Do you agree or disagree?
1) You are a university student.
external feedback from potential employers; personal artifacts (university card); personal experience (application and acceptance process)
2) Hong Kong is a city in China.
personal experience (history lesson) national holidays
3) There are about seven million people living in Hong Kong.
personal experience (remembering some vague statistics)
1) You are a university student.
personal artifact (ID card), personal experience (having lessons in university),
2) Hong Kong is a city in China.
personal experience (I see Chinese people and culture everywhere!), external information in a legal document (Basic Law)
3) There are about seven million people living in Hong Kong.
external information (television news), external information (primary school lesson)
4) I am Chinese
5) Foreigners find it difficult to learn Cantonese.
no personal experience (being a foreigner; learning Cantonese as a second language; knowing foreigners who have tried to learn Cantonese)
6) There are many opportunities to speak English.
personal experience (unable to speak Cantonese), personal experience (being around Chinese people and culture)
Task Two
1. Fact
2. Opinion (I thought; argumentative)
3. Fact
4. Fact
5. Opinion (
1) Fact
2) Opinion (I thought; argumentative)
3) Fact
4) Fact
5) Opinion (reckless fool)
6) Fact
7) Opinion (imperialists)
8) Fact
9) Opinion (I thought; excellent)
10) Fact
11) Opinion (Should, damn)
12) Opinion (Coward)
Task Three
What is the writer's organizational affiliation?
Voice of America
How do you think this might bias what he says?
Pro-American agenda
Find two apparent truths. Why are they used?
...skyrocketing economy pull millions
Find two examples where academic style, quotations or paraphrases are used to validate writers ideas.
Find two examples of persuasive language used to validate the writers ideas.
To what extend do you agree with him; is there an opposing aspect to this issue that is not brought out in the article?