TAKING OPTIONS
As you walk through life, whether you like it or not, you have to take options such as deciding to stand firm and tall about who you are and what you believe in or to make choices to cross over to some other vantage point. In the process, you turn your weaknesses into strengths and get connected with those who see life differently. In the end, however, the journey that you will take ultimately leads you to find meaning in life.
This lesson hopes to make that journey more rewarding as you sharpen your communication skills in reading, speaking, listening and writing.
II – OBJECTIVES
After studying and working on all activities in this module, you will be able to:
1. express opinion in writing;
2. use correct pronunciation for effective communication;
3. value the importance of perseverance and patience in facing life’s trials and challenges;
4. take a full responsibility in any consequences as a result of one’s choice and decision; and
5. identify the tenses of the verb and its uses.
III – INSTRUCTION
1. Read each section carefully. If you have not read the first two sections, go over them first.
2. Each module begins with a brief Introduction or Overview followed by a list of Objectives you are expected to learn.
3. As you work on the activities, try to relate them to the objectives of this module. What skill or strategy does the activity develop?
4. After working on all the activities take the Posttest.
IV – PRETEST
Read the story below and answer the questions that follow.
THE KING OF THE FOREST
NARRATOR: Once there was a big lion that lived in the forest. All the other animals were afraid of him. Every day the lion went through the forest to hunt for food. The animals tried to hide from him, but the lion always found one and killed him. The forest was not a safe place for the animals to live in. at last the wolf thought of calling all the animals to a meeting.
Wolf: It is good that everyone is present. We are here because we have a big problem. Our lives are in danger.
Goat: Meeeh! What can we do to save ourselves from the lion? He eats one of us everyday. Soon, all of us will die.
Doe: The lion is fierce. He has no pity for anyone. I remember that day I left my little one alone. When I came back, my little one was gone.
Zebra: What shall we do? The lion is wise. He roars to frighten the animals. They cry in their hiding places. That is why the lion knows where to find them.
Bear: The lion’s sharp claws can tear us into pieces. He can climb a tree with his strong paws. And his teeth are very sharp.
Monkey: Everyone is afraid of the lion. He is only one. We are many. Can we not stop him from killing us?
Fox: If we don’t plan well, then we will all die. Why don’t we think hard and talk about the matter?
Wolf: What do you suggest?
Rabbit: Everyone should think of a plan. Then we shall decide which the best is.
All: we agree. Let’s think of a good plan.
Narrator: the animals thought and thought. Many gave suggestions. Finally, they chose the rabbit’s plan, for they thought it was the best. So, that night the animals went to see the lion. As they came near the cave, they were frightened. But when they saw how brave the rabbit was, they went on.
Lion: What do you want?
Bear: King Lion, we have come to tell you about something that will help you.
Lion: What is it?
Bear: We know that you are King of the Forest but you must stop eating animals. You have killed many. Those you have not killed are afraid to stay in the forest. Soon, there will be no animals left.
Lion: What shall I eat? I must have something to eat.
Bear: We will take care of that. Each day, we will choose one animal for you to eat. He will come to your cave so that you will not hunt for food.
Lion: That is a good plan. Let’s try it.
Narrator: The animals carried out their promises to the lion. Each day, they sent one little animal to the lion’s cave. Each night, one of them was missing from the forest.
One day, the rabbit was chosen to be the lion’s meat. He started for the lion’s cave early in the morning. But he thought that he might as well have all the fun he could have before he was eaten. So he played along the way. It was very late when at last he hopped to the door of the lion’s cave. The lion was very hungry.
Lion: Why have you kept me waiting for so long?
Rabbit: Good morning, King Lion. Would you like to see a big lion that looks just like you? He has a voice like yours, too.
Lion: Where is the other lion?
Rabbit: I cannot tell you that, King Lion. You have to come and see for yourself.
Narrator: then the rabbit hopped away through the forest and the lion followed him. Soon they came to a deep well. There was water at the bottom of it and it was very deep.
Rabbit: Look down there, King Lion. There he is.
Narrator: The lion looked down into the well. There he saw another lion. He opened his mouth and roared. The echo of his voice was very loud. He jumped into the well to fight the other lion and drowned. The rabbit hopped back to tell to the other animals about the good news.
After that, the animals lived in peace in the forest.
Reference: English Expressways III, Teacher’s Manual pp. 41 - 43
Activity 1 – VOCABULARY
Below are definitions. Read each carefully and find the words being defined from the paragraph above.
__________________1. to pursue for food or in sport; to try to find, seek
__________________2. an act of coming together
__________________3. violently hostile or aggressive in temperament; ferocious; cruel
__________________4. a hole sunk in the earth to obtain a natural deposit – as of water
__________________5. to utter a full loud prolonged sound
Activity 2 – SEQUENCING OF EVENTS
Arrange the following events according to the sequence from the story. Use number 1 to indicate the first event, then 2, 3, 4, and 5 for the last event.
___1. The rabbit tricked the lion and soon meet his own death.
___2. All the animals thought hard and give suggestions and finally chose the rabbit’s plan.
___3. Everyday the animals sent one animal to the lion’s cave for his food.
___4. The wolf called for a meeting.
___5. The animals were worried about the hunt for food of the lion.
Activity 3 – COMPREHENSION
1. What is the conflict of the story?
2. Why do the animals tremble with the King Lion?
3. How did the animals solve their problem?
4. How did the rabbit trick the lion?
5. How is the story called?
Activity 4 – CRITICAL THINKING
1. If you were one of the animals, what could you suggest to solve the problem?
2. If you were the lion, how will you deal with the rabbit’s trick?
3. Do you think a group without a leader can be peaceful in the real essence of being peaceful? Why do you say so?
4. Why is the lion always presented to be the king of forest? What then should be the qualities of being a leader?
Activity 5 – GRAMMAR
Underline the Independent or Kernel sentence and box the dependent sentence. Then, encircle the subordinating conjunction used.
1. The first tree rejoiced because the woodcutter brought her to the carpenter’s shop.
2. When the woodcutter took her to the shipyard, the second tree smiled.
3. The third tree was confused after the woodcutter cut her.
4. As a young woman placed her newborn baby in the feed box, golden starlight poured over the first tree.
5. She flinched while she was carried through an angry, jeering crowd.
6. The traveler fell asleep until a storm came.
7. Though she felt ugly and cruel, the third tree knew that God’s love changed everything.
8. The third tree was startled because she was yanked from the forgotten wood pile.
9. Many people become undesirable citizens because they think too much of their privileges.
10. The third tree felt her heart sink when the last woodcutter looked her way.
V – READING ADVENTURE
A. PRE-READING
THE PEARL
(Adapted)
One morning an especially large dewdrop fell from the leaves of a tree right into the ocean. The waves took her along with them. She tried to free herself but in vain. She was afraid that at any minute, she could be wiped out. But then, she heard a voice call out, “Hurry up. Come into my house; here you’ll be safe.”
Blindly, she followed the saving call, and before she knew what had happened, the door of a clamshell closed tight. At first, the dewdrop gave a sigh of relief. But then slowly, it dawned on her that she might be safe in this house but never free again. She would never again be able to reflect the rainbow colors of the sunlight. She confided her worries to the friendly lady of the house. The old clamshell told her, “If you stubbornly fight against what fate has in store for you, you’ll just find yourself hopefully and helplessly. But if you patiently accept all that fate has in store, you’ll be at ease.” And then she added mysteriously, “Then you will grow stronger from within yourself. And one day, you’ll be a thousand times more beautiful than when you fell off the tree.” But the dewdrop sulked. Then she finally decided to follow this advice even though she did not understand it. She lived on silently without complaining, completely turned in on herself as she grew inside the clamshell. She somehow felt that there was something growing inside her and giving her strength. She was happy about it and thought, “Good luck to the times that are past; today can not last forever, and who knows what great things tomorrow might bring.”
One day when the clamshell had its shell opened, the dewdrop saw something white floating in the water. But they were not flowers. They were the fingers of the pearl diver, who plucked the clamshell along with many others from the reef.
Soon all the clams were laid out on the beach and a girl opened each of them very carefully. Suddenly, she jumped with joy, “Oh! Look at the absolutely perfectly pearl that I have found! It has the shape of a dewdrop and it reflects all the colors of the rainbow.”
The girl’s companions all looked at the precious pearl in her hand as it lay on a lotus leaf.
Reference: Roads to Greatness I, pp. 203 – 205
Activity 6 - VOCABULARY
Below are definitions. Read each carefully and find the words being defined from the paragraph above.
_____________________1. of no real value; worthless
_____________________2. removal or lightening of something oppressive, painful, or distressing
_____________________3. to have or show faith; trust; to tell confidentially
_____________________4. destiny; the cause or will that is help to determine events
_____________________5. to be or become moodily silent or irritable
Activity 7 – SEQUENCING OF EVENTS
Arrange the following events according to the sequence from the story. Use number 1 to indicate the first event, then 2, 3, 4, and 5 for the last event.
___1. She was worried because she might not be free again but later on, she lets it be.
___2. She was formed into a very precious pearl that made a girl overjoyed.
___3. A dewdrop fell into the ocean and the wave took her along with them.
___4. Then she heard a saving call from nowhere.
___5. She followed the call and soon found herself inside a clamshell.
Activity 8 – COMPREHENSION
1. What was the problem of the dewdrop after falling off the tree?
2. What saved the dewdrop?
3. What happened to the dewdrop inside the clamshell?
4. What made the new-found pearl an absolutely perfectly pearl?
5. What values are learned by the dewdrop in her stay inside the clamshell?
Activity 9 – CRITICAL THINKING
1. Were you once become a dewdrop in your life? Why?
2. If you were that dewdrop, would you follow the saving voice? Why?
3. Which part of the story struck you most or you liked most? Explain why.
Activity 10
Write a short message intended to your friend who suffered much more than you do and desperate with their life. How would you encourage them not to commit suicide and realize that life must go on
Activity 11 – VERB TENSES
Complete the table below by writing the correct Past and Past Participle forms of the given Verbs.
1. sing
2. dance
3. walk
4. run
5. wipe
6. clean
7. eat
8. swim
9. write
10. read
11. sway
12. compose
13. sit
14. discuss
15. explain
16. ring
17. plan
18. develop
19. play
20. draw
Activity 12
Underline the Verb in each sentence and then identify its tense. Write your answer on the space provided for.
________________1. The fair drew a big crowd for many years.
________________2. She tore herself away from the exciting game.
________________3. Gertrude swam the English Channel.
________________4. It begins to rain.
________________5. The boy wants to rest.
________________6. The teams will need the uniforms on Monday.
________________7. The swimmer practices everyday.
________________8. The trumpet sounded flat.
________________9. The bells rang for fifteen minutes.
________________10. Martha begins her lessons in guitar.
VI – WRITE THING
1. Write a short paragraph about one of your experiences in the past that gave you a lesson for life – that through that experience, you were able to learn to value a thing. Title it with “My Memories”. Remember to use the past, present and future tenses of the verb correctly.
2. Draw a five-pointed star. On each wing, write what you dreamed or ambitioned to reach or achieve in your whole life. Then at the center of the star, write the thing you dreamed the most. Below the star, write a short paragraph stating the steps you have to undergo to reach your dreams.
VII – SPEAKING PRACTICE
/ U / sound
Exercise 1
stood
hook
foot
book
could
partook
rookie
boulevard
cook
Exercise 2
1. a good cook
2. full of soot
3. ambush in July
4. stood by the pulpit
5. shook the wood
6. a wolf by the brook
7. not good to look
8. pull the fulcrum
9. a crooked cook
10. took a good book
/ u / sound
To produce the / u / sound, the tongue is pulled back in the mouth and humped toward the soft palate, but not as far high as in the / U / sound. The lips are slightly open to form a hole for the air as it leaves the mouth when it is pushed through. The teeth are slightly parted. Since the tongue is not humped so high, the air leaves the mouth in the lower position.
Exercise 3
recruit
prune
rooster
balloon
lewd
lieutenant
tattoo
stoop
prudent
inclusion
scuba
goose
poor
Exercise 4
1. a fruit juice for my brood
2. improve your routine
3. pool in school
4. a smooth canoe
5. a coup in June
6. a rude brute
7. a blue room
8. the brutal truth
9. a frugal crooner
10. few shoemakers
Activity 13
Read each sentence carefully. Choose the right word in the parenthesis to complete the sentence. Underline your answer.
1. The (fool, full) is (fool, full) of pranks.
2. The suitor (wood, wooed) the lady to help him carry the (wood, wooed).
3. His (suit, soot) was very dirty with (suit, soot).
4. Daddy tried to (pull, pool) me to the deep (pull, pool).
5. (Look, Luke) what (look, Luke) did.
6. He gave her a (suit, soot) that was full of (suit, soot).
7. (Shoed, Should) we tell the woman how he (shoed, should) the day away?
8. Ed gave the (fool, full) account of how he was treated like a (fool, full).
9. Luz tried her best to (pull, pool) the boy out of the (pull, pool).
10. During supper, Johnny (stood, stewed) up and (stood, stewed) the meat.
VIII – POST TEST
Read the story below and answer the questions that follow.
THE MONKEY AND THE JELLYFISH
Once upon a time, the king of the dragons who was an old bachelor took into his head to get married. His bride was a young dragonette, barely sixteen years old – lovely enough to be the wife of any king. The wedding caused mush rejoicing. The fishes, both great and small, came to offer gifts to the newly weds. For many days, all was feasting and merriment.
But alas! Even the dragons have their trails. Before a month had passed, the young dragon queen fell ill. The doctors gave her every medicine that was known to them, but none helped her. At last, they said that there was nothing more to be done. She would probably die.
But the sick queen said to her husband, “I know of something that will cure me. Get me a live monkey’s liver and I shall get well at once.”
“A live monkey’s liver!” exclaimed the king. “What are you thinking of, my dear? You forget that we dragons live in the sea, while monkeys live on land far away from us, among the forest trees. A monkey’s liver! My darling, you must be mad.”
The young queen burst into tears. “I have asked you for only one small thing,” she whispered, “and you won’t get it for me. I was afraid you didn’t really love me. Oh, I wish I had stayed at home with my own papa and mama.”
The dragon king didn’t like to have it thought that he was unkind to his beautiful, young wife. So he sent for his trusted servant, the jellyfish, and said: “I have rather difficult task for you. I want you to swim across the land and persuade a live monkey to come here with you. Tell the monkey how much nicer to live here in Dragon Land than where he lives so that he will be willing to come with you. What I really want from him is his liver to be used as a medicine for the queen.”
So the jellyfish started off to his strange errand. In those days, he was just like any other fish, with eyes, and fins and tails. And he also had little feet so that he could walk on land. It did not take him many hours to swim across the country where the monkeys live. Fortunately, there happened to be a monkey on the branches of the tree near the place where the jellyfish landed.
“Good morning, Mr. Monkey,” said the jellyfish. “I have come to tell you of a beautiful place where the weather is always pleasant. There are plenty of ripe fruits on the trees, and there is none of those mischievous creatures called man. Will you not get on my back and let me take you there?”
The monkey thought it would be fun to see a new place. So he jumped on the jellyfish’s back and off they started across the water.
When they had gone about a halfway, he began to fear that there might be some hidden dangers. It seemed rather odd for a jellyfish to come so far to carry a stranger home simply to see the place.
“Mr. Jellyfish, why did you think of coming for me?” the monkey inquired.
“My master, the king of the dragons, sent me to get you,” answered the jellyfish. “He wants to give your liver as a medicine to the queen.”
“Oh, that’s your little game, is it?” thought the monkey. But he kept his thought to himself and only said, “Nothing could please me better than to be of service to the king and queen. But I left my liver hanging on the branch of that bid tree where you first saw me. A liver is heavy to carry, so I generally take mine out and play without it. We shall have to go back for it.”
The jellyfish agreed that there was nothing else to do but to go back and get the monkey’s liver. The silly creature did not see that the monkey is only fooling him in order to save his life and his liver.
When they reached the shore again, the monkey bounced off the jellyfish’s back and was up the tree in less than a minute. Then he said, “I do not see my liver here. Perhaps somebody has taken it away. Go back and tell your master what has happened. He might be anxious if you did not get home before dark.”
With that, the jellyfish started to go home. When he told the king of the dragons what happened, the king was so angry with his stupidity that he called his officers and said: “Away with this fellow! Take him and beat him to jelly! Do not let a single bone remain unbroken in his body!”
The officers seized the unfortunate jellyfish and beat him as the king commanded – that is the reason why jellyfishes have no bones.
When the young queen found she could not have the monkey’s liver, she made up her mind to get well without it.
Reference: Exploring life through Filipino Literature I, pp. 42 - 44
Activity 14 – VOCABULARY
Below are definitions. Read each carefully and find the words being defined from the paragraph above.
________________________1. an unmarried man
________________________2. to show one’s feeling suddenly; a sudden outbreak
________________________3. to win over to a belief or course of action by argument or entreaty
________________________4. a short trip taken to do something
________________________5. harmful; causing annoyance or small injury
Activity 15 – COMPREHENSION
1. Where is the setting of the story?
2. What was the problem in the kingdom?
3. Why did the dragon king ask the jellyfish to fetch the monkey?
4. How was the problem solved?
5. Why was the jellyfish badly beaten?
Activity 16 – CRITICAL THINKING
1. If you were the king, would you do the same? Why?
2. Do you think that giving up of something is a proof of true love? Why do you say so?
3. To what extent will you do things for love?
IX – REFLECTION
1. What did you learn? Do you think it will be helpful in your life? Why do you say so?
2. What is then your challenge with the knowledge you have right now?
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