’s study the characters first. – First I’d like to introduce… – Firstly I’ll list the main points. – I’ll go from the essential to the details. – Of course I’ll present each idea separately. – I’ll pay particular attention to … - My concern will be that … – I’ll concentrate on what I think is essential. – We might very well start our analysis with … – In the first/next paragraph… – The first the lines show us… – Right from the beginning we understand … – A few lines later … – In the middle of the paragraph … – A few sentences before the end …

  It’s an extract from … – This extract was taken from … – It’s been adapted from … – It was written four years ago by … – It’s based on a true story. – The passage comes from … – This text deals with … – The passage is about … – This text raises the problem of … – It tells the story of … – The author tackles the problem of … – The key / main issue is  … – This brings us to the question of whether … or … – We are confronted with … – One of the most striking features is … – I want to point out/wish to add that … – What we are concerned with here is … – I’d like to underline the fact that … – I’ve also noticed that … – We must stress the importance of … – I think it’s worth noting that – This detail underlines the importance of … – This quote deserves closer examination. – It could be objected that … – As far as the main character is concerned … – We must keep in mind that … One mustn’t forget that … – I’d like to focus on … – And now it’s time to discuss … – On of the most striking features is … – I’d like to illustrate this point. – I’ll take another example. – Each idea will be illustrated by an example. – This passage illustrates how … – This text is characterised by …

I think the author’s main idea is to … – He probably intends to … – His intention is obviously … – The writer’s purpose is to convince us that … – He stresses that … – He wants to emphasise this point … – He insists on that point in order to … – What the author wants to do is to … – He makes us realize that … – He makes it quite clear that … – We are made to understand that … – He draws our attention to … – He captures our attention by … – He arouses our feelings. – He appeals to our feelings. – The text aims at convincing people that … – The author’s purpose is to attract our attention. – His purpose is to convince us of … – Let’s see what is implied by … – Perhaps it would be more exact to say … – I’d like to comment on the symbolic meaning of … – I think this could be interpreted differently. – The author alludes to another problem. – As he points out … – According to the author … – As stated above … – Thanks to this description we become aware of … – It throws light on … – This gives us a precise idea of how … – The message goes even further . – Through / by his use of numerous adjectives … – By using so many adverbs … – As he uses short / long sentences … – Thanks to the repetition of certain words …