Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Controversial Statements

Choose one of these controversial statements:

1) Woman's place is in the kitchen.

2) People work harder when they are paid more.

3) A foreign language can only be learnt, not taught.

Tell us your opinion.

USEFUL VOCABULARY:
* in my opinion ...
* I'm (not) in favour of this statement ...
* I agree / disagree with this statement ...
* Firstly, / Secondly, / Thirdly ...
* On the contrary
* On the one hand ... / on the other hand ...

Good luck!

Your teacher
Maikl

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello

So I'll be the first to discuss a statement. I chose the statement about language learning (A foreign language can only be learnt, not taught).
I disagree with that statement. Firslty, I think that the most relevant aspect of language learning is motivation. If you really want to learn, you can benefit from your teacher's knowledge. Language teachers usually explain the grammatical structure of a language, pronunciation, etc.

Secondly, practice is also very important. When you hear a foreign language around you every day, you will eventually start speaking it yourself. However, this doesn't mean that teachers are useless. Hearing a language around you does not make you write and spell correctly and it doesn't guarantee a systematical learning process.

This was my opinion.

Have fun writing yours! :)

Maikl

Anonymous said...

Hello everyone and teatcher Maikl! :)

I chose the statement Woman's place is in the kitchen.

I disagree with that statement. Firstly becouse men and women are on the same level in my eyes. Yes, perhaps in the old days people thougt that women have to do all the jobs at home and men have to only bring money at home :D Or women must give birth to children and men only make them. I am trying to say, that nowdays it isn't so anymore! Men can make dinner or breakfast also!

Secondly, like I sayd, in my eyes, men and women are equal and it means that men can cook or women can fix a car. Nobody questions about it anymore. Now can everybody do what they want to do.
I think that its better living in nowdays, becouse its more freer.

It's just my opinion.

PS! By the way, I think that men are the best chefs ;) So maybe the statement has to be Man's place is in the kitchen? :D

Siiri

Anonymous said...

Hello


Does people work harder if they get paid more?
No. In my opinion the salay must be in a good balance between work efford, responsipility and salary. If you get paid too much usualy you want even more without getting more done. And after that no one will assess youre work properly anymone and youre employer will constantly assume that you dont do enough. The raise of youre salary must be a reward for youre good job. So you will sense that youre work will be appreciated.
This was my point of view.
And Me was Ronald.

Anonymous said...

Woman s place is in the kitchen?

I agree with Siiri that men are the best chefs.My father was very great chef and there was some foods what he made even better than mom.Once he made a (Napoleon) cake for my birthday.
Tv chefs are usually men.
I dont like men who even dont know how to use microwave oven and could tie next to icebox.
At the end i would like to say that it doesnt matter whos cooking just thank the chef.

Anonymous said...

Helis

Anonymous said...

Hello.
Woman`s plage in the kitcen.
I disagree with this statement.
In my opinion this way of thinking
is very old way of thinking.
Firstly in my opinion both men and
women could belong to the kitchen.
Secondly on the contrary it is often told that men are better cooks than woman. Thirdly on the one hand it is always good to make things together ( in relationship) also in the kitchen.
Annelii.

Merilin said...
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Merilin said...

People work harder if they are paid more
In my opinion people usually work to get the things that they need to live. The most basic needs are food, clothing, and shelter. Firstly, the more people work, they get more money. Secondly, if they work more, they may get company bosses. They want to be sure. For this to get a good job, one must also learn a lot. Education pays the paper. Many people are daily workers. They do not know how to say no to their work. Those interested in the idea of ​​big money and get company bosses. It can be called in as a disease, they can not survive on the money, because the want more money. In my opinion, they should go to the doctor, because a lot of work to be done is not good for me.
Merilin

Anonymous said...

Woman' s place is in the kichen
In my opinion, woman have to be kitchen. Would be nice to wake up in the morning, when a woman has made ​​you a coffee and sandwiches. Of course, the man in the home cook. I like to cook, but always ask the woman asked if I doing the right thing to eat. Many people say that women are able to cook better than men. I would not say so. Men are also good chefs. I think men know how to do the dishes and the best season. However, I do not have anything bad to say about women, on the contrary - keep it going!
Tõnis.

TooSpecial4u- said...

Woman's place is in the kitchen.

In my opinion there's no difference, who is in the kitchen. On the one hand the men's are the best chefs. But on the other hand is the female chefs are more than mens chefs. Firstly men do not want to be chefs anymore, even if they studied to be a chef, but They will still work as someone else because they want to get a better pay for an other job.
Secondly the womens want more to be a chef. I like cooking too, but I don't want to be a chef. This will depend on themselves that who they want to be. Thirdly that was my opinion :)

By Kädy

Anonymous said...

hello

firstly we discussed the statment of the womans place in the kitchen i think its all true because the girls are not strong, this in my opinion.!!!
secondly we discussed that people work harder when they are paid more . In my opinion this is not realy true..I think that if people paid less ,they work more an a example i take edgar savisaar hes got paid like 7000€ a month and he wont do any job ,just talk about little churtches or citys and ride his big black mercedes and thats all what his job is about .
thirdly: A foreign language can only be learnt , not taught. This guestion is little bit hard for me , i cant tell you the answer because the both are right and wrong like the language can be learn and not. If u like the language what are u studying then you can learn, if not ,you cant learn it :)

Keijo