opinion

Dalam kesempatan ini mari kita bersama belajar tentang Expressions of giving and asking for opinion. Kalian pernah bertukar pendapat dengan teman kamu, misalnya tentang kegiatan disekolah, kebersihan kelas, ataupun tentang masalah-masalah yang sedang kalian hadapi? Nah, expression ini bisa kamu gunakan untuk mengungkapkan pendapat/opini kamu. So, keep trying ya…

Asking Opinions (menanyakan pendapat) :

• What do your opinion?
• What are your views?
• What is your opinion?
• What do you think?
• What about …?
• How about …?
• What are your ideas?
• How do you feel about that?

Giving Opinions (memberi pendapat) :

·         I reckon….
      Menurut saya…

·         What i reckon is…
      Pendapat saya adalah…

·         In my own opinion…
      Menurut pendapat saya…

·         What I mean is...

Yang saya maksud adalah..

·         I think…
      Saya pikir…

·         I’d say…
      Saya lebih suka mengatakan…

·         I feel that…
      Saya rasa…

·         In my view…
      Dalam pandangan saya…

·         If you dot mind me saying…
      Jika anda tidak keberatan, pendapat saya…

·         In my humble opinion…
      Sejujurnya…

·         I tend to think that…
      Saya cenderung berpikir bahwa…

·         May be, you need to…
      Mungkin sebaiknya…

·         I personally think that you should…
      Saya berpikir bahwa kamu seharusnya…

·         I’m utterly convinced that…
      saya sangat yakin bahwa…

·         I have no doubt that…
      saya tidak ragu bahwa…

·         I strongly believe that…
      saya sangat percaya bahwa…

·         In my experience..

Expression of agreeing with someones’s opinion

I agree with you

Absolutly

I think so

That what I think

Exactly

You are right

I hope so
I completely / absolutely agree with you.
I agree with you entirely.
I totally agree with you.

I am of the same opinion.
That’s exactly what I think.

Expression of disagreeing wiht someones’s opinion

I don’t agree with you

I can’t agree with you

I don’t think so at all

I am sorry but I tend to disagree with you on this

Contoh dialog Expressions of giving and asking for opinion :

Hikmah           : Hey Indana ! Do you know the hot news in our school ?
Indana             : Yes, I know. About the minimum score, isn’t it ?
Hikmah           : Yes, exactly. What do you think ?
Indana             : I think it so high. I believe that is bad idea.
Hikmah           : I don’t think so. Precisely with the 70 score, we can go into the University               easily With PMDK program.
Indana             : Yes, I know it. But, for everyday it so hard.
Hikmah           : Maybe, it can be the pole for us to be better than yesterday. I hope we can do it Although it so hard.
Indana             : Ok. Amin.

Soal Latihan :
Chiko : Chica, what do you think of pop music recently? I mean, do you like them?
Chica : Well, I’d say I don’t really like them. I’d prefer jazz.
Chiko : Why? I think pop music is very entertaining.
Chica : In my opinion, jazz music is relaxing

Answer the following questions based on the dialogue above:
1. Who are talking in this dialogue?
2. What are they talking about?
3. Can you find any expressions of asking opinion? What are they?
4. Can you find any expressions of giving opinion? What are they?
5. What is Chica’s opinion?
6. What is Chiko’s opinion?

Conduct an opinion pool in your class on the following topics given bellow
1. favorite singer
2. favorite movie
3. favorite book
4. favorite food
5. favorite actor
6. favorite actrees