Facts and Opinions

On night, our class has combined with JAC1102A. This is replacement class. The topic Miss Zu wants to discuss is ‘Fact and Opinion’.

1)    What is fact?

·         Objective information that can be proved to be true.

·         Not a statement about the future.

·         The clues to determine:

Particulars	Examples
Use of dates and year	Walt Disney was born on 5th December 1901 and died on 15th December 1966
Use of statistics/ figures/ precise numbers or quantities	Since Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, more than 1600 climbers from 20 countries have also conquered the 8848 metre mountain
Use of definitions	Adolescence can be defined as the stage in a person’s life when one develops from a child into an adult
Stating a geographical or scientific fact	Water is made up of two parts hydrogen and one parts oxygen

2)   What is opinion?

·         One’s personal belief, idea, or feeling about a subject.

·         Can be a statement about future.

·         The clues to identify:

Particulars	Examples
Use of adjectives to show point of view	The climb up Gunung Ledang was exciting
Use of comparison words	Siti Nurhaliza is the most talented singer in Malaysia
Use of another words to show frequency, possibility, advisability	Sheela is probably still angry with her boyfriend for not remembering her birthday
Us of phrases to show a belief, suggestion, feeling or opinion	In my opinion, heavy metal music is not music but a lot of noise that gets on many people’s nerves

As usually, after Miss Zu has discussed about this topic, she has give a task to us. The task is to promote our product using facts and opinion. The representative of each group must in front of class to take the stuff. My group has taken skin care product which is ‘Ultra Violet Skin Solution’. We must create 5 sentences consists of this topic. On that night, all the groups shrieked to answer the questions. Finally, my group got the highest mark of going this activity.

My reflection is we must think creatively and innovatively to attract the customers to buy our product. In addition, the product that we sold must be trusted by customer.