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ENGLISH
Second Quarter – Module 1

SDO TAGUIG CITY AND PATEROS

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Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and evaluated by the

Development and Quality Assurance Teams of SDO TAPAT to assist you
in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum
while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in
schooling.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while
allowing them to manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are
expected to encourage and assist the learners as they do the tasks
included in the module.

For the learner:

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and
time. You will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource
while being an active learner.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any
part of the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the
exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer Let’s Try before moving on to the other
activities included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through
with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do
not hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind
that you are not alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful

learning and gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You
can do it!

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 Let’s Learn
Listening is one of the most important skills a person should have.
As we do our everyday activities like having a conversation with our family
and friends, listening to a relaxing music or even watching television for
the latest news, understanding the details and information from it requires
us to be an active listener which means we should pay attention to whoever
we are listening to. In this module, we will focus on the use of different
strategies in listening to short texts and how you can improve that skill.

The module is divided into two lessons, namely:

• Lesson 1 – Listening Based on Purpose
• Lesson 2 - Familiarity with the Topic
• Lesson 3 – Listening with Varying Levels of Difficulty

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. extract information from the text listened to;
2. note important ideas;
3. sequence of events;
4. make sound predictions.

Let’s Try

Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the letter on a separate sheet of
paper.

1. A successful process of conveying or sharing of ideas and feelings

a. Learning c. Communication
b. Chatting d. Open forum
2. A verbal, written, or recorded communication sent to or left of a
recipient who cannot be contacted directly
a. Message c. Mode
b. Speech d. Delivery
3. A person who receives such information
a. Message c. Delivery
b. Receiver d. Speech
4. The ability to accurately receive and interpret message in the
information process
a. Message c. Listening
b. Delivery d. Hearing
5. An auditory perception that helps us to detect and perceives
sounds and vibrations
a. Message c. Listening
b. Delivery d. Hearing

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 Lesson
Listening Strategies Based on
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Purpose
Before you listen to a text, you should be aware of its communicative
purpose. Are you listening for an important information? Or, are you
preserving a relationship with your peers or loved ones? Becoming aware of
this fact will help you to both focus on the important points and reach your
goal.

Let’s Recall
Compare these two pictures. What are their reasons of communication?
What details do you need to listen for in each conversation?
A B

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Let’s Explore

Two Purposes of Language

1. Transactional Language is used to make transactions. Its purpose is to
transfer facts and information. In churches, hospitals, schools, offices and
banks, the listener is expected to hear people use formal language in
conversations. Here is an example:

Doctor – Patient

“Eating a balance diet, getting a regular exercise,

drinking plenty of water and sleeping for 8-10
hours can help your body fight diseases.”
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patient-clipart-2.jpg

2. Interactional Language is used to maintain social relationship. The

purpose of communication here is to create a positive atmosphere, build
stronger relationship, deeper connection with others and create a comfort
zone and trust. It may be through chatting with friends, greeting someone
we met or sharing experiences with family members which may use
informal or everyday language.

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 Here is an example:
Mother – Son
“You’re in high school now, son. Be more responsible and if
you need any help don’t hesitate to tell me.”

Source:
https://www.dreamstime.com/mother-
talking-her-son-illustration-image163134094

Let’s Elaborate
Analyze the pictures and tell whether the people are engaged in
transactional and interactional listening. Give reasons for your answers.
Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
Purpose:
Reason:

1. 2. 3.
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Let’s Dig In

Pretend that you are able to eavesdrop on the conversation of the characters.
Listen attentively and prepare to answer the questions on a separate sheet of
paper.

I. At the Doctor’s

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wwBbrLL7Y

Here is the dialogue between the doctor and his

patient:

DOCTOR: Good morning, Mrs. Jones. What seems to be the problem?

PATIENT: Well doctor, I’ve got a sore throat and a bad cough. I’ve also got a headache.
DOCTOR: How long have you had these symptoms?
PATIENT: About four days now, and I’m feeling really tired too.
DOCTOR: It sounds like you’ve got the flu. Take two aspirin every four hours. You should
also get lots of rest and drink plenty of fluids. And if you don’t feel better in a
couple of days, give me a call.
PATIENT: Thank you doctor.
Answer the following questions after listening to the dialogue.

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 1. What symptoms did the patient feel that she made her visit to the
doctor?
2. For how many days was she feeling those symptoms?
3. What findings did the doctor arrive at after hearing her indications?
4. What prescriptions did the doctor gave her?
5. When is the patient advised to call the doctor?
6. Are these people engaged in transactional or interactional listening?
Why?

II. Pet Peeves

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_TOjSsxL4
A. Making Predictions
1. What does Pet Peeves mean based
on the picture?
2. Why do you think Tony looks
scared and Samantha holds her fist like
that?
3. What do you think is the relationship
of the two?

Here is the conversation between Tony and Sam.

TONY: Hey, Sam. Can I give you a hand?

SAM: Great timing, Tony. You always ask me just when I’m about to finish.
TONY: I was playing with the kids and I didn’t know you were out here.
SAM: Have you done anything I have asked you? Have you cleaned the toys in the
living room? Have you taken your suits to the dry cleaners? Have you picked
up the stuff thatI asked you to get from the grocery store? Have you taken
out the garbage? Have you?
TONY: Not yet, Sam. I’ll get to it after I have something to eat. What’s heating you
up?Why do you have such a chip on your shoulder?
SAM: Sorry, I’m just having a bad day. I think I just woke up on the wrong side of
thebed.
TONY: Absolutely, why don’t you go inside and take a nap while I’m getting lunch
ready?
SAM: Wow! That sounds fantastic. Thanks for cheering me up, Tony. You just
made myday.

B. Answer the following questions after listening to the dialogue.

1. Why is Sam annoyed with Tony?
2. What are his reasons for not doing those tasks?
3. Enumerate the things that she asked him to do.
4. Are they all accomplished by Tony? When does he plan to do them?
5. What is their agreement to solve their heated conversation?
6. In what way did listening help you maintain a good relationship
with other people?
7.Are these people engaged in transactional or interactional
listening? Why do you say so?

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 Let’s Remember

Directions: Use these sentences starters to write what you have

learned about the purposes of listening.
1. Transactional is different from Interactional in such a way that the first
one is
… and the latter is …
2. Knowing about the purpose of language is important because …
3. Since I already know the purpose of listening, I can now…

Let’s Apply

Choose two television programs that you like. Tell whether the listener is
engaged in transactional or interactional listening.

Let’s Evaluate

On a separate answer sheet, write transactional if the purpose of the

conversation the listener is engaged in transacting and interactional if it
is in maintaining a good relationship.

1. Bella: “I am looking for a computer set that can do multitasking

without the tendency of hanging or slowing down.”
Salesman: “I recommend you choose our computer with DupperCore
my10. It supports 16gb RAM expandable to 32gb.”
2. Maila: “It’s been a while since we’ve been at the Mercado Del Lago. I
missed eating at the food court.”
Estella: “Yeah, me too. I also wanted to go jogging and biking at the
Laguna Lake Highway. I surely need some exercise at this time.”
3. Paul: “I would like to open a bank account.”
Bank Teller: “What kind of account would you like to open?”
Paul: “I want to open a checking account.”
4. John: “What are your qualities that will help our company grow?”
Carlos: “I am most capable of researching for marketing strategies which
may contribute to increase in sales.”
5. Juliet: “Sis, will come over to my place tonight? There’s a movie I want

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Ann: “Sure thing. I’ll drop by the grocery store to buy us some drinks
and snack. I’ll be right there.”

Lesson Listening Strategies Based

2 on Familiarity
Listening to a topic where there’s familiarity enables the listener to
relate to their personal experiences and background knowledge. This plays
an important role in connecting the new information with your existing
knowledge.
Imagine yourself listening over the following conversations. Which of
them will you mostly understand? Why?

Let’s Recall

There are three approaches to the analysis: the mechanics

of materials approach (also known as strength of materials), the
elasticity theory approach (which is actually a special case of the
more general field of continuum mechanics), and the finite element
approach. The first two make use of analytical formulations which apply
mostly simple linear elastic models, leading to closed-form solutions, and
can often be solved by hand. The finite element approach is actually a
numerical method for solving differential equations generated by theories of
mechanics such as elasticity theory and strength of materials. However,
the finite-element method depends heavily on the processing power of
computers and is more applicable to structures of arbitrary size and
complexity.

Ideally, you should brush your teeth after every meal. At the very
least, brush your teeth twice a day and floss daily. Brushing minimizes
the accumulation of bacteria in your mouth, which can cause tooth decay
and gum disease, Novey says. Flossing, too, helps maintain strong,
healthy gums. “The bacteria that builds up and causes gum disease can
go straight to the heart and cause very serious valve problems,” Novey
explains. Unhealthy gums also can cause your teeth to loosen, which
makes it difficult to chew and to eat properly, he adds. To maintain a
healthy smile, visit the dentist at six-month intervals for checkups and
cleanings.

Let’s Explore

Here are some strategies to become familiar with a text, improve your
listening skills and become an active listener.

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Before-Listening Strategies
1. Connect
Help yourself better understand a listening assignment by thinking of
things you already know about a topic. This helps your mind build
connections between what you know and new information you will hear.
2. Predict
Make guesses about what you may learn as you listen. Guessing helps
your brain focus on the assignment. It doesn’t matter if your guesses are
right or wrong.
3. Talk About New Words
Make sure you understand words in the title and in any introductory
material. Have a brief conversation in your head to clarify key words.

During-Listening Strategies
4. Listen for Answers
As you listen, be listening for answers to questions you have. Looking
for answers to questions gives you a reason to listen and keeps your
mind active and alert.
5. Take Notes
Write notes that help you remember ideas. Outlining and layering
information is always a good idea, but try other imaginative ways of
taking notes: Use connected circles and shapes, create a chart, or draw
a map.
6. Re-listen/Find a Fix
When you get bored or when ideas are hard, you need to find a way to
get back on track. The best way to fix things is to re-listen. You don’t
have to wait until the end to re-listen. Sometimes a quick backtracking
and re-listening to a line or two can quickly clear up confusion.

After-Listening Strategies
7. Respond
What do you agree and disagree with? What parts do you like best? What
parts are confusing?
8. Summarize
Read your lecture notes several times before and after class all week. In your
head, summarize what the assignment was about and test yourself on your
notes.
9. Extend
Read and listen to other sources for more information about the topic.
Learning more information makes a topic more meaningful and interesting,
especially if you share these ideas with others.

Let’s Elaborate

Here, your listening comprehension skill will be put to a test and will
later be improved through practice. Prepare to answer the question.

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 1. Look at the pictures.

2. A man is looking for a birthday present

for his wife at a jewelry shop. Which necklace is he going to buy?
3. Here is the dialogue.
Seller: May I help you?
Man: I’m looking for a birthday present for my wife. What do you recommend?
Seller: Well, what about this necklace?
Man: Hmm, it looks a little long.
Seller: What about these over here? We have one with the flower pendant, and
another one with the heart.
Man: I’m looking for something a bit more sophisticated. How much is the pearl
necklace over here?
Seller: It’s 5,000 pesos.
Man: Hmm, that’s too expensive. Okay, I’ll take the first one.
Seller: Sure thing. Here you are.
4. Which necklace is he going to buy?

Let’s Dig In
Pay attention to the speaker’s instructions as
she teaches us how to make a cookie and prepare
to answer the questions that follow.

Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_4IpCgVI
Q

Here are her instructions.

Hello, and welcome to Kim’s Kitchen.

Today, I’m going to show you a simple recipe for cookies.
Let’s start with the ingredients.
You will need three cups of flour, one and a half teaspoons of baking powder,
eight ounces of butter, one and a half cups of sugar, and one egg.
First, mix the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Then, in another bowl, mix the
sugar and butter. Next, add the egg, and blend in the mixture from the first bowl.
Finally, use a wooden spoon to put balls of the cookie dough onto a baking tray,
and bake in the oven for ten minutes.
Allow the cookies to cool for a few minutes — but don’t eat them all at once!

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Prepare a separate sheet of paper in writing the answers for these questions.
A. Rewrite the instructions to arrange the cookie recipe in proper order.
Bake in the oven for ten minutes.
Add the egg, and blend in the mixture from the first bowl.
Mix the flour and baking powder in a bowl.
In another bowl, mix the sugar and butter.
Allow the cookies to cool for a few minutes.
Use a wooden spoon to put balls of the cookie dough onto a baking
tray.
B. Answer the following questions.
1. How well can you cook?
2. What things can you cook?
3. Where do you find your recipes?
4. What is your favorite recipe?
5. What’s your opinion of TV cookery programs?

Let’s Remember

Directions: Use these sentences starters to write what you have learned
about the listening strategies to be familiar with the text.
1. Before, when I am not familiar with text, I…
2. Now, I can be more familiar with it by…
3. Knowing about the listening strategies to be familiar with
the text is important because …

Let’s Apply

Listen to a news report and answer our WH questions. Don’t forget to apply
the before, during, and after listening strategies you have learned on our
lesson. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

Wh- Some possible questions Your answers

Who Who is in the news?

Who are they with?
What What happened?
What did they do or see?
When When did it happen?
When did it take place?
Where Where did it
happen? Where
did they go?
Why Why did it happen?
Why did they act that
way?
How did it happen?
How How was the problem
solved? How did they act?

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 Let’s Evaluate
From the pool of words below, choose the kind of listening strategy
that you would use in doing the following task. Write your answers on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. The hearer writes a brief statement about the listening text getting
only the main points.
2. This strategy makes the listener agree or disagree w i t h the ideas
presented in the text?
3. This kind of listening strategy helps you remember ideas through
outlining and layering information.
4. These strategies let you go back to a certain part of the listening text.
5. Aside from the listening text, you also read and listen for more
information from other sources.

Lesson Listening Strategies: Levelof

3 Difficulties

Listening takes up as much as 50% of our everyday

communication time. It is the main channel of classroom instruction
and most of the language skill used at work and at home. It is not
enough that students just listen but they must use strategies that will
make them active, not a passive, listeners.

Let’s Recall

Look at the picture below. List down some

ways on how students of new normal will be
able to listen actively in a discussion.

Let’s Explore
Listen as your teacher read the following first monkey stories from Maranao.

a. A Maranao folktale contends that the first monkey was a small boy
who has beaten with a ladle by his sister because he stole some boiled
camotes. The monkey’s tail grew from the ladle. To this day the boy
and girls cautioned not to use ladles in beating one another.

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 b. The second legend about the monkey took place in the kingdom of
Amaga Niyog (Coconut Country). The brother and sister place were
Aratawa and Bugoraga respectively.
Arata became, according to the second legend, the first monkey.
A monkey therefore looks like a person because in the olden days a
boy misbehaved and become the first monkey.

Answer the following questions:

a. What did you notice while your teacher was reading the summaries?
b. Did he look at the audience while reading? What do you think is
the effect of that to the listener?
c. Did he show facial expressions? What is the effect of that to you as a
listener?
d. What are the effects of eye contact and facial expressions in
understanding the message?

Hearing vs. Listening

Hearing- is an accident brain
response to the sound that requires
no effort.
Listening- is purposeful and
focused rather than accidental.

Seven Stages of Listening According to Nunan, (2001:23)

1. Hearing
It is the perception of sound, not necessarily paying attention, you
must hear to listen, but you need to listen to hear.
2. Attention
It refers to a selection that our brain focuses on.
3. Understanding
Which consists of analyzing the meaning of what we have heard and
understanding symbols we have seen and heard.
4. Remembering
It is process where individual addition to receiving and interpreting the
message, has also added it to the mind’s storage bank, which means that
the information will be remembered in our mind.
5. Selecting
This is the part where we choose what to listen to which will be ignored. An
example of this is when a friend is talking to you at a birthday while there’s
loud music and other people chatting.
6.Evaluating
It is at this point when active listeners weigh evidence, sort of fact
form opinion and determine the presence or absence of bias of
prejudice in a message.
7.Responding
This stage requires the receiver complete the process through verbal and
non-verbal feedback whereby the speaker also checks if the message has
been received correctly.
Note: You may also review the nine listening strategies you have studied in Lesson 2.

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 Let’s Elaborate
Read with understanding the article given below.

Rise of the Apes: like so many ecological problems, human/ monkey

entanglements happen because of civilization is encroaching more and
more into a more into a once wild habitat. That result is a clash between
man and monkey over limited resources, sometimes with deadly results. In
2000, Takaba, Kenya, drought- stricken villagers were forced to battle a
group of clawing, stone -throwing monkeys for two hours while trying to
reach three tanker trucks of water.
The most famous example of the out of control monkey situation
happened in 2007. And that was just one sortie in the battle for India’s
capital. Over the past few years, the macaques in New Delhi have inflicted
over 2000 bites, sacked people’s homes and businesses, and once even
stole classified documents from the Indian defense department.
For the average traveler the risk of ape-related death of primate-fueled
political upheaval is small. But worldwide, there’s plenty of monkey trouble
to go around.

Answer the following questions and write your answers on a separate paper.
a. What can you say about the facts given in the article?
b. What actions would you take to help solve the problem?
c. Make a dialog from the article read. Remember to observe correct
language structure (subject-verb agreement, tense consistency).

Let’s Dig In

Story Round Read the bio bitz and answer the questions given after.

The Youngest Billionaire

The youngest billionaire in history is William H. Gates III, better known as Bill
Gates. He is probably the most famous living entrepreneur. His streaming career began
in high school when he and some friends founded a computer-software company. He
briefly attended a Harvard University but left to begin Microsoft 1979 with partner Paul
Allan. But at the age of 31, Bill Gates shocked the world by becoming the youngest self-
made billionaire.
Source: Scott Foresman LITERATURE and Integrated Studies Vol. II. 1977. P. 153.

Answer the following questions:

• Who is the subject?
• What happened first?
• What significant things can we learn from the subject?

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 Let’s Remember

What makes him extraordinary? Directions: Use these sentences

starters to write what you have learned about the listening strategies
with different levels of difficulty.
1. Listening is…
2. Listening helps individual to be…
3. The seven stages of listening will help us…

Let’s Apply

Read the given article below with comprehension.

What is a hero? What action does one take to become a hero? Who are
these heroes that you hear everyone talk about, but never see? The word hero
is passed around too much these days. A hero is not a football player that
scores the game- winning touchdown or the goaltender who saves his team
from a loss. A hero is usually an ordinary person that did extraordinary
things. A true hero is really never a hero at all; at least not in their own
mind.
Heroes are not born heroes. True heroes are the people that do not think
about being a hero; they just do what is instinctive to them and then do not
bask in the glory of their own actions.
What truly makes a hero is the courage to say that it is not oneself
that is the hero, it is someone else.

On your own words, rewrite the article read while

observing the correct language structure in rewriting. Write your answer
on a separate sheet of paper.

Let’s Evaluate

Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write it on a

separate sheet of paper.

1. More purposeful rather than accidental

a. listening b. comprehending c. hearing d. evaluating
2. Pertaining to focus of the brain
a. jotting notes b. attention c. hearing d. evaluating
3. First step in listening
a. jotting notes b. comprehending c. hearing d. evaluating
4. Where feedbacking takes place
a. responding b. comprehending c. hearing d. evaluating
5. The process in which one remembers some points in the given topic
a. responding b. remembering c. hearing d. evaluating

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