This tool will help improve your critical thinking - Erick W

This tool will help improve your critical thinking - Erick W

Vocabulary practice

For each word, choose the correct definition

Multiple Choice

loathe

• to try to deal with something or someone

• a person, usually a woman, who is trained to help women when they are giving birth

• to try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly:

• to dislike someone or something very much

Multiple Choice

midwife

• to try to deal with something or someone

• a person, usually a woman, who is trained to help women when they are giving birth

• to try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly:

• to dislike someone or something very much

Multiple Choice

probe

• to try to deal with something or someone

• a person, usually a woman, who is trained to help women when they are giving birth

• to try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly:

• to dislike someone or something very much

Multiple Choice

tackle

• to try to deal with something or someone

• a person, usually a woman, who is trained to help women when they are giving birth

• to try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly:

• to dislike someone or something very much

Improve your critical thinking

Watch the video and then answer the questions

Multiple Choice

1. One reason Socrates was brought to trial was

• He had defected to the Spartans

• He was accused of corrupting the youth

• He had stolen from the Athenian treasury

• He did not work

Multiple Choice

2. In his discussions Socrates often claimed only that

• He was Athenian

• He was a philosopher

• He knew nothing

• He understood justice

Multiple Choice

Two followers wrote about Socrates, Plato and

• Aristophanes

• Alcibiades

• Euthydemus

• Xenophon

Multiple Choice

The Supreme Court adapts the Socratic method by formulating insightful

• Long speeches

• Hypothetical situations

• New laws

• Debates

Multiple Choice

In the Renaissance the Socratic method was adapted to teach

• Law

• Mathematics

• Botany

• Clinical medicine