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Problem 3 - Discourse Organization

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Spoken interaction for agreement or disagreement

ON HOLIDAYS

Problem :

Discourse organisation - not able to put sentences into a well-formed discourse.

  1. Teacher will tell the student to reconsider his/her statement
  2. Student will write down his statement and make considerations about its status
  3. Teacher will give the student a feedback and suggest some strategies to deal with the problems encountered.
  4. E.g.:
    • Make short sentences
    • Give a reason why you agree or disagree with someone else’s view.
    • Provide students with some expressions which refere to agreement/disagreement:


Agreement:

Disagreement:

  1. I couldn't agree more!
  2. That's absolutely true!
  3. Absolutely!
  4. I agree with your point.
  5. I'd go along with you there.
  6. I'm with you on that.
  7. That's just what I was thinking.
  8. That's exactly what I think.
  9. That's a good point.
  10. That's just how I see it.
  11. That's exactly my opinion.
  1. I am not so sure.
  2. Do you think so?
  3. Well, it depends.
  4. I'm not so certain.
  5. Well, I don't know.
  6. Well, I'm not so sure about that.
  7. Hmm, I'm not sure you're right.
  8. I'm inclined to disagree with that.
  9. No, I don't think so.

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