Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:15:31 AM
Expressions for disagreeing
Notice
You need to be very polite when disagreeing with someone in English.
- Rather than simply expressing complete disagreement, people usually try to disagree politely using expressions.
- You should be very careful when using strong disagreement, in order to avoid offending people.
The commonest ways to express disagreement
• Yes, that’s quite true, but…
• I’m not sure I quite agree.
• Well, you have a point there, but…
• Perhaps, but I don’t think that…
• I see what you mean, but…
• I am afraid I can’t agree with you there.
• Not really
• No, I'm not so sure about that.
• That's not always true.
• That's not always the case.
• I cannot go along with that
The commonest ways to express disagreement
Ex: English is a difficult language to learn
- Yes, that’s quite true, but it’s not so difficult as Russian.
- I’m not sure I quite agree.
- Well, you have a point there, but the grammar is quite easy.
- Yes, perhaps, but I think that some languages are even more difficult.
-I see what you mean, but actually, I find it quite easy.
Ex: Drinking coffee makes you more open-minded.
-No, I'm not so sure about that.
-That's not always true.
-That's not always the case.
-I cannot go along with that.
Strong disagreement
• I can’t agree with you there.
• You can’t be serious!
• Come off it!
• Don’t be silly!
• I am sorry, dear, but you are wrong.
• I wholly and totally disagree.
• Rubbish!
• That’s ridiculous.
• No way.
• I'd say the exact opposite.
Strong disagreement
Ex: In my opinion, fashion is a complete waste of time, money and resources.
- I can’t agree with you there.
- You can’t be serious!
- Come off it!
- Don’t be silly!
- I wholly and totally disagree.
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Ex: In my view, government money shouldn’t be used to support the Arts.
- I am sorry, dear, but you are wrong. Public support for the Arts is the hallmark of a civilized society.
- Rubbish! Art is a part of life.
- That’s ridiculous.
No way.
- I'd say the exact opposite.
Group 2:Chu thị Hạnh
Lưu Thị Thu Hiền
Nguyễn Hoàng Thanh Hương
Đinh Thị Ngoan
Phạm Thị Thu Thúy
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:29:41 PM
Ratatouille is a 2007 computer-animated film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.The film was the eight movie produced by Pixar,directed by Brad Brid .The title refers to a French dish which is served late in the film.
The film is set in the United States;and it tellls the story of a young rat Remy who lives in the attic of a home with his brother Emiloe and a pack led by his father Django.Owning a skeen sense of smell and taste,Remy dreams of becoming a renowned French chef.Tearing between his family’s wishes and his true calling ,Remy makes his way up to Gusteau’s restaurant – one of Paris’ finest restaurants.There,Remy controls Linguini cooking by pulling Linguini’s hair.They succeed in cooking together in the kitchen.Unfornatedly,the fact is found out.However,with cooking talen,finally,a kitchen is designed for Remy and Remy becomes a famous chef as he expected.The film ends seeing a long queue outside and the sign for Gusteau’s restaurant,has been changed by a chef rat,Remy.
Ratatouille was released on June 29,2007 in the United States and later won the Academy Award For The Best Animated Feature.It attracted many a lot of audiences with a hilarious chain of events.It’s a undeniable truth that the film is not only interesting but also meaning.It brings the audience a funny time.If you haven’t seen Ratatouille yet,I strongly recommend you that you see it as soon as you can.I’m sure that’s a treat you will want to enjoy again and again.
Nguyen Thi Thu Ha
Teacher,sorry for my late!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 5:51:43 AM
Once upon a time, there was a queen, she was lubberly. One time, she was cutting wood; her finger was broken. She suddenly said to the king “I wish we would have a baby with fair complexion like snow red lips like blood, black hair like ebony”. Immediately, the king took her into the bedroom. Nine months later, a baby who like their wishes was born - fair complexion like snow red lips like blood, black hair like ebony and yellow teeth. When she looked her daughter, she died of shock. Several years later, the king married to a cruel woman. Snow white was more and more stylish, thus the queen was jealous of snow white’s beauty. She ordered a hunter to kill snow white. She was very frightened and run to the forest. Her clothes were tattered and her body had many scars.
In the road, she met a castle. She went into and ate all of food. After the meal she slept on the floor.
In the evening, 7 dwarfs came back; they were too surprised. They woke her up. After hearing her story, they said “if you want to stay here, you must be our baby sitting”. She agreed immediately with lazy character, she only ate and slept all day. the step-mother known that Snow White was living happily with the 7 dwarfs, she was very angry and went to the 7 dwarfs' house. She gave Snow White a delicious apple which was soaked poison. Snow White thought that the apple was delicious like that, why i must be in a divided mind. She ate the apple, then died immediately. 7 dwarfs came back home, found snow white died, they not only were sad but also worried who was their baby sitting. They took snow white to their bar, laid her in a wardrobe. One day there are a prince to the bar, drunk wine. He found snow white was very beautiful even when she had died. The prince said to 7 dwarfs that "i want bring her to the hospital, she can live again, i believe that". at first 7 drawfs did't agree because snow white made their bar many partrons, then the prince gave them 1000usd they had recent agreed. The prince brought her to every hospital but she wasn't aware. After bringing her to bury, he kissed her... She opened her eyes and recovered. The prince married with snow white and lived happily
writers- pham thi Hang
Monday, December 28, 2009 3:11:55 PM
Group 4: Tran Trang
Cam Van
Thu Hong
Pham Trang
MAI AN TIEM
In the 18th generation in Hung Vuong country, there was a manly king named Hung King. He had lots of wives but he didn't have any child to succeed to his throne. Although he tried on many kinds of medicines as well as therapeutical methods such as Nam than bao, Trang duong tang cuong sinh luc, Minh Man wine even he also used series of famous shampoo products imported from Italian namely- Romano, X-man and Spiderman, nothing gave any result. Therefore, he decided to adopt Mai An Tiem nicknamed Mai Can Tien (English name: Michael Needs Drug).
Mai An Tiem was born with a great mastery over others. He was not only handsome but also smart, especially he had a excellent grasp of IT. By almost all reasons, Hung King was totally jealous of Mai An Tiem and then he definitely exiled his innocent adoptee to a wild island. Mai An Tiem went out without any word. He flew on Booing 08081508 and didn’t forget to bring his Apple Laptop.
In Island, after retreating into his shell for a long time, Mai An Tiem took up his business by planning watermelon and selling online. For a while he became a notorious godfather, a millionaire and a leader in share market on Wall street.
When it comes to Hung King, he was fed up with overnight parties and gotaddicted to internet. On a casual day, he surfed the net and found out a website: www.watermelonandernegy.com . He was surprised at its name and because of being too inquisitive he orders a great deal of watermelons.
Mai An Tiem had never forgotten how terrible Hung King treated him in the past. So he took vengeance on Hung King by transferring those watermelons later than usual. Moreover MAT also engravesa a sentence “more and more days, I miss you, my daddy :X” on melon skin , which emotionalizes Hung King. So day to day Hung King felt in love melon of Michael, he ate 20 melons a day and became strict vegetarian. In that way, he gradually ran out of his energy. Unfortunately he passed away forever.
Finally MAT became a new king and carriedon his business. He was the only forefather of valuable melon named watermelon Michael.
Monday, December 28, 2009 2:33:16 PM
SON TINH AND THUY TINH
Once upon a time, the 18th Hung king had an ugly princess, called Mi Nuong. She was 18 years old but nobody loved her. Hung king was very worried about it and he tried to find the best measures to solve this problem to help his daughter. Then, Hung King decided to launch a campaign to marry Mi Nuong. He gave an announcement of choosing a son in law anywhere. If someone accepted to get married with Mi Nuong, he would become a future king of the country. Hung King had to wait for a long time. One day, what a surprise! There were 2 ugly guys going to devote their life for the Mi Nuong. One named is Son Tinh, a talented robber. He could steal whatever he wants. The other called Thuy Tinh, a famous gangster. It was very difficult for Hung King to choose his best son in law. Therefore, he gave a simple condition for both of them: the favorite meal of his daughter is the dog meat, so the following day, if someone could prepare 9 dishes from meat dog and bring it earliest, he would become the future king. The following day, thank to his talent, Thuy Tinh stole the dog of the King and prepare 9 good dishes. Fortunately, Mi Nuong was very satisfied after enjoying those dishes. Evidently, Thuy Tinh became the prince and the future king of the country. When it comes to Thuy Tinh, he was later because he was attacked by his enemy, Son Tinh’ inferior. Thus, his dream of becoming the future king was crashed. He was very revengeful. At the same time, Thuy Tinh discovered about the secret of stealing of Son Tinh. Thuy Ting decided to tell to Hung King to avenge Thuy Tinh. The King was very angry and marry Mi Nuong to Thuy Tinh. So far, Mi Nuong leaded a life like the action film with Thuy Tinh. It was very terrible!!!
Monday, December 28, 2009 2:55:36 AM
Old days old days, there was a girl like wearing a red scarf so she called a girl in red scarf. Although, it’s very hot and they said she was crazy; a red scarf still was on her neck. A day, her mother said “your grandmother was sick. You can carry some foods, some cakes and a milk box brand of “Ong tho” to your mother. She felt very annoyed but because of a relationship, she went to the grandmother’s house.
On the way, she thought: “my grandmother was old so, she couldn’t eat these delicious foods. I should help her”. Then she met old and bad wolf. It asked her:
- Where are you going?
- That is not your business. – She was unpleasant.
A wolf said:
- I wanted to help you.
- I didn’t need.
- The way would shorter, if you heard me.
- All right, I was going to my grandmother, Kieu Diem lovely. Her e-mail is kieudiemlovely@gmail.com.
Then she run quickly on the way which wolf is pointed. A wolf opened its laptop to search her grandmother’s house. Immediately, it went to Kieu Diem’s house by motorbike brand of Dylan which it stolen. Before come in house, it didn’t forget clock carefully. After was eating ill-luck woman, it worn her clothes. When a girl in red scarf met her grandmother, she asked surprised:
- Why are yours eyes big like that?
- I can see you explicitly.
- Why are yours hands big like that?
- I can hold you easily.
- Oh, why is your mouth big like that?
- I…..
- Stop here!
She minded that a wolf would eat a girl like in a story which she read. “Oh, my God! A wolf ate my grandmother.” - She exclaimed. Then she beat the savage wolf, she disemboweled to research her grandmother. At last, both of them laughed happily.
writer: Chu Thị Hạnh
Nguyễn Hoàng Thanh Hương
Hoàng Thị Thu Huyền
Trần Thị Minh Lý
Saturday, December 26, 2009 6:38:30 PM
The film is about the story of a rat, name’s Remy. He is very interessted in cookimg and really wants to be come a chef. He has special talent for differentiating food, if it is good or not. His father use his talent to help his relation to protext themselves.
One day he was lost his family and relation, he went and went. Then he found himself under a so famous restaurant. His talent for cooking is excavated by chance by Linguini, a young man working as a labourer in this restaurant. The two person understand and help together. Remy stand on Linguini’s head and chair his action to help him to cook well. the proprietor of the restaurant, Skinner,....
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Saturday, December 26, 2009 5:09:38 PM
Last week the teacher gave us a interested cartoon “ratatouille”. This movie tells a story about a rat, which have special ability of smell and taste and he longs to become a famous chef. The movie turns around 8 characters: Remy (the rat), Linguini, who work with Remy in th kitchen, Colette, Skinner : Gusteaus’ bossy, Peter Sohn: Remy’s brother, Brian Dennehy: father’s Remy, Auguste Gusteau: a world- famous chef, had died,
and Antono Ego: a food critic. The main character is Remy and Linguini, who are good guy. Skinner is a bad guy because he make every ways to prevent Linguini giving his rightful will from Gusteau.
The main even happened when Linguini saw Remy cooking soup, and he was very surprise and didn’t think that a rat can cook. He takes Remy home, not kill and trains Remy as a “ litter chef”. Remy can control Linguini’s movement by pulling on his hair. And then with Remy’s help Linguini can make a good soup. But Skinner don’t believe that, he suspects Linguini’ talents, beside he discovers that Linguini is Gusteau’s sohn, who is inherited the famous restaurant.
But Remy ànd Linguini try to overcome the dificuties. Finaly Remy and Linguini can lead the restaurant and become famous chefs.
The story gave me good lesson, the first if you want to success, you must try the best, and working hard. The second is the bad is punished.
Saturday, December 26, 2009 5:08:37 PM
Ratatouile is a fantastic cartoon-film produced by Pixar- Walt Disney which is well-know for lots of beloved cartoon films such as: Wall-e, Finding the Nemo, Chicken run etc. On the other hand, Ratatouile is a big surprise because it attracts not only kids but also strict audiences.
This film was released in summer 2008 and immediately became a hit in Hollywood as well as all over the world, in Vietnam for example.
Ratatouile is about the journey of a small Rat named Remy. He has a crazy passion for cooking and wants to become a famous chief like his cooking idol-Gusteau. Then he goes to Paris by chance and makes up his mind to learn how to cook in the restaurant of Gusteau who is a famous talented culinary hero as well as the writer of “Anyone can cook”. In the restaurant, Remy meets Linguini- garbage boy. This young man is very clumsy but the only Gusteau’s son. Gradually, they formed a close friendship together. Remy regards Linguini as a means through which to practice his art. Besides he helps Linguini find out the truth- Linguini is the Gusteau’s son and ruin a plan of short selfish Skinner, who wants to own Gusteau’s Restaurant.
This film not only demonstrates friendship but also has lots of romantic scenes of a couple- Linguini and Colette, who is very pretty and a real character.
There are 2 main events in this film. The first is the casual journey of Remy to Paris where he embarks on his work and meet his friend. In the second, Remy meets obstacle in the form of a famous notoriously hard-to-please food critic named Anto Ego, nicknamed “the Grim Eater”.
Personally, I am totally impressed by Ratstouile and surprising situations in this film. I learneds a lot from this film. Firstly, I think we should catch up/ follow our passion to fulfil our dreams. I am really interested in Gusteau’s statement at the end of the film- “not everyone can become an artist but a great artist can come from anywhere”. From my point of view, we can gain our achievement with the passion regardless of where we come from. Ok, let’s watch and enjoy!
Saturday, December 26, 2009 5:01:00 PM
I just watched the cartoon “Ratatouille”. The film tells the story of Remy - a intelligent and courageous mouse. Especially, Remy is suitable for cooking because Remy have a talent for smelling. His dream is a good chef . His idol is Gusteau – a famous chef. It’s also a name of the well-know restaurant in Paris. After Remy is objected by his family, he went to Paris. The Rat received the chance to show his talent at here. After arriving Paris, he met Linguini. He is a son’s chef. He is clumsy and lubbely. The Rat helped him so much to cook good dishes by controlling his hair in his hat. But the Skinner , a chef who repaced Gusteau when he died, discovered their secret. The Rat and Linguini, they overcame a lot of difficults. They tried their best to succes in life. And the Rat’ dream became truth. They opened a restaurant by themseft. They became the boss real. Wachting the film, I feel that animal’s world is also people’s world. They have emotions in the film, there are the good person and the bad person. The good person is Remy, Linguini, Colette, rats. The bad person is the chef Skinner. Maybe the productors want to send them the message: “if we try our best to do that, our dream will be truth.”
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