Teacher Training English Program: Videos

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Critical Thinking Chapter 3 Videos 

Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence

Here are four ESL videos which demonstrate fallacies of insufficient evidence.

  1. Like it or not
  2. Freakonomics
  3. Beer
  4. George Bush

Here are four more videos with insufficient evidence fallacies.

  1. Bill O’Reilly
  2. Don’t sell your hair
  3. Justin Bieber
  4. Joe the Plumber 

Here are four videos that use analogies to make an argument.

  1. Boyfriend
  2. Ice Cream
  3. Pizza
  4. Kids and NRA 

 

EVEN MORE FALLACIES

Read these arguments. Then rewrite the argument using the simplified sentence and identify the fallacy.

1 If I make an exception for you then I have to make an exception for everyone.

2 You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your gambling habit.

3 Scientists cannot prove that global warming will occur. Therefore, it probably won’t happen.

4 You cannot prove that ghosts do not exist so they must exist.

5 Fred, the Australian, stole my wallet. I guess all Australians are thieves.

6 Since I’m not lying, it is obvious that I’m telling the truth.

7 The President does not want to buy the new fighter jet. I think that is a bad idea. I can’t understand why she wants to make our military so weak.

8. If they weren’t so stupid they would understand my point.

9 I think capital punishment is okay because the government is killing people who have already killed.

10 The bigger a child’s shoe size, the better the child’s ability to speak English.