Distinguishing Between

FACT AND OPINION

What are the differences?

1.Are the pictures familiar to you?
2.Have you been in this situation?
3.What is your idea about the picture?
4.How typhoon occurs?
Analyze the sentences.
 Your heart pumps blood through your body.
 It is better to live in Singapore than in Japan.

 Some people keep dogs as pets.

 Liza Soberano is more beautiful than Janella

Salvador.
HINTS FOR DECIDING IF A
STATEMENT IS FACT OR OPINION

 To recognize a FACT:
 Read each answer choice and ask yourself:
 “Can this statement be proved?”
Example: Which of these is a fact?
A. We live in the best apartment in the city.
B. I believe that summer is the best season.
C. I think that spaghetti is a delicious meal.
D. The Poughkeepsie Journal is a newspaper.
HINTS FOR DECIDING IF A
STATEMENT IS A FACT OR
OPINION
 To recognize an OPINION:
 Read each answer choice and ask
yourself “Does this statement tell what
someone thinks, feels, or believes?”
 Look in the answer choice for clue
words that signal an opinion
OPINION EXAMPLES:
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT AN
OPINION STATEMENT?
 I think that Colorado is the best state in

which to live.
 Chocolate cake is the most delicious kind of

dessert.
 Nearly 65% of our teens are over-weight.

 Taylor Swift is the greatest singer ever!

FACTS
 Facts are statements that can be checked or
proved
 We can check facts by conducting some sort
of experiment, observation, or by
verifying (checking) the fact with a source
document
 Facts often contain numbers, dates, or ages
 Facts might include specific information
about a person, place or thing
OPINIONS
 An opinion is a statement that cannot
be proved or checked
 It tells what someone thinks, feels, or
believes
 Clue words for opinion statements are:
 think, feel, believe, seem
 always, never, all, none, most, least,
best, greatest, worst
When you’re writing….
 Remember:
 Facts are often used
to support opinions
 Good opinions are
based on facts, but
they are still opinions
Write the word Fact or Opinion for each of the statements below. Use another sheet in
answering the activity.
 
_____1. The latest poll shows a marked increase in the dropouts from
public schools.
_____2. Volleyball is great! It makes me famous.
 ____3. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is the 17th President of
the Philippines.
 ____4. All children go to school.
 ____5. Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of six players
are separated by a net.
____6.All Boholanos are hospitable.
____7.We have a common national language- Filipino.
____8.Many foreign countries are far better than our country.
____9.The Philippines is known to be the Pearl of the Orient Seas with around
7,640 islands.
____10.Computers will soon replace teachers and books inside the classroom.