This document discusses making inferences and drawing conclusions. It provides examples of daily activities that can help with inferencing like puzzles, riddles, problem solving, answering questions, and reading. Making inferences involves forming opinions based on facts and experiences. Drawing conclusions involves summarizing information and referring to details. The document provides guidance on how to reach a conclusion by considering what is known, how it is known, prior knowledge, and logically inferring a conclusion. It emphasizes that making judgments and drawing conclusions are important for being a critical thinker and generating new ideas.

1. Making Inferences @ Drawing
Conclusions

2. Daily Inferencing
• Jigsaw puzzles
• Answering Riddles
• Problem Solving
(backtracking)
• Answering questions
• Reading
• Math word problems
• Conversing with people

3. • Form an opinion or make judgement based
on:
 the facts presented in the reading material
 your personal experience.
• Helps to summarise all the information
gathered from your reading.

4. • What do we know
about this picture?
• What do you see?
• What can we infer
from the clues?

5. • What do we know about
the event in the photo?
• What is the mood of the
event?
• What other activities
may be occurring at the
same time or later?

6. Ariff: Hazman must be in love!
Zarul: How do you know that? I spoke with him last
week and he did not say anything about it.
Ariff: Well, he’s been taking extra care of his
appearance. Moreover, he’s been splashing
himself with cologne. Guess what! This morning
Hamid caught him daydreaming and smiling to
himself during Physics class!

7. How do you reach a conclusion?

8. You can also…
Ask yourself these questions:
3.What do I know about the topic?
4.How do I know this information?
5.How can I explain this?
6.How did I arrive at the conclusion?
7.What details did I refer to?

9. What can you conclude here?
Thick dust covered all the furniture in the
room. Our feet left dirty footprints on the
floor as we walked across to the other door.
The room was quite dark because very little
light could penetrate the smeared window
panes.
What are the key words?

10. Try this:
1. It is 6p.m in the evening, the
place is overcrowded. The
queues at the ticket counters
have grown very long. The
tickets to the film are selling
fast.
What can you conclude about
the film?

11. 2. A lady is alone at home in
the city on Christmas day.
There is a Christmas tree
in front of her. She has a
distant look in her eyes as
she stares at the tree.
What can you conclude
about the lady?

12. Use the table below to guide you…
Main Idea
Supporting Details
Your prior knowledge
on the subject
Logical conclusion

13. Read the paragraph carefully and come up with your own
conclusion.
People have always been fascinated by hybrids and
mutant animals, and the need to satisfy this
fascination has threatened the animal population. To
attract the public, zoos and menageries once bred
exotic-looking hybrid big cats. The bigger and more
ferocious looking, the better the public liked them.
However, due to conservation efforts, deliberate
hybridisation is prohibited in most zoos. Nevertheless,
it still happens privately among individuals willing to
experiment with breeding different cat species. On the
other hand, mutations such as white tigers and black
leopards are scarce. This is because in the past, it was
common for any unusual big cats to be shot and
displayed.

14. Read the paragraph carefully and come up with your own
conclusion.
cholesterol is a type of fat known as lipid which,
in moderate amounts, is useful to the body. One
important function of cholesterol, is to help the
body make new cells. However, we must
constantly keep our cholesterol levels in check.
This is because excess sholesterol will build up in
our arteries, making it difficult for blood to flow
to our tissues, including the heart. This can lead
to serious problems, including heart attacks and
strokes.

15. Read the paragraph and choose the inference that best fits
the information presented:
Inspector Snoop was at the scene of the murder for half an
hour. The victim, a 25 year old mother of two, was found
lying on the blood-stained living room carpet. Inspector
Snoop seemed interested with the coffee table in front of
the velvet cream settee. On it were two empty glasses and
an empty ashtray containing a cigarette butt and a half-
smoked Cuban cigar which was still warm. The cigarrette
butt had traces of lipstick and the cigar had the initials PA
on it.
a. The Victim was an alchoholic
c. The victim was last seen by
someone with the intials PA

16. Reporter: What do you think of the driving scenes in films
today as compared to the ones in the past?
Film Critic: If you saw the driving scenes in films from the late
50s or 60s, you would probably giggle. Imagine a scene of a
hero grabbing the heroine and driving off. What is
interesting is not how he grabs his heroine but how the car
he drives moves- the car is actually stationary and it is the
background that is moving. Now, compare that to the’car-
chase’ scenes in films today. These scenes are a favourite
among many cinema goers. Some of the scenes are so
realistically projected. Sometimes, it is possible to see a
scene at different angles-even from the interior of the car.

17. Julio and his father had been looking forward to
their fishing trip for weeks. They didn't take
much food with them on the trip. When they
started fishing they were quickly approached by
a forest ranger. He asked Julio's father if he had a
fishing license. Julio's father reached into his
wallet and suddenly
got a terrified look on his face. Julio was
disappointed that night as he ate dinner.
•
Why did Julio and his father not take much food
with them on the trip?

18. a. they didn't want to eat too much
b. they didn't have any food at their house
c. they were planning on eating the fish that
they caught
d. they don't like to eat fish

19. Richard and Luis had been hiking for hours.
Richard had to carry Luis for the last few miles of
the hike. Sweat was rolling down his face as the
sun shone directly overhead.
• What conclusion can be drawn about Luis's age?
a. He is older than Richard
b. He is the same age as Richard
c. He just had a birthday
d. He is younger than Richard

20. • What time of day is it?
a. Morning
b. Midday
c. Midnight
d. Night

21. • So….
why do you think making judgements and
drawing conclusions are important?
Critical reader.
Generate ideas and information.

22. Project:
• Choose a picture that shows the end of a
possible story.
• Create a short story that tells what led up to
this ending.
• Present your story to the class.

23. Example: