Speech Models

What famous researchers made their contribution to the development of this field or science?

What problems of this branch of science are still being investigated?

What methods and techniques were used in the course of the experiment?

When was this term introduced?

What does the abbreviation CSF mean?

Robert Koch was the first to describe cholera bacterium.

A prominent Russian scientist D.I Jvanovsky is known to be the founder of virology.

It was not until 1942 that Alexander Fleming tried his own experiment with penicillin.

These valuable findings helped the scientists to estimate the significance of the phenomenon studied.

Тhе results of their assay turned out to be erroneous.

Rendering a Scientific Paper

The article / run-over / story is headlined / called / entitled...

It is (was) published in...

The author of the article is / The article is written by...

The article describes / is devoted to / deals with / tackles the problem of...

According to the text...

The reading-matter of the publication is (that)...

The article goes on to say that...

The author states (stresses, points out, criticizes, explains, demands, supports, suggests, mentions, protests against)

The main idea of the publication is (that)…

We also learn some facts about...

In conclusion / It is concluded that / The author comes to the conclusion that…/ We can draw a conclusion...

I found the article interesting (informative, dull, of no value, important, hard to understand, etc.)

Discussing an Article Starting the Сonversation

Oh, you know, I've just read an article.

How is the text called (entitled)? The text is called (entitled)... The article is headlined ”...”.

Yes, I know this article. The author is a very famous scientist, Dr. of medicine /journalist.

Where did you read this information?

The article was published in the journal / newspaper "...".

Let's talk about it.

With pleasure.

Discussing the Contents

What is the text about?

What is the article devoted to?

What does the text deal with?

The article is devoted to...

The text is about...

The text deals with...

What is the main idea / problem of the text? What idea / problem is discussed in

the text?

The main idea /problem is...

The idea / problem of... is discussed.

Do you remember some facts? What (facts) do we learn from the text?

We lean some facts about…

We learn that...

What I remember is...

If my memory serves me right...

I'm afraid, 1 have forgotten...

It has slipped out of my memory, I'm sorry, I've overlooked. I must have missed

it.

Can I remind you that?

Making Things Clear

I should mention.

First of all…

The next thing to know is that...

According to the text…

In the first (second) part we learn about/that...

In conclusion...

The author comes to the conclusion that...

We can draw the conclusion that...

Am I right to understand that ..?

I didn't quite catch....

I don't quite get the idea, I think.

Can I explain you?

As a matter of fact...

Well, It's like this:... You see, the problem boils down to the following...

I'm just coming to this point...

That would mean...

For example (for instance)…

...in particular...

...such as...

...namely...

... the following...

I’d like to know…

What about...?

I also wonder...

If I understand...

It makes a lot of thing clear to me.

I see...

1 know, what you mean!