READING AND WRITING

ACTIVITY # ACTIVITY #
( TEXT AS CONNECTED DISCOURSE ) ( TECHNIQUES IN SELECTING AND ORGANIZING
For items 1-5, refer to the following answers from the guest when taking room service. Match the INFORMATION )
following questions to their possible answers to achieve connectionism or a unified text. 1. These are the other techniques in selecting and organizing
information, EXCEPT?
a. I want poached egg. a. Brainstorming c. Sentence Outline
b. Continental breakfast, please. b. Graphic Organizer d. Topic Sentence
c. This is Marcelo of room 202 and I’d like to order food for 2. Which of these reasons best explains why outlining is necessary?
breakfast a. It helps you see whether your ideas connect well with
d. I prefer to have macchiato one another using transitions
e. Precisely! Thank you. b. It is a systematic arrangement of ideas showing which
are the main points and which are the sub-points
1. “May I repeat your order Sir? Your order is Continental breakfast c. It identifies the topic sentence and the supporting
with poached egg and macchiato drink. Did I get your order right sentences
Sir?” d. It uses Roman and Arabic numerals, capital and small
2. “Room Service Department, this is Aileen Keli, good morning. How letters
may I help you?” 3. In organizing information, visual maps and charts can be used. In
3. “What kind of breakfast Sir? Is it Continental Breakfast or Full which of the following terms do they belong?
English Breakfast?” a. Brainstorming c. Sentence Outline
4. “Which do you prefer Sir? Hard-boiled egg, pouched egg, sunny b. Graphic Organizer d. Topic Sentence
side-up or scrambled egg?” 4. A group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a
5. “What about your drink Sir? We have hot chocolate, coffee, or conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas
tea.” spontaneously contributed by its members.
6. In linguistics, this is a continuous sequence of sounds forming a. collecting c. researching
utterances or conversation in a spoken language. b. brainstorming d. listing
a. text c. writing 5. Which of the following are the functions of an outline?
b. connected discourse d. reading a. to organize ideas and information
7. Which of the following does NOT describe a “TEXT”? b. to select appropriate words or phrases
a. Text is viewed in simpler terms in traditional grammar c. to read long passages or texts
b. Text is extremely significant in all aspects of d. to write ideas about given topic
communications 6. Making this list is a technique in organizing information. On the
c. Text is an extended structure of syntactic units list, you write down any idea related to your topic. What do you
d. Texts in general hang together and make sense call the list?
8. All of the following are examples of written text, EXCEPT? a. Idea listing c. Researching
a. Signs c. Questionnaires b. Idea mapping d. collecting
b. Announcements d. Coherence 7. Every heading consists of a complete sentence. This is usually
9. In these sentences, Football is more than just a game. It is an useful to longer papers, such as research paper.
invaluable teacher. The word “It” refers to ____? a. Topic outline c. Title
a. football c. invaluable b. Sentence outline d. Topic sentence
b. game d. teacher 8. It typically includes such techniques as free writing, free
10. A branch of linguistics concerned with the understanding of speaking, word association, and drawing a mind map which is a
language in context that proceeds with the relationship of visual note taking technique in which people diagram their
sentences to the environment in which they occur as linguistic thoughts.
and situational. a. individual brainstorming c. question brainstorming
a. Speech c. Reading b. guided brainstorming d. directed brainstorming
b. Pragmatics d. Phonology 9. What technique for selecting and organizing information uses
visual displays to show relationships between or among ideas?
a. Brainstorming c. Listing
b. Graphic Organizers d. Jotting
10. Which of the following is NOT an example of a graphic
organizer?
a. Venn Diagram c. Google Map
b. Chronological Order d. K-W-L