1. Opinion Essay Sara Balaguer & David Ginés.

2. Opinion Essay We write an opinion essay to convince the reader that our point of view is correct. To do that we must follow the next rules.

3. Rules First of all we have to choose a topic to write about, for example the new technologies. Then we have to use this structure to write our essay: Opening Opening Body Body Conclusion Conclusion

4. Opening On this part we write a presentation of issue And our opinion. This part of the essay shouldn’t be too long, it’s only a brief introduction about the topic that we will then treat. The long part will be developed on the next part, the body.

5. Body Is the longest part of the essay. In the body of the essay we have to convince the reader giving specific reasons and facts to support our opinion, that’s why is the longest part. And to finish our opinion essay we must write a conclusion.

6. Conclusion It’s the part where we summing up and restate our opinion. As in opening, the conclusion haven’t got to be too long, just a paragrahp with a few lines.

7. Useful Language I think that… I think that… I believe that… I believe that… In my opinion… In my opinion… I love/I can’t stand/ I don’t mind… I love/I can’t stand/ I don’t mind… As for… As for… For example… For example… Such as.. Such as.. As far as I’m concerned… As far as I’m concerned… Personally,… Personally,…

8. Useful Language In conclusion,… In conclusion,… To sum up,… To sum up,… In short,… In short,…

9. An Advice You can use a separate sheet of paper to do a scheme with the ideas you’re going to talk about in your essay. In that way the organization will be better.

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11. Now it’s time to discuss

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