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The bud, yeah. Today, number 1,124, we have a great expression.
So in my Facebook group, do you use Facebook?
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It's free. It's Coach Shane's Let's Master English Family.
It's like Facebook.com slash groups slash coach Shane LME Family.
Okay, anyway. In my group, I like to post questions and have people vote.
So the latest one was I have three perf assignments for DDM VIP this month.
What order should I go? Should I go easy?
Is it immediate difficult or should I go difficult intermediate easy?
And everybody voted and I will tell you what they chose after you check out the dialogue which has today's expression consensus.
Cash or a gift card is the consensus in the general consensus once cash.
Fools. $100 in cash is more popular than $120 gift card.
Consensus. A consensus means that basically everyone agrees or everyone almost agrees.
It's very similar to the majority.
So think about this. Your birthday is coming up or some other special event Christmas, whatever.
And you have the choice.
Your mom says to you or your brother says to you, hey, I'm going to give you $100.
Do you want $100 in cash or do you want $100?
Do you want me to take $100 and buy a gift card which one do you want?
That's the situation. Cash or a gift card is the consensus in.
Is the numbers in? What do the numbers tell us?
Do people want the cash or do people want the gift card?
Do most people want the cash or do most people want the gift card?
And the guy says the general consensus wants cash.
Almost everybody agrees they want cash instead of a gift card.
And then the other guy says fools.
They're stupid. And the guy says, yep, $100 in cash is more popular than $120 gift card.
And that I don't know about in your country, but in America, that's what happens.
You can spend $100 on a gift card and many times the value of the gift card is actually $120.
So if you buy a restaurant gift card, now I don't know about all of them, but many of them, if you pay $100 for a restaurant gift card, they will put $120 on that card or they'll charge you only $80 for $100 gift card.
Do you understand? So now that you know that which is more valuable, well, the gift card is actually more valuable.
The only problem is the gift card we have to use it at that restaurant or that store.
So yeah, that's a problem.
Anyway, the consensus, the majority of people, what do they agree on?
So earlier, I talked about my Facebook group, right?
And I asked, should I go intermediate?
Should I go easy intermediate difficulty?
Difficult intermediate?
The consensus is in. The majority of people have chosen and they agreed on this order intermediate first, then difficult, then easy.
And I love that order. I think it's very smart.
So this month in Perth, that is what we're doing.
Right now, Perth students are practicing the intermediate level per assignment.
Next week, they're going to get the very difficult one.
And after that, of course, the easy one.
Finish up the month nicely.
That's what's coming up in Perth.
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Cash or a gift card. Is the consensus in?
The general consensus wants cash.
Full. A hundred dollars in cash is more popular than a hundred and twenty dollar gift card.
Cash or a gift card. Is the consensus in?
The general consensus wants cash.
