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This document discusses ways to express and ask for opinions, and how to agree, disagree and partly agree with opinions. It provides example expressions and sample dialogs to demonstrate agreeing, disagreeing and partly agreeing with opinions.

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Giving Opinions

This document discusses ways to express and ask for opinions, and how to agree, disagree and partly agree with opinions. It provides example expressions and sample dialogs to demonstrate agreeing, disagreeing and partly agreeing with opinions.

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UNIT 12

1 Giving and
Asking for
Opinions
Objectives
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Expressions of
Giving Opinions:
￮ As far as I’m concerned, ...
￮ In my opinion, ...
￮ Personally, I think ...
￮ I believe that ...
￮ What I mean is ...
There are at least two ways of expressing an
opinion:
Personal Opinion General Opinion
 
Strong Neutral
 
I’m sure that ... In my view, ... Some people say that ...
I strongly believe that ... I suppose that ... The research suggests ...

I have no doubt that ... It seems to me that ... Apparently, ...


I’m absolutely convinced I feel that ... I’ve heard that ...
that
...
It’s obvious to me that As far as I know, we have to It is believed that living in
the best way to improve practice using English on a an English-speaking
your English is by using regular basis if we want to country is the best way to
it. improve our English. improve your English.
Expressions of Asking for
Opinions:
￮ What do you think?
￮ What’s your opinion / view?
￮ How do you see the situation?
￮ How do you feel about ...?
￮ Do you know what I mean?
￮ Do you agree with me?
￮ What are your thoughts on that?
￮ Don’t you think (that) …?
What do you think about the effects of the
pandemic?

How do you feel about the victims of the


accident?

Do you think that English is a difficult lesson?


2 AGREEING &
DISAGREEING
AGREEING
￮I (totally) agree with you/that.
￮I couldn’t agree more.
￮I feel the same.
￮You’re absolutely right.
￮Absolutely/Definitely/Exactly.
￮No doubt about it.
￮That’s a good point.
AGREEING
A: Smoking should be banned in public places.

B: I totally agree that smoking should be


banned in public places.
OR
I'm sure we can all agree with that.
￮  
￮ .
AGREEING
￮  
￮ A: Online gaming should be banned.
￮  
￮ B: Absolutely. It should be banned as it distracts
the students from studying.
￮ OR
￮ You’re absolutely right.
DISAGREEING
￮ I’m afraid I disagree.
￮ I don’t agree with you/that.
￮ I’d be inclined to disagree.
￮ That’s not the way I see it.
￮ I don’t think so.
￮ I don’t feel the same.
DISAGREEING
A: Smoking should be banned in public places.
B: I’m sorry but I tend to disagree with you on this.

A: Online gaming should be banned.


B: I don’t agree with you. It is a venue for students
to develop their skills
PARTLY
AGREEING
￮ I see your point but …
￮ I kind of agree with you/that.
￮ I agree with you to an extent;
however, …
￮ You make a good point, but …
PARTLY
AGREEING
￮ Some people argue that the amount of violence shown in
films and on television has led to an increase in violent
crimes in society. Do you agree with this argument? Should
the government control what is shown on television and in
the cinema?
￮  
￮ I agree to a point that films and television have an impact on
the mindsets of people and especially children and young
adults, but let’s not forget that the adults around these people
are equally responsible for monitoring what kind of media
their children are exposed to.
PARTLY
AGREEING
￮ Nowadays many jobs are more stressful and the
working day is longer. What are the reasons for
this? What can employers do to help employees?
￮  
￮ It is partly true that the working day has become
longer because of the amount of work and the stress
of deadlines, but this is also because of the increasing
competition.
Exercise
Do you think the transportation
system in Indonesia will improve What do you think the typical
in the future? character traits of people from
your country are?

Do you think all successful


people are happy? How
and why?
In what way does advertisement
influence what people buy?

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