Main Lesson
Discussion
1. How often do you share your opinions at work or in class?
2. Do you find it easy or difficult to give your opinion in English? Why?
3. Have you ever disagreed with someone at work?
1. What is your opinion on that?
• Parents should hit their children.
• Nobody actually likes Monday mornings.
• Social media makes people feel lonely.
• Pets should be allowed in the workplace.
• Online friends are as real as offline friends.
• Money is the main motivation for most employees.
• People learn more from failure than success.
2. Learn how to agree/disagree
POV: Traveling helps people understand other cultures.
❓How many different ways can you agree with this statement?
Answers
• I couldn’t agree more.
• That’s so true.
• I’m with you on that.
• That makes perfect sense.
POV: Money is more important than family.
❓How many different ways can you disagree with this statement?
Direct
• I don’t really see it that way.
• I don’t think that’s the case.
• Actually, I see it differently.
• I’d have to disagree with that.
Polite
• I see your point, but…
• I understand what you’re saying, however…
• That’s an interesting idea, but I’m not sure I agree.
• I’m afraid I have to disagree.
3. Practice
Colleague
• I think we should use AI to write all our reports.
• Meetings are a complete waste of time.
• We don’t need to double-check the data. It’s fine.
Manager
• Everyone must stay late today to meet the deadline.
• We don’t need to ask the client. Let’s just make the decision ourselves.
• We don’t need to double-check the data. It’s fine.
4. Dialogue
🧑💼: So, what do you think? Do you have any ideas on how we could improve our marketing?
🧑💻: Well… to be honest, at first I thought focusing on newspaper advertisements would be a good idea. But now I’m not so sure — that’s not very popular these days.
🧑💼: Well, I beg to differ. I see where you’re coming from, but a lot of older people might be interested in some of our products, and they don’t really use computers. Perhaps we could consider targeting newspaper ads at the elderly.
🧑💻: That’s sounds right to me.
🧑💼: However, I think you also have a point — many young people don’t read newspapers.
🧑💻: Exactly. It seems to me that social media marketing might be the best way to reach younger generations. Also, I was thinking — we could offer a discount to the first, let’s say, fifty customers who buy our new product online.
🧑💼: I’m totally on board! How much of a discount are you thinking?
🧑💻: Maybe around 25%. What do you think?
🧑💼: Hmm, I’m not sure we can offer that much. I’d say 15 to 20% would be more realistic. But we can discuss this later. Anyway, great idea!
5. Discussion
• What’s the best way to make the workday more fun?
• Should offices provide free snacks or drinks for everyone?
• If we could have one “fun day” each month, what should it be like?