1. Learning about Language
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Infer and Deduce

2. Infer & Deduce
Objective:
To learn how to infer and deduce information from a text

3. Look at this picture very carefully. What can you see?
Infer and Deduce
Look at this picture very carefully. What can you see?
We all see different things when we look at an image or read a book. Being able to infer and deduce is about looking closely and picking up clues that tell us more about the character or plot.

4. What can you see?

5. What can you see?

6. Infer & Deduce What do the facial features and clothes
suggest about this man?
What does this image of his home
tell us about him?

7. Look carefully at this Victorian illustration what can you infer and deduce from it about the character pictured?

8. Infer and Deduce
Look at the following images. Discuss what you think has happened. Use evidence from the picture to help you.

9. Infer and Deduce
Look at the following images. Discuss what you think has happened. Use evidence from the picture to help you.

10. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

11. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’
This extract is taken from Chapter Five of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. Read the final section of the extract again:
It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
Using your inference and deduction skills try to answer the following questions:
Does the narrator sound energetic or exhausted? Explain your answer.
Does the creature appear attractive? Explain your opinion.
What do the words ‘breathed hard’, ‘convulsive’ and ‘agitated’ suggest?

12. ‘Street Trash: Beggars of Britain’
This is the title of the article...
What do you think the article is going to be about?

13. Extracting information Questions
1) Look at paragraph 4 Write down three other taboos Parson mentions.
2) Look at paragraph 7, In your own words, explain why the writer thinks begging is a bad thing.

14. Imagery Questions
Look at paragraph 7, pick out an image that tells you that the writer thinks that beggars are a drain on society.
Explain how effective you find the simile in paragraph 7

15. Sentence structure questions
Explain how the writer uses sentence structure in paragraph 4 to put his point across.
Explain the effect of the repetition in the first paragraph.