Fact or Opinion

Just a little activity you could do before you start revision. This helps with the Paper 1 section A in the AQA specification, and many other specifications.

(The first peice or text is from Letts and Lonsdale's book: AQA GCSE English: aiming for A*)

Uploaded: Wed 27th May, 2009 @ 11:41 by Bekki

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Joy Rowell

Fri 30th April, 2010 @ 12:46

The soldiers have been accused of terrible attrocities. They have tortured and degraded the prisoners who now hold them in nothing but contempt.

Whether or not this is fact or opinion depends on your political and ethical viewpoint - 'the soldiers have been accused' is a fact; the torture is a fact; the reaction of the prisoners is a fact for many prisoners; whether or not you consider torture to be degrading is a matter of opinion - therefore probably not the best example to illustrate the clear difference between fact and opinion.