Facts and opinions: Integrated skills: fact-checking

Facts and opinions: Integrated skills: fact-checking.

Presented by team 3.

Multiple Select

What's fact-checking?

• Search the truth

• Deny an opinion

• Identify and avoid cognitive biases

• Verify information

Why it's useful

• You can feel more confident in your understanding of the ideas.

• You are aware of the information that is updated.

How to fact-check

• Read the entire article or listen to the entire broadcast.

• Look out for subjective language.

• Confirm statistics / numbers, and check names of people and places.

• Ask yourself if the information makes sense.

Evaluate:

• The source.

• The purpose.

• The content.

• The currency.

Poll

Choose the vocabulary words of the integrated skill that you know.

• Behave

• Expected (adj)

• Possibilities

• Relations

• Valuable

Activity

Read each sentence. Then match the underlined vocabulary item with the correct meaning.

Multiple Choice

The child behaved well, saying please and thank you whenever he was helped.

• Predicted

• Opportunity

• Acted

• Important

• Family

Multiple Choice

As expected, the cells died. But the researchers were surprised at how quickly it happened.

• Predicted

• Opportunity

• Acted

• Important

• Family

Multiple Choice

Living in Morocco meant studying Arabic and the possibility of learning French if there was time.

• Predicted

• Opportunity

• Acted

• Important

• Family

Multiple Choice

After the beloved scientist died, many of her

relations and friends gathered to remember her.

• Predicted

• Opportunity

• Acted

• Important

• Family

Multiple Choice

Being curious is a valuable personality trait for all scientists to have.

• Predicted

• Opportunity

• Acted

• Important

• Family

Open Ended

How do you verify information from any source?

Thanks for your answers! We will share your results.

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