English · Feelings and Emotions
Reading strategy — distinguishing facts from opinions & identifying organisational pattern
Read like a detective: separate proof from judgement, and see how a text is built
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Distinguishing a factual statement from an opinion in a text
- Identifying the organisational pattern of a text (chronological/comparison/cause-effect)
The method
- Ask 'can this be proven?' to sort fact vs opinion sentence by sentence
The common mistakes
- Treating a strongly-worded opinion as a fact
The kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC
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Fact vs opinion reading task easy
short passage → sort statements into fact/opinion, justify
From the lesson
Read these two sentences about the same film.
The vocabulary
- fact vs opinion (حقيقة مقابل رأي)