During this lesson you will learn more about inferring information in English
Do you know what inferring information is?
Inferring involves making educated guesses or drawing conclusions based on available evidence.
So today, you are going to make some educated guesses about the user of some services
Grammar Focus
Task#0A
Understand these grammar structures
The modals of deduction are used to indicate degrees of certainty or probability when making deductions or drawing conclusions about a situation or event.
The English modal verbs “must”, “have to”, “might” “can’t” and “couldn’t” are used to express deduction.
For example:
- He must be around here because his car is parked there.
- You have worked all day, you must be tired
- He has an expensive car, he must have some money
- Her son is at university so she must be at least 40
- Jerry is very tall so he might be good at basketball.
- I heard a noise, there might be a cat on the roof.
- It can’t be a mechanical problem, the car is new.
- They can’t be Spanish, they’re speaking Portuguese.
- He could be stuck in traffic; that’s why he’s running late.
These are some examples of deductions that could be made in different fields
An Example Related to Information Technologies
This is a statement: Someone uses VMWare every day
- He might be a developer.
- He might be a programmer
- He might have studied information technologies.
- He must be a white-hat hacker.
- He must believe in open source.
- He must have studied programming or something
- He can’t be our professor since he can’t create a virtual machine
- He can be a hacker, he is always using virtual machines
- He could care about privacy
- He could be a white-hat hacker
- It seems that he cares about privacy.
- It seems that he cares about security.
- It is very likely that he works in security.
- It is very likely that he tests software for a living.
- He probably like testing new technologies
- He probably uses RAT software
- I think that he is a IT professor
- I think that he is a tech-savy guy.
Pre-Task #1
Task#1A
Be ready to play
Instructions
- Go to Quizziz
- Type the code
- Answer the questions the best way you can
Pre-Task #2
Task#2A
Check the deck of cards and make inferences
For example:
| A | He is 18 and knows how to code |
| B | He must have learned coding on his own |
Pre-Task #3
Task#2A
Check this vocabulary before reading the passage
| #1 | Freelancer |
| #2 | Assets |
| #3 | Logs |
| #4 | Over the weekend |
| #5 | Login Attempts |
| #6 | Unknown |
| #7 | To seem |
| #8 | Owners |
| #9 | Breach |
| #10 | Business Operations |
| #11 | To Delve Deeper |
Task#2A
Read the text and make inferences about the hackers, their intentions and what they know
Ecommerce under Attack
Alex works as a freelancer for a big eCommerce powered by WordPress. The site sells around $5000 a day in digital assets.
Alex checked the security logs and noticed that over the weekend, 20 thousand login attempts were made from 100 unknown IP addresses
The login attempts seem to include old passwords used by the site owners or passwords created using their public personal information.
As Alex delves deeper into the logs, he discovers that the attempted breach is originating from a country where the company doesn’t have any legitimate users or business operations.
Main-Task
Task#3A
What do these words mean?
| #1 | Features |
| #2 | Setup |
| #3 | Weekly updates |
| #4 | Threats |
| #5 | Open Source |
| #6 | Self-Hosted |
| #7 | Powerful |
| #8 | Ghost |
| #9 | Newsletter |
| #10 | Paid subscriptions |
| #11 | Deploy |
| #12 | Instance |
| #13 | Management |
Task#3B
Read the following text to understand what Ghost is
Ghost is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content.
Ghost comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
You can use Ghost Pro or self-hosted Ghost
Task#3C
Read the comparison between Ghost Pro and Self-Hosted Ghost
Task#3D
Read the comparison between Ghost Pro and Self-Hosted Ghost
Based on the comparison chart:
- What 3 things can you infer about the Ghost Pro users?
- What 3 things can you infer about the self-hosted Ghost users?
Task#3E
Prepare to share your inferences about both type of users
Instructions:
- Stand up
- Share and compare your inferences with other classmates
- Don’t stop until ten minutes have passed
Post-Task
Task#3A
Write inferences based on the situation given
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