Name: ___________________________
Fact and Opinion (Activity 2)
Directions: Read each statement and then circle whether it is a fact or opinion. Explain your answer.
1. The history of ballet began in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
2. Dancing is a safe and healthy activity.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
3. Hip hop dancing has been featured in movies such as Step Up and Stomp the Yard.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
4. People have been dancing for thousands of years.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
5. Ballet dancing requires more training than hip hop dancing.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
6. Dancing isn’t a real sport.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
7. It takes two people to do the Tango as it was intended to be done.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
8. In 2007 over 8,400 people were hospitalized in America for dance related injuries.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
9. Ballet dancing is more respectable than hip hop dancing.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
10. The longest that anyone has played a dancing video game in one session is 24 hours and 2 minutes.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
11. Dancing is a lot more fun when you have a partner.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
12. Break dancing is a style of dance that originated in New York in the 1970s.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
13. Michael Jackson is one of the greatest dancers of all time.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
14. Dancing is forbidden in some societies.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
15. Kevin Bacon plays the leading role in the movie Footloose.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
16. It is hard to dance without the right kind of music playing.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
17. The waltz is danced in triple time.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
18. The tarantella is a folk dance that originated in Italy.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
19. The waltz is a classy dance.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
20. Tap dancing is one of the most difficult styles of dance to master.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
21 Tap dancing shoes have a piece of metal called a “tap” attached to the heel and toe.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
22. Ballroom dancing is more sophisticated than krump dancing.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
23. Choreography is an important part of the music industry.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
24. Line dancers generally do not make physical contact with each other.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
25. More youngsters should settle their rivalries through competitive dance instead of fighting.
Fact or Opinion Explain: _____________________________________________________________
