passive voice!.. “Um…let me think…in this paragraph I can see that the dead man was wealthy, that means he had a lot of money…but he died suddenly, and that attracte d the police to co[r]
(1)Making
(2)Does it make sense to you? (warm-up task)
“He put down $10 at the window
The woman behind the window gave
$4 The person next to him gave
(3)Possible inferences…
• Man & woman: went on a date to the movie • Ticket: $3 each man paid for both
himself and the woman (total = $6)
• Man got the change back ($10-$3-$3=$4) • The woman wanted to give him $3 for the
ticket but he declined
(4)What if we don’t know how to make inferences?
• Tom: Are you free tonight? • Mary: yes
• Tom: I’ve two tickets for the concert • Mary: I see
• Tom: So…
• Mary: What?
(5)Decoding inferences
• “Are you free tonight”= want to ask her to something
(6)(7)Making inferences
“When a reader adds information that he or she already knows to what is stated, the reader is making an
inference!” Beech (2005)
(8)In simple words, making inferences is…
(9)(10)How to begin with the students?
• 1) use an everyday occurrence to
demonstrate the idea of making inferences • 2) use a short piece of text and ask the
students to annotate as many inferences as they can
• 3) can use bumper stickers to write the
internal text that comes from the external text
(11)Non-fiction text
Text type: News report
(12)Activity 2
Inferring the meaning of unknown words
1st paragraph (example):
A wealthy local businessman was found dead yesterday at his home on The Pea k Police believe that Albert
(13)Activity 2
Inferring the meaning of unknown words
1st paragraph (example):
A wealthy local businessman was found dead yesterday at his home on The Pea k Police believe that Albert
Sung, a jewellery shop owner, was murdered
died because of money?
discovered later, rather strange!
involving police
perhaps he didn’t die naturally
(14)“Um…let me think…in this paragraph I can see that the dead man was wealthy, that means he had a lot of money…but he died suddenly, and that attracte d the police to come…seems a bit strange, so I gue ss he didn’t die naturally At the end I spot the us e of passive voice, that means he didn’t cause the death himself, or die from an illness Perhaps he
was killed by someone.”
(15)Remember, when using the
think aloud approach…
(16)Guess result
Murdered =
(17)Useful text types for teaching inferences
• 1) editorials (e.g by comparing the headli nes of newspapers reporting the same n ews)
• 2) documentary (e.g 60 mins plus)
looking for the director’s point of view
(18)(19)Using logic problems can help students develop their
ability to make inferences New Shoes…
One day, two mothers and two daughters went shopping for shoes Their shopping
(20)Answer
Only three people went shopping: a
grandmother, a mother, and a daughter — but remember that the mother was the grandmother's daughter!