Expressing Opinions- Agreeing - Disagreeing

Hello, we're going to work on speaking and today we're going to concentrate on given opinions 00:00:00

and agreeing and disagreeing. This is something that we've done before but we're going to review 00:00:08

a little bit and expand on it. So if you please go to your book and open it on page 83, you have 00:00:16

section number six speaking and there you have some statements you can agree 00:00:25

or disagree for example you can only have two or three close friends going on 00:00:35

a holiday with friends can end the friendship or for example it's 00:00:42

impossible to stay good friends with an ex-partner. And in your book they 00:00:48

ask you to choose a topic and decide whether you agree, disagree or both agree 00:00:55

and disagree or strongly disagree. And you're supposed to give reasons and 00:01:05

examples right and to present all this information they give you this linkers 00:01:12

now when presenting a topic I'm going to talk about when given reasons I think 00:01:20

the main reason or the most important reason is or I believe it is important 00:01:29

or it's impossible to be to stay friends with your ex-partners because you always 00:01:37

remember the bad things that happened or another reason is that when you want to 00:01:44

do that or given examples for example I have a friend who I've known since I was 00:01:52

five years old and he couldn't stand his mother-in-law or for instance okay now 00:01:58

this is similar or you can check all this linkers in the speaking section okay all right let me 00:02:07

check okay I found it out on the speaking section yes if you check this speaking you have oral 00:02:25

interaction markers okay this is something we went through in class and 00:02:37

there you have this is a help no when you persuade or you can't sit have a 00:02:44

point okay that may be true but or when you build up an argument state by state 00:02:56

no for example or for start first of all and what's more and don't forget that 00:03:05

okay so here you have you have this in your aula virtual okay to add more 00:03:13

linkers to the task which is presenting an opinion and given reasons given 00:03:25

examples given agreeing and disagreeing okay so we're going to start by 00:03:34

expressing opinions there you are discussions are more interesting when 00:03:44

people have different opinions on the subject and here in your book you have 00:03:52

some of the statements that you're going to use okay you may ask for people's 00:03:57

opinions and ask questions that encourage, que demandan, ¿no? a response. So, what do you think 00:04:02

about cosmetic surgery? Where do you stand on giving money to beggars? Where do you stand on 00:04:12

giving? Where do you stand on? ¿Cuál es tu opinión? When you give your opinions, you may 00:04:21

use neutral statements like in my view, I think, I feel, I reckon, I guess, it's acceptable, 00:04:29

acceptable. And sometimes you give a strong opinion, no? I really believe, okay? And I want 00:04:40

you to listen to this now. Track 69. One. Do you know, I spent about two hours yesterday just 00:04:49

opening and answering my emails. There were about 50 in my inbox since 6pm. I think emails have made 00:05:03

life more difficult and not easier at all. What do you reckon? I guess you're right. Emailing does 00:05:10

seem to have taken over our lives. Some people say they only check email once or twice a day. 00:05:17

If you ask me, it's a crazy idea. I mean, what if it's something really urgent? 00:05:23

The way I see it, that's exactly why you should phone someone, to get their attention immediately. 00:05:30

If you knew your email wouldn't be read for several hours, you wouldn't send it. You'd phone, surely. 00:05:35

Yes, and in my view, that's exactly what we should start doing, using the phone again. 00:05:40

But then we'd all be complaining about endless phone calls during our working day. 00:05:47

Okay, now that you have listened, stop the video and take note of all the linkers and sentences they've used to express their opinions. 00:05:52

Okay, here's the tape script. There you have it. 00:06:11

I think... I think emails have made life more difficult. What do you reckon? 00:06:22

I guess you're right. If you ask me, it's a crazy idea. The way I see it, in my view… 00:06:29

OK, up to here. Now you're going to listen to another conversation. 00:06:41

What do you think about this new suggestion that criminals should meet and apologise to their victims? 00:06:51

I strongly believe it could be helpful to both people in some cases, 00:06:58

but not when the crimes are serious. 00:07:04

Personally, I wouldn't want to meet someone who really hurt me in some way. 00:07:06

What's your attitude to people working in the community, then, instead of going to prison? 00:07:12

Are you in favour of having criminals clean the streets outside your house where children are playing? 00:07:17

Because as far as I'm concerned, criminals should be kept away from society 00:07:23

not allowed into it. I really think it depends on the crime. I know driving while drunk is a crime, 00:07:27

but to my mind, someone who is guilty of that crime wouldn't be a danger working as a street 00:07:36

cleaner. OK, so now stop the video and check the expressions. Right, there you have. 00:07:42

what do you think about? I strongly believe, personally. What's your attitude to? You see, 00:08:01

it's not only what do you think, but what's your attitude? Where do you stand on? 00:08:13

Another one, as far as I'm concerned, I really think, but to my mind, okay? So just to finish 00:08:19

this. Look at these sentences and complete them with these words in the box. And we're 00:08:29

going to stop here and then we'll do more exercises. 00:08:45

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