{"id":800,"date":"2018-02-09T18:29:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T10:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2018-02-09T18:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T10:53:47","slug":"lesson-23-building-group-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/lesson-23-building-group-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 23 &#8211; Building group consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-summary\">Summary<\/p>\n<p class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-aim\"><strong>Responding to<\/strong> and<strong> clarifying<\/strong> other people\u2019s <strong>opinions<\/strong> in a discussion<\/p>\n<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-desc\">\n<p>The topic of the lesson\u00a0was event planning. I could:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>take part working in a group to plan a party for 30 people<\/li>\n<li>learn phrases connected with &#8216;do&#8217; and &#8216;make&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>focus on ways to respond to people\u2019s opinions and ask clarification<\/li>\n<li>practise sounding positive when responding to questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Things may be involved in organizing a staff event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>organize tickets<\/li>\n<li>make posters<\/li>\n<li>get tables and chairs<\/li>\n<li>get food and drink<\/li>\n<li>have a band<\/li>\n<li>hire a karaoke machine<\/li>\n<li>put an advert (=\u00a0advertisement) in the local paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n[Suggestions]\n<ul>\n<li>Shall we\/I &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>So, let&#8217;s make\/do &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Well, we could &#8230; What do you think?<\/li>\n<li>We should &#8230; Why not!?<\/li>\n<li>Why don&#8217;t we &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[Agree]\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, that&#8217;d be great!<\/li>\n<li>Yes, that sounds fine.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s a great idea!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[Disagree]\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure about that.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know about that.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s a good idea, but I was thinking &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n[Do]\n<ul>\n<li>the shopping<\/li>\n<li>the cooking<\/li>\n<li>your best<\/li>\n<li>some work<\/li>\n<li>everything<\/li>\n<li>nothing<\/li>\n<li>something<\/li>\n<li>the washing-up<\/li>\n<li>the cleaning<\/li>\n<li><strong>decorations<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[Make]\n<ul>\n<li>a booking<\/li>\n<li>friends<\/li>\n<li>it fun<\/li>\n<li>a decision<\/li>\n<li>an arrangement<\/li>\n<li><strong>decorations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>progress<\/li>\n<li>coffee<\/li>\n<li>a cake<\/li>\n<li>a lot of noise<\/li>\n<li>a promise<\/li>\n<li>it work<\/li>\n<li>it happen<\/li>\n<li>a suggestion<\/li>\n<li>a mess<\/li>\n<li>people happy<\/li>\n<li>a not<\/li>\n<li>a phone call<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0a difference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Responding to and clarifying other people\u2019s opinions in a discussion The topic of the lesson\u00a0was event planning. I could: take part working in a group to plan a party for 30 people learn phrases connected with &#8216;do&#8217; and &#8216;make&#8217; focus on ways to respond to people\u2019s opinions and ask clarification practise sounding positive when<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/lesson-23-building-group-consensus\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}