Department of Education

English 6
Comparing and Contrasting Content
Materials Viewed to other Sources of
Information (Print, Online and Broadcast)
Second Quarter – Week 6

Jennifer R. Oruga
Writer
Adelinda D. Dollesin
Hilario G. Canasa
Maila C. Lorenzo
Maricel P. Dimaano
Validators
Mrs. Ivy M. Romano
Dr. Shella C. Navarro
Dr. Ma. Theresa C. Dela Rosa
Dr. Ma. Carmen D. Solayao
Quality Assurance Team
Schools Division Office – Muntinlupa City
Student Center for Life Skills Bldg., Centennial Ave., Brgy. Tunasan, Muntinlupa City
(02) 8805-9935 / (02) 8805-9940
 This supplementary learning material was designed and written with you in
mind. It is here to help you compare and contrast content materials viewed to
other sources of information (print, online and broadcast). This also offers many
different learning activities. The language and vocabulary used in this learning
material fit to the Grade 6 learners.

After going through this learning material, you are expected to:

1. Compare and contrast the content of a television news program to online news
articles;
2. Use graphic organizer to compare and contrast the content of a TV news program
to online news articles; and
3. Analyze and evaluate information in comparing and contrasting the content of a
TV news program to online news articles.

Directions: Read the following items. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. When you compare something, you ask yourself:
A. How are they the same? C. How are they distinct from each other?
B. How are they different? D. How can you use them?

2. What does contrast mean?

A. To tell its similarities C. To tell its characteristic
B. To tell its differences D. To tell its reliability

3. Which graphic organizer can be used for compare and contrast?

A. Venn Diagram C. Timeline
B. Flow Chart D. Fishbone

4. Which type of the structural text shows how two or more things are alike and
different?
A. Cause and Effect C. Compare and Contrast
B. Sequencing D. Fact vs Opinion

5. To explain how something is similar to something else is to __________.

A. define B. contrast C. explain D. compare

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6. What ideas are you going to put on the overlapping part of the circle of the Venn
diagram?

A. Fact B. Opinion C. Different D. Similar

7. What ideas are you going to put in the outer circles of the Venn diagram?

A. Similar B. Different C. Characteristic D. Quality

8. It is an information about the current event.

A. Google B. Internet C. News D. Radio

9. It is a program on television devoted to current news.

A. Newspaper B. Internet C. Magazine D.TV News

10. It is an online version of newspaper that creates more opportunities in

broadcasting in a timelier manner.
A. Internet B. Online News C. Magazine D.TV News

Let’s find out what you have learned from your previous lesson.

Directions: Tell weather each statement is TRUE or FALSE.

______1. In the traditional way of learning students are continuously evolving
technology.

______2. Dynamic and real-time information is more evident in online learning.

______3. Time shifts in a fastest communications and accelerated cycles in online

learning.

______4. Printed materials are more convenient for most of the learners.

______5. Teamwork is not complicated in online learning.

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 In this learning material, you will continue to learn how content materials
viewed to other sources of information especially in comparing and contrasting TV
news to Online News. You will also learn to use the Venn Diagram in simplifying
similarities and differences. I hope that you will enjoy answering the activities. Keep
on learning!

Most people like you are watching less and less news on television. This comes
as no surprise as young people become increasingly addicted to their smartphones.
Youth choose to spend most of their time for online activities like YouTube videos,
social media and games rather than switch on a TV and watch a news program.

Directions: Identify each statement if it’s a fact on TV news or Online News. Check
(/) the correct column below.

TV News Online News

1. News is limited by time.
2. News stories are more complicated because
of broad facts.
3. News stories are more factual and realistic.
4. Enable us to be more curious between fact
and fake news because of wide range of
information.
5. Needs more information/web search for
validation of facts.

Look at the answers below.

TV News Online News
1. News is limited by time. √
2. News stories are more complicated because
√
of broad facts.
3. News stories are more factual and realistic. √
4. Enable us to be more curious between fact
and fake news because of wide range of √
information.
5. Needs more information/web search for
√
validation of facts.

Comparing is telling the similarities of two or more things, animals, places,

people or events.
Contrasting is telling the differences of two or more unlike things, animals,
places, people or events.

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 TV News is a television broadcast of news

 News can be watched on a specific time.

 News on TV makes you a witness to important event
in real time.
 News on TV is convenient and accessible to everyone.

Online News is the online version of newspaper.

 It requires data/wifi to get online; it is costly to maintain
 News spreads faster. Sometimes, people find out
news before the shroud.
 Everyone has access and can post any article anytime, but readers
should be very careful on facts.
 It can be accessed anytime.

For additional information, you may try to watch :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Y-z6HmRgI

With the arrival of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an
incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we
choose which news to watch.

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Activity 1:
Directions: Read the selection and answer the following questions.

TV News to Online News

By Jennifer R. Oruga

Every day in our lives, we watch news to update us with information. What
we watch every day are forms of media, either on TV broadcast or via online. Before,
we only get information either from newspaper or from televisions until online media
came. Online media is growing faster than ever and it is replacing the old types of
listening to news, since most of the people spend most of their time in social media
like Facebook, Tweeter and Instagram where most of the hottest news spread faster.

In 1998, the editor of the washingtonpost.com said in an interview that

internet would be replacing newspaper and TV news, because articles in this means
are much faster to spread. However, he still insisted that newspaper and TV news
were more depth in terms of information and facts from the internet. Most people
can take most of their time in watching the news online because it can be easily
access anytime as long as you have data connection or wifi rather than waiting on a
scheduled time on TV.

Online news and TV news have their good and bad side. It is our duty to take
time and evaluate every information from facts and misleading information from the
news we have watched either from television or online. (sites.goggle.com)

Comprehension Check: Write FACT OR FAKE.

______1. We are watching news to be updated in the information around the world.
______2. We need wifi or data connection in watching news on television.

______3. News spread faster online compared to television.

______4. Before the online news rises, we could watch news anytime we want on
television.

______5. Fake news spread faster online, so it’s our responsibility to evaluate the
news we watch.

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Activity 2:

Directions: Complete the Venn diagram below. Choose and write the letters of the
given statement on the right space of the diagram.

A Venn diagram is an illustration that uses circles to show the relationships among
things or finite groups of things. Circles that overlap (at the center) have similarities
while circles that do not overlap shows the differences of things.

TV News Online News A. It gives latest updates and

information around the world.
B. It is more wider in terms of facts
but less reliable because of fake
news.
C. Its news can be watch only on
specific time.

D. It needs wifi/data connection to

watch.

E. It makes you witness to important

events in real time.

I have learned that ___________________ means telling the similarities of two or

more things while _____________________ means telling the differences of things.
__________________ is a tool to use and show the comparison and contrast of
things, animals, places, people or events.
___________________ news can be watched using data/wifi. __________________
news is broadcast on specific time.

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Directions: Using the selection “TV News to Online News” on page 6 of your module,
complete the Venn diagram.

Encircle the letter of the best answer.

1. What graphic organizer is use to show comparison and contrast of things?

A. Flowchart B. Concept map C. Venn diagram D. KWL

2. What does the overlapping circle in the middle of the Venn diagram tell?
A. Similarities B. Differences C. Characteristic D. Quality
3. What do the circles on the sides of the Venn diagram, which do not overlap show?

A. Similarities B. Differences C. Characteristic D. Quality

4. The structural text that shows similarities and differences of things, animals,
places, people and events is called ___________

A. Fact vs Opinion B. Sequencing

C. Problem and Solution D. Compare and Contrast

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5. What is primary advantage of watching news on television?

A. It is costly. C. It requires Wifi connection

B. It is affordable. D. It is accessible without data.

6. What refers to the current information that updates us in the happenings around
the world?
A. Books B. E-book C. Encyclopaedia D. News

7. It enables us to access the fastest events across the nation.

A. Magazine B. Newspaper C. Online news D. TV News

8. It refers to a news that is very convenient and affordable to everyone.

A. TV News B. Newspaper C. Online news D. E-news

9. It is a news that can be access anytime as long as you have wifi connection.
A. TV News B. Newspaper C. Online news D. Magazine

10. Why is it necessary to evaluate news source?

A. To be able to get correct and relevant news
B. To capture outdated news and information

C. To get entertained

D. To weigh the importance of the news we listen to

References
Aida M. Alfaro, Yolanda D. Piang, Second Edition English Language Power 6;Sibs
Publishing House,pp:197-199

Atima Kreenaha’s Online Portfolio- Media Compare and Contrst Essay;

sites.google.com

“Compare and Contrast”- DepEd Commons;

Quizizzhttps://quizizz.com/admin/search/compare%20and%20contrast%20TV%2
0and%20online%20news

“How to choose your news – Damon Brown” Youtube video, 4:48. June 5, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Y-z6HmRgI

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POST TEST Check Your Remember ACTIVITIES LOOKING PRETEST
Understanding BACK
1. C 1. A
Answers vary
2. A 1. Compare Activity 1: 2. B
1. FALSE
3. B 2. Contrast 1. FACT 3. A
2. TRUE
4. D 3. Venn 2. FAKE 4. C
Diagram 3. TRUE
5. B 3. FACT 5. D
4. Online 4. TRUE
6. D 4. FAKE 6. D
5. TV 5. FALSE
7.C 5. FACT 7.B
8.A Activity 2: 8.C
9.C TV NEWS – C,E 9.D
10.A Center – A 10. B
Online News – B, D
Key to Correction