Level 5 — Advanced · Technical & Evaluative Speaking
Drill 77: Fact, Interpretation, or Opinion? Out Loud
Say three sentences about the same situation — one fact, one interpretation, one opinion — and label each live. Building on Lesson 77's reasoning-layers skill.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this drill, you should be able to:
- Say one fact, one interpretation, and one opinion about the same situation
- Label each one immediately after saying it
- Keep the fact sentence genuinely free of judgment
Introduction
Lesson 77 taught you to tell a fact apart from an interpretation and an opinion. This drill makes you build all three live, about a real situation, and label them the instant you say them.
Shadow the Model
The warehouse processed two hundred fewer orders this week. That's a fact. This drop is likely connected to two staff members being on leave. That's an interpretation. Management should have arranged temporary cover. That's an opinion.
Shadow this once, then again faster. Notice each label comes right after its sentence, as a short, fixed tag, not a long explanation.
Your Turn
Your Turn
Think of a real situation from your work or studies. In 40 seconds, say one fact, one interpretation, and one opinion about it, labelling each one right after you say it.
Speak now — fact, interpretation, opinion, each labelled
Record Yourself
Record your three sentences and labels, then check the fact sentence carried no hidden judgment.
Model Answer
Show a model answer
There's no single correct topic — what matters is the three-way split. One natural version: "The delivery app's rating dropped from 4.6 to 4.1 over three months. That's a fact. The drop likely reflects slower delivery after the courier partner changed. That's an interpretation. The company shouldn't have switched providers without testing reliability first. That's an opinion." Check your own fact sentence for any hidden judgment word.
Vocabulary in Context
tagverbneutral
to attach a short label to something right after stating it (চিহ্নিত করা)
Often with tag a statement, tag as, tag with
“After each statement I tag it: 'That is a fact', or 'That is my opinion'.”
reasonableadjectiveneutral
fair and sensible, in a way most people would accept (যুক্তিসঙ্গত)
Often with reasonable assumption, reasonable doubt, reasonable price
“It is reasonable to assume the delay was caused by the storm.”
Self-Check
Self-Check
- Did you say all three sentences and their labels without a long planning pause?
- Is your fact sentence genuinely free of any inference or judgment word?
- Would another reasonable person be able to disagree with your opinion sentence specifically, and not the fact?
Next: Speaking 78 — Naming a Sentence's Job Out Loud: saying two sentences that each do a different rhetorical job, then naming live what job each one performs.