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2015-08-12 Writing: adjectives, facts and opinions

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  1. Greg Malivuk
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  4. Homework: read the paragraph on p. 168-169 and answer the questions on p. 169
  5. 1 Violent video games are harmful to young people. “In my opinion”
  6. 2 three
  7. 3 First of all, A second reason, A third reason
  8. 4 The first reason has studies to support it. The third reason is more extreme.
  9. A second reason (that violent video games are harmful to young people) is that they make…
  10. A third reason () is that children…
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  12. p. 170 - adjectives and related nouns
  13. part A
  14. 1 violent
  15. 2 harmful (opposite: harmless)
  16. 3 aggressive
  17. 4 angry
  18. 5 sensitive
  19. 6 entertaining / entertained
  20. 7 imaginative, imaginary
  21. 8 emotional
  22. part B
  23. 2 harm (object of the verb “do”)
  24. 3 entertainment (object of the preposition “of”)
  25. 4 aggression (object of “show”)
  26. 5 emotional (describes “my friend”)
  27. 6 imagination (object of “have”, follows “a wild”)
  28. 7 entertaining (describes “the TV show”)
  29. 8 sensitivity (object of “have”, follows “a great”)
  30. “be” and “become” are common linking verbs, which are often followed by adjectives
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  32. What is the difference between facts and opinions?
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  34. If two people disagree about a fact, at least one of them is incorrect.
  35. If they disagree about an opinion, it’s just a difference of opinion and neither is wrong.
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  37. p. 171 - which statements are facts, and which are opinions?
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  39. Homework: p. 172 - complete the outline with information from the paragraph about video games, and then decide whether each reason and detail is a fact or an opinion
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