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UNIT 10 3 Evaluating pros and cons Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. Lesson objectives: • Use vocabulary for talking about evaluating pros and cons • Listen to people evaluating pros and cons • Critical thinking: evaluate the pros and cons of making a specific decision 1 When was the last time you made a decision about whether or not to do something? What was the decision about? 2 How easy or difficult was it to make this decision? Why do you think that was? 2 Match the words (1-5) to the definitions (a-e). 48 1 evaluate a to be more important than something 2 pros and cons 3 a value 4 a chart column 5 to outweigh something b a number which shows how important or good something is c the good and bad aspects of doing something d a drawing that shows information in an organized way on a vertical part of a chart e to look at or think about something and use this information to decide what you think 3 How do you think you could use a chart of pros and cons to help you make decisions more easily? Make notes on your answer to the question. Look at the chart that a dad and his teenage son made when they were evaluating the pros and cons of a decision. What do you think the decision was? 5 6 Pros 1 It looks very good.. Cons 4 It's very expensive.. 2 It's the same as my friends' phones. 5 I'll spend more time looking at a screen. 3 You can take good photos with it because it has a better camera. 6 It would be terrible to break or lose it. Total: Total: Listen to the first part of the conversation between the dad and son who made the chart in Exercise 4 and check your answers. Listen to the whole conversation. Complete the chart with the information you hear.

7 Complete the flow chart showing how to evaluate pros and cons with the correct words. chart column outweigh the pros or the cons together value How to evaluate pros and cons: UNIT 10 5 Draw a decision in. to write the pros and cons of making the ↓ Write the pros in one. and the cons in the other one. ↓ Give each pro or con a. important you think it is. according to how Add all the values ↑ Look to see which number is higher: the number for 6 If the number for the pros is higher than the number for the cons, the pros the cons. That means you should make the decision. Evaluating pros and cons We need to use the skill of evaluating pros and cons every time we make a big decision about whether to do something or not. Evaluating the pros and cons before we make a decision is important because it helps us to focus on the possible effects of taking the action we're thinking about taking. We don't only need to think about what the pros and cons are, we also need to think about how important those pros and cons are. For example, there could be a lot of pros to doing something and not many cons, but the pros might be unimportant and the cons could be very important. In that situation, we shouldn't make the decision. * TASK Work in groups. 1 Think of something in the digital world that you would like to do, for example, starting an account that shares interesting videos for teenagers. Evaluate the pros and cons of the decision to do the thing that you've chosen. Follow the steps in the flow chart. 2 Present the chart that your group made to the class. Use it to explain the decision you made. Talk about how easy or difficult it was to make the decision and how the chart helped you to do this. 49