Match each utterance with its conversational function.
Choose the most appropriate category from the list.
Categories
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. If an animal is capable of experiencing pain, it follows that its suffering should be taken into consideration.
2. I completely agree that unnecessary animal suffering should be prevented.
3. What do you think about keeping animals in zoos?
4. But if we stopped eating meat altogether, wouldn't there be other economic and environmental consequences?
5. In my opinion, animals should be treated humanely even when they are being kept for food.
6. One alternative would be to encourage plant-based diets and invest more in non-animal testing methods.
7. That's quite a difficult question. Let me think about it.
8. I don't agree that keeping animals for food is automatically cruel.
9. Do you mean that you think all animal testing should be prohibited?
10. 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.