Developing Ideas and Opinions with Supporting Evidence in Functional Skills English Lesson
Enhance your ability to express opinions with evidence in this Functional Skills English lesson. Learn how to use facts and statistics to support your ideas effectively. Build on your independent presentation skills by incorporating detailed evidence into your arguments.
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L1 Functional Skills English SL&C Skills Building Lesson 6 Develop ideas and opinions with supporting evidence Description: swlogo August 2024. Kindly contributed Sarah Handcock, Real Education, East Midlands. Search for Sarah on www.skillsworkshop.org. For curriculum links and related resources, please refer to the download page for this resource on skillsworkshop: https://www.skillsworkshop.org/resources/9_skill_building_lessons_for_l1_fs_speaking_listening_communication For full use of hyperlinks and other features, this presentation should be run in full screen mode. This PPT is no. 6 in a series of nine. Please visit the download page (see above) to find PPTs 1-9 & related resources, including a 12 week teaching plan. 1. Language styles 2. Ideas and opinions 3. Lines of argument and narratives 4. Moving discussions forward and taking turns 5. Structuring ideas and information 6. Supporting evidence (this PPT) 7. Structuring a presentation 8. Responding effectively to questions and feedback 9. Researching information on a chosen topic L1 Functional English speaking, listening and communication content descriptors: L1.1 Identify relevant information and lines of argument in explanations or presentations L1.2 Make requests & ask relevant questions to obtain specific information in different contexts L1.3 Respond effectively to detailed questions L1.4 Communicate information, ideas and opinions clearly and accurately on a range of topics L1.5 Express opinions and arguments and support them with evidence L1.6 Follow and understand discussions and make contributions relevant to the situation and the subject L1.7 Use appropriate phrases, registers and adapt contributions to take account of audience, purpose and medium L1.8 Respect the turn-taking rights of others during discussions, using appropriate language for interjection *Emboldened text indicates focus for this PPT. Source: Functional skills subject content: English. DFE 2018. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/functional-skills-subject-content-english
Functional Skills Level 1 Speaking and Listening Learning Objective: to develop ideas and opinions with supporting evidence. Last lesson recap: There are 3 easy ways to put information in a logical order. Can you remember one?
Key Vocabulary Check you understand: evidence fact statistic research argument debate persuade opinion justification convincing
In this unit it is important that you are able to understand what type of evidence you can use to support your ideas when you speak. Evidence could be: Facts - things that are known or proven to be true. Statistics - pieces of numerical data for example, the size of a country, the proportion of people who like pizza, the number of fish in the average lake.
In todays lesson, we are going to look at how to support our ideas and opinions using evidence such as facts and statistics. ***Link back to last lesson: last lesson, we focussed on developing our ability to present our own ideas independently. Today, we are going to build on this by learning how to support them in detail.
The Value of Facts and Statistics Facts and statistics are important when speaking because they provide evidence that adds truth to the argument that you are making. Proper use of facts and statistics make it more difficult for other people to disagree with you and will be more effective in convincing people that you are correct. When used well, facts and statistics are also interesting they might help someone to learn something new, and humans respond positively to learning new things.
Building facts and statistics into your speaking Using facts and statistics effectively is all about using them at the right moment when you are speaking and not using them too much! One simple structure that is widely used for sharing an argument is: 1. Opinion 2. Reason for your opinion 3. Facts or Statistics 4. How those justify your opinion
Building facts and statistics into your speaking A simple sentence structure An even simpler model is to use: [Opinion] because [Facts or Statistics]. This sort of approach is the basis of debating, where individuals talk about different topics and present different ideas or arguments about them the team who speaks most convincingly about a topic wins.
Michael Jordan Michael Phelps Ussain Bolt Mo Farah
5 minute task Which of the sport stars do you think has shown the most dedication to their sport? Watch the video about the one you picked (see next slide). As you watch, look at your *research table and start to make any relevant notes to build your evidence. *See slide 13 for research table (also available as a separate PDF document).
5 minute task (continued) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C286J4nnwA - Ussain Bolt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymIRjFzqIsU - Mo Farah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cytEeIChQrg - Serena Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s5wRz_kyIU - Christiano Ronaldo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbCP4WMwu_M - Michael Jordan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7A01zh1bRM - Michael Phelps
20 Minute Task Research your sports star. Find facts you can use as evidence to argue they are a dedicated person. Questions Answers: (Facts and statistics) How does this show their dedication? (How the facts justify your opinion) At what age did they start training? How many hours a day/ week do they spend training? Do they have a strict routine? Do they have to follow a special diet plan and what is it? Have they had to overcome any difficulties to stay dedicated to their sport e.g. poverty, illness or injury, family problems? Have they had to live in different places to train or move away from their families and home? What have they achieved in their career?
Plenary Have you achieved the learning objective? To develop ideas and opinions using supporting evidence. Put the information from your table into a short speech. Persuade your audience that your chosen sports star is the most dedicated to their sport. Use the model: 1. Opinion 2. Reason for your opinion 3. Facts or Statistics 4. How those justify your opinion
