Unit 7 Review Places of Experiences

Unit 7 Review Places of Experiences

By Lucia Nuñez

Open Ended

In your opinion, how much do people rely on reviews?

​What things do people often review?

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A Review

Read the three reviews

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Multiple Choice

Read the FIRST review and choose the best title and star rating from the box.

• A little-known treasure! Wow! (4 stars)

• Great ... in the right season (3 stars)

• Don’t trust the other reviews (1 star)

• Some good things, some bad (2 stars)

Multiple Choice

Read the SECOND review and choose the best title and star rating from the box.

• A little-known treasure! Wow! (4 stars)

• Great ... in the right season (3 stars)

• Don’t trust the other reviews (1 star)

• Some good things, some bad (2 stars)

Multiple Choice

Read the THIRD review and choose the best title and star rating from the box.

• A little-known treasure! Wow! (4 stars)

• Great ... in the right season (3 stars)

• Don’t trust the other reviews (1 star)

• Some good things, some bad (2 stars)

An impartial text gives only facts. A biased text gives opinions for or against its topic. A text can be openly biased (if opinions are presented as opinions), or covertly biased (when opinions are presented as facts). Read the four versions of the same story and match them with the descriptions.

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​Unit 7 Writing

Multiple Choice

Read the version of the same story and match it with the descriptions.

• covertly biased for

• impartial

• covertly biased against

• openly biased against

Multiple Choice

• covertly biased for

• impartial

• covertly biased against

• openly biased against

Multiple Choice

• covertly biased for

• impartial

• covertly biased against

• openly biased against

Multiple Choice

• covertly biased for

• impartial

• covertly biased against

• openly biased against

Read the openly biased text again. Highlight the expressions that show personal opinion.

In what I consider an extreme initiative, residents of a neighborhood inFreehold have put furniture in the streets to force drivers to slow down .While I can understand their concerns  about vehicles speeding in theirarea, I don't think they have the right to make people's journey to work difficult. They said they had asked the city council to do something, but no action was taken. In my opinion, these people should let the councilconsider their options and allow people, like the driver who called thepolice, to go earn their money. When the officers arrived, they allowed the protest to go on. In my view, this was a mistake: What will these people do next? Force everybody to bike?

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Residents Protest Against Speeding

Read the two covertly biased texts again. Highlight the parts that show bias and explain how each text does it.

A few residents of an area in Freehold have made going to work very difficult for a lot of people by putting old and ugly furniture in the streets.They claim they are concerned about vehicles speeding in the area. Theyhad asked the city council to do something, but they were rightly ignored.A driver, with understandable anger, called the police, but when theofficers arrived, they shockingly allowed the protest to go on, with the excuse that it was peaceful.

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Residents Prevent Drivers from Going to Work Normally

Read the two covertly biased texts again. Highlight the parts that show bias and explain how each text does it.

Residents of a quiet neighborhood in Freehold, tired with the city council inaction, have put furniture in the streets to force drivers to slow down.They are rightly concerned about vehicles speeding in their streets,especially near an elementary school. "We have repeatedly asked  the city council to look into the problem," said Mary Smith, mother of two.Shockingly, however, the council has ignored the residents' understandable fears that something terrible might happen. An insensitive driver called the police, but when the officers arrived, theyallowed the good-humored protest to go on. "It's a peaceful protest," saidthe police captain with a smile. "It only slows cars down."

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Concerned Parents Peacefully Protest Against Speeding