English – Grade 10
Quarter 1 – Module 1: Persuasive Text: Public Speech. First edition 2021
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Teacher II-SHS Department
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San Ildefonso National High School
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Curriculum Writing Course
Preparation and Evaluation of Instructional Materials – English 413a
10
English
Quarter 1 – Module 1
Persuasive Text - Public Speech
INTRODUCTORY MESSAGE
For the learner:
Welcome to English 10 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Sequencing of Events with
Outside Sources of Information in Terms of Accessibility and Effectiveness!
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.
For the facilitator:
Welcome to English 10 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Sequencing of Events with
Outside Sources of Information in Terms of Accessibility and Effectiveness.
This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators from
public institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator, in helping the learners
meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal,
social, and economic constraints in schooling.
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their
needs and circumstances.
- The Authors
WHAT I NEED TO KNOW
This module encourages you to have a better understanding, comprehension, and
knowledge of the sequencing of events when reading a dedicated text. Various
activities are provided for you to meet the target skills.
At the end of this module, you are expected to:
Emphasize the significance of persuasive texts in the by getting information
that can be used in everyday life from news reports, speeches, informative
talks, panel discussions, etc.
Appreciate the writer’s style by explaining how the elements and factors
specific to a genre contribute to the theme of a particular literary selection
such as a public speech.
Sharpen your viewing and study skills by determining how connected events
contribute to the totality of a material viewed.
Be familiar with the structure of a public speech by describing the techniques
in effective public speaking and interpreting the ethics of public speaking.
Formulate and write an effective speech of statement of opinion or assertion
with identified features of persuasive texts.
WHAT I KNOW
Using the Semantic Map, find out the meaning of the words. Choose and shade the
correct answer from the middle of the diagram.
Synonymous example:
Manny’s idea is unlikely to
be acknowledged.
Synonym: Antonym:
unlikely; questionable; improbable certain; expected;
far-fetched most likely
Antonymous example:
I am certain it’s will rain
from the looks of that sky.
Synonymous example:
Synonym: Antonym:
looming
Antonymous example:
Synonymous example:
Synonym: Antonym:
marvelous
Antonymous example:
Synonymous example:
Synonym: Antonym:
sardonic
Antonymous example:
Synonymous example:
Synonym: Antonym:
avant-garde
Antonymous example:
WHAT’S IN?
Previously, you have learned about
WHAT’S NEW?
Read the transcription of a speech below by Gian Karlo Dapul titled Fish Mucus and
Foot Fungus.
In London, Gian Dapul faced off with 57 other students from 34 countries. He made it
as one of a dozen finalists before bagging the top prize with his speech titled,
curiously enough, “Fish Mucus and Foot Fungus.”
Fish Mucus and Foot Fungus
By Gian Karlo Dapul
When I was in 6th grade, I hated mathematics. You would have,
too, if you had my teacher. He would drop huge workbooks on our tables
and croak, “30 problems, 50 minutes.” A lot of these problems seemed
unsolvable, so we complained: “Sir, there are no answers to these!” But
then he’d reply, “To every question there is an answer, to every
problem there is a solution.”
Although I’m only 16 years old and an incoming 4th year high
school student, I know that my country has more problems than any
mathematics book. Strangely enough, the answers to some of our
problems are fish mucus and foot fungus. These seemingly improbable
items are products of what we call scientific research.
Research turns our guesses into real knowledge, serving as
the sifting pan of our hypotheses. It challenges what we assume,
because, as they say, if you only learn from what you ASS-UME,
you make an “ass” out of “u” and “me.”
In the early 1800s, someone warned that the streets of
London would be filled with horse manure due to the uncontrolled
use of horse-drawn carriages. Of course, that never happened.
Combustion engines, products of research and invention, replaced
horses, and the manure piled up in Parliament instead.
While on the subject, few people know that the most expensive
coffee in the world is taken from the droppings of the Asian Palm Civet
found in the Philippines and Indonesia. The small mammal excretes the
coffee berries it eats, and forest trackers recycle the fruity feces to
create what is known as Kopi Luwak in Indonesia or Kape Alamid in our
country. Research has led to a synthetic process that simulates the
droppings’ exotic flavor and quality.
So, who’s had coffee with their breakfast? Well, soon
nobody will have had coffee and breakfast if the looming global
food crisis worsens. Are you all feeling fine? Well, nobody might
be fine for long if some new disease creeps up on us.
Health can be enhanced and life can be extended. The
nudibranch, a beautiful, soft-bodied creature unfairly called a
“sea slug” — a favorite among underwater photographers for its
marvelous colors and shapes — has actually been used in tumor
research. Samples of fish mucus have also displayed certain
antibacterial properties.
And as the Home Shopping Network would say,
“Wait! There’s more.”
Certain types of infectious fungi that coat some of your toes form
beneficial relationships that support plant growth. The International
Rice Research Institute based in the Philippines continues to develop
ways to improve rice growth and help alleviate the current food crisis.
New challenges are coming, and they will always confront
us. What we need is an army of scientific researchers that will
help find the solutions in advance. I want to be part of that army
that would cross the new frontiers first.
If only we could make science fairs and contests as popular
as the thriving “Idol” franchise — although I’m not sure if Simon
Cowell’s sardonic comments will sit well with my peers. But we
need the same hard-hitting passion in research and invention.
To conduct research is to be innovative, avant-garde. Researchers
are like artists with test tubes and lab gowns instead of paintbrushes and
smocks. When I graduate from the Philippine Science High School next
year, I want to begin my “masterpiece” and apply for a university
degree in biochemistry.
Sometimes I am discouraged by those who say that a
researcher from a Third-World nation is like a Jesuit adhering to a
vow of poverty, or worse, like a Benedictine monk observing the
vow of chastity. It is indeed a challenge, but it’s also another
frontier to cross, for me and many young people like me.
We Filipinos are well known for our dedication to service,
in foreign homes, hospitals and hotels. (In our hotel, I found three
Filipinos working at the front desk.) I want to be one of the
pioneers that will make the Philippines known for its excellence in
scientific research, as part of the driving force that will expand
our horizons towards tomorrow. And I intend to have a lot of fun
while doing it.
Going back to my math teacher, I eventually realized that, well,
he was right. As he said, “To every question there is an answer, to every
problem there is a solution.” We just have to go looking for the right
ones. Who knows? Maybe one day we’ll be answering the questions that
haven’t been asked yet.
Some reflections from the text
WHAT IS IT?
WHAT’S MORE?
Guided Practice
Guided Assessment
Independent Practice 1
Independent Assessment 1
Independent Practice 2
Independent Assessment 2
Independent Practice 3
Independent Assessment 3
WHAT HAVE I LEARNED?
WHAT CAN I DO?
ASSESSMENT
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
ANSWER KEY