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The Oxford Phrasal Academic Lexicon

The Oxford Phrasal Academic Lexicon (OPAL) is a set of four
word lists that together provide an essential guide to the most
important words and phrases to know in the field of English for
Academic Purposes (EAP). This list gives around 250 important
phrases for academic speaking, grouped into 16 functional areas.

Spoken phrases

1. Signposting and focusing in lectures/lessons

I was going to / we are going I was talking about
to
we were talking about
I would like to
been talking about
I want to talk about / look at
we talked about
/ say
we looked at
what I want to do
we talk about
I (just) want to
you can look at
just going to
be looking at
going to talk about
to deal with
going to be talking about
interested in
going to look at
if you/we look at
going to show you
if you think about (it)
going to go through
when we/you look at
going to go into
(and) you can see that
going to say
we can see

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