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English
Quarter 3 Module 2
Week 2
Create or Expand Word
Clines

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Day 1

What I Know/Pretest

Directions: Read each question carefully and circle the letter

of the correct answer.
1. What do you call strings of related words arranged

according to strength, degree and intensity?

A. chimes B. climbs C. clines

2. What should be the next word? warm, hot, ________ water

A. boiling B. coiling C. toiling

3. Which group of words is a cline?

A. bad, good, best

B. cool, cold, freezing

C. loud, loudly, noisy

4. Which group of words means the same?

A. bad, awful, terrible

B. lad, awful, terrible

C. sad, awful, terrible

5. Which group of words means the same?
A. food, fine, excellent
B. good, fine, excellent
C. hood, fine, excellent
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Day 2

Lesson Clines
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What I Need to Know

• Tell clines as strings of words arranged
according to strength, degree and intensity
• Give examples of clines

What’s New

Directions: Read the poem and answer the questions that

follow.
CLINES
(By: JP Baliad)

What are you?

Not so normal
A little bit unusual
Sounds new

String of related words

Bonding like cords
Arranged in terms of strength
With transition, with length

Samples are warm, hot, boiling

Another is cool, cold, freezing
Wow! Love that unique position
Learning new words is a mission.

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 1. What is the title of the poem?
Yes, the title of the poem is Clines.
2. Are clines arranged in terms of strength?
Yes, clines are arranged in terms of strength.
3. Give examples of clines mentioned in the poem.
Yes, the examples of clines are warm, hot, boiling and
cool, cold, freezing.
4. What word is next to cold found in the poem?
Yes, the word next to cold is freezing.
5. What kind of position do clines have?
Yes, the position of clines is from weak to strong.
6. What will you do to stay strong and healthy?
_______________________________________________

What Is It

A cline is a group of related words arranged in terms of

strength, degree or intensity of the word.
A cline is useful because they clearly show how strong or
weak words are. Knowing this, a speaker or writer can choose the
proper words to be used so that the idea he/she wants to express
will be correct.

Examples:
shouted yelled and screamed

Read the sentences:

1. The children shouted excitedly.
2. The father yelled happily.
3. Mother screamed joyfully.

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 What I Can Do

Directions: Draw a happy face on the blank if the clines are

correct and a sad face if not. Number 1 is done for you.

1. warm, hot, boiling _____________

2. good, fine, excellent _____________
3. beautiful, tall, call _____________
4. rich, wealthy, well-off _____________
5. always, sometimes, rarely _____________

What I Have Learned

I learned that a _______________ is a group of related words

arranged in terms of strength, degree or intensity of the
______________. They can be written from ______ to _________.

What’s More

Directions: Match column A with column B using a line to

complete the clines. Number 1 is done for you.
Column A Column B

1. always, sometimes, rarely A. brilliant

2. cruel, unkind, insensitive B. evil
3. smart, gifted, intelligent C. frosty
4. abundant, countless, numerous D. many
5. cold, chilly, freezing E. never

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Day 3

Lesson
2 Arranging Clines

What I Need to Know

• Arrange clines according to strength
• Complete the given group of clines
What’s In
Directions: Choose from the box the word that completes the
clines. Number 1 is done for you.

beautiful sad amazing joyful

1. happy cheerful joyful

2. ______ depressed sorrowful
3. pretty _________ appealing
4. good great __________

What’s New

Directions: Read the poem below and answer the questions

that follow.
Mother’s Love
(by: JP Baliad)
Abundant, countless, numerous, many
Her touch and hugs for me
Big, large, huge, gigantic
Her patience every day I see

Small, tiny, little, mini

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 Heartaches along the way
Bad, awful, horrible, terrible
Come what may
Good, fine, excellent, great
Her care for the family
Happy, cheerful, joyful, ecstatic
These feelings always stay

1. What are the clines describing mother’s touch and hugs

mentioned in the poem?
Yes, the clines describing mother’s touch and hugs are
abundant, countless, numerous and many.

2. What are the clines describing mother’s patience every day?

Yes, the clines describing mother’s patience are big, large,
huge and gigantic.

3.What are the clines describing heartaches along the way?

Yes, the clines describing heartaches are mall, tiny, little and
mini.

4. What are the clines describing her care for the family?
Yes, the clines describing her care for the family are good, fine,
excellent and great.

5.What are the clines describing the feelings?

Yes, the clines describing the feelings are happy, cheerful,
joyful and ecstatic.

6. How do you show your love to your mother?

_________________________________________________________

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 What Is It

You have read and copied CLINES in the poem.

To recall, a cline is a group of related words arranged in terms
of strength, degree or intensity of the word.
In writing small, tiny, microscopic, which should come first?
Which should come last? Of course, small will come first because it is
the weak word.
A weak word is the most common and the easiest word used.
Microscopic should be last because it is the strong word. A strong
word is only used sometimes.
small, tiny, microscopic are clines arranged from weak to
strong.
That is one way to write CLINES. So, the next time you find related
words written this way, just remember they are CLINES.
What I Can Do

Directions: Arrange the following words using numbers 1, 2,3 to

form the clines (weak to strong). Write the numbers in
the box. Number 1 is done for you.

1. big 1 large 2 huge 3

2. small microscopic tiny

3. excellent fine good
4. mumbled whispered said
5. vow pledge promise

What I have learned

I learned that Clines can be arranged from ______ to

_______. You can use numbers to tell their degree or intensity.
The ________word is the easiest and the most commonly
used word while the _________ word is the word used only
sometimes.

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 What’s More

Directions: Match column A with column B to complete the

word clines. Number 1 is done for you.
Column A Column B

D 1. well done, excellent A. downcast

_____ 2. happy, cheerful B. affluent

_____ 3. advise, order C. joyful

_____ 4. rich, wealthy D. amazing

_____ 5. sad, unhappy E. command

Day 4

Lesson
More on Word Clines
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What I Need to Know

• Write clines using a word map

• Create word clines in a web

What’s In

Directions. Write C if the groups of words are clines and X if

they are not. Number 1 is done for you.
1. angry, mad, furious C_____
2. clean, neat, tidy _________
3. rich, beautiful, bright _________
4. warm, hot, boiling _________
5. dirty, messy, untidy _________

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 What’s New

Read the dialogue carefully.

One day at the school library, Joseph is working on something

when Johnny arrives.
Johnny: Hello, Joseph, What are you doing?
Joseph: I am doing my assignment in English.
Johnny: What is your assignment?
Joseph: It is about word clines using a web.
Johnny: What is a word web?
Joseph: A word web is used to create words like synonyms,
antonyms and word definitions.
Johnny: Can I see your work?
Joseph: Sure, here it is.

Joseph: This is a word cline using the web.

Johnny: Wow, great!

1. Who are talking in the dialogue?

Yes, Johnny and Joseph are talking in the dialogue.

2. What are they talking about?

Yes, they are talking about Joseph’s assignment.

3. What is Joseph’s assignment?

Yes, it is about word clines.

4. Why do we need to do our assignments?

________________________________________________________

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 What Is It

Joseph’s assignment is about word

clines.

The word at the lowest part of the web(smart) is the weak

word or the most commonly used word while the word written at
the top (brilliant) is the strong word or the word only used
sometimes.
The words in the web are arranged from weak being the
lowest to strong being the highest.

What I Can Do

Directions: Make a web of clines using the words inside the

box. Number 1 is done for you.
always huge

numerous large abundant

___________
fiery
countless
burning
1. boiling
1. 2. __________

hot many
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 3.
__________
__________

gigantic

big

What I have learned

I learned that the word at the lowest part of the

web(smart) is the ____word or the most commonly used word
while the word written at the top (brilliant) is the _____ word or
the word only used sometimes.

What’s More

Direction: Draw a word web or a word map with cline words.

Number 1 is done for you.

intelligent gifted neat skinny

thin tidy wealthy well-off

1. 2.
happy rich

cheerful joyful

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 3.
slim

4. 5.
clean smart

Day 5

Post Test

Directions: Read each question carefully and circle the

letter of the correct answer.

1. Which group of words are clines?

A. big, large, huge
B. bad, good, best
C. loud, loudly, noisy
2. What do you call strings of related words arranged
according to strength, degree and intensity?
A. chimes B. climbs C. clines
3. __________, tasty, appetizing: What should be the first word?
A. delicious B. hot C. warm

4. What should be the next word? many, numerous, __________

A. countless B. few C. less
5. Which group of words is a cline?
A. hot burning frozen
B. smart gifted intelligent
C. sad happy glad

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Day 3 Lesson 2
What’s In
Day 2 Lesson 1 1. Joyful
2. sad
3. beautiful
What I Can Do 4. amazing
What I Can Do
1. 1. 1,2,3 3. 3,2,1 5. 3,2,1
2. 1,3,2 4. 3,2,1
2. What I Have Learned
Weak to strong, weak, strong
3. What’s More
1. D
4. 2. C
3. E
5. 4. B
What I Have Learned 5. A
cline, word, weak , strong
What’s More
1. E 3. A 5. C
2. B 4. D
Day 4
What’s in
1. C
2. C
3. X
4. C
5. C
What I Can Do What I Have Learned
1. fiery, burning, boiling, hot weak, strong
2. numerous, countless, abundant, many
3. huge, large, gigantic, big
What’s More
1. happy, cheerful, amazing 4. clean, tidy, neat
2. rich, wealthy, well-off 5. smart, intelligent, gifted
3. slim, thin, skinny
Answer Key:
References:
Books:
K-12 Teacher’s Guide
K-12 Curriculum Guide
Grade 2 Learner’s Material

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Acknowledgment:

Development Team of Self-Learning Module

Compiler: Juliet P. Baliad MT I , Bacayan Elementary School

Evaluator
(Content/ Cerelina S. Llerin Ed D, OIC PSDS, SD2

Language):
Content/
Language Editors:
Ma. Almira V. Patentes, MT II, Bo. Luz Elementary School
Annie A. Loperez, MT I, Punta Princesa Elementary School
Ma. Liza C. Albellar MTI, Bo. Luz Elementary School

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