The document discusses distinguishing between facts and opinions, noting that facts use numbers, dates, and statistics while opinions use words like "prefer", "think", "feel", and "should". It explains that statements about a person's opinion are facts, and provides examples of identifying opinions within paragraphs that discuss using animals for entertainment, scientific testing, and companionship. Students are asked to identify opinions within 3 given paragraphs.
3. What are the signal word for fact and opinion?
The fact signal words include numbers, dates, and statistics,
while opinion signal words include words
such as "prefer," "think," "feel," "should," and "best."
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6. How to identify?
– An opinion is different from a fact. But you can
say facts about a person's opinion. For example,
someone can ask a question like "What is
Alice's opinion about the book?" You can answer
this question with a fact, for example "Alice said
she likes the book." Then it is a fact that Alice says
she likes the book.
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8. Re-read paragraphs 4, 6 and 7, and identify and write down one opinion from each of these
paragraphs.
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Q.3 From the text assigned…
Writing opinions
9. Paragraph 4
While such sporting activities still occur, in our own time animals are also used
for educational purposes, such as allowing people to view, through trips to zoos
or safari parks, animals which they would otherwise be unlikely ever to see in
their natural habitat. Entertainment is provided by going to see animals, like lions
and elephants, performing in circuses, although using animals solely for
entertainment is definitely cruel and unnatural.
10. Paragraph 6
In the fight against crime, some animals can be trained to sniff out drugs and explosives,
perhaps the most surprising of these being rats, which can be cheaply trained within two
weeks, a system which has been pioneered by Dutch police. Animals such as rats, rabbits
and monkeys are used in the scientific testing of, for example, medicines and cosmetics.
Although the medical benefits for humans certainly outweigh animal suffering, opponents
take the view that alternative testing methods should be implemented. In rural communities
in some parts of the world, selling animal products such as milk, eggs, wool and meat
allows people to pay for education for their children.
11. Paragraph 7
Many people derive emotional benefits from keeping animals as pets;
for an elderly person, or someone living alone, a cat can provide
companionship and the sense of purpose which comes from taking
care of it. The most exciting innovation in modern medicine is animal-
assisted therapy, such as swimming with dolphins, which can improve
a patient’s social, emotional and cognitive functioning.
12. Re-read paragraphs 4, 6 and 7
Green words are signal words
Identify and write down one opinion from each of these paragraphs.
[1 mark for each correct response]
Opinion from paragraph 4
(Although using) animals (solely) for entertainment is (definitely)
cruel and unnatural.
Opinion from paragraph 6
(although the medical) benefits for humans (certainly) outweigh
animal suffering.
Opinion from paragraph 7
The most exciting innovation in modern medicine is animal-assisted
therapy
Allow: Own word versions of any opinion.
