Emplear adecuadamente las frases para expresar opiniones sobre la música en textos escritos.

El empleo de las expresiones para opinar, nos permite ampliar el vocabulario para poder hacer textos escritos o presentar la opinion cuando hablamos con alguien.

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PHRASES TO EXPRESS OPINIONS

I (really) think that …

I believe (that) …

I’m sure that …

In my opinion / My opinion is …

I agree with …

I guess/imagine …

I have no doubt that / I’m certain that …

I strongly believe that …

I’ve never really thought about this before, but …

My personal opinion is that / Personally, my opinion is that

To be honest / In my honest opinion, …

I could be wrong, but …

I’m positive that …

I’m pretty sure that …

It seems to me that …

Some people may disagree with me, but …

This is just my opinion, but

EXAMPLES

Well, I guess there is a first time for everything.

I have not doubt that our generosity will help us meet our goal.

I could be wrong, but it's happened at least once.

Read the next text and answer the questions

Do you download music? Do you buy CDs? Do you listen to music on your phone? Do you prefer to watch music or just to listen? What about the old-fashioned radio? Have you ever seen your favourite band or singer perform live? There are so many ways to discover, buy and listen to music!

Music videos

British teenagers like to watch their music online. Watching music on video streaming sites on the internet is now more popular than listening to the radio with young British people. Popular videos can quickly become extremely popular internationally. Justin Bieber’s song ‘Baby’ was the most watched music video on YouTube until 2012. Then, PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ became the first video to get a billion views. Now, it’s quite common for videos to pass the billion mark. Things can change quickly on YouTube!

Downloading music

Downloading music is a popular choice for young Brits. The BPI (an organisation which promotes the interests of British music) says that people in the UK prefer downloading singles rather than albums. In the UK you can download a single for about £1 and an album for around £10. Using file-sharing websites to download music is often illegal of course but some people still continue to get their music this way. Record companies and many musicians are very unhappy that people can listen to their music without paying for it.

Live music

The O2 in London is the second largest live music arena in Europe. There you can see world-famous bands such as One Direction, Justin Bieber, Scissor Sisters, Prince, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, and Take That. This massive stadium has space for 20,000 people. It also has 548 toilets! Tickets are not cheap. You can pay more than £50 to see a concert at The O2.

What about free live music? There are music festivals across Britain every year that are completely free of charge. Last year more than 150,000 people went to the Tramlines free music festival in Sheffield in the north of England. The two-day festival is held every July. Last year there were 900 performances in total including local bands as well as music from all over the world.

Music on TV

The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new talented singers. The 'X Factor' of the title refers to the difficult-to-define quality that makes a star. The show began in 2004 and is still popular. X Factor singers perform on a stage in front of the judges and a live audience. After the performance the audience at home can vote by phone for their favourite acts. Many winners then go on to get a UK number-one single. But you don’t have to win The X Factor to become famous: One Direction, the massively popular British boy band, competed in 2010 but they didn’t win, they came third!

What kind of music?

What are you and your friends listening to these days? Hip hop, dance, rock, heavy metal, rap, urban, reggae … individual tastes are very varied amongst British teenagers. If a type of music exists then there’s somebody who likes it. But a shopping centre in Birmingham, central England, recently discovered what kind of music some local teenagers don’t like. This is what happened: shoppers and shop owners complained to the police about teenagers behaving badly in the shopping centre. When a new sound system started playing Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, the antisocial behaviour stopped. The young people causing problems had gone! Classical music was clearly not popular with these particular teenagers.

EXERCISES

1. Are you listening to music as you read this?

2. Answer these questions: Are the sentences true or false?

1. British teenagers prefer the radio to YouTube videos.

True False

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2. Lots of people in the UK download music.

True False
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3. The O2 is the largest live music venue in the world.

True False

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4. There are free music festivals in the UK every year.

True False
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5. One Direction won a television music competition.

True False
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6. Classical music helped to solve a problem in a British shopping centre.

True False
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3. Find the words in the wordsearch

1. Write about your favourite kind of music, and one of the singers that you like a lot, use some phrases to express your opinion

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Use the forum to answer the reading exercise.

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