DOMINICAN SCHOOL OF CALABANGA

San Francisco, Calabanga, Camarines Sur

MODULE IN ENGLISH GRADE 7

FIRST QUARTER

WEEK 3

FOREWORD

This module was designed in response to the “new normal” school year, resilience must be built into our
educational systems to ensure that knowledge and skills remain a priority for all students. This module contains the Most
Essential Learning Competencies (MELC), an innovative response to the present situation of our educational system. With
the distance education or learning, the school hoped for a continuous learning for the students who may not be
physically present at school. This is also to ensure the safety and health of the students.

Lesson 2: Oral vs Written Language

Here are the tasks you must accomplish for this module:

 Distinguish between oral and written language use

 Identify the examples of oral and written language

It might be easy to say that oral is for speaking and written is in tangible form, whether seen or
read. However, language goes far deeper beyond those definitions. On our first topic in
literature, we discussed that literary forms during Precolonial Era are spoken and passed
down from one person to another using the oral tradition. Why is that so?
I. Complete the K-W-L chart below. After finishing the module, supply the information for the third column.
ORAL VS WRITTEN LANGUAGE
what I Know what I Want to know what I Learned
1. 4. 7.
2. 5. 8.
3. 6. 9.

Oral and Written Language

 When we us the word “language,” we are referring to the words we choose to use in our speeches
thus we are mainly indicating on the “spoken/oral” language. When we were a child, we learn how to speak
prior having the knowledge to write. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that written language isn’t
important. Both have the equal use and purpose and differences.

Oral language is a combination of sounds used
to express thought.
The sounds used to express
thought are grouped in spoken
words. A spoken word may be a
single sound or a group of sounds.
 Examples: Face-to-face conversations,
Telephone conversations, discussions that
take place at business meetings
Written language is composed of written words, so
combined as to express thought.
A written language is the
representation of a language by
means of a writing system.
 Examples: Email, Text messaging
Cards and letters, Newspaper
Magazines

After knowing the definition of oral and written language, let’s see what are the characteristics that make
them different from each other.

I. Analyze the scenarios provided below, and based from

the questions, put a check inside the box to choose
whether it uses Oral or Written Language.
1. You want to invite your friends on your birthday party. For your closest friends, you directly told them
that they are invited while you just send your other classmates some invitation cards. Which do you
think is more personal?
Face-to-face Sending invitation
invitation cards

2. Imagine that you are already working 10 years from now. You like your work but your workmates are
very toxic that you decided to resign and find a new job. You talked with your manager that you want to
quit your job and also submitted your resignation letter. Which one is more formal?

Informing your Submitting a

manager resignation letter

3. While preparing dinner, you opened your TV to watch news, According to the news anchor, “There are
almost 30 thousand cases of COVID-19 within the country.” so you searched on the internet for some
clarifications and on an article online, it says “29,534 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and still
counting,,,” Which one is more detailed?

News anchor Online article

4. During the wedding anniversary of your parents, you approached and hugged them while saying “Happy
Wedding Anniversary Mom and Dad. A year after you weren’t able to come home since that you are on
a vacation outside the country. Instead you wrote a letter to express your love for them.” When do we
often use lengthy sentences and longer messages especially for greetings?

A face-to-face Text/Chat
conversation

5. You were asked to report about The Life of Jose Rizal in front of the class, and to write an essay about
your topic. When will you most like repeat your own words?

Talking in front of Essay you’ve

the class written
 6. Imagine yourself inside the classroom. You and your friend are talking about your crush. Both of you
also talk about it through messenger or text. In which scenario do you give more examples and open
more topics?
A face-to-face Text/Chat
conversation

cajole /kəˈjōl/ verb

- persuade (someone) to do something by
sustained coaxing or flattery. A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter
"he hoped to cajole her into selling the house"
in the language.

 For example, the sentence “The quick brown

‘ fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram.

I hope you were able to answer those questions correctly, because you will be doing another exercise
that is related with your answers.

II. Complete the table to show the difference between Oral and
Written Language by choosing the options from the
box. First 2
items are given as examples.
Less Formal Formal
Impersonal Personal
Fewer examples and stories More examples and stories
Use precise numbers Rounds off numbers
Shorter Sentences Longer Sentences
Repeats more Repeats less

Oral Language Written Language

1. Personal 7. Impersonal
2. 8.
3. 9.
4. 10.
5. 11.
6. 12.

III. Write ARF if the example below uses Oral Language and
MEOW if it uses Written language.

______1. Hey Liza! What yah doing here? Thought you be on vacation for a week?
______2. Dear Karen,
Happy Birthday to you! I hope you are doing well. I really miss you so much.
Sincerely,
Romeo
______3. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Uhm thank you for coming here today to support our
candidates for Mr. and Ms. Intramurals 2020. Please be advised to keep our voices down while the
competition is being held. Thank you!
______4. Sunset is the time of day when our sky meets the outer space solar winds. There are blue, pink, and
purple swirls, spinning and twisting, like clouds of balloons caught in a whirlwind. The sun moves
slowly to hide behind the line of horizon, while the moon races to take its place in prominence atop
the night sky. People slow to a crawl, entranced, fully forgetting the deeds that must still be done.
There is a coolness, a calmness, when the sun does set.
______5. Good day, Shopee user! Thank you for contacting Shopee Philippines. We received your email and a
Shopee representative is currently reviewing your concern. Thank you for letting us know about this.
Please give us 24 to 48 hours to provide you an update. If you have general questions about Shopee,
you may check out our help center.
______6. Helen: Midtown Computer Solutions, Helen speaking. How can I help you?
Ryan: Hello, this is Ryan Bardos. May I speak with Natalie Jones, please?
Helen: One moment please – I’ll put you through.
Helen: Mr. Bardos? I’m sorry, Natalie’s in a meeting at the moment.
Would you like to leave a message?
Ryan: Yes, could you ask her to call me back as soon as possible? It’s pretty urgent.
Helen: Of course. Does she have your number?
Ryan: She has my office number, but let me also give you my cell – it’s 472-555-

We already discussed that Precolonial Literature is primarily composed of oral tradition and that
literature such as folk speeches survived by being transferred verbally from one person to another.
Answer the question below and as usual add a hashtag about it.

As a Grade 7 student, how would you contribute

to Philippine Literature in order for it survive for
future generations to come?

1. What I have learned?

__________________________________________________________________________

2. What were the difficulties encountered in the topic?

__________________________________________________________________________
“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
- T.S. Eliot