Lesson 21 – My predictions are…
January 30, 2018
Summary
Making predictions and giving reasons in a discussion
The topic of the lesson is about changes in society. I had opportunities to :
- give a short presentation on how you think society might change
- focus on future time references
- use phrases for agreeing and disagreeing
- practise sentence stress to sound more natural when making predictions
100% – Definitely/ Certainly
90%- Almost (definitely/certainly)
85% – may well + verb
80% – may/might
75% – probably
>50% – likely
“Stress” words – speak relative slowly + stress
- Very – always stress
- won’t – negative form always stress
- definitely
- likely
- might
- probably
[Giving your opinions]
- I think that…
- In my opinion…
- To my mind…
- I’d predict that… (future)
- I guess …
- Personally, I think …
- My impression is that…
- From (sb.) perspective…
- Some people say that…
- What do you think?
- What do you reckon?
- What’s your opinion?
[Making clarification]
- What are you getting at, Tom?
[Agreeing]
- I agree.
- I think so too.
- You’re right, that’s a good point
- That’s exactly what I think!
- That’s true.
- Definitely
- Exactly
- Absolutely
- I see your point
- I see what you are getting at
- I suppose so [accept others’ offer/request]
- I don’t think so.
- I disagree.
- I’m not sure about that.
- That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that…
