Inferences, compare & contrast, suffixes
What is an inference?
An educated guess about the meaning of a word or concept using context and prior knowledge.
What is a prediction?
This is a guess you make about what will happen in the future.
Please give at least two examples of time markers.
Now, before, after, next, for one week, these days.
What is the difference between fact and opinion?
Fact is something that you can verify and is true. Opinion is your own idea about something that is not necessarily true.
What is advice?
This is when someone tries to help you by giving a recommendation.
What's a suffix? Give an example.
Endings added to root words to slightly change the meaning. Example: "retire" can become "retirement."
What are two examples of noun-adjective collocations?
Possible answers: soft drink, bad mood, daily life, equal rights.
When and why are tag questions used?
They are common in everyday conversation and are used to keep a conversation going by asking a person for an opinion and to confirm ideas.
What is intonation?
This is the volume of your voice, often towards the end of a sentence. It can either rise or fall.
Please give one example of a phrase to use to give an opinion, and one example of a phrase to use to support an opinion.
Possible answers: Giving: I think, if you ask me, as far as I'm concerned. Supporting: Because, for example, for instance.
What is comparing and contrasting?
Comparing means to look at the similarity between two things, and contrasting is looking at the difference between two things.
What is cause and effect?
Cause is the reason why something happens. Effect is the result of an occurrence.
Please think of at least two tag questions and use them in sentences.
Possible answers: School is really boring, you know? You're going to that theater tonight, aren't you? You don't have kids, do you?
What are possibilities regarding the truthfulness of a claim?
It could be totally true, totally false, partially true and partially false.
What should you doing when summarizing information you hear?
Give the main points, but not all of the details.
What should you ask yourself when comparing things? What should you ask yourself when contrasting things?
For comparing, ask yourself how are these things the same. For contrasting, ask yourself how these things are different.
What are at least two questions you can ask when taking conversational turns?
What do you think? Do you agree? How about you? You know?
First of all, second, also, another reason, finally.
What are at least two questions you can ask to evaluate claims?
Does it make sense? Is it likely? How well informed is the speaker? How honest is the speaker?
When do college professors often require summaries?
Part of homework assignments and on tests.
Please come up with at least three variations of the word "destroy" using suffixes.
Destroying, destruction, destroyed.
Which of the following are predictions you can make based off of the following sentences: I always warned my friend that standing on the ledge of high buildings is unsafe, but he didn't listen. One day, my friend was on the tallest building of the city and because it had just rained, it was slippery and my friend accidentally slipped.
a. The friend ended up falling to his death.
b. The narrator saved his friend.
c. The friend ended up in the hospital and became paralyzed.
d. Batman saved the friend.
e. The friend jumped off the building.
a, b, and c.
Please pick at least two examples of asking for reasons from the sentences below?
Are you hungry?
Why do you think Tom missed work today?
Can you explain why you cheated on the test?
I went outside because I needed fresh air.
Why do you think Tom missed work today?
Can you explain why you cheated on the test?
What are two cases when you may use rising intonation, and two cases when you may use falling intonation?
You can use rising intonation with yes/no questions and for other questions that show you are unsure about something. You can using falling intonation with statements and wh-questions.
How can you sound more polite when giving advice? How can you give stronger advice?
Use "perhaps" to be polite; use "really" to give stronger advice.