Yr 11 GCSE English

Objective: To be able to distinguish

between fact and opinion and comment on
how they are sued by a writer
Purpose and Audience?
 Fact and Opinion
• One fact about yourself and one opinion

What is the difference between

the two?
• Facts= Statements that are
true, statements that can be
proven

• Opinion= What a particular

person believes
 Monday 18th October 2010
L.O. To consider Topic Audience Purpose
and why writers use facts and opinions
 TAP

Topic- what is the subject?

Audience- who are they writing for?

Purpose- what is the writer trying to do?

 affect vs effect- what’s the
difference?
• Affect is a verb- it means ‘to influence’
E.g. How do artificial additives affect the
children’s behaviour?

• Effect is a noun- you can say “a/an/

the/many/some” in front of it
e.g. The main effect the sugar has is
hyperactivity. There are other effects, such as
raised blood pressure and poor concentration.
 Past Exam Questions

• Nov 2007 ‘How does Jenny McKay use facts to

support her opinions?’
• June 2007: ‘Name two of the people who
express an opinion in the article’
• Nov 2008: ‘How does Matthew Engel use facts
and opinions to persuade the reader of his point
of view?’
• June 2008: ‘Choose and write down two facts
and two opinions from the article’
 Finding them…
• FACTS- Look for numbers!

• ‘ 1 in 10’
• ‘24 hours’
• ‘95 %’
• ‘First’
• ‘Last’
• ‘Biggest’
• ‘Smallest’
• ‘Largest’
 Finding them…
• Opinions Look for…

• Conditionals and modal verbs: ‘If’

‘Should’ ‘Might’ ‘May’
• Personal words: ‘I’ ‘we’
• Adjectives: ‘Good’, ‘bad’, ‘hard’, ‘best’,
‘worst’
 Fact and Opinion
• Why use facts?

• Why use opinions?

• Remember to think about the PURPOSE AND

AUDIENCE

• How will the fact/opinion

• A) Support the purpose
• B) Affect the audience ?
 Question: Why does the writer
I saw
use facts?
Answer: ISAW I see

• INFORM I saw

• SUPPORT
• AUTHENTICATE
• WEIGHT
Question: Why does the writer
use opinions?
My pecs
Answer: PECS are
amazing!

• PERSUADE
• EMOTIVE
• CONVINCE
• STRENGTHEN ARGUMENT
 Task
• Read through the article

• Highlight the facts and opinions

 Task

•How does the writer of this

article use facts and opinions?
I saw pecs tap
Revising Media and Non-fiction
• L/O

• To familiarise ourselves with the

assessment objectives for reading and
writing

• To revise the use of fact and opinion

• AO2 Reading (En2)

• Candidates are required to demonstrate their ability to:

– (i) read, with insight and engagement, making appropriate references to texts and
developing and sustaining interpretations of them;

– (ii) distinguish between fact and opinion and evaluate how information is presented;

– (iii) follow an argument, identifying implications and recognising inconsistencies;

– (iv) select material appropriate to their purpose, collate material from different
sources, and make cross references;

– (v) understand and evaluate how writers use linguistic, structural and presentational
devices to achieve their effects, and comment on ways language varies and changes.
• AO3 Writing (En3)
• Candidates are required to demonstrate their
ability to:
– (i) communicate clearly and imaginatively, using and
adapting forms for different readers and purposes;
– (ii) organise ideas into sentences, paragraphs and
whole texts using a variety of linguistic and structural
features;
– (iii) use a range of sentence structures effectively
with accurate punctuation and spelling.