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Okay, this is the second video on speaking, on giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing. 00:00:01

You've got in your book, let me remind you, we are doing Lesson 5b. 00:00:08

And if you have the book and all the materials, you can check the listening. 00:00:18

And here you have the answers. 00:00:27

Okay. 00:00:30

For the first part, animals, social media, and here you have the chart that you are asked 00:00:31

to complete on page 83. 00:00:40

As you can see here, they're giving reasons and examples. 00:00:44

Because with Facebook, it's easier to stay in touch, because, because, because. 00:00:50

So let me link this to the second part of this session on giving opinions, agreeing 00:00:57

and disagreeing. 00:01:05

We're going to work on agreeing and disagreeing again. 00:01:10

Yes. 00:01:14

And here are some ways to agree, disagree and show you how can you say something without 00:01:15

agreeing or disagreeing. 00:01:24

Okay? 00:01:26

As always, your tone of voice is important and it can utterly change or completely change the message 00:01:27

if the tone of your voice is wrong. 00:01:38

So, if you disagree with someone, try not to do it in an aggressive way 00:01:43

because otherwise you will sound very rude. 00:01:49

Okay? 00:01:55

so this is something we have already seen agreements like I guess so I suppose you're 00:01:55

right when you agree up to a point in parts not completely I agree up to a point but I think 00:02:03

you're missing the fact that this situation is different than okay if you want to disagree in 00:02:13

English is very important to be polite and you apologize first for example you 00:02:22

say I'm sorry but I don't agree or I'm afraid I cannot go along with that and 00:02:29

when you want to disagree strongly give your opinion of what the other person 00:02:39

has just said and the expression you use will depend on your relationship with 00:02:45

with the speaker. For example, you can say, oh, that's completely untrue. 00:02:52

That is not possible. Or if it's blunt, bluntly disagreeing and it's informal and you know the 00:02:57

person and it's your friend, you say, oh, rubbish, come off it. OK, so. You know, in some countries, 00:03:11

university education is paid for by the state. 00:03:25

I think that's the way it should be, don't you? 00:03:28

Up to a point. 00:03:31

But many students drop out of university halfway through their course 00:03:34

and that's a complete waste of taxpayers' money. 00:03:38

That may be the case with some, but not the majority of students. 00:03:42

Anyway, it isn't anyone's right to go to university, you know. 00:03:46

I disagree. 00:03:51

Everyone has a right to further education. 00:03:52

Our whole society benefits from well-educated people. 00:03:55

If nobody went to university, who would do all the hard work? 00:03:58

You can't actually mean that. 00:04:01

Most of the hard-working people in our society didn't go to university. 00:04:04

I'm sorry, I can't agree with you there. 00:04:10

Of course we need people with different skills, 00:04:13

but we need doctors, lawyers, teachers, scientists too. 00:04:15

I couldn't agree more. 00:04:19

But graduates earn more than non-graduates. 00:04:21

so they should pay for their studies. 00:04:24

I'm sorry, I don't think that's right. 00:04:27

Not all graduates earn more and there aren't even enough jobs. 00:04:30

Tell me about it. 00:04:33

All the more reason for my argument. 00:04:35

I mean, where's the money going to come from? 00:04:38

Two. 00:04:43

Boxing is such a dangerous sport. 00:04:45

I think it should be banned. 00:04:47

No way! 00:04:49

It's exciting. 00:04:51

The competitors are very well trained and skilful. 00:04:52

But there have been so many injuries and accidents, even deaths from boxing. 00:04:56

That's true, but accidents happen in all sports. 00:05:01

I'd go along with that, but boxing is the only sport where the actual aim is to hurt your opponent. 00:05:05

Exactly. That's why there are strict rules. 00:05:12

As long as there are these controls, I think it's as safe as any other sport. 00:05:16

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree there, I'm afraid. 00:05:20

Okay so now stop the video or go back and listen again and then we will check the expressions they 00:05:29

use. There you have in the first conversation talking about university fees now that we have 00:05:39

worked on education. There you have up to a point that might be the case I disagree. You can actually 00:05:52

mean that or I'm sorry you see you apologize before you say no before you 00:06:02

disagree I can't agree with you there what couldn't agree more you agree I'm 00:06:10

sorry I don't think that's right or tell me about it and the second I think you 00:06:17

know the opinion I think no way that means it's informal and you know the 00:06:26

person you're talking to it's your friend that's true but agreeing I'd go 00:06:32

along with that agreeing exactly and when you cannot agree we'll have to 00:06:40

agree to disagree okay so there you have some of these expressions read them and 00:06:49

learn them okay and to finish with this today look at these sentences take your 00:07:02

time and produce a linker to express you agree totally you agree in part 00:07:11

you disagree strongly or you agree in part. No? Like these that you have here 00:07:21

and the ones you have been listening to. OK? So, stop the video, take your time 00:07:29

and do the exercise. And then you will listen to it. OK, let's listen. 00:07:39

1. I'm totally with you on that. 00:07:50

2. But surely it depends on the product. 00:07:58

3. Maybe you've got a point there. 00:08:04

4. It's not true that most experiments are done on chimpanzees. 00:08:09

OK, and this is the end of this section. 00:08:18

Now you're ready to study and do the task with your partner. 00:08:21

Thank you! 00:08:27

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