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English for Academic Purposes |
Language for Agreeing and Disagreeing
Practice
Estas expresiones en inglés son ideales para el inglés académico y especial para la parte de
Speaking (examen oral) del examen de Cambridge Advanced (CAE) y el examen de IELTS.
Look at this conversation and the expressions in bold.
A: What do you think of single sex schools?
B: Well, in my opinion, students should mix together with the opposite sex at all levels of
education.
A: Yes, I'd go along with that.
C: I'm totally against that . I don’t think boys can study if girls are in the room, they get
distracted too easily.
B: No, I'm afraid I don't agree with you. If students only study with one gender, they don't
understand how to communicate in the real world.
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A: I agree up to a point but, maybe it would help some students to study in a single sex
environment some of the time.
B: Well, as I see it, it makes no difference they should study hard and do five hours of
homework a night whatever school they are in.
C: That's not very practical!
A: I kind of agree with you, perhaps we should just reduce the amount of hours of homework
you recommend though.
Put the expressions above in the following groups.
How to ask for an
opinion
How to give an
opinion
How to agree
strongly
How to half agree
How to disagree
How to disagree
strongly
How to agree
Add these expressions to your list.
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As far as I am concerned...
Exactly.
I couldn't agree more.
Yes in a way, but......
Well, it depends on ...
I can't see any sense in that.
 You can't be serious!
 I'm not so certain.
 How do you feel about ...?
 What are your views on X?
 No way!
 I feel that ...
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Answers
How to ask for an
opinion
-What are your views
on X?
- How do you feel
about ...?
How to give an
opinion
-As far as I am
concerned
- I feel that….
How to agree
strongly
How to agree
-I couldn't agree
more.
- Exactly.
How to half agree
How to disagree
Yes in a way, but......
Well, it depends on ...
I'm not so certain.
How to disagree
strongly
I can't see any sense
in that.
You can't be serious!
No way!
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