Tuesday, April 30 - PM Advanced/Fluency

(Liz subbed for Flurina)

  WU: What are facts? - Examples (student write on the board)

            What is an opinion?

            What are inferences?

FACTS - OPINIONS - INFERENCES p. 146 

COPY the page, so students can answer directly 

            Before listening read the introduction 

            and the example statements on p. 146, 

            then read the explanation p. 146

            Listen to the ten short passages (STOP in between!)

            Give students time to check the appropriate boxes

            Listen to the passages again (without stopping) (2) p. 147, 

            then discuss the responses with the whole class

            ______________________________________

If there is time left, read the following passage to the students and ask them to talk about it: 

• 1

• Opinions are Bad; Facts are Good
  An old TV program featured a detective who, on interviewing witnesses on a case, would insist, “Just the facts, Ma’am” when the witness began rambling on with her perceptions. Actually, detectives don’t go around crime scenes gathering “facts” from the public—the reason they would talk to the public would be mostly because they are interested in people’s opinions of the crime. Why would the police go to the neighbor and ask about the victim’s comings and goings to just learn that the victim left home at 8:30 am every day and came back at 5:30 pm without fail? Why wouldn’t they want to hear the neighbor’s opinion on the victim’s comings and goings—that the neighbor thought the victim was a crashing bore, for example? Whether or not this is “true,” it does reveal something about both the victim and neighbor; it’s valuable information. Facts police can usually gather themselves.

• 2

• All Opinions are Equal
  My mother recently didn’t want to hear her doctor’s opinion on her case—it was just an opinion. I tried to explain to her that the opinion of her doctor pertaining to her health was qualitatively different from mine, for example, or her granddaughter’s, or even her son-in-law’s, who is a doctor but not in the correct specialty in this case. I don’t know how much I got through to her.

(source: busyteachers.com)