Question

2.Review the difference between fact and opinion. Write three fact statements and three opinion statements about your selected device on separate index cards (one statement per card). Do not indicate which statements are the facts and which statements are the opinions.

Answer 1

• A fact is a statement that is true and can be verified objectively, or proven. In other words, a fact is true and correct no matter what. An opinion, however, is a statement that holds an element of belief; it tells how someone feels. An opinion is not always true and cannot be proven.
• Fact is supported by evidence and Opinion has no backing of any evidence.A person who makes a factual statement knows that his opinion comes from Fact. Where as a person who just makes some Opinion does not have any facts to substantiate. While Facts are true statements Opinions are not. Opinion is only a subjective statement and Fact is objective reality. Opinion can only be an emotional outburst of an individual or merely an interpretation.
• Facts are strong statements and opinions can be biased statements. Facts always stay back in history whereas opinions are only views that may not get into history.
• Statements mentioned below have to be identified as facts or opinions in the activity after writing it on the index cards.Here,I am mentioning which are facts and which are opinions,but they can be written on the cards without mentioning so that classmates can recognise it themselves
• Examples of facts and opinions are:
• Facts-IBM sold a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third-party apps in 1994.
• It costs less than $1 a year to keep your smartphone charged up.
• Smartphones are capable of receiving FM radio signals, but phone/wireless companies deny that consumer demand is strong enough to justify activating it.
• Opinions-Nowadays more and more students bring their mobile phones to school. While I believe that students should carry mobile phones in case of an emergency, I am strongly opposed to phones being used at school, particularly in the classroom.
• Smartphones are dangerous.
• Smartphones have many great advantages.
• How do you feel about smartphones taking over our lives?