English 7

English – Grade 7
Quarter 2 – Module 3: Using Search Engine in Conducting a Guided Search
First Edition, 2020

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 English 7
Quarter 2
Self-Learning Module 3
Using Search Engine in Conducting a Guided
Search
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the English 7 Self-Learning Module on Using Search Engine in

Conducting a Guided Search.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed, and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st-century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the learner:

Welcome to the English 7 Self-Learning Module on Using Search Engine in

Conducting a Guided Search.

The hand is one of the most symbolized parts of the human body. It is often
used to depict skill, action, and purpose. Through our hands, we may learn, create,
and accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you as a
learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant competencies
and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in your own hands!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

In this self-learning module in English, all the activities provided will

help you understand the use of search engine in conducting a web search.
Specifically, at the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
1. use search engine effectively and efficiently in conducting web search
on a given topic;
2. familiarize yourself into types of search engines and how they work;
3. extract keywords to use for fast and easy searching;
4. apply different strategies to achieve efficient and accurate searching.

PRETEST

Directions: Identify the correct answer for the following statements. Encircle
the letter of your answer.

1. It is a web-based software system which is developed to search and

locate relevant information on the Web.
A. Browser B. Link C. Search Engine
2. This type of search engine is like a card catalog in a library, classifying
websites into categories.
A. Crawler B. Directories C. Hybrid
3. What is the best key word for, “Cyber bullying brings negative effect to
kids; They experience anxiety, fear, depression and low self-esteem.
They also struggle academically”?
A. Cyber bullying
B. Struggle of kids
C. Effects of cyber bullying
4. To get the most filtered search result to be given by search engine is to
type key words this way:
 A. “close family ties”
B. ‘close family ties’
C. --close family ties--
5. These tips help you make the most of search, which on is not?
A. Always use only one search engine.
B. Use two or more keywords in your search.
C. Make your keywords as precise as possible.

RECAP

You have learned how the changes in volume, projection, pitch, stress,
intonation, juncture and rate of speech source change the meaning and
features of speech when delivering lines or speaking.

LESSON

Internet allows us to find and gather relevant information in a certain

topic and a main part of your search process will be sifting through your
findings to determine what is useful. Before you proceed with the lesson do
this guessing game.

Take a look at the following logos/symbols. Write your answer on the

line below the logo. Can you guess what these are?

__________ __________ __________

 These symbols/logos are Google, Yahoo and Bing. They are found in
the internet and they are commonly use when searching. They are called
search engines.
Another examples of search engines are Ask, MSN, DuckDuckGo and
About.

Now, what do you think is a Search Engine? Do you have any idea of
its different types? Do you know how to take advantage of them?
As you go on with this lesson, you will be able to find the answers to
these questions.
A Search Engine is a web-based software system which is developed to
search and locate relevant information on the World Wide Web. It generally
answers the queries entered by the users and give them a list of search
results. Here are three types of Search Engines and they work differently from
each other.
1. Crawler-based - it uses a spider or crawler that digs through
individual web pages, pulls out keywords and then adds the pages
to the search engine’s database. Google and Yahoo are examples.
2. Directories- are like a card catalog in a library, classifying websites
into categories.
3. Hybrid - it’s a mix of crawlers and directories. Human results are
usually listed first. Google and Bing are examples.

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Search-Engine-Works.jpg)
  Crawling: Scour the Internet for content, looking over the code/content
for each URL they find.
 Indexing: Store and organize the content found during the crawling
process.
 Ranking: Provide the pieces of content that will best answer a
searcher's query, which means that results are ordered by most
relevant to least relevant.
Browser: The browser is the entryway to your internet searches. You can use
a variety of different search engines to help you begin your research,
including: Google, MSN’s Bing, Ask, Yahoo!, DuckDuckGO, Dogpile, Altavista
and AOL search.
Have you searched for something but you had difficulty in finding it?
There are strategies you can do to make your searching fast, easy, efficient
and accurate.

Tips to help make the most of a search

 To perform a search, you'll need to navigate to a search engine in your
web browser, type one or more keywords then press Enter on your
keyboard.
 Make your keywords as precise as possible. Keywords are very
important factor in searching so be specific with the word you want to
search. Example: (Tyrannosaurus rex) or (dinosaurs)
In searching for your favorite dinosaur which keywords do you think is
precise?
You'll get too much general information if you just type in “dinosaurs” and
not even specific hits about your favorite one. (https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/internetbas
ics/using-search-engines/1/)
It’s more precise to use the first keywords
Tyrannosaurus rex
(Tyrannosaurus rex).
 Use two or more keywords in your search. Include the most
important keywords first. For example, you wanted information about
what the T-rex ate. You can use the following keywords in this order:
 “Tyrannosaurus rex diet”. The search engine will look for Web pages
that contain all these words.

 To combine or filter keywords, use Boolean search operator such as

AND, NOT and OR. These limit the search result to only those
keywords.

*Use AND if you want to include two search terms. Example you want
to search about the word network also the word administrator, so you
will be typing on your browser this: network AND administrator

*Whereas, use OR if you want to search words with multiple

terms. Like: network administrator and network manager. So you have
to type in the browser: network administrator OR network manager
and the search engine will look for both of these.

*Then Use NOT if you do not want to include specific term. Example:
you want to search only about administrator and you do not need result
on the word manager then you have to type your keyword like this:
administrator NOT manager

•You can also search for exact words or phrases to narrow down your
results even more. All you need to do is place quotation marks (" ")
around the desired search terms.
Example: if you search
for recipes "sugar cookies", your
search results will only include recipes
for sugar cookies, instead of any
cookies that happen to use sugar as an
ingredient.

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s/using-search-engines/1/)
  Make sure you spell the keywords
correctly. If your keyword is
incorrect, your search would turn up
empty. If you're not sure of a word's
correct spelling, use a dictionary or
look for search suggestions below.
 Always try more than one search
engine. Each search engine doesn’t
look through every site on the Web.
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Instead, most search engines check search-engines/1/)

Web site pages every once in a while, to create their own databases.
Different search engines will usually come up with different results. So,
it makes sense to use more than one.

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Let’s do the practice exercise. Make the topic search more precise by getting
the keywords in the sentence. Identify the important words and cross out the
other.

1. What is the effect of pollution in global warming?

(effect - pollution – global warming)
2. Online gaming can bring harmful effects like physical damages,
increase anxiety and depression, have high heart beat and blood
pressure.
(harmful effects - effects of online gaming - physical damages)
3. There are a lot of best practices for a healthy lifestyle.
(healthy - lifestyle – practices)
4. Remember that there are important things in searching the website.
(important things - searching website - things to remember)
 5. Love has its different types, some of these are Agape, Eros, Philia, Mania
Storge, and Pragma.
(example of love - types of love - different types)

Activity 2
Do the following commands to do simple topic search. Write your answer on
the space after the number.

Choose the search engine to be used: (Google, Facebook, Twitter)

1. ____________________________________________________________
You have to search for family but you only want to appear on screen
the types of family. What will you type?
2. ______________________________________________________________
You look for the words unity but you want to limit the search result into
its same term. You will type:
3. ______________________________________________________________
You want to search for two words at the same time from this list
(conflicts, responsibility). How will you type it?
4. ______________________________________________________________
When you search the topic in the search engine, it showed, “no results
found”. What will you use next? (Google, Youtube, Bing)
5. ______________________________________________________________

WRAP-UP

Using the provided spaces, list down at least 3 things you learned from
the lesson.

1.) _________________________________________________________________.
2.) _________________________________________________________________.
3.) _________________________________________________________________.
 VALUING

Families are like spiders on the websites. They crawl to search for
information in different directions yet their origins remain as one. Despite of
differences family unites as one.

POSTTEST

Directions: To make the search of information precise, choose the right

keywords for the following sentence.

1. There are beautiful sites in the Philippines including beaches and land
forms.
A. Beautiful Sites B. The Philippines C. Philippine beautiful sites
2. The Philippines is rich in cultural heritage. There are a lot of old
churches, and infrastructures that you can visit.
A. Rich Culture
B. Philippines Cultural Heritage
C. Churches and Infrastructures
3. What are the different habits for a healthy living?
A. different habits B. healthy living- habits C. healthy living
4. Cactus, marigold, desert ironwoods are some of the different plants that
grow in the desert.
A. Desert plants
B. some plants in the desert
C. Different plants grow in the desert
5. There are types of book like classics, fantasy, horror, fictions that you
can read.
A. Book types
B. Books to read
C. Types of classics, fantasy horror books
 KEY TO CORRECTION

5. A 5. Bing 5. Types of love 5. A

responsibility
4. A 4. conflicts and 4. Searching website 4. A
3. B 3. unity or oneness 3. Lifestyle 3. C
gaming
2. B 2. “types of family” 2. Effects of online 2. B
1. C 1. Google 1. Global warning 1. C
Post-test Activity 2 Activity 1 Pre-test

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