What I'm gonna lecture you is about a good life, feeling and attitude . I'm gonna widen your horizen !!

1. Introduction

• Let's begin/start with .

2. What you think about somebody/something

• As far as I'm concerned .
• I think .
• In my opinion .
• As far as I know .
• In my view .
• I don't think .
• I don't believe that .
• Well, if you ask me .
• If you want my honest opinion .
• I've never come across the idea that .

3. How to agree/disagree

• I must admit that .
• I totally/fully/partly agree.
• I agree/don't agree with you.
• I believe/don't believe .
• I'm convinced that .
• The way I see it .
• It seems to me that .
• I wouldn't say that .
• I don't think so.
• You're right up to a point.
• You could be right.
• That can't be right.
• I don't agree at all.
• As a matter of fact, .
• That's right/wrong.
• Exactly.
• I can understand .
• It's hard to say.
• It's a fact that .
• However, .
• That's why .
• John likes computers. - So do I.
• Steve doesn't like mobiles. - Neither do I.

4. Asking for clarification

• What do you think?
• What's your opinion?
• Would you like to say something?
• What do you mean?
• What are your ideas?
• What are you trying to say?

5. How to interrupt politely

• I'm sorry, but .
• Can/May I add something?
• Sorry to interrupt, but .

6. Other opinions

• On the one hand . on the other hand .
• They claim that .
• They also say .
• Opinion among teachers is that .
• That's a matter of opinion.

7. Phrases to keep a discussion going

• Let's get back to .
• As we just heard .
• Where were we?

YOUTH DISCUSSION

1.       What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘youth’?

2.       What are the good things and bad things about today’s youth?

3.       Are today’s youth different from the youth of yesteryear?

5.       Do today’s youth respect authority?

6.       What is the fountain of youth?

7.       Do you think youths understand how lucky they are?

8.       How are the youth of different continents different to the young people in your country?

9.       Pablo Picasso said: "Youth has no age." What did he mean? Do you agree?

10.   Someone once said: "Don't waste your youth growing up." What did they mean? Do you agree?

11.   What three adjectives would you use to describe today’s youth?

12.   What’s the biggest problem with today’s youth?

13.   What aspects of today’s youth make you hopeful about the future?

14.   Do you have any wild and crazy stories from your youth?

15.   What’s the thing you hated most about your youth?

16.   Do old people understand today’s youth?

17.   What kind of youth were you?

19.   What things about the world do you think youths are angry about?

20.   Herbert Asquith said: "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life." What did he mean? Do you agree?

21.   George Bernard Shaw said: "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." What did he mean? Do you agree?

Jack was a bachelor and very gallant man. He qualified as a police man. when he was 40 he got married. Jack and his wife had a lot of hardship in their life but they liked their life. They didn't have any money. They just had an old small house which was vacant - without any furniture. So Jack had to work hard to make ends meet.

Soon his wife expected a baby and after nine months their daughter was born. She was unaccustomed to darkness and cried a lot. After years their daughter grew up. She was very beautiful and clever. Jack was jealous and he didn't let to his daughter to go to college but his daughter was keen to continue her study so she used her tact and went to the college.

They were a happy family but their happiness didn't take along, Jack's wife got sick- an unknown illness which no one had any data about it. Sadly Jack's wife died and abandoned her family forever. Jack took an oath to remain widower after his wife death.