The Arts
Matching Exercise
Match each utterance with its conversational function.
- Asking someone for their opinion about a topic
- Delaying strategies
- Presenting a number of arguments
- Giving your opinion about a topic
- Agreeing
- Disagreeing
- Countering
- Logical argument
- Clarification
- Expressing solutions and alternatives
1. How important do you think the arts are in modern society?
2. Well, there are quite a few things to consider before answering that.
3. The arts can provide entertainment, preserve culture, encourage creativity and help people understand different perspectives.
4. I think governments should continue to support the arts, even when money is tight.
5. Yes, I agree that the arts can make an important contribution to people's quality of life.
6. I'm afraid I don't agree that every artistic project deserves public funding.
7. But isn't it possible that commercial success isn't a fair way of judging the value of a work of art?
8. If art encourages people to think differently, then it can have an important social function even if it isn't commercially successful.
9. When you say "the arts", are you including popular music and film?
10. Perhaps public funding could be divided between established institutions and smaller experimental projects.
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