Topic 68   22 March 2019  Explain Your Answer to Logical Questions

Explain your answers to your conversation partner for these questions. Then ask them to explain (Remember, explaining is the real English practice. Explain carefully):

1. Explain carefully what you can see in this drawing:

2. Explain why you chose answer 1, 2 or 3

3. Explain why you chose one answer rather than another:

4. Explain why you think your answer is correct:



5. Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it fits.

"FADLOFDI"
city
fruit
flower
vegetable

6. Explain your choice:
Which is an example of logical thinking? => a) Mark solves a multiple choice problem by crossing out every other answer./ b) Mark asks himself, what is the simplest answer? / c) Mark asks himself a series of questions and uses reason to answer them. / d) Mark guesses.

7) Explain your choice:
Which of the two CONCLUSIONS can be concluded on the basis of given statements? =>
STATEMENTS: a) Some parrots are scissors.; b) Some scissors are not combs. ||
CONCLUSIONS: c) Some scissors are parrots.; d) Some combs are parrots.

8) Explain your choice:
Which of the two CONCLUSIONS can be concluded on the basis of given statements? =>
STATEMENTS: a) All prisoners are men; b) No man is educated. ||
CONCLUSIONS: c) All prisoners are uneducated; d) Some men are prisoners.

9) Sherlock Holmes was famous in 19th Century English detective stories. Here I have given you his INDUCTIVE REASONING about identifying where a man has come from. I have not given you Sherlock's conclusion. Where do you think the man has just come from? Explain why. "“Here is a gentleman of the medical type, but with the air of a military man. Clearly an army doctor, then. He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair. He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly. His left arm has been injured: He holds it in a stiff and unnatural manner. Where in the tropics could an English army doctor have seen much hardship and got his arm wounded?"

10) Will the Australian nation be rich and peaceful in the next 50 years, or will it suffer from big problems? Explain your REASONING. (e.g. X and Y will happen because of A and B)

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