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ENGLISH 7 WEEK 4 QUARTER 2

Name of Learner:__________________________________________Grade/Section:________

PRE- ASSESMENT: Choose the correct answer from the word bank. WORD BANK

1. To retell something in your own words is to_______. SUMMARY

KEY POINT
2. Which word means to tell how or put it in your own words?_________
PARAPRHASE
3. Are arguments or information that is used to support the main idea is __________. OPINION
SUMMARIZING
4. Short account of the central ideas of a text is_________.
5. Summaries are not a place for_________

ACTIVITY 1: Answer in one word

In this pandemic situation you have a lot of time to read books or to watch a movie and you suppose to
tell your friend that you watched or read a great story and your friend asks what the story is. What
would you do? Would you tell the whole story? Or just simply give the gist of the story.
______________________________

ACTIVITY 2: Summarizing nursery rhymes

Read each nursery rhyme and summarize it in as few words as possible. Be sure to include key
information, though. The first one is done for you.

1. The itsy bitsy spider

Climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain and Summary:
Washed the spider out.
Up came the sun and A spider climbed up a water spout and fell down, but it
got back up again.
Dried up all the rain.
And the itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the spout again.

2. Humpty Dumpty
Sat on a wall. Summary:
Humpty Dumpty
Had a great fall.
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty

3. Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a tuffet, Summary:
Eating some curds and whey
Along came a spider
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
 Activity 3: Read the article and summarize it. This summary should be longer than the summaries of
nursery rhymes. Write at least two or three sentences.

Man is a social being. Every day, he/she interacts with others in the community. He meets
different persons in every necessity in order to survive. Students go to school and learn from their
teacher. Drivers pick up passengers. Vendors sell their merchandise to various costumers. An
individual encounters different people day in and day out. Thus a person should learn how to
mingle with others in positive ways so that people would establish healthy relationships among
themselves.

Summary:

ASSESMENT:

A. Encircle the correct answer.

1. To retell something in your own words is to

a.) Opinion b.) Key point c.) Summary d.) Paraphrase
2. Are arguments or information that is used to support the main idea is
a.) Key Point b.) Opinion c.) Summarizing d.) Paraphrase
3. Summaries are not a place for
a.) Key Point b.) Opinion c.) Summary d.) Paraphrase
4. Which word means to tell how or put it in your own words?
a.) Key Point b.) Opinion c.) Summarizing d.) Paraphrase
5. Short account of the central ideas of a text is
a.) Summary b.) Paraphrase c.) Key Point d.) Opinion

B. Give the steps on how to summarize a text

1.
2.
3.
Read the nursery rhyme and find the key information of the text

Jack and Jill went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown, Summary:
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper,
And went to bed to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.
Prepared by:

CARMELITA P. DINGDING

ENGLISH TEACHER