Entertainment or Animal Cruelty?

The 5 W’s & H

Answer the questions below based on your viewing of the video.

  • Who?
  • What?
  • Where?
  • When?
  • Why?
  • How?

Use your answers to decide if this video is fair or biased and what you believe about whether bullfighting is sport or animal cruelty.

Facebook in Real Life

How does online behaviour differ from behaviour in the ‘real world’?

What are some of the social consequences when it comes to behaviour?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

The Twouble With Twitters

Pro – Con – Neutral

  1. Why would people be in favor of using Twitter?
  2. Why would people be against it?
  3. What would be a neutral position?  What is your position?

or look for the humor:

What makes this animation funny?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Dealing with Telemarketers

(Suitable for older students only)

Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with unwanted phone calls?

Imagine that you work in a call centre and are just doing your job, how do you think you would react?

Does everybody get the job they want or enjoy?  What are some reasons people might do a job they do not enjoy?

What’s so Great about Vivaldi’s Spring?

[podcast]https://ozline.com/media/Vivaldi-Spring.mp3[/podcast]

  1. Listen to podcast player.
  2. Why do you think people say this is so great?
  3. List what makes it “outstanding?”
  4. What would a person have to know to really understand and appreciate this kind of art?

Held over a Barrel?

Click on the image to see a larger version.  You can go to the original Web site to see more.

Headlines – What do you See?

  1. Write a headline that captures the most important point.

Note on this image: “Oil Barrels, 2008 – Depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river).”