English 10
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Using Information Sources in
Everyday Life
This module is divided into four lessons:
Lesson 1 – Writing News Reports
Lesson 2 – Recognizing Information from Contextualized Speech
Lesson 3 – Constructing Personal Informative Speech
Lesson 4 – Organizing Panel Discussion in Making Decisions
In this lesson, you’ll congregate communicative competence that is:
Use information from news reports, speeches, informative talks, panel discussions, etc.
in everyday life (EN10LC-Ia-11.1).
Further, in charting the course of your journey in this module, you are expected to:
a.
use information from various sources such as news reports, speeches, informative
talks, panel discussions, etc. that can be used in everyday life; and
b.
promote the interest and sense of responsibility in validating the quality
of
information needed in academic and personal use.
c.
develop the abilities to organize information and construct it into a text.
Lesson
1
Writing News Report
Remember: Please wash your hands with soap for twenty (20) seconds before and after
handling your module and worksheets.
DISCUSSION
Follow this guide in writing the news report. These are the parts of the news reports.
1.
News Reports begin with a catchy HEADLINE. Headline is the heading at the top of
an article or page in a newspaper or magazine. Ex. COVID-19 deaths soar high in Cebu City
2.
LEAD PARAGRAPH informs the reader of the most important aspects of the story as
soon as possible. The LEAD PARAGRAPH is often the only part of the story that people read. Use
the 5Ws rule:
• WHO (is involved)
• WHAT (took place)
• WHEN (did it take place)
• WHERE (did it take place)
• WHY (did it happen)
• HOW (did it happen) – only include this if there is space
Ex. This evening at about 10:00 p.m. at Malaya Hotel, the Senator, while at the lobby with his
family, was shot by an assassin, by a riding in tandem.
3.
BODY of the News Report gives more details and provides more information about the
WHY and HOW of the story.
4.
TAIL contains the less important information which is often omitted by the newspaper
editor if there is not enough space left in the newspaper. Hints:
• Your News Report should be easy to understand; every news story should be able to
be read by a twelve-year-old learner.
• Try to be fair – include both sides of the story and don’t let your opinion get in the way
of reporting the facts.
ACTIVITIES
This time, you will embark on higher level of activity. Let us see how far you have gone in
understanding how to write the news report.
Activity 1.1
Take a look at this headline.
P22.7-m shabu seized; 50 suspects nabbed from June 15-20
Predict the content and find out the facts about the whole story.
Write questions about the story on a separate sheet. For example: What took place?
Construct questions as many as you can. Below are the answers for the possible questions that you
may write.
1.
Authorities seized around PHP22.7 million worth of suspected illegal drugs and arrested 50
suspects in intensified operations nationwide in a week.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
2.
Among the highlights of week-long accomplishments of the PNP include the arrest of two
drug suspects by officers of the District Drug Enforcement Unit of the Northern Police District for
carrying PHP1.36 million worth of shabu from a drug suspect in a buy-bust launched by the Drug
Enforcement Unit of the Tacloban City Police Office last July 19.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
3.
Philippine National Police chief, Gen. Archie Gamboa commended the PNP Drug Enforcement
Group (PDEG) and police regional offices for their sustained operations against the illegal drug
trade in the country while the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) intensified its illegal
drugs drive with buy-busts in Paranaque, Caloocan, Navotas, Quezon City, Marikina, Pasig, Manila,
Taguig, and Las Piñas.
___________________________________________________________________________________________
4.
Meanwhile, operatives of the Tinglayan Municipal Police Station (MPS) uprooted and burned
on-site last June 15, around 13,500 fully grown marijuana plants worth around PHP2.8 million
that were planted by unidentified suspects on a 1,100-square meter lot in Barangay Tulgao West,
Tinglayan, Kalinga.
5.
Last June 18, an 18-year-old drug suspect who considered as a high-value target was
arrested along with his partner caught with PHP11.6 million worth of shabu.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Activity 1.2
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word that best completes the statement.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Lesso
n
2
The ________________________ informs the reader of the most important aspects of the
story as soon as possible.
The ____________ contains the less important information which is often omitted by the
newspaper editor if there is not enough space left in the newspaper.
A/an __________________________ is the structure of the news report.
The ____________________ gives more details and provides more information about the
WHY and HOW of the story.
____________________ a heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or
magazine.
Recognizing Information
from Contextualized Speech
In the previous lesson, you have learned the following how to write a news report using
proper order of writing news report and getting and using information from news report.
These will help you in recognizing relevant information from news reports that could help you in
your everyday lives.
DISCUSSION
These are the four basic different types of speech according to purpose:
1. Informative- provides interesting and useful information to audience.
Example: Municipal Health Office (MHO) telling the community on precautionary measures
to avoid the spreading of virus.
2. Demonstrative- teaches you something that includes a demonstration of how to do the
thing.
Example: How to do proper hand washing
3. Entertainment- provides pleasure and enjoyment that makes the audience laugh.
Example: Telling about a hilarious movie.
4. Persuasive- to convince people or change in some way; to start doing something.
Example: Convince to become an environmentalist.
ACTIVITIES
We have different strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes, those weaknesses can make us feel
worthless. But rediscovering and recreating yourself can transform you into an extraordinary
individual.
The speech you are about to read will help you reflect your self-worth.
Do you know who you are? When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see? The
best version of yourself? A façade? A blank picture of yourself? Or you have got amnesia? Or where
you can no longer feel your inner self? That’s the worst feeling one could ever have and comparable
to dark night. What you see in the mirror is exactly what you see, what you get and what you are.
Again, the question is who you are? This poses you to rediscover who you truly are and how to
reveal, redefine, and reactivate yourself again.
To turn to your original condition, every time you broke your inner senses, every time you
struck by your fears, every time you lost courage and hope and every time you failed. Blindfolded
with all the shams and drudgeries in life, we are curtailed to bring out the best in us. The challenge
is there all the time, put your blindfolded off, for this is just test of life.
Remembering and believing who we are, is just the start of living life to the fullest-again this
is the first step. Next is to live the truth. You are created for a purpose thus loved by God. With
this, you will experience healing inside and that your completeness through Him will then radiate
love and joy to others too. No philosophers, even the best ones can give us the best ways to
overcome your personal challenges. It is just our relationship with God. The best system is prayer.
When you pray, you talk to God and your journey with Him will take place. It is our pause from time
to time that we will be refreshed of something new, something better, a fresh start, a clean state,
and a new journey to begin again. We can choose differently! Remember, what matters most is not
how others see you, but how you truly see yourself. Who are you when you are all alone? When no
one is watching? How do you see yourself determines how you allow people to treat you? How you
see yourself dictates what you expect from others, from life, from God.
Choose today to be the greatest version of yourself. Do not forget to wear the best make-up
SMILE, and the world will smile at you.
Eden Grace C. Yungco, “Overcoming Personal Challenges”, 2020
Activity 2.1 After reading the speech, answer the following questions.
1. What type of speech was used by the author? Why you say so?
2. What is its purpose?
3. How does this information lead you to your conclusion?
Activity 2.2 Based on the speech, answer the following questions. Write the letter of the correct
answer on the worksheet provided.
1. To overcome personal challenges shows __________________.
a. optimism
c. vigor
b. courage
d. both a and b
2. The last two lines of the speech express ______________________.
a. encouragement
c. optimism
b. arrogance
d. warning
3. One can generalize about the speech is to ____________________.
a. overcome personal challenge
c. be grateful
b. bring out the best in you
d. both A and B
4. An effective persuasive technique used by the speaker to emphasize her point is through
appealing to ____________.
a. emotion
c. reason
b. moral
d. both A and B
5. The tone of the speech is more of ______________.
a. inspiring
b. criticizing
c. defending
d. denying
Well done buddy! Now, it is time to identify the different types of speeches according to purpose.
These are the four basic different types of speech according to purpose:
1. Informative- provides interesting and useful information to audience.
Example: Municipal Health Office (MHO) telling the community on precautionary measures
to avoid the spreading of virus.
2. Demonstrative- teaches you something that includes a demonstration of how to do the
thing.
Example: How to do proper hand washing
3. Entertainment- provides pleasure and enjoyment that makes the audience laugh.
Example: Telling about a hilarious movie.
4. Persuasive- to convince people or change in some way; to start doing something.
Example: Convince to become an environmentalist.
You already come across the different text types and its proper usage. Let us test how far you
have learned about each text type.
Activity 2.3 Identify the following examples according to text types. Write I for Informative, P for
Persuasive, E for Entertainment, and D for Demonstrative. Write the answer on the worksheet
provided for you.
1. College professor lecturing on a specific topic during a class.
2. A lawyer giving a closing argument a court, arguing about whether the defendant is innocent or
guilty of the crime.
3. Chefs describing how to prepare a recipe.
4. Tutors explaining how to solve mathematical equations.
5. Speeches given by maids of honor or best men at weddings.
Lesson
3
Constructing Personal
Informative Speech
In
the
previous lesson, you have learned the different types of speeches according to its purpose.
You have learned also that speeches can inform, describe, entertain, and persuade.
These different types of speeches will help you recognize the information needed to be used in
your everyday lives. It will be particularly helpful in recognizing the relevance of the data by
arranging them in its proper sequence.
DISCUSSION
An informative speech is one that intends to educate the audience on a topic. This type of
speech uses descriptions, demonstrations, vivid details, and definitions to explain a subject, person,
or place the audience want to understand.
An informative speech makes a complex topic easy to understand or offers a different point of view.
It should rely less on pathos, which is an appeal to the emotions of the audience and an important
component of persuasive speeches. Instead, informative speech might rely on visual aids.
These are the types of informative speech:
1. Descriptive- helps the speaker create an accurate mental picture in the mind of an audience
regarding a specific person, place, or thing.
2. Demonstrative- describes how to perform an action.
3. Explanatory- explains the state of a topic.
4. Definition- explains a concept or theory regarding a topic.
Activity 3.1 Complete the paragraph below by giving appropriate answers to what you have learned
from the lesson.
In this lesson, I have learned that informative talks or speeches have different types. It may
be
____________________________,
_________________________,
_________________________
or
_______________________.
This
will
help
me
in
__________________________________________________________________________.
Lesson
4
Organizing Panel Discussion
in Making Decisions
In the previous lessons, you have discovered various text types such as news reports,
speeches, and informative talks. You have also learned their importance by using significant
information and create something from it.
In this lesson, you will delve into a deeper understanding of these texts by applying certain steps
that can help you develop a good concept in constructing texts useful in addressing certain issues.
To decide on matters in addressing certain issues requires gathering of information.
Sometimes, differing ideas can be difficult to handle making it tough to come up with one idea.
DISCUSSION
 Panel discussions are useful if an issue is too complex for one person to handle, or if the
audience needs to be exposed to various viewpoints at the same session. To avoid longwinded and disjointed sessions, here are some basic tips to help the audience engaged in a
meaningful and lively discussion.
1. Keep the panel small and focused. Small panel number will be easy to manage and to flesh
out all points of view.
2. Plan the questions ahead of time. Planning questions will help you bullet some points to
discuss during the discussion.
3. Open with a brief reference to the topic being discussed. It is important to welcome the
audience and lead into the topic with a short hook. A short quote, an analogy, or anecdote
will warm up the audience and highlight the importance of the event.
4. Keep the focus on the panel, not on you. Maintain an appropriate tone, keep people on
task, and ensure everyone gets ample time to present his or her point of view.
5. Prepare your “cut-off phrases” ahead of time. Having some preplanned cut-of phrases will
help filter the long-winded ramble of topics. Using this tactic will keep the discussion focused
and on time.
ACTIVITY 4.1
Fill in the blanks with the correct answer to complete the sentence. Write your answers on the
1. A _______________________ is like a meeting or convention that addresses certain
issues or problems with a group of people.
2. A _______________________ needs to have a broad perspective and point of view to
discuss a certain issue.
3. A panel should be small and ___________________ so that it would be easy to manage.
4. It is much better to plan the __________________ ahead of time to prepare for
unexpected topics that may arise during the discussion.
5. A good panel member prepares _________________ phrases to avoid the long-winded
and lengthy topics.
Assessment
Direction: Read the short speech carefully. Answer the questions that follow. Write the answer in
the answer sheet provided for you.
MATCHING TYPE: Match Column A with Column B by writing the letter of the correct answer on
the answer sheet provided for you.
COLUMN A
1. Lead
2. Headline
3. News Article
4. News Report
5. Factual
and
COLUMN B
a. relating to facts; based on evidence and research
b. In the Newspaper
c. The title of the news article
d. News information about current events
e. Answers the questions who, what, where, when, why,
how
Directions: Read the following questions and write the letter of the correct answer
6. Which of the following questions answers the specific purpose in a persuasive speech?
a. What are you trying to convince the audience to do?
b. What are you informing the audience?
c. How persuasive are you with your audience?
d. How will my audience influence my topic?
7. The purpose of this type of speech is to convince people or change people in some way to
start doing something.
a. demonstrative
c. entertaining
b. informative
d. persuasive
8. The purpose of this type of speech teaches you something that includes a demonstration of
how to do a thing.
a. demonstrative
c. informative
b. entertaining
d. persuasive
9. The purpose of this type of speech provides interesting and useful information to audience.
a. demonstrative
c. informative
d. persuasive
b. entertaining
10. “How to bake a Cake” is a topic that can be used for what type of speech?
a. demonstrative
c. informative
d. persuasive
b. entertaining
11. It is a type of informative talk that helps the speaker create an accurate mental picture in
the mind of an audience regarding a person, place, or thing.
a. Descriptive
c. Definition
b. Explanatory
d. Demonstrative
12. It is a type of informative talk that explains a state or a thing or phenomenon.
a. Descriptive
c. Definition
d. Demonstrative
b. Explanatory
13. The following are the tips to help the audience engaged in a meaningful and lively
discussion EXCEPT one.
a. Plan the questions ahead of time.
b. Keep the panel small and focused.
c. Keep the focus on your opinion.
d. Prepare cut-off phrases ahead of time.
14. It is useful if an issue is too complex for one person to handle and the audience needs to be
exposed on various viewpoints on the same session.
a. informative talks
c. demonstrative speech
d. panel discussion
b. news reports
15. The following are characteristics of a panel member EXCEPT one:
a. broad-minded
c. focused
b. opinionated
d. task-oriented