{"id":954,"date":"2018-10-19T14:34:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T06:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2018-10-19T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T06:46:08","slug":"bc-lesson-agreements-and-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/bc-lesson-agreements-and-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"BC lesson: Agreements and consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary<\/p>\n<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-aim\">Giving reasons for your opinion in a discussion<\/div>\n<div class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-desc\">\n<p>The topic of this lesson is dinner parties. You will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>aim to <strong>reach an agreement in a group discussion<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>learn adjectives to describe <b>personality traits<\/b><\/li>\n<li>practise using phrases to <b>give your opinion<\/b> in a discussion<\/li>\n<li>focus on linking to sound more natural.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Amusing<\/b> people make us laugh. I wanna to be but I am not.<\/p>\n<p><b>I\u2019 m very good at <\/b>adapting to different kinds of people &#8211; I\u2019m rather open-minded, but I am serious-minded during my duty times &#8211; I tend not to like people who are not serious.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies tend to talk a lot about fashion. Sorry, <b>I am not so keen on<\/b> that.<\/p>\n<p><b>I\u2019m obsessed with<\/b> coffee and<b> I has a passion for<\/b> aviation.<\/p>\n<p>(notes of pronunciation: ha<b>s a<\/b> = \u201cHas-sa\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>I feel that I\u00a0am not an <b>outgoing person.\u00a0<\/b>I don&#8217;t say much when I first meet with new people. <b>I\u2019m<\/b> rather <b>introverted.\u00a0<\/b>People feel dull when they chat with me.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I tend to be a good listener rather than shouting at each other. I am not argumentative.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime, if I am interested in specific topic, I become very <b>talkative. \u00a0<\/b>Not intentionally, I give a false sense to others that I am\u00a0<b>loud.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I always remind myself being a <b>humble<\/b> person. Some people are smart but they are little <b>arrogant<\/b>\u00a0as they always think they are right. Arrogant person is rather <b>rude.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>FYI,<b> I\u2019m against<\/b> smoking and <b>I am in favour of<\/b> banning smoking completely.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like working with me?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n[Language]\n<p>That\u2019s just what I was thinking..but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s true&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a good point &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No, I am afraid I can\u2019t agree with you there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Giving reasons for your opinion in a discussion The topic of this lesson is dinner parties. You will: aim to reach an agreement in a group discussion learn adjectives to describe personality traits practise using phrases to give your opinion in a discussion focus on linking to sound more natural. Amusing people make us<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/bc-lesson-agreements-and-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-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}