WELCOME TO
ENGLISH
CLASS!
MS. ROSE TAUSA
BRAIN TEASER
WHAT FIVE-LETTER WORD
BECOMES SHORTER WHEN YOU
ADD TWO LETTERS TO IT?
A MAN IS LOOKING AT A PHOTOGRAPH OF
SOMEONE. HIS FRIEND ASKS WHO IT IS. THE MAN
REPLIES," BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I HAVE NONE.
BUT THAT MAN'S FATHER IS MY FATHER'S SON.
WHO WAS IN THE PHOTOGRAPH?
A MAN WAS WALKING IN THE RAIN. HE WAS IN
THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE HE HAD NOTHING AND
NOWHERE TO HIDE. HE CAME HOME ALL WET, BUT
NOT SINGLE HAIR ON HIS HEAD WAS WET. WHY IS
THAT?
A man and his son are in a car accident. The
father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed
to the hospital. When he arrives, the surgeon
says, “I can’t operate on this boy, he is my son!”
How can this be?
A murderer is condemned to death. He has to
choose among three rooms. The first is full of
raging fires, the second is full of assassins with
loaded guns and the third is full of lions that
haven’t eaten in three years. Which room is
safest for him?
CRITICAL READING AS
REASONING
WHAT IS CRITICAL READING?
Critical reading involves scrutinizing any
information that you read or hear. Critical
reading means not easily believing
information offered to you by a text.
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor
to believe and take for granted; nor to find
talk and discourse; but to weigh and
consider” as Francis Bacon stated in The
Essays.
A CRITICAL THINKER POSSESSES THE FOLLOWING
CHARACTERISTICS.
1. Understands the relation of one 2. Determines the importance and
idea to another relevance of ideas and arguments
3. Recognizes, builds and appraises 4. Identifies inconsistencies and
arguments errors in reasoning
5. Approaches problems in a consistent
and systematic way
6. Reflects on the justification of his own
assumptions, beliefs and values
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking on the other hand, is the ability to
think clearly and rationally, and the ability to
understand the relation of ideas presented.
Logical Fallacies
are errors in
reasoning that
invalidate an
argument.
Critical reading is engaging
yourself in a text or any material
that you are reading. Although the
word ‘critical” means to express
criticism or disapproval about
something like a book, movie or
piece of art, etc., critical reading
does not necessarily mean that
you have to be “critical” of
something that you read.
The critical reading strategies are:
1. ANNOTATING 3. OUTLINING
It is the first strategy that you It’s an overview of a document
can use as a critical reader. It is in which information and ideas
underlining or highlighting the are arranged according to
important ideas or points in a text
like thesis statement, topic
hierarchy-the main idea being at
sentence, supporting details, body the top followed by the rest of
of the material and the conclusion. the supportingideas or subtopics
2. CONTEXTUAL READING 4. SUMMARIZING
In contextual reading, a reader
studies the author of the text, the It’s the condensing or
time or period when the author writing of a material in
wrote it and the important events the reader’s own words.
that occurred during the time the
text was written.
The critical reading strategies are:
5. PARAPHRASING 7. EVALUATING AN ARGUMENT
A critical reader must not
One way of understanding a text accept anything on face value;
better is to paraphrase it. instead, he or she must evaluate
Paraphrasing is putting or writing
whether the claim or the
a text in your own words but
maintaining the original argument that the author is
information as given bythe author. presenting is true and can be
supported by evidence.
6. COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
8. REFLECTING ON CHALLENGES
It’s naming the similarities of TO YOUR BELIEFS AND VALUES
two or more ideas or information.
There are reading materials
that will affect your emotions.
The critical reading strategies are:
9. LOOKING FOR PATTERNS 11. EXPLORING THE FIGURATIVE
OF OPPOSITION LANGUAGE
One way of understanding a text This refers to the language
better is to paraphrase it. that uses words or expressions
Paraphrasing is putting or writing with a meaning different from the
a text in your own words but literal interpretation.
maintaining the original
information as given bythe author.
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10. JUDGING THE WRITER’S MANIPULATION
CREDIBILITY Some writers become emotionally
You ask questions to check if manipulative if they want their
readers to agree with them or to
the writer of the text is credible
believe what they are saying and
enough to get your approval of resort to false and exaggerated
what s/he has written. statements or appeals.
Thank
you