Welcome to your first class. We will start class with a conversation and vocabulary exercise. We will begin our grammar book. I will have the unit available in class, and I will give you the entire pdf file in class. Please bring a USB drive. 

Our reading this week is about BTS and our dialogue is about expressing your opinions at work. Please underline the words and phrases you do not know, and we can go over them in class. 

Click HERE for the reading

Click HERE for the dialogue

Expressing Opinions

Dialogue 1

Sheila: So, let’s move on to the topic of release date. Gentlemen, when do you think we will be able to launch this product? Walt?

Walt: Well, I tend to feel that… we should probably be able to start testing the product in April. That means that if all goes well, we can have the first release in May or June.

Sheila: I see. Thank you, Walt. What’s your reaction to that Bruce?

Bruce: May or June… well, from my point of view… that sounds about right.

George: Excuse me, may I come in here? I wonder if I could say something.

Sheila: Go ahead, George. What would you like to add?

George: Well, it seems to me that May is much, much too early. Actually, we are still having some pretty major problems with bugs in the update engine, and I just don’t see how we will be able to fix those bugs.

Dialogue 2

Bruce: Hey guys, did you see the Chelsea/Liverpool game last night? What did you think, Walt? Quite a game, huh? Chelsea looked pretty good!

Walt: You always have to rub it in, don’t you Bruce. You know I’m a Liverpool fan.

Bruce: How about you, George?

George: Actually, that was one of the greatest games I’ve ever seen. But the way you guys keep telling the boss we can finish the product by May, none of us are going to have time to watch any more football games. We’re all going to be working overtime every night, burning the midnight oil!