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IDENTIFYING PREMISE AND CONCLUSION

A. Look at the following sentences and write the premise and conclusion into the table.

He likes to play with cooking toys. He may become a cook when he grows up.

Premise Conclusion

1. She chooses a different path to go to school everyday. Also, she doesn’t always want to
follow the same strategies while she is studying for her classes. She changes them every once
in a while. Clearly, she is not very fond of routines and likes to make changes every now and
then.

Premise Conclusion

2. The committee decided that the soil was appropriately fertile. They decided to grow
pumpkins there.

Premise Conclusion

3. Children of younger ages have a shorter attention span. They cannot concentrate on one
activity for long periods of time. Of course, because of this kindergarten teachers try to keep
their activities short.

Premise Conclusion

4. They put a special kind of cheese inside their pizza. It completely changes the taste and
aroma of the pizza.

Premise Conclusion
5. Science and scientific information is constantly changing. New information is revealed
everyday. In fact, there are a lot of new discoveries which state the opposite of what was
scientifically acceptable in the past. This creates feelings of disbelief and distrust in science
among a great many people.

Premise Conclusion

B. Read the following essay and write the sentences showing premise (P) and conclusion (C) into
the table below.

1. There are certain points in our life when the brain starts to perform differently. The age of forty
is one of these checkpoints. After our early forties, brain performance starts to decrease.
Nevertheless, our brains are very adaptable and they respond to experiences; especially
repetitive exercise helps the brain learn, grow, strenghten and develop. That is why scientists are
recommending people to incorporate easy exercises into their daily lives in order not to
experience the side effects of the decline in mental functions after early forties.

2. In an experiment performed at the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas at Dallas,
researchers studied brain changes among people aged 56-71. Over a 12-week period,
participants were in one-hour length sessions of directed brain exercise. It was observed that in
the participants brains connections were made between different parts related to learning and
communication. According to Dr. Sina Aslan, who is the founder and president of Advance MRI,
this research shows that cognitive training increases brain blood flow, which is very important in
showing how healthy the brain is. He adds that this finding suggests keeping mentally active
helps in keeping your brain young and preventing age-related losses.

3. Video games and strategic board games (such as chess) work well for keeping logic and reasoning
skills. Other options are social interaction or any activity that requires you to identify a desired
outcome and then calculate choices and develop a plan to achieve success. Logic and reasoning
skills are the basis for making decisions, so the more you engage activities and exercise as the
above, the better results you can achieve when it comes to brain performance.

4. Attention is one of the most important elements of cognition and it decreases with age. Your
ability to focus allows you to concentrate and be productive despite distractions. It is a valuable
brain function. Increasing this brain ability is as simple as changing your routine. As important as
it is to be able to pay attention, sometimes it’s even better to give your brain a break. Stilling
your mind breaks its rhythm, which causes it to refresh. Giving your mind a break allows it to
return to tasks later with increased perspective and creativity. You can think of this as a sort of
interval training for your brain. Dr. Chapman suggests a “Five by Five” principle “where you take
a break from whatever you’re doing five times a day for at least five minutes to reset.”

5. Language games stimulate your brain to understand, remember, and recognize words. The more
you practice fluency in language, the more quickly your brain will retrieve old words and
embrace new ones. Taking the time to understand new words in context especially trains your
brain to remember them, since you increase the associations linked with the definition. A simple
way to engage this process is to read articles outside your normal realm of interest. Rather than
reading the business section of the newspaper, read the sports or science section instead.

6. Stop multitasking. Constant simultaneous in/output fatigues your brain and leads to reduced
efficiency and productivity. When you need to focus on higher-order thinking (those tasks that
really require full access to your brain power), you’ll achieve more if you allow your focus to
remain uninterrupted for at least 15 minutes at a time.

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