Visual Text Analysis Lesson

Visual Text Analysis (Using inference for Theme, Tone and Perspective Texts and Questions)

Sec 4 Express English

25th February, wednesday

Lesson Targets

1.     I will know the meanings and terms for theme, tone and perspective in Visual Text analysis.

2.     I will infer the theme, tone and perspective of the visual texts and question.

3.     I will infer the visual text information in order to answer the multiple choice questions in my groups.

Open Ended

Let's test your prior knowledge!

What do you know about the skill of nference?

Let's recap: The skill of inference

Inference allows us to make logical conclusions from the clues found in a text(s).

We will be using this skill quite a lot when analyising visual texts and questions, to arrive at the most logical answer.

​Themes are a common idea or topic shared between two texts.

E.g. Health, Technology and Science are different topics/ideas. They fall under Themes.

Theme

Tone is the general attitude conveyed in a text.

E.g. Angry, Friendly, Persuasive are different attitudes conveyed in a text. They fall under tones.

Tone

​Perspective is the point of view shared by the writer of a text on a topic.

E.g. Agree, Disagree, Neutral are different points of views from a writer. They fall under perspectives.

Perspective

Multiple Choice

Choose if these three words are types of theme, tone or perspectives:

Agriculture/ Real Estate / Family

• Theme

• Tone

• Perspective

Multiple Choice

Choose if these three words are types of theme, tone or perspectives:

Support / Does not Support / No Opinion

• Theme

• Tone

• Perspective

Multiple Choice

Choose if these three words are types of theme, tone or perspectives:

Eager / Encouraging / Pessimistic

• Theme

• Tone

• Perspective

Multiple Choice

Choose if these three words are types of theme, tone or perspectives:

Finance / Dengue Prevention / Education

• Theme

• Tone

• Perspective

Multiple Choice

Choose if these three words are types of theme, tone or perspectives:

Safety / Artificial Intelligence / Food

• Theme

• Tone

• Perspective

Multiple Choice

Choose if these three words are types of theme, tone or perspectives:

Interested / Not Interested / Uninterested

• Theme

• Tone

• Perspective

Multiple Choice

Choose if these three words are types of theme, tone or perspectives:

Critical / Harsh / Optimistic

• Theme

• Tone

• Perspective

Annotation of Visual Text Question 1

​Hope that was a good warm-up!

Now let's begin by annotating the first Visual Text sources and questions, by inferring how the key words from them could tell us more about its theme, tones and perspectives.