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Crafting Specific Opinions: Avoiding Broad Statements
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of crafting opinions that are not too broad for a given topic. They guide students through the process of identifying broad opinions, brainstorming specific details, and revising their...
Curated Video
Adding Purpose to Your Opinion Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of adding a purpose to opinion writing. They differentiate between facts and opinions and emphasize the need for opinions to be supported and have relevance to others. The teacher...
Curated Video
Using Facts and Opinions in Opinion Writing
This video is a helpful guide for students on how to effectively incorporate opinions and facts in their opinion writing. It explains the difference between opinions and facts, provides examples, and encourages students to strengthen...
Curated Video
Crafting a Memorable Closing: Telling a Story to Support Your Opinion
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of a memorable closing in a letter and provides three possible ways to end a letter: using a plea for action, telling a story that supports your opinion, or stating why your thinking...
Seven Dimensions
Presenting Reports and Opinions
This video canvasses the elements that must comprise effective presentation of reports and opinions for court. Expert Evidence part 8
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Nailing Non-Fiction - Finer Details of Analysing Non-fiction Texts (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
Our second lesson tackles the finer details in written, verbal and visual non-fiction texts. Discover how non-fiction texts like news articles, speeches and documentaries use a variety of techniques to inform and persuade their...
Curated Video
Analysing effective opinion articles
Pupil outcome: I can identify the features of effective opinion writing. Key learning points: - The form of a piece is the kind of writing it is. - The form of a piece informs the tone you use. - Opinion writing requires a strong sense...
SciShow
Impulse Buying: Why You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need
You may have noticed that checkout lines often have whozits and whatzits galore, but your opinion of them mostly depends on how a couple different regions of your brain work.
Curated Video
3 Strategies to Become a Wonderfully Winning IELTS Writer
Today you learn about 3 strategies that will turn you into a high-scoring IELTS writer! Students often ask, “How do I improve my writing?” Or, also often, IELTS teachers hear, “How do I come up with ideas for my essays?” Good news! If...
Curated Video
Adding Strong Evidence to Support Arguments
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using strong and relevant evidence to support reasons in argumentative writing. The teacher provides examples and prompts for students to practice adding evidence to their writing....
Curated Video
Writing Strong Introductions: Making Your Topic and Purpose Clear
In this video, the teacher guides students through the process of writing an effective introduction for an opinion text. They explain the three main parts of an introduction and provide examples to help students understand how to...
Curated Video
Identify Persuasive Texts
“Identify Persuasive Texts” identifies the characteristics of a persuasive writing piece.
Curated Video
6 Ways to Use 1 News Article- Increase IELTS Scores Quickly
Did you know you can increase all of your IELTS scores using only 1 news article? Here’s how! 1. Read the news article for overall comprehension. Don’t stop to look up vocabulary. 2. Write a short summary of the article in your own...
Curated Video
A Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.195 Word Nerd: Adamant
The word "adamant" originates from the Latin word "aramas," meaning a hard stone, and has evolved to denote anything unbreakable. In Shakespeare's era, "adamant" specifically referred to a lodestone or naturally occurring magnet,...
Curated Video
Nonfiction Expository Writing: Tigers
Mr. Griot describes how to write a nonfiction expository writing essay.
Curated Video
Author’s Purpose Types
Author’s Purpose Types explores the three types of author’s purpose: to entertain, to persuade, and to inform.
Step Back History
What is the Gnostic Religion?
Long-buried secret books of the Bible. A good an evil god. A Gospel of Judas. These are all parts of a mysterious early branch of sects in Christianity called the Gnostics. Who were these people? What did they believe? And why did it...
Curated Video
Evaluating Claims and Reasoning
This video describes claims and reasoning supporting a claim.
Makematic
Who Constructs History?
Historians, archaeologists, archivists and cartographers use primary sources, like diaries, tools, and maps, to unlock the secrets of the past and sort the fact from fiction.
National Geographic
She Summited Everest. Now, She's Inspiring Others to Explore | Short Film Showcase
Tine Mena is the first woman from North East India to summit Mount Everest. Her ascent was focused on raising awareness about climbing for the youth in Arunachal Pradesh, where she lives. Now, Mena shares her knowledge of the outdoors...
National Geographic
Experience the Underwater World Through the Eyes of a Free Diver | Short Film Showcase
Free diver Guillaume Néry takes you on an underwater journey that will take your breath away. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Short Film Showcase: http://bit.ly/ShortFilmShowcase About Short Film Showcase: The Short...
National Geographic
One Man’s Walk in the Snow Creates a Giant Masterpiece | Short Film Showcase
Simon Beck is a snow artist who creates huge designs in the snow by simply walking in a pair of snowshoes. He believes that inspiration goes before motivation, and nature's perfect patterns inspire him to create something new every time...
National Geographic
Cattoos: How This Tattoo Artist Helps to Immortalize Beloved Pets | Short Film Showcase
Betty Rose is a "cattoo" artist—a cattoo being a tattoo of a cat. The first cattoo she made is on her husband's leg, and since that piece she's gone from making cattoos sporadically to doing them on a weekly basis. Rose knows how...
National Geographic
Lose Yourself in the Exquisite Beauty of the Alaskan Wilderness | Short Film Showcase
With Bob Marshall’s poetic words as your guide, immerse yourself in the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness with this stunning short film by filmmaker Tom Welsh. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Short Film Showcase:...