Opinions, agreeing and disagreeing

Here you can find some phrases which can be used to express your opinions, agreements and disagreements along with some exercises.

The Middle East

Here is an article from The Economist to be read for our next session.

BBC on negotiations and meetings

Here you can have access to the BBC website on negotiations, where they have useful expressions and/or phrases contextualized in short dialogues available as audio streams with transcripts.

Here you can have access to the BBC website, where they provide some examples for interruptions contextualized in a short dialogue available as an audio stream with a transcript.

Here you can have access to the BBC website, where they provide some examples for agreements and disagreements contextualized in a short dialogue available as an audio stream with a transcript.

The US

Here are some links for a few streams on US history:

Here is one on the history of the expansion of the US territory.

Here is a satirical animation on US history and gun ownership.

Finally, here is the perspective of Howard Zinn, the author of A People's History of the United States.

This is just to give us the initial momentum.  We do not have the limit the scope of our discussion to US history; we can also talk about issues such as education, culture, etc.