hello my name is emma and in today's
video we are going to talk about
opinions i'm going to teach you
how to ask for someone's opinion
how to acknowledge someone's opinion
and how to give your own opinion so
these are
all really important skills especially
in
today's society so let's get started
so how do you ask for someone's opinion
imagine this there is an election
you need to decide who is going to be
the leader of your country
you don't know a lot so you want to ask
your friends
what they think about different leaders
so what might you ask them well you
could ask them
what do you think about blank
you might ask somebody what do you think
about
our current president or if you're
talking about something else maybe
what do you think about health care
what do you think about education what
do you think about celebrities
so this can be anything you're
interested in
now what i want you to really focus on
is just some of these words i've
underlined
many english language learners forget
this word do so we say
what do you
think about notice i also
underlined the word about this goes with
the word think
okay so uh you need to remember this
preposition
what do you think about blank and that
just means what's your opinion on
this topic let's look at some other
expressions that mean the same thing
now we have the word how how
do you feel about
this has the same meaning as what do you
think about it's just a different way to
say it
so we can say how do you feel about
your country how do you feel about the
environment
how do you feel about children today
so these are different ways to ask
someone for their opinion
and again notice i've underlined the
word do
please don't forget the word do when
you're asking this question
how do you feel and again just like
above we have about as the preposition
in this question
let's look at another way to ask for
somebody's opinion
we can also say what is your
opinion on education
what is your opinion on learning english
what is your opinion on mickey mouse
okay you can ask people
their opinion on anything notice though
the preposition we're using here after
the word opinion
we have this little word on
and then you can say the topic so what
is your
opinion on the tv show friends
for example okay
another thing we can ask is we can ask
people for their opinions
on a specific person sometimes maybe
we're talking about a celebrity
or maybe we're talking about somebody
famous we can ask
our friends or people we know their
opinions about that person
we can say what is your opinion
of madonna so notice
number three and number four are a
little bit different
here we have the word on and here we
have the word
of we use of when we're asking
someone's opinion of a person
whereas we use on for a topic
what is your opinion of him what is your
opinion of
the president for example
um okay let's look at another way to ask
for
opinions and again there's so many ways
we can also say
what are your thoughts this means the
same thing as what do you think
what are your thoughts on
um alcohol
what are your thoughts on
drugs what are your thoughts on smoking
again we have our preposition i've
underlined it
notice it's what are your thoughts on
and then you can give the topic you're
interested in
so these are five different ways to ask
someone for someone's opinion now let's
look at what you can
say to someone when they give you their
opinion
okay so you have asked someone for their
opinion on something now what do you say
after they give you their opinion
well it's good to acknowledge what
someone says
so here are some ways to do that
you can say i hear what you're saying
this means that you're acknowledging
that you
have heard their opinion i hear what
you're saying
you might even say it in a slang way
sometimes in conversation
we just say oh i hear you or i hear you
okay both are possible i hear what
you're saying
i hear you i hear you there they're ways
to acknowledge somebody's opinion
we can also say i see where
you're coming from this means
i understand your opinion it doesn't
mean i agree with your opinion
but it means i understand your opinion
i see where you're coming from
or i can also say oh i
see your point
again this doesn't mean i agree with
your point
but it means that i understand what you
are saying
so it's an acknowledgement so these are
great to say
when someone gives you their opinion
after this
you can then give your opinion you can
say
i see your point and
i agree if you agree with what they said
you might say i see your point and
i partially agree partially
means you agree with some of what they
said
but not everything or
maybe the person said something and you
do not
agree at all what can you say
well you can say i see your point
but i disagree
i see where you're coming from but
i disagree or i hear what you're saying
but i disagree
maybe you really disagree in that case
you can say
i strongly disagree
or i really disagree with you
we can add those words strongly or
really to make
our disagreement even stronger
okay what are some ways we can give our
opinion
so we've talked about how to ask for
someone's opinion
and we've talked about how to
acknowledge someone's opinion
and to say whether or not we agree or
not we can also give
our opinion there are many different
ways to do this
sometimes we say to be honest
when you hear someone say to be honest
it's a signal
it means they're going to give you an
opinion
to be honest i like cats more than i
like dogs
that's not true to be honest i like dogs
more than i like cats
to be honest i really like
our health care system okay so
to be honest is a way to show you're
going to give your opinion
you can also say in my opinion
in my opinion dogs are better than cats
in my opinion coffee is better than tea
okay so these are just some ways um to
give our opinion
and again there are many different ways
it's always good to have
at least two or three ways that you can
give your opinion
and to practice those so that way when
someone asks you for your opinion
you're ready to go so thank you for
watching this video
it would be great practice if you
actually in the comments
ask for our opinion on something you can
ask each other
you can use some of the vocabulary you
learned in today's lesson
and write a question in the comments
what is your opinion
on english for example
or what do you think about learning
english
you can use some of these opinion words
as well like
um to be honest i love learning english
english grammar is the best thing ever
okay or maybe
you might say i disagree with emma
i do not like english grammar so please
write in the comments and practice some
of what you've learned here
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there you can practice a lot of the
different vocabulary
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time take care