SOME TIPS AND GAP FILLERS IN GROUP DISCUSSION

SOME TIPS AND GAP FILLERS IN GROUP DISCUSSION

GD should have a beginning, middle and an end

Introduce yourself

Avoid starting trouble

Speak boldly

Encourage yourself

Use simple present tense

Use polite words like ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

When you make an error, use words of regret like ‘I’m sorry; Pardon me; I beg your pardon; Excuse me’

Think a lot and write down your ideas and try to develop it

Use Hindu, Biblical, epic, and religious leader’s stories

Remember the biographies of great men and quote from them

Support your views/arguments by using proverbs, quotations, paper news etc.

Recall the stories like Aesop’s fables, mythical stories etc and use the moral used in them

Remember the essays, poems, rhymes, and stories from the Supplementary Readers that you have learnt in your lower classes and try to use them at the apt places

The following gap fillers would be very useful in your speech

Good morning to all of you; I welcome all of you to this GD

This is a good topic

It is a current topic and it needs a solution

This is a great problem today

We have to find a solution urgently

This is my idea

I have a new idea

I can’t accept your ideas (views)

I don’t understand you

Please repeat your views

This is my suggestion

What you said is correct/wrong

I like/appreciate/welcome/support/ your ideas

It is quite true

It is certainly true

Let  me put the subject before you

Let me explain it

Let me tell an incident, a story, a joke, an anecdote, a proverb, a quotation etc.

As far as I am concerned, it is not correct/right/possible

This is my stand

I am not quite sure

I don’t agree with you

In fact there is no reason behind your saying/argument

This is not a sound argument

I repeat my idea/views

Now the problem/question before us is this

But remember this idea

Can you doubt it?

Certainly it is good

Your argument/idea/suggestion is weak

Don’t misunderstand me

Enough has been said about it

Please permit me/allow me to put forward my ideas

Here I have to talk about it

I strongly object it

I admit it

I want to make a remark

I want to a speak a few words about it

I’m very sure of it

I’m quite certain about it

I ask how you are going to justify your views

I can’t believe it

I don’t question your idea

I differ very much from what you say

I don’t want to argue with you

I hope all of you agree with my idea

I think that……..

I hope that…..

I assume that….

I have the strongest reason to object your views

I share your ideas

It is our duty to do it

I want to know more about your ideas

This is an unanswerable question

This is a very serious question/problem

It is an undeniable truth

It is difficult to understand

It is not necessary

It is well known to us

Much has been said about it

My opinion/answer/belief/solution/suggestion is this

I come to this conclusion

To conclude, let me speak a few words

To sum up …….

To put an end to this problem …..