Week 1 - Vaccination

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Covid 19 Vaccination?

Global Perspectives

Today's Objective:

- You can assess texts and identify elements 

that attribute to their quality. 

Assess ???

Identify ???

Example Sentences

1. The insurers will need to assess the flood damage.

2. Exams are not the only means of assessing a student's ability.

3. The consultant was hired to assess the impact of the buyout on consumers.

Assess

Example sentences

1. By looking at how the genome varies between people with a genetic condition and people without it, we can identify the troublemaking gene.

2. Carmen woke to a crackling sound and sat up, trying to identify it.

3. The boy who had been missing was identified by his clothes.

Identify

Text 1

Nature: Should children get COVID vaccines? What the science says.

www.nature.com

Text 2

American CDC asserting that vaccination works

www.cdc.gov

Assignment

- Read both texts and try to identify their strenghts and weaknesses. 

- Assess these strengths and weaknesses  and decide which text is  more convincing according to you.

- Make a (short) PPT/Prezi in which you can present your findings. 

What elements of the text make you doubt its contents/message?

What makes the text convincing?

Results

- good points (arguments?)

- using speech techniques

- text structure

- Straight to the point (no beating around the bush)

- clarity

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Numbers/graphs                               Source (both author and people interviewed in article)

comparison - wider view               Summaries/conclusion

Neutral language                              One-sided story

Length of the text                            

Research-based

What aspects do you involve when identifying strengths and weaknesses?

Today's Objective:

- You can assess texts and identify elements 

that attribute to their quality. 

GP's objective

Having finished your first assignment for Cambridge's Global Perspective and Research, what do you think this subject is about? Add your answer to the next slide.

Global Perspective and Research is about: