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 Lesson
27 - Giving Your Opinion
Dialogs for everyday use. Short situational dialogs for
students of English as a Foreign (EFL) or Second (ESL)
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Giving Your Opinion
JAKE: Where should we take a vacation this
year? Let’s decide soon.
MELISSA: Well, I’d like to go somewhere
warm. How about the beach? Or we could rent a cabin on the lake.
JAKE: You want to go to the beach, again?
I want to ski this winter. How about a compromise? What about traveling to the
Alps in Europe next April? We can find a ski resort on a lake.
MELISSA: Oh, we’ve never been to Europe
before! But I don’t know if it will be sunny and warm then. I need to do some
research first. That will help me make up my mind. |
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Conversation Notes |
- Decide is a useful verb to express choice. The idiom “to
make up my mind” also means “to decide”: “There are so many choices in this
menu. It’s going to take awhile to make up my mind/decide.” You can finish
this sentence with either the idiom or the verb “decide.”
- How about This phrase presents an alternative. This
phrase can be followed by a subject plus a conjugated verb or by a noun: How
about we go swimming? / How about a movie tonight?
- Many verbs express opinions: to think / to believe / to
suppose / to assume, etc. They are not all synonymous. For example, “to
suppose” and “to assume” express that the speaker has a preconceived idea:
He came back late from work, so I assumed that traffic was bad. /I suppose
that may not have been the case, and that he might just have had a lot of
work.
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Source: U.S. State Department |
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Additional
Conversation Lessons |
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This is a collection of 30 situational conversations
which focus on a wide variety of communicative and
natural encounters in English....these
lessons are for beginning students. |
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This is a collection of 36 situational conversations
which focus on spoken American English in a relatively
natural way....these
lessons are for intermediate students. |
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English conversation lessons. 52
lessons covering pronunciation, speaking,
writing, and grammar topics....these
lessons are for beginning students. |
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English conversation lessons. 30
lessons focusing mostly on communication and
grammar topics....these
lessons are for intermediate students. |
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