ANIMAL WELFARE

Match each utterance with its conversational function.
Choose the most appropriate category from the list.

Categories

  1. Asking someone for their opinion about a topic
  2. Delaying strategies
  3. Presenting a number of arguments
  4. Giving your opinion about a topic
  5. Agreeing
  6. Disagreeing
  7. Countering
  8. Logical argument
  9. Clarification
  10. Expressing solutions and alternatives
1. What do you think about keeping animals in zoos?
2. That's quite a difficult question. Let me think about it.
3. There are several arguments against intensive farming: animals may suffer, conditions can be overcrowded, and consumers may not know how the animals have been treated.
4. In my opinion, animals should be treated humanely even when they are being kept for food.
5. I completely agree that unnecessary animal suffering should be prevented.
6. I don't agree that keeping animals for food is automatically cruel.