Introduce your ideas with these phrases

1. Personal Experience
   storytelling, authenticity

• Actually, I remember when ...
• From my own experience ...
• I can recall a time when ...
• Speaking from (my own) experience ...
• I once had an experience where ...
• I'll never forget when ...
• A few years ago ...
• It happened to me once that ...
• Back when I was younger...

2.  Generalization
   to talk about general trends, habits

• Generally speaking ...
• In most cases ...
• As far as I know ...
• In general ...
• Usually people tend to ...
• Typically, I'd say ...
• Most of the time ...

3. Fillers
   link your phrases to sound more fluent

• well
• actually
• honestly
• basically
• to be honest
• to be fair
• kind of
• you know
• I mean

4.  Opinion Balancing
   for complex thinking, band 8.0+

• It depends on the situation ...
• To some extent yes, but ...
• I agree to a certain degree, although ...
• I'd say both have their advantages ...
• That really varies depending on ...
• I can see both sides of the argument ...

5. Thinking
   to save some time

• Hmm, that's an interesting question ...
• I've never really thought about that before, but ...
• Well, it's a bit hard to say...
• I suppose, if I think about it ...
• I guess I'd say ...
• That's something I don't get asked often, but ...
• Oh, that's a good question...

6.  Speculative
   perfect for "why...", "would you..." questions

• I suppose it's because ...
• Maybe it's due to the fact that ...
• It could be because ...
• Perhaps it's related to ...
• It's probably because ...
• I'd assume that ...
• I'd guess it's mainly because ...

7. Direct Opinion

to express your opinion clearly

• Well, I'd say ...
• To be honest, I think ...
• In my (honest) opinion ...
• I truly believe that ...
• I'd definitely say that ...
• From my point of view ...
• I guess I'd prefer ...
• Without doubt, I think ...
• Honestly, I'd go with ...