Essay

Gustavo Navarro Rodriguez

Advanced conversation

            I think the exercise we did last time is going to be very helpful because it will give us more fluency when we speak, plus it will give us confidence, and the most important thing of all, is that these topics imply a vocabulary not very common in a every day conversation.

            I also think that is very important to speak and debate about controversial topics because everybody or almost everybody speaks a little bit of English, and considering that is the most important language in the world, is better to have a more complex vocabulary & more confidence when you speak, it will not only give us an enhanced English but it will open us more possibilities in life, on the job, in the society, etc. 

            There are certain expressions used by English speaking people that are also good to know, like for instance: “to be in someone else’s shoes”, “in the other hand”, “the pot calling the kettle black”, etc. I think this is also very important to learn, because this are expressions used daily, and we have to know the meaning of them and when must we use them.

            Most of the times when we go to the US, Canada, England or any other country and we look ourselves in the need of a debate, a discussion, or a normal chat we don’t have the right vocabulary to do it, because we are used to speak only with the people at the counter, at the hotel, or at a taxi cab, and when we are in the need to discuss something with someone we have a lack of vocabulary and ease.