누구든 영어의 달인이 되고 싶어 하지만 실질적으로 자신의 의사를 영어로 전달하기란 생각만큼 쉽지 않다. 더욱이 주어진 주제에 대해 자신의 생각을 말하고 상대방 으견에 이견을 주장하고 논증하며 반박, 설득하여 협상을 이끌어낼 수 있는 표현 능력은 매우 중요하다.
사실 어느 정도 의사 소통은 가능해도 자신의 생각이나 의견을 주장할 수 있으려면 많은 어려움이 뒤따른다. 특히 주제를 가지고 영어로 토론할 때 가장 어려운 것은 자신의 의사를 표혈 할 수 있는 어휘와 표현을 활용할 문법 지식이 부족하다는 것이다. 상당한 수준의 회화 실력을 갖추었음에도 영어로 진행하는 토론 현장에서 곤혹스러워하는 것은 종합적인 표현 능력이 부족하기 때문이다.
--- 여는글
<상대방 의견에 반대를 나타내는 표현>
--- 9 상대방의 의견에 동의하지 않을 때 ---
I can't agree with you.
I'm sorry, but I have a different opinion.
That's not my idea of...
I see things differently.
I don't think so.
--- [How to speak 1] 두 개씩 실려 있습니다 ---
A: I think any person committing crimes should be brought to justice.
B: I see things differently.
--- 주제토론 What makes us feel alienated from others? ---
A: What makes us feel alienated from others?
B: It's hard to say, but there was a time I felt alienated.
A: Would you tell me on what occasion?
B: Unfortunately there was nobody to remember my birthday last year.
Then I came to think what were friends for.
A: I can understand why you felt excluded from your friends.
B: I was much dasappointed at my friends. How can I say they are true friends?
A: I'm sory, but I can agree with you. They just forgot your birthday.
I think they also felt sorry not to be with you on your birthday.
--- 토론영문독해 ---
By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which a person experiences himself as an alien. He has become one night, he say, excluded from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of this world, as the center of his own acts but his acts and their consequences have become his centers whom he obey, or whom he may even worship.
--- p. 10
<상대방 의견에 반대를 나타내는 표현>
--- 9 상대방의 의견에 동의하지 않을 때 ---
I can't agree with you.
I'm sorry, but I have a different opinion.
That's not my idea of...
I see things differently.
I don't think so.
--- [How to speak 1] 두 개씩 실려 있습니다 ---
A: I think any person committing crimes should be brought to justice.
B: I see things differently.
--- 주제토론 What makes us feel alienated from others? ---
A: What makes us feel alienated from others?
B: It's hard to say, but there was a time I felt alienated.
A: Would you tell me on what occasion?
B: Unfortunately there was nobody to remember my birthday last year.
Then I came to think what were friends for.
A: I can understand why you felt excluded from your friends.
B: I was much dasappointed at my friends. How can I say they are true friends?
A: I'm sory, but I can agree with you. They just forgot your birthday.
I think they also felt sorry not to be with you on your birthday.
--- 토론영문독해 ---
By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which a person experiences himself as an alien. He has become one night, he say, excluded from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of this world, as the center of his own acts but his acts and their consequences have become his centers whom he obey, or whom he may even worship.
--- p. 10