Listening L4⬆️ - Supporting your argument

🎧Practice listening skills first

Step 1. Listen to the fast version. Try to get as much as you can. Say the main idea to yourself.


Step 2. Listen to the medium-speed version. Repeat and then paraphrase again.


Step 3. Listen to the slow version, listen to rises in tones and pauses. Ask yourself why.


Step 4. Listen to the fast version again 🔁 on repeat to get more practice.


Step 5. Check the transcript and work with highlighted language.

Although it would take an additional two or three weeks in the short term, once the new process has been optimized, I'm confident there will be a couple of benefits. Firstly, it will save a lot of materials, even if the yield of fluorination is the same. Moreover, the yield should be able to be increased by applying a substitution reaction which is not allowed in the current process. Secondly, there will be no need to run reverse phase chromatography considering that the fluorinating compound in the new process is muchless polar. In short, I strongly believe it will lead to an increase in productivity for the team.

Signposting Expressions

💡 Firstly,
💡 Secondly,
💡 In short,
💡 Moreover,
💡 Although

Other Useful Expressions
💡 ... will lead to

💡 ... should be able to
💡 ... once ... has been done
💡 there should be no need to...