Agreeing and Disagreeing - English at Work

Learn to agree or disagree appropriately and use the first conditional to express possibilities.

Key Learning points

• LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
  Agreeing with someone's opinion; Settling a disagreement; Disagreeing calmly/politely; Disagreeing about the 'facts'; Disagreeing abut what happened.
   
• GRAMMAR
  Conditionals - If + Present tense + Will/Going to. Encouraging others; Giving an ultimatum; Saying what usually happens; Stating an opinion.
   
• IDIOMS
  Promise the moon; follow through; Out there; In great shape.
   
• VOCABULARY
  left behind; ignore; acknowledgement; disappointed; trust; rate myself; similar.
   
• PRONUNCIATION
  Stressing Words.

This video is part of the English at Work Series, created by Psychologist Eve Ash, linguistics expert Dr Fran Byrnes, features comedienne Erin Brown and Emmy-award winning Kim Estes.

The Cutting Edge English at Work Series promotes communication and language competence by building the desire and motivation to learn and the confidence to try. Confidence in learning and using English leads to successful communication.

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