Acumen - Competency-Based Learning Resource Repository and Development

Discovering Philippine and Afro Asian Literature

1: Noting Cultural Differences

Listening
- Identify prosodic features stress, and intonation features as carriers of meaning that may aid or interfere in the delivery of the message in stories and informative texts
  - Note prosodic features (e.g. stress, intonation , pauses) and rate of speech as carriers of meaning
  - Identify changes in meaning signaled by stress, intonation and juncture
Speaking
- Give a short, informative talk using appropriate registers to suit the intended audience and variation in intonation and stress for emphasis and contrast
  - Use stress, intonation and juncture to signal changes in meaning
Reading
- Adjust and vary reading speed based on one’s purpose for reading and the type of materials read
  - Use different reading styles to suit the text and one’s purpose for reading
Writing
- Call attention to school events and drives
  - Write slogan
Literature
- Assess the Asian identity as presented in Asian literature
- Assess one's self in the light of what makes an Asian
- Identify one's self with other people through literature and note cultural differences so as to get to the heart of problems arising from them

2: Establishing Liks Among People

Listening
- Listen for points the speaker emphasizes as important signaled by contrastive sentence stress
Speaking
- Make use of stress and intonation for emphasis and contrast
Reading
- Develop strategies to make sense of unfamiliar words
- Arrange words in a cline to differentiate between shades of meaning
Writing
- Employ the interactional functions of language in pen-pal letters, letters of invitations, “yes” and “no” letters
Literature
- Discover through literature the links between one's life and the lives of the people throughout the world

3: Appreciating Asian Traditions and Values

Listening
- Determine the social issues addressed in an informative talk, the objective of the speaker and his attitude on the issues
  - Listen for clues and links to show the speaker's trend of thought
  - Describe the speaker's attitude towards the subject
  - Arrive at conclusions regarding the attitude of the speaker towad his subject by notong clues and links to show the speaker's stand and assumptions
Speaking
- Formulate response to questions noting the types of questions raised (yes-no, wh- question alternative, modals, embedded)
- Respond orally to the ideas and needs expressed in face-to-face interviews in accordance with the intended meaning of the speaker
Reading
- Extract and organize information from different text types
Writing
- Accomplish order slips, telecom forms
  - Fill out personal data sheets (school forms, bank forms, etc.)
- Prepare interview guides and make a write-up of an interview
Literature
- Discover Philippine and Afro Asian literature as a means of expanding experiences and outlook and enhancing worthwhile universal human values
- Express appreciation for worthwhile Asian traditions and the values they represent

Gathering and Organizing Information

4: Using Library Resource

Listening
- Explore opportunities for speedy and economical access to information by listening to talks, informative, political, religious
Speaking
- Use audio-visual aids to highlight important points in an informative talk
- Give information and express needs, opinions, feelings and attitudes explicitly in informative talk
Reading
- Gather data using library resources consisting of general references, atlas, periodical index, and periodicals to locate information
  - Use the periodical index to locate information in periodicals
Writing
- Prepare posters and captions calling attention to drives
  - Make captions for poster
Literture
- Highlight the need for a more just and equitable distribution of resources

5: Organizing Ideas in Non-linear Texts

Listening
- Employ varied listening strategies( marginal, selective) to suit the listening text and task
Speaking
- Use appropriate turn-taking strategies : topic nomination and topic development.
Reading
- Demonstrate the ability to interpret and if necessary reproduce in linear verbal forms and graphic relationships calling for inferential interpretations.
  - Interpret and compare orally or in writing information presented in tables, charts, graphs, etc.
Writing
- Organize ideas in non-linear text
Literature
- Point out the role of literature in enabling one to grow in personhood
  - Note the values underscored by the writer in literary pieces

6: Making Outlines

Litsening
- Listen to longer stories
  - Employ projective listening strategies when listening to stories
  - Predict outcomes from events described in stories as they unfold
  - Listen to determine if one's predictions are borne out
Speaking
- Use telephone to make inquiries
Reading
- Demonstrate the ability to activate background knowledge (e.g. use advance organizers, illustrations, comprehension, questions, titles, etc.) to better understand a text
  - Relate ideas from previous readings to a given text
Writing
- Use three-step word, phrasal and sentence outlines to organize ideas
- Explain in writing the data presented in non-linear texts
Literature
- Discriminate what is worthwhile from what is not through literature
  - Distinguish as a positive value the ability to look into oneself
  - Single out humility, resourcefulness and self-reliance

7: Using Information Maps in Note Taking

Listening
- Employ varied listening strategies (attentive, critical) to suit the listening text and task
- Supply gaps in listening texts caused by acoustic disturbance
  - Predict what is to follow considering the text type and macro discourse pattern
  - Use context to guess items not heard in a listening text
Speaking
- Use appropriate turn-taking strategies : topic—shift, turn-getting, etc....
- Use the telephone to make inquiries
Reading
- Choose the chart (flow chart, tree diagram or grid) most suited to illustrate thought relationships in a given text.
- Organize information into a concept map.
Writing
- Use information maps and other concepts maps as aids in note taking
  - Linear, branching, cyclical flow-charts
  - Three-level tree diagrams
  - Grids
Literature
- Distinguish literature as a means of gaining vicarious experiences.

Communicating Thoughts and Feelings

8: Communication Strategies

Listening
- Determine if the speaker is neutral, for or against an issue
Speaking
- Use communication strategies : paraphrase, and translations, circumlocution to repair breakdown in communication
Reading
- Develop the ability and the desire to read different text types for information, pleasure and appreciation
  - Derive from the written test varied ways of expressing an idea
Writing
- Write short personal narratives to support an assertion
Literature
- Show relationship between the main and significant details
- Draw conclusions and make inferences on details/specific details
- Paraphrase passages to demonstrate understanding

9: Expressing Feelings and Attitudes

Litening
- Express appreciation for oral interpretation noting harmony, unison, and rhythm
  - Listen to appreciate the tune and narrative structure of ballads
- Listen to appreciate harmony, unison, and rhythm in choral interpretation
Speaking
- Express feelings attitudes by utilizing variations of tone and tempo
Reading
- Develop the ability and the desire to read different text types for pleasure and appreciation
- Distinguish between facts and opinion and note expressions that signal opinions (seems, as I see it)
Writing
- Use appropriate modes of development to express one's ideas, needs, feelings and attitudes
Literature
- Determine the author's tone and purpose for writing a literary selection
- Show understanding and appreciation of the different genres with emphasis on types contributed by Asian countries (i.e. haiku, tanka, etc.)
  - Point out the elements of plays and playlets

10: Reaching Consensus

Listening
- Listen to issues pertaining to the community
Speaking
- Arrive at a consensus on community issues by assessing statements made
  - React to information obtained from talks
Reading
- Scan rapidly for sequence signals or connectors as basis for determining the rhetorical organization of texts
Writing
- Expand ideas using a variety of and cohesive devices to make the flow of thought from one sentence to another smooth and effortless
- Write different types of discourse: narration (personal experiences), exposition (book reviews) and description (apparatus, objects, etc.)
  - Write well-constructed texts employing alternative forms of the overall macro discourse patterns: P-Sn Situation-Problem, Attempted Solution-Result-Evaluation TRI Topic-Restriction, Topic-Illustration, and Topic-Restriction-Illustration
  - Do self and peer-editing using a set of criteria
Literature
- Determine the macro discourse pattern (PSNTRI) of essays and in the micro discourse signals used to establish meaning relationships in the essay

11: Agreeing and Disagreeing With Statements

Listening
- Listen to determine conflicting information aired over the radio and television
Speaking
- Give information obtained from mass media newspapers, radio, television
  - Agree/disagree with statements and observations made concerning community issues
Reading
- Utilize varied reading strategies (covert dialogue with the writer and the sectional approach) to process information in a text
  - Note the function of statements made as the text unfolds and use it as the basis of predicting what is to follow
  - Suggest modifications to be made considering the context of the situation when the text was written
Writing
- Use writing conventions to indicate acknowledgment of resources
Literature
- Discover literature as a means of having a better understanding of man and forces he has to contend with
  - Discover through literature the symbolic relationship between man and his environment and the need of the former to protect the latter

Making Meanings

12: Propaganda Strategies

Listening
- Identify the attitudes of the speaker on an issue
Speaking
- Agree/disagree with statements, observations and responses made in political and religious talks when discussing issues affecting the community
- Interview persons to get their opinions about social issues affecting the community
Reading
- Identify propaganda strategies used in advertisements and other texts and consider these when formulating hypothesis concerning claims made
- Develop strategies to make sense of information-dense discourse
Writing
- Call attention to school events and drives
  - Prepare advertisements for school drives
Literature
- Demonstrate a heightened sensitivity to the needs of others for a better understanding of man

13: Inferring Functions of Utterances

Listening
- Process speech at different rates by making inferences from what was said
  - Use syntactic and lexical clues to supply items not heard in a listening text
  - Anticipate what is to follow considering the function of the statement made
Speaking
- Infer the function of utterance and respond accordingly taking into account the context of the situation and tone used (asking information, making suggestions, expressing wants, dislikes, approval, disapproval)
Reading
- Develop strategies to make sense of ambiguous sentence structures
- Abstract information from the text by noting both explicit and implicit signals used by the writer to serve as directions on how the text is to be interpreted
Writing
- Communicate thoughts, feelings, one's need in journal entries, book reviews, interview write-ups, etc. using appropriate styles (formal and informal)
  - Write reflections on learning experiences in diary and journal entries
Literature
- Employ reading skills as an aid in comprehension and appreciation of a literary piece
  - Select appropriate details from a selection (i.e. contrasts, illustration, etc.) used by an essayist to attain his objective (to persuade, to inform, to call attention, etc.)

14: Literary Devices

Listening
- Listen to events and note developments in narratives as they unfold
- Note the dramatic effect of sudden twists in surprise endings
Speaking
- Include instructional information and constraints
Reading
- Guess the meaning of idiomatic expressions by noting keywords in expressions, context clues, collocations, clusters or related words, etc.
- Get the meaning of complex sentence structures by deleting expansions to come up with the kernel sentence
Writing
- Summarize and write reactions to books read (book reviews) or movies seen (movie review)
Literature
- Point out how the choice of title, space allotment, imagery, choice of words, figurative language, etc. contribute to the theme
- Single out and explain figurative language used
- Point out and express appreciation of sensory images in literary forms

Secondary English - Second Year