Opinions

• Situations
• Dialogues
• Language
• Asking for an opinion
• Giving an opinion
• Saying you have no opinion
• Avoiding giving an opinion
• Trying to change someone's opinion
• Activities
• Budget Negotiation (communicative, speaking)
• Gossip at an office party (communicative, speaking)
• Gossip at a neighborhood party (communicative, speaking)
• Suggestions about money problems (communicative, speaking)
• Suggestions about predicaments (communicative, speaking)
• How can I change my life? or Life before and after. (communicative, speaking)

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• van Ek, J. (1976) The Threshold Level for Modern Language Teaching in Schools. Longmans.
• van Ek, J.A. and Trim, J.L.M. (1998) Threshold 1990: Council of Europe. CUP.
• Wilkins, D. (1976) Notional Syllabuses. OUP.