In daily life, sometimes we need to express feeling or opinion when we are seeing certain situation.

Could you imagine how hard to live would be?

Let me tell you about Nick.

Nick was born with no legs and

hands. He tried to commit suicide when he was ten, but then he realized that God had not created him acidentally.

 What do you feel after watching video? What would you say about that ? Are you still thinking that we are unlucky ? Now, give your opinion.

Chiko : Chica, what do you think of the video recently? I mean, do you like it? Chica : Well, Id say I like it. It motivates me so much.
Chiko : Why do you think so? Chica : In my opinion, we need to thank to god. We are luckier than nick.

Now, try to answers the following questions based on the dialogue above:

1. What are they talking about?

2. Can you find any expressions of asking opinion? What are they? 3. Can you find any expressions of giving opinion? What are they? 4. What is Chica's opinion? 5. What is Chiko's opinion?

Here are the basic expression used;

Asking for opinion
What do you think about ? Whats your opinion about ? What about ? What would you say to ?

Giving opinion
I think Dont you think . ? In my opinion Well, I must say Id say

We use adjectives to express opinions and feeling.

List of adjectives;
good Nice Great Delicious Magnificent Excellent Charming Cheerful Colorful Cute Dramatic Impressing Charming Cheerful Colorful Cute Dramatic Impressing

Entertaining
Interesting beautiful

Motivating
Lovely funny

Motivating
Lovely funny

Lists of adjectives (negative perception)

Horrible Impossible Mysterious Odd Poor Silly Stupid Terrible Ugly Clumsy Crazy Creepy Dangerous Disgusting Embarrassing Evil Frightening Hurt

Annoying
Awful bewildered

Scary
Arrogant bloody

Q:What do you think about the food?

A: In my opinion, the food must be delicious /nice / yummy/ tasty, etc.

Q:What do you think about the place?

A: Id say the place is lovely/ relaxing/ enjoyable/ excellent/ etc.

Q: Whats your opinion about about the place?

A: Well, I must say it is creepy/ frightening/ horrible/ evil/ etc.

Is that easy? Yup, that is quite easy.

 Now, its time for you to express your

own opinion or feeling based on the video. Watch the video, then make a sentence that show your feeling or opinion and give the reason why do you think so

So, what do you think about the video?

Exercise
Make a group of five students.
Watch the following video. Discuss the video with your teamates.

Give the information about the video. And also give

your comment, opinion or feeling in a single paragraph or more. Lastly, the leader of the team must deliver the discussion in front of the class.

Example
The video was about the aircraft accident that

happened last week where a commercial plane named Sukhoi Superjet 100 hit the peak of Salak hill. The accident was so terrible and it killed 45 of its passenger. That was a bad, very bad accident. I can t imagined how shocked and sad the families of the victims were. I hope this accident will never happen next time. Last but not least lets pray for the victims

Good Job!

Exercise
Make a group of four students.
Discuss these picture below with your teamate. Give the information about the picture. And also give

your comment, opinion or feeling. Lastly, the leader of the team must deliver the discussion in front of the class.

Example
She is Agnes Monica. We

would say that she is beautiful, smart, friendly, and also energetic. She is one of Indonesian best singer. She also becomes one of the three judges in Indonesian Idol. By the way, I think Agnes is multitalented singer we have ever had in this country. We are proud of her achievement as singer.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4