GIVING OPINIONS - AGREEING/DISAGREEING

OPINIONS I’m convinced/sure/positive that… I strongly believe that… I have absolutely no doubt that …… I definitely/certainly think that…..  I really do think that…. I really feel that …..
A.     AGREEING STRONGLY              That’s absolutely true              That’s a good point              I completely/fully/totally agree              I’m in total agreement with you there             That’s exactly what I think	B.      HALF AGREEING Yes, perhaps, however Yes, I agree up to a point, however, Well, you have a point there, but I guess you could be right, but
C.      DISAGREEING POLITELY           I’m inclined to disagree with that           I’m not sure you’re right           I’m not so certain/sur          Well, it depends	D.     DISAGREEING STRONGLY I’m afraid I don’t agree I can’t agree with you there It’s possible you’re mistaken about that I wouldn’t go along with you there.

New Year's Resolutions!!!

Stick to your New Year's resolutions, however painful it seems right now!! You're not alone!  (Don't forget  the ones you made regarding  English learning, your exams  results will show how well you did at keeping them). Watch the video again and check out the vocab. (remember there's a spelling mistake!).

SHOW AND TELL

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS FOR AN ORAL PRESENTATION

Effective Openings  In order to grab the attention of the audience you may employ one of the following devices: 1. Rhetorical questions 2. Interesting facts According to an article I read recently, … Did you know that … ?   I’d like to share an amazing fact / figure    with you. 3. Stories and scenarios Let me tell you what happened to me … Suppose ... Imagine ... 4. Problems to think about  Suppose you wanted to … .  How would you go about it?  Imagine you had to … . What would be your first step? 5. Quotations. As … once said, … To quote a well-known writer, …  To put it in the words of …	Introducing a Point First of all I'd like to point out ... The main problem is ... The question of ... Speaking of ... Going back As I said / mentioned earlier, … Let me come back to what I said before Let’s go back to what we were discussing earlier. As I’ve already explained, … As I pointed out in the first section, … Moving to the next point This leads directly to my next point. This brings us to the next question. Let’s now move on / turn to … After examining this point, let’s turn to … Let’s now take a look at …
Rephrasing Expressions What I meant to say was… Let me rephrase that… Let me put this another way… Perhaps I'm not making myself clear… The basic idea is… One way of looking at it is… Another way of looking at it is… What I want to say is…	Stating something as a fact As everyone knows ...  It is generally accepted that ...  There can be no doubt that ...  It is a fact that ...  Nobody will deny that ...  Everyone knows that ...
Indicating the end of your talk I’m now approaching / nearing the end of my presentation. Well, this brings me to the end of my presentation. That covers just about everything I wanted to say about … As a final point, I’d like to … Finally, I’d like to highlight one key issue.	Drawing conclusions and summing up The obvious conclusion is ... Last but not least ... The only alternative (left) is ... The only possible solution/conclusion is ... In conclusion we can say that ... To cut a long story short Just to give you the main points again, ...

INTERMEDIATE 2

THE+COMPARATIVE.....THE+COMPARATIVE....

"The more I see of people, the more I love my dog"

Did you find this structure useful???  You can practice a bit more when you do your workbook exercises and also by clicking on these links:

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g2-the-the-comparatives.php
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-60316.php
http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/themore.html