Explicit and Implicit Information

L.O. To understand the differences between explicit and implicit information.

Key WordsFact

Opinion False factImplicitExplicit

5

Using a dictionary, define these

words

We always need to be able to find EXPLICIT and IMPLICIT information

from a text. This study session questions about NON-FICTION texts to practice.

What is the difference between explicit and implicit?

Explicit – clearly stated so there is no room for confusion or questions.

Implicit – implied or suggested, but not clearly stated.

Label or list the EXPLICIT information on each of these images.

Explicit – clearly stated so there is no room for confusion or questions.Implicit – implied or suggested, but not clearly stated. 5

Check your work: did you pick out explicit information or implicit information?

Explicit – clearly stated so there is no room for confusion or questions.Implicit – implied or suggested, but not clearly stated.

Explicit• What body parts are pictured

in the image?• What are they doing?• What is tied around them?• What winged insect is

pictured? What colour is it?

Explicit• What metal rings have been used

to reflect a human form in this art work?

• What shape/position has the body taken?

• What parts of the sculpture are chains tied around?

Now have a go: identify the IMPLICT information (use the questions to help).

Explicit – clearly stated so there is no room for confusion or questions.

Implicit – implied or suggested, but not clearly stated.

Extension: compare the similarities and differences

between the images.

Implicit

• What do you associate with a butterfly?

• Why are the hands tied with chains? What can you infer?

• What theme do you think the artist was trying to convey?

Implicit• What theme do you think the

artist was trying to convey?• Why has the artist chosen to to

sculpt the human shape using chains?

• The body is sculpted in a distorted position. Why? How does this reflect the theme.

10

7

Fight for freedom – Source A (modern)

She is a Pakistani teenager who was protesting against the oppressive regime in her country which meant that only boys were allowed to go to school. Her public protests made her a target; in 2012, after she boarded her school bus, she was shot three times by a gunman.

The assassination attempt sparked a national and international outpouring of support for Yousafzai and, in 2014, Malala was announced as the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

What do you know about Malala?

Read again source A, from lines 1 to 14.

Choose four statements below which are TRUE.

a. Malala’s father is worried by the painting not hanging straight.

b. Malala went to school with her leg hurt

c. Miss Shazia dreamt that Malala had burned her leg.

d. The family give cooked rice to the poor.

e. Malala often heard footsteps following her to school.

f. Malala feared the Taliban and their actions.

g. The Taliban were known to throw acid in the face of women.

h. Malala ran up the steps by her house because she was so scared.

4 marks

Reading for EXPLICIT information:

You need to choose factual statements- not opinions or false facts

One morning in late summer, when my father was getting ready to go the school he noticed that the painting of me looking at the sky which we had been given by the school in Karachi had shifted in the night. He loved that painting and had hung it over his bed. Seeing it crooked disturbed him. ‘Please put it straight,’ he asked by mother in an unusually sharp tone.

That same week our maths teacher Miss Shazia arrived at school in a hysterical state. She told my father that she’d had a nightmare in which I came to school with my leg badly burned and she had tried to protect it. She begged him to give some cooked rice to the poor, as we believe that if you give rice, even ants and birds will eat the bits that drop to the floor and will pray for us. My father gave money instead and she was distraught, saying that wasn’t the same.

We laughed at Miss Shazia’s premonition, but then I started to have bad dreams too. I didn’t say anything to my parents but whenever I went out I was afraid that Taliban guns would leap out at me or throw acid in my face, as they had done to women in Afghanistan. I was particularly scared of the steps leading up our street where the boys used to hang out. Sometimes I thought I heard footsteps behind me or imagined figures slipping into the shadows.

Learning Checkpoint

Malala is from Pakistan

Is it:

Fact

Opinion

False fact

Learning Checkpoint

Malala was shot 8 times by gunmen

Is it:

Fact

Opinion

False fact?

Learning Checkpoint

Terrorists do not want women to have an education because it means women will

become more powerful.

Is it:

Fact

Opinion

False fact?

Learning Checkpoint

Malala stared intensely at the crowd, never

glancing away. Her tiny voice grew louder with every word she spoke. Malala was no cub- she

was a lion!

• What are you explicitly told about Malala?

• What are you implicitly told about Malala?

One morning in late summer, when my father was getting ready to go the school he noticed that the painting of me looking at the sky which we had been given by the school in Karachi had shifted in the night. He loved that painting and had hung it over his bed. Seeing it crooked disturbed him. ‘Please put it straight,’ he asked by mother in an unusually sharp tone.

That same week our maths teacher Miss Shazia arrived at school in a hysterical state. She told my father that she’d had a nightmare in which I came to school with my leg badly burned and she had tried to protect it. She begged him to give some cooked rice to the poor, as we believe that if you give rice, even ants and birds will eat the bits that drop to the floor and will pray for us. My father gave money instead and she was distraught, saying that wasn’t the same.

We laughed at Miss Shazia’s premonition, but then I started to have bad dreams too. I didn’t say anything to my parents but whenever I went out I was afraid that Taliban guns would leap out at me or throw acid in my face, as they had done to women in Afghanistan. I was particularly scared of the steps leading up our street where the boys used to hang out. Sometimes I thought I heard footsteps behind me or imagined figures slipping into the shadows.

Read again source A, from lines 1 to 14.

Choose four statements below which are TRUE.

a. Malala’s father is worried by the painting not hanging straight.

b. Malala went to school with her leg hurt

c. Miss Shazia dreamt that Malala had burned her leg.

d. The family give cooked rice to the poor.

e. Malala often heard footsteps following her to school.

f. Malala feared the Taliban and their actions.

g. The Taliban were known to throw acid in the face of women.

h. Malala ran up the steps by her house because she was so scared.

4 marks

To successfully identify explicit information within a text (Q1)

Now, let’s read for IMPLICIT information:

my father was getting ready to go the school he noticed that the painting of me looking at the sky which we had been given by the school in

Karachi had shifted in the night.

Reread lines 1 and 2. What is implied or

suggested?

Try and answer this in an SQI paragraph:

What do we learn about Malala from the first two lines?

Now read the text on the following slide. Choose your own section of that text (approximately 1-10 lines) and create your own test for reading for EXPLICIT information:

Read again source B, from lines ________.

Choose four statements below which are TRUE.

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

f.

g.

h.

4 marks

Fight for freedom– Text B (19th Century)

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave. My mother’s mistress was the daughter of my grandmother’s mistress. She was the foster sister of my mother. They played together as children; and, when they became women, my mother was a most faithful servant to her whiter foster sister.

I grieved for her, and my young mind was troubled with the thought who would now take care of me and my little brother. I was told that my home was now to be with her mistress; and I found it a happy one. My mistress was so kind to me that I was always glad to do her bidding, and proud to labor for her as much as my young years would permit. I would sit by her side for hours, sewing diligently, with a heart as free from care as that of any free-born white child. Those happy days - too happy to last. The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to a chattel1.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. I was now old enough to begin to think of the future; and again and again I asked myself what they would do with me. I felt sure I should never find another mistress so kind as the one who was gone. After a brief period of suspense, the will of my mistress was read, and we learned that she had bequeathed2 me to her sister’s daughter, a child of five years old.

1chattel – possession2bequeathed – left in a will 8

The following extract is a first-person narrative written in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs. She was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist campaigner; ‘abolitionist’ means anti-slavery, which was still legal in the United States at the start of the Civil War, which itself started in 1861.