DRAWING INSIGHTS

Prepared by: Jun Glyn O. Pueda

DICTIONARY
INSIGHT SYNONYMS

The capacity to intuition

gain an accurate perception
and deep intuitive awareness
understanding of understanding
a person or thing. comprehension
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in our academic
and personal
lives, we have
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“AHA”.
These instances are significant because
although we regard what has happened as
due to intuition or sudden flashes of
knowledge, these are actually the results
of a process where facts have been stored,
analyzed, and concepts have been
threaded together to come up with
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inferences or insights.
 Thus, by exposing ourselves to a wide variety of
reading material, especially those that touch on
social issues, the ability to draw insight and
conclusions to apply to lesson to real life situation
is required by the reader.

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Example situation: My boyfriend has been avoiding
me lately and has not been answering my text. Two
days ago, I saw him in the mall with another girl.
EXERCISE 1: Read the following conversations and answer the questions.

A. Look at the long line! Do you think we’ll get in?

B. I think so. Some of these people already have
tickets.
A. How much are the tickets?
B. Only nine dollars for the first show. I’ll pay.
A. Thanks. I’ll buy the popcorn.
 Answer: Getting tickets to see a
Answer: Outside a movie theater movie.

1. Where are these people?

2. What are they talking about?
3. Who are these people?

Answer: Two people who know each other e.g. Friends, boyfriend and
girlfriend, etc.
EXERCISE 1: Read the following conversations and answer the questions.

A. This is one of the reasons I hate working in a big city.

B. I know. Every day, it’s the same thing.
A. This is terrible! We may be here all night! I hope we
don’t run out of gas.
B. No, I think there’s enough.
A. Let’s turn on the radio. Maybe there’s some good
music.
B. Sorry, the radio’s not working.
A. I think I’ll take the train tomorrow.
 Answer: In a car Answer: The bad traffic

1. Where are these people?

2. What are they talking about?
3. What do you think will happen next?

Answer: Not sure but maybe they will run out of gas, start to fight or decide
to pull over and wait for the traffic to get better.
EXERCISE 1: Read the following conversations and answer the questions.

A. When did this happen?

B. Yesterday. I was playing soccer and I fell down.
A. Can you move it at all?
B. Only a little.
A. Can you walk on it?
B. No. It hurts too much.
C. I think we’ll have to take an X-ray.
D. Will I be able to play in the game tomorrow?
A. I’m afraid not.
 Answer: Patient and a doctor or
Answer: Hospital or doctor’s office
nurse

1. Where are these people?

2. Who are they?
3. What are the people talking about?

Answer: An injured leg, ankle or foot

Thank you
Let’s start with our activity!
 
1. One of the oldest games in the world is hockey. The ancient
Greeks and Persians played it. So did Native Americans. The
name comes from an old French world, hoquet. It is the word for a
shepherd's crooked staff, or stick.
crooked staff, or stick.
From the story you can infer that
a. hockey is played with a ball.
b. hockey will only last in the Renaissance period.
c. hockey has been played by French for a long time.
d. hockey will only inflict severe damages to people.
 
2. One common superstition is the fear of the number 13. The fear of

13 shows up in many places. On most airplanes there is no

thirteenth row of seats. Most tall buildings do not have a thirteenth
floor. And many people feel a bit nervous on Friday the thirteenth.

crooked staff, or stick.

 
The story does not tell
a. if tall buildings use a 13th floor.
b. if airplanes use 13 as a row number.
c. if the fear of number 13 is common or not.
d. if fear of number 13 is caused by nervousness.

crooked staff, or stick.

 
3. Bob Siekman of Pyote, Texas, has an unusual hobby. He collects
old fire trucks. As a youth, Bob watches a man build a fire truck.
Young Bob thought fires were very exciting. As a man, Bob
continued his interest in fire trucks by collecting them. He now has
twenty five old trucks in his collection.
crooked staff, or stick.
 
 
The story does not tell
a. the place where Bob Siekman finds the old trucks.
b. the unusual hobby of Bob Siekman.
c. the place where Bob Siekman lives.
d. the number of old fire trucks Bob Siekman has.
crooked staff, or stick.
 
4. One night in 1816, Mary Shelley and some friends gathered. They
took turn telling scary stories. At last Mary's turn came. She told a
story of a doctor. The doctor tried to create a man but built a
monster instead. Two years later Mary published the story in a book
called Frankenstein.
 
The story does not tell
a. what was the monster’s name.
b. what the other scary stories were about.
c. what the doctor tried to create.
d. what Mary’s scary story was about.
 
5. On May 25th, the US President John Kennedy announced that
the US would land a person on the moon before the end of
the decade. This tremendous mission cost 24 billion dollars. The
goal was finally reached when Apollo 11 landed on the moon's
surface on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and
Michael Collins were on the board of Apollo 11. Armstrong and
Aldrin spent 21 hours and 37 minutes on the moon before
returning to the command ship.
Which conclusion could NOT be made from the facts given in
the passage ?
a. The Apollo trip was costly.
b. The three astronauts walked on the moon.
c. The Apollo 11 landed on the moon’s surface successfully.
d. The US President John Kennedy was interested in the trip to the
moon.