Expressing opinions (B2)

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LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

  • learn viewpoint adverbs (e.g. personally, undoubtedly) and phrases (e.g. as far as I’m concerned, from my perspective) to express opinions, 
  • play the Argument Battle game in groups of three (or pairs),
  • practise expressing opinions on a topic of your choice (taxes, space, social expectations or education).

In the first lesson, students learn phrases which they then use in the second lesson while talking about their topic of interest.

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Lesson 1

Start with teaching students some useful phrases
expressing opinions in English
Standard Lesson 30 min Premium Plan

Expressing opinions in English – phrases and argument game

General

In the first lesson of this set, students learn how to express opinions using viewpoint adverbs and different phrases. They also play a game whose objective is to keep the discussion going for as long as possible.

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Lesson 2

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Students watch a video about taxes in Sweden and discuss the welfare state. Encourage students to use the viewpoint adverbs and phrases for expressing opinions in discussions in ex. 8-9 (slides 17-19) and debates in ex. 10 (slide 21) of this lesson.

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Pushing back the frontiers

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If you want students to focus only on speaking, use this Speaking Class worksheet. Encourage students to use the target phrases throughout the lesson when talking about space exploration, collaboration in space and space technology.

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This is how I look

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Use this Speaking Class worksheet and encourage students to practise the target phrases throughout the lesson. In this lesson, students watch a video about women who stopped dying their grey hair and talk about societal norms regarding how a person looks.

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In this Flipped lesson, students share their opinions and learn some vocabulary connected with education and schools. For example, in ex. 6 (slides 18-19) students can use the phrases from Lesson 1 to talk about the topic of free school education, mandatory homework, standardized testing, etc.

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  1. María Fernanda Huerta

    I absolutely love this for exam prep! Used it with a B2 student getting ready for the IELTS academic and it worked wonderfully. Thanks so much!

    1. Justa

      That’s awesome that the set is so useful 🙂 Thanks for the comment!

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