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Global Perspectives Course Terminology

The document provides terminology and definitions for key concepts in the course. It includes activities to familiarize students with these terms. Activity 1 matches terms like "claim", "evidence", and "viewpoint" with their definitions. Activity 2 asks students to define personal, local, national, and global perspectives. Activity 3 is a crossword puzzle that uses command terms like "analyze", "explain", and "evaluate" as clues.

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Global Perspectives Course Terminology

The document provides terminology and definitions for key concepts in the course. It includes activities to familiarize students with these terms. Activity 1 matches terms like "claim", "evidence", and "viewpoint" with their definitions. Activity 2 asks students to define personal, local, national, and global perspectives. Activity 3 is a crossword puzzle that uses command terms like "analyze", "explain", and "evaluate" as clues.

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Terminology and Definitions

Throughout the course, you will need to feel comfortable with a wide range of terminology. Work
through the activities and familiarise yourself with the course terminology.

Activity 1: Common Concepts

Fill in the boxes to match the terms with the correct definitions.

Statement of something being true

A line of reasoning to support an idea / perspective

A particular way of looking at something

An important topic / problem for discussion

Something which produces a result; a person or thing which is


responsible for a situation, action or event

A result / effect which follows logically from a cause; something which


happens because of another situation, action or event

Facts or information to support and validate an argument

Something that is true or can be verified to be true

Beliefs, views or judgements – can’t check whether it’s true

What we think might happen in the future

A judgement where we consider whether it is good and bad or right and


wrong – can’t check whether it’s true or not but can consider whether it’s
reasonable or acceptable

A judgment that is inclined towards one side so it is unfair

To have a personal reason for involvement / agreement, especially


because there is some personal gain

opinion viewpoint / perspective cause biased judgment


vested interest argument valued judgment consequence
fact issue prediction claim evidence

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Activity 2: Perspectives

How would you define the following terms?

1. “Personal Perspective”

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2. “Local Perspective”

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3. “National Perspective”

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4. “Global Perspective”

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5. “Cultural Perspective”

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Activity 3: Command Terms

Use the clues to complete the crossword.

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7 8 9

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12 11

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Across Down
2. To look for and state the differences / 1. To break down a topic into issues and explore
similarities these issues
4. To express your own opinion 3. To give the main facts about something
7. To say what something is like 5. To use experience or knowledge to suggest
10. To give a detailed response of the reasons for what might happen
how or why something is true 6. To give and explain the reasons for something
11. To answer briefly by picking out an answer 8. To identify the strengths and weaknesses
13. To combine two or more pieces of information 9. To think about the different choices given
to support an argument 12. To consider the evidence presented and
make an informed judgment

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