OPINIONS AND TROUGHT

Opinions And Thoughts

hello everyone, before we start the material let's open our english book on page 18.

A. DEFINITION 

    opinion and thoughts are rather different in their definition. Opinion is basically a statement about what you have in mind about something, either agree or disagree, pro or con and so on. Thoughts are actually ideas or what you think about something. It can be an opinion, solution, critics etc.

1. Opinions 

A. Let’s look at the sentence structure to express opinions.

Subject	Verb	Object
I	Agree	With what you are saying
	Don’t agree	With you
We	Believe	This is not the right way to handle things
I	Reckon	This could be right considering the reasons you have provided
I	Doubt	That this is possible
We	Assume	You are blased this issue
I	Think	You are mistaken
I	Don’t think	so

 

 

B.ExpressionOpinions can be expressed in the ways given below:

Personal point of view	General point of view
I think ...	Most people do not agree ...
Personally, I think ...	Almost everyone ...
In my experience ...	Some people say that ...
I strongly believe that ...	Some people believe ...
As far as I am concerned ...	Of course, many argue ...
From my point of view ...	While some peple believe ...
As I understand	Generally it is accepted ...
In my opinion ...	The majority agree with ...
What I mean is ...	The majority disagree with ...
In my humble opinion ...	It is sometimes argued ...
I would like to point out that ...	While some people believe ...
To my mind ...
By this mean ...
I am compelled to say ...
I reckon ...
As I see it ...

 
Agreeing or disagreeing with an opinion

Agreeing	Disagreeing
Of course	I am sorry, I don’t agree with you
This is absolutely right	I am not sure I agree with you
I agree with this opinion	I don’t agree with you
I couldn’t agree more	I am afraid I have to disagree with you
I agree, I never thought of that	I do not believe that
Neither do I	By this mean
That’s a good point	I disagree with you
I think so too	I think you are wrong
I agree with what you’re saying but have you ever..	That’s not the same thing at all
	It is not justified to say so
	I am not convinced that ...
	I can’t say I agree with this, and here’s why

  

Examples:

Statement/Opinion	Agree	Disagree
Smoking should be bannned in public places	I totally agree that smoking should be banned in public places	I am sorry but I tend to disagree with you on this
Bullying is so prevalent in most schools	I couldn’t agree more with you	I think it would be wrong to generalize
Women should not work	I think so too. Women should stay at home and take care of their children	I am afraid I have todissagree with you on this
Harry Porter series is much better than Twilight series	Yes. I agree. Harry Porter series has much better and well-developed story line	It’s not justified to say because both have different plots
Online gaming should be banned	Absolutely right. It should be as it distracts students from studying.	I don’t agree with you. T is a venue for students to develop their skills

Examples dialog with my partner :

Vina   : hi nisa, are you busy today?

Anisa : no, i'm not busy today. Why? Can i help you ?

Vina   : this is my dres, what your opinion about my dress.

Anisa : Vina, your dress was beautiful, but i dont think the color matehes with your skin. 

Vina  : oh really? Then what about this dress? 

Anisa : wow, the dress look pretty when you wear it. 

Vina   : oh, thank you nisa.

Anisa : your welcome vina.

Hai guys ,do you now understand opinions and through material ???  ok if you understand, let's comment below what I am lacking from my material.  and if you don't understand, just ask in the comments column.  that's all from me and I'll see you later