Thursday, March 5, 2020

How to Give Your Opinion in English - Intermediate Level English

How to Give Your Opinion in English - Intermediate Level English Here you will learn how to give your opinion in English. Lets start with a short video lesson. Alternatively, you can scroll down and read the transcript below. How to Give Your Opinion in English Hi there. Im Harry and welcome back to English in a Minute. Were now going to talk about some expressions and the expressions were going to talk about today or in relation to giving opinions or offering opinions. So as always well give you some examples. Ill work my way through them and hopefully by the end of this little short video youll understand how you can give an opinion in English. So lets get started.First one is something like  FAIR ENOUGH. So when somebody tells you something and you want to offer an opinion you might say: ‘Fair enough, I understand your point of view.’ So its quite an informal way of giving an opinion. ‘Fair enough, I believe you.’ ‘Fair enough, Ill accept your  your suggestion.’I KNOW WHAT YOU MEANSo here were giving an opinion where we  agree with somebody.  Or they have  said something and you say: ‘Yeah I know  what you mean.  The  same thing happened to  me last week.’ Or ‘The same thing happened  to me when I tried to join that  pa rticular club.  I know what you mean.’ Again slightly informal.DO YOU KNOW WHAT I THINKorDO YOU WANT TO HEAR WHAT I THINKSo these are two ways in which we can be a little bit more formal. ‘Do you know what I think?’ or ‘Do you want to hear what I think?’ or ‘Do you want to listen to what I think?’ So again expressing your opinion.IN MY OPINION Very straightforward and very direct. ‘In my opinion, youre wrong.’ ‘In my opinion I think you should talk to your manager and explain to him what happened.’ ‘In my opinion this is what I would do.’ Okay. So very direct and a little bit more formal than than the others.HEAR ME OUT‘Please listen to me, Ive got something to say,  Ive got an opinion to express, just hear me out.’ Means listen to me. Again somewhat informal.   How to Give Your Opinion in English Facebook Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on twitter Twitter Facebook IN MY HUMBLE OPINIONSo you hear this quite often somebody obviously has an opinion. They definitely want to share it. They probably believe that their opinion is right and they have

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