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Using information you can trust You can use these questions to help you think about the quality of the information you find. 1 Who is the writer? Are they an expert? How do you know? 2 Is the writer giving their opinion? Are they talking about facts? How do you know? 3 Is the book, article, or website linked to an organization with a good reputation (like a school, newspaper, or library)? 4 D oes the book, article, or website give you other sources to show where they got the information from? Can you check their sources? Are they serious sources? Learning to Learn (page 59, activity 8) (page 61, activity 6) Learning to Know Passive structure We can use the passive structure when it is not important who does the action, or it is not known. We use the passive structure because the action itself is more important than the person.
Object receiving action
complement
be pastparticiple
A telescope
is
used
to look at things that are far away. up close through a telescope.
Stars
are seen
The telescope
was designed in the seventeenth century.
Many different kinds of telescopes
were invented in the twentieth century.
Connecting sentences in a paragraph 1 First decide in which order your sentences will appear. If your sentences describe something happening over time, start with the earliest event. If your sentences do not refer to time, try to organize them according to how important they are. Start with the most important ideas and add the details later. 2 U se connecting words to show how the sentences are related. You can use words from the chart to help you. (page 62, activity 4) Learning to Do
Time sequence
Cause and result
Examples and details
Then Next After that
So Because of this For this reason
For example An example of this is A good example is
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