SHOWING APPRECIATION
Showing appreciation adalah ungkapan yang digunakan untuk memberi penghargaan atau pujian atau komentar terhadap seseorang mengenai penampilan, prestasi, dan sebagainya. Showing appreciation ini bisa juga disebut Admiration
Expression of Compliments/Appreciation:
1.
Well done!
2.
That’s great!
3.
How beautiful you are!
4.
What a nice shirt!
5.
Nice work!
6.
You’re great!
7.
I appreciate your effort
8.
How clever you are!
9. I like you ....
Responses:
1.
Thank you
2.
That’s very kind of you
3.
Yeah, thanks
4.
It’s nothing
5.
I’m glad you like it
6.
Thanks. It’s nice of you to say
so
7.
Do you really think so?
8.
Many thanks
Untuk memberi pujian atau kekaguman kepada seseorang kita dapat menggunakan kalimat kekaguman dengan menggunakan “How/What”. How atau what di sini bukan berarti kata tanya atau question word tetapi berati “Alangkah, betapa atau sungguh”
Contoh:
1.
How handsome you are! (Alangkah
gantengnya kamu)
2.
How smart you are! (Betapa
pintarnya kamu)
3.
How clean this room is!
(Sungguh bersih ruangan ini)
4.
What a kind man he is! (Betapa
baiknya laki-laki itu)
5.
What a nice t-shirt! (Betapa bagus
kaos ini)
6.
What an expensive motorcycle it
is! (Alangkah mahalnya sepeda motor itu)
7.
What cheap laptops they are!
(Sungguh murah laptop-laptop itu)
Giving and asking opinion (Memberi dan meminta pendapat)
Perhatikan beberapa percakapan berikut ini,
kalimat yang dicetak tebal adalah contoh memberi dan meminta pendapat.
Jika di lihat dalam kamus
bahasa inggris, kata Asking (Menayakan), Giving (Menjawab), Opinion (Pendapat/Opini).
Secara singkat, Asking and Giving Opinion adalah suatu
ungkapan yang digunakan untuk menyakan ataupun menjawab/ merespon suatu
pendapat. Ketika kita sedang berbincang-bincang dengan teman kita tau keluarga
kita banyak hal yang sering kita bicarakan, misalnya menanyakan sebuah pendapat
tentang suatu hari ini ataupun menanyakan sesuatu hal yang lain. Adapun
ungkapan yang dapat di gunakan dalam Asking and Giving Opinion sebagai
berikut:
- Contoh Ungkapan Asking
opinion
- What do you think of…? (Bagaimana
pendapatmu?)
- What is your opinion? (Apa
pendapat mu?)
- What do you think about…?
(Bagaimana pendapatmu?)
- What are you feeling? (Apa
perasaanmu?)
- What your view on? (Bagaimana
pandangan mu?)
- What is your reaction? (Apa
reaksimu?)
- What do you like? (Apa yang kamu
suka?)
- What is your idea? (Apa
pendapatmu?)
- Contoh Expressing of Giving
Opinion
- I think…..
- What I mean is…..
- Personally I think…..
- In my experience…..
- According to me…..
- I strongly believe that…..
- As far as I am concerned…..
- From my point of view…..
- As I understand.......
- Agreeing with an Opinion (Setuju dengan sebuah opini)
- Of course.
- This is absolutely right.
- I agree with this opinion.
- I couldn’t agree more.
- I agree with what you are saying.
- Disagreeing with an opinion (Tidak setuju dengan sebuah opini)
- I am sorry, I don’t agree with
you.
- I am not sure I agree with you.
- I don’t agree with you.
- I am afraid I have to disagree
with you.
- I do not believe that.
- By this I mean…..
- I disagree with you.
- Contoh Dialog Expressing
Opinion
Marquez : Hi
Alika, Have you heard about the new cinema in Barcelona.
Lorenzo : Yes I
have.
Marquez: And what
do you think about it?
Lorenzo: I think
that it is good have a cinema in our city. So we don’t have to go to
Madrid in just watching a movie.
Marquez: I am sorry
but I am not sure about your opinion.
Lorenzo: Why? Then
what do you think about it?
Marquez: You know
it is the very first cinema build in Barcelona right? So i think it will
be really
crowded because everyone in town will go there to watch a movie.
Lorenzo: Yes, I
think you right about it.
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