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7.1.1 Critical Listening: Argumentative Text - Evaluating a listening text

English · Grade 11 · 2 lessons in the design

What you will be able to do

  • identify the main idea and key details for clarity
  • distinguish facts from opinions in listening contexts
  • evaluate information from an oral text for accuracy
  • appreciate the relationship between stress and pronunciation in communication

Key questions

“How do you ascertain the credibility of the information you listen to?”

Lessons

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  1. Identifying claims, reasons and evidence
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Identify the claim, reasons and evidence in an argumentative spoken text.
  2. Detecting bias and weak reasoning
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Evaluate spoken arguments for bias and faulty reasoning and answer the key inquiry.