Teach students how to question what they read online.

In this interactive ESL activity, students become news investigators and analyze whether a story is reliable or misleading.

Using a foldable investigation worksheet, learners examine:

• the headline
• the source
• the evidence
• the language used in the article

Students then make a final decision: Truth or Clickbait?

The activity encourages discussion, reasoning and evidence-based thinking while practicing English.

The worksheet includes investigation prompts such as evaluating whether a headline is trying to inform or attract attention, judging if a source is reliable, and identifying the strongest evidence.

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✔ 1 Investigation worksheet
✔ 1 foldable cut-out activity
✔ speaking discussion prompts
✔ critical thinking task
✔ classroom or small-group activity

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