LEVEL 1

PROMPT: Do you have a toy ? What toy is your most favorite?

Brylle has a yellow robot.

The robot name is bimbo.
He loves to play it everyday.

Questions:
1. What is the name of brylle's robot?
2. If you're going to have a robot, what color do you want?
3. Which type of robot do you want to have ? Why?
4. Do you have more toys at home? What are they?

LEVEL 2
PROMPT: Do you want to know the liquids that are good for your health? Read
the selection below.

Liquids Good for You

There are many liquids that are good for our health like water,
fruit juice and milk. Milk makes our bones strong. Juice gives us
vitamins, while water cleans our body.
Let’s drink milk, juice and water to make us healthy!

1. What liquids are good for our health?

2. What might happen if you don’t drink milk, juice or water?
3. Which drinks do you like the most? Why?
4.What would you do if your friend offers you softdrink for
recess?

LEVEL 3
PROMPT: How do you celebrate Foundation Day? Read the selection below.

A Deal
“Our Foundation Day will be on September 30,” said Miss Cruz,
“What are we going to present?”
“I suggest that we render some folksongs and folk dances,”
answered Perla.
An Invitation Letter
“Good. These will remind us of our Filipino culture,” added
Ruben.
Ormoc City, Leyte
“Let’s start our practice early. That’s a deal,” insisted Susan.
April 26,2022

Dear Aira,

1.OurWho
family will celebrateabout
announced our grandparent's golden wedding
the Foundation Day?anniversary at our ancestral home on
Sunday, May 01, 2022. We shall have a party in their honor.
2.A Why
special will they
activity present
for kids folksongs
is the Children's and
Hour dances?
at 3:00 o'clock P.M.

3.Come,
Which one fun!
let's have do you
Be onelike thechild
of our most folks dance or folk songs? Why?
guests.

Sincerely,
4.What other Filipino customs and traditions do you practice?
Clany

LEVEL 4
PROMPT: Have you ever tried inviting a friend to your party? Read this invitation
letter. Find out what the occasion is.
Questions: A Friendly Letter

Read Liza's letter below.

1. What will the family celebrate?
Dear Shantelle,
2. Who wrote the letter?
Did you know that ballerinas wear " toe-shoes"? They need a stiff-toed footwear so they can can
dance on their toes like angels. Of course, they also use gestures and body movements to tell a story.
3. Do you also celebrate with your family? What celebration do you
usually celebrate?
Ballerinas wear " tutus," too. These are short skirt that flows gradually as they dance, while their "tights"
cover their entire legs. Why don't we watch a ballet performance next week? Wouldn't it be fun?
4. Why do you think is a golden wedding anniversary celebrated?

Love,

LEVEL 5 Liza

PROMPT: How would you describe a ballerina? Read the letter

to find out.
Questions:
1. What is a " tutu"?
2. Why do ballerina wear tights?
3. Does ballerina interests you? Why? Why not?
4. What is the importance of appropriate clothes and shoes to a
ballerina?
LEVEL 6
PROMPT: Who invented the telephone? Read and find out.

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell accidentally invented the
telephone. He was testing a new transmitter when it
happened. He spilled a burning acid on it and produced
sound waves. Bell didn't realize that the sound waves make
sound travel to different places. He shouted for help from
Mr. Watson who was in the kitchen. Mr. Watson was
surprised to hear Bell's voice clearly. He went to Bell and
uttered, " I heard every word you said."
This was how telephone was discovered.
Questions:
1. What Alexander Graham Bell's invention was mentioned?
2. How did Mr. Watson received bell's message?
3. Which is more important: the internet or the telephone? Why?
4. How important is telephone to you?

LEVEL 7
PROMPT: Do you think you can enjoy life when there's more long
nights than days?
The Long Night
I live in a cold country. It is at the top of the world. This means we get
lots and lots of snow. I love to play outside when we have snow. I can
build a snowman and go skiing. Where I live we something called the
long night. This means we do not see the sun for two months in winter!
So it is dark all day, and well, all night! We wake up and it is dark, we
go to school and it is dark, and we come home and it is dark! So, we get
a lot of snow, but we have to play in the dark. In the summer we have
the opposite of the long night can you guess what that is?

Questions:
1. What can she do with the snow?
2. Why do you think her country gets a lot of snow?
3. Which one do you like the best, long nights or long days? Why?
4. List down the things you want to do if you will live in a cold country.

LEVEL 9
PROMPT: Have you seen an owl before?
The Snowy Owl
Among North American birds, the snowy owl ranks first in size. It can reach 27
inches in length and have a wingspan of 5 feet. The snowy owl is light for its
sizeabout four pounds. It is easily distinguished from other large owls within its
habitat by its predominately white plumage. The adult has few natural enemies, but
eggs and juveniles are in danger from Arctic foxes and husky dogs.

Owls depend on their keen sense of hearing and the efficiency of their sight, which
is designed to work well in the dark. Unlike most other owls that primarily hunt at
night, the snowy owl is diurnal, making it wellsuited to survive in the far north
where it can be continuously light or dark around the clock. These owls mainly
feed on lemmings, voles, and rabbits but are known to eat other birds and fish as
well. The snowy owl canfly long distances carrying an animal weighing far more
than itself.

Questions:

1. Where is the snowy owl's habitat?

2. What color plumage do other owls of the region have?

3. Is the snowy owl a carnivore or herbivore? How can you tell?

4. Owls depend only on their keen senses of hearing and sight. How about you?
What are you dependent on?
 LEVEL 8
PROMPT: How polluted is our environment now?
Pollution
There are lots of environmental problems nowadays, mainly because of
pollution. It is the contamination of air, water and soil by different
materials that interfere with human health and quality of life.
The emissions form industries and engines, including cars, are big
causes of air pollution and simple things that we do at home, like using
aerosols, have bad effects on the ozone layer, which protects life on
Earth from ultraviolet radiation.
Water is also suffering from pollution by domestic, municipal and also
industrial waste.
It is up to us to stop damaging the environment. We all should be
environment friendly!
Questions:
1. What is the biggest enemy of the environment?
2. What do you think is the function of our Ozone Layer?
3. Do you think we can still be able to save our Earth? How?
4. Can you think of some solution on how you can help the
environment? What are they?

LEVEL 10
PROMPT: The power of electricity creates the world nowadays.
Electricity is the life force of modern world. The use of electricity in daily life at all levels is too
expensive to be enumerated. Electric., power has transformed human life into an amazing experience of
convenience, luxury, comfort and incredible ease. A great power became the slave of a human finger’s
push. Push to a button brings the light on and the same act sets hundreds of thousands of gadgets in
action. It simply is a miracle, very real and more bountiful Than ginnie of the Alladin’s wonder lamp. The
electricity revolutionized our houses, drawing rooms and kitchen with useful implements.

It created wonders of entertainment like cinema, radio, TV, VCD, DVD and other audio-video systems.
The electricity helped man go to space, land on moon and harness natural powers and resources. The
mining, construction, irrigation, transport, printing and other industrial activities are dependent on electric
power. Even the computers won’t work any wonders without the electricity. Today, the progress of a
society or a nation or economy is so dependent on electric power that all the power generating resources
and options are being exploited or explored. Oil, coal, water, air, sun light, tidal waves and atomic
phenomena are being used for power generation. The research on hydrogen as fuel and controlled fusion
process are going on at feverish pitch.

The oil and coal are non-renewable resources. Hydel power has limitations as no new rivers can be
created. Solar energy is yet costly to harness. The wind energy too has limitations. The tidal wave
processes are yet at an experimental stages. And so are hydrogen and fusion ideas. Conventional atomic
energy clearly is the best pollution free option but it entails the tricky problem of atomic waste disposal.

Questions:
1. To what wondrous world the electricity has transformed the human life?

2. What happens when the electricity is cut off in the modern-day city?

3. Do you agree/ disagree on continuing used of non- renewable energy? Why?

Why not?

4. Our world is changing because of climate change. List down the things you can
do to help save the world from pollution.

LEVEL 11
PROMPT: What do you do during the rainy days of summer?

Summer Rain

The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot
days. All of winter, with its dreary gray days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach, laying on
the sand and soaking in the bright and burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains.

As a child l would, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying. It wasn't fair. We suffered
through months of school and miserable weather for those scant ten weeks of freedom and balmy weather.
On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a
Dickensian orphan. IIt was those days that I would resign myself to whatever was on television or any books that I
could find lying around.

As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain has changed. When you have to work every day, summer is not as
eagerly anticipated. Mostly, the days run together, bleeding into each other so that they no longer seem like separate
entities and instead feel like continuations of the same long day.Everything seems monotonous and dull, and an
ennui or listlessness kicks in. Such a mindset makes you cheer for anything new or different. I spend the winter
dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter. When summer comes, I complain about how hot it is. And
then I look forward to the rain, because the rain brings with it a cold iront, which offers a reprieve-admittedly one
that is all too short-from the torture of 100? and humid days. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but
summer rain today means positively beaut ful-and considerably cocler-weather tomorrow.

Questions:
1. The author describes why he or she no longer looks forward to summertime the way he or she used to
do as a child. What do you think of this change?

2. Why do you think summer is different for adults?

3. The author of this passage describes his or her feelings about rainy summer days. In general, how do
you feel about such days? Do you agree with the author’s opinions, or do you not mind this type of
weather?

4. Many people would say that they have specific favorite seasons or times of year. How do you feel? Do
you have a favorite season, or do you always look forward to whatever is to come? Why?

LEVEL 13
PROMPT: Can an army be out numbered and still become victorious?

The Battle of Chancellorsville

The Battle of Chancellorsville, one of the most famous battles of the Civil War, took place in Virginia in
the spring of 1863. For months, the two armies had been staked out on opposite banks of a narrow river.

In appearance, personality, and lifestyle, these men were nearly perfect opposites. Lee, an older man in
poor health with a gray beard, had a somber, measured demeanor. Hooker was a blond, strapping young
man whose vanity over his appearance was but one aspect of his egotism. Whereas Lee was devout and
principled, Hooker was known for his rollicking enjoyment of both women and whiskey.

Hooker had used spies, analysts, and even hot air balloons to compile a vast amount of intelligence about
Lee's army. In effect, Hooker had cut off the Confederate soldiers in front and behind. They were trapped.
Satisfied with his advantage, Hooker became convinced that Lee's only option was to retreat to
Richmond, thus assuring a Union victory.

Yet Lee, despite his disadvantages of both numbers and position, did not retreat. Instead, he movedhis
troops into position to attack. Union soldiers who tried to warn Hooker that Lee was on the offensive
were dismissed as cowards. Having become convinced that Lee had no choice but to retreat, Hooker
began to ignore reality. When Lee's army attacked the Union soldiers at 5:00 p.m ., they were eating
supper, completely unprepared for battle. They abandoned their rifles and fled as Lee's troops came
shrieking out of the brush, bayonets drawn. Against all odds, Lee won the Battle of Chancellorsville, and
Hooker's forces withdrew in defeat.

Questions:
1. What are Hooker’s advantages going into the Battle of Chancellorsville?

2. What is the contrast drawn between Lee and Hooker in paragraph 2 is intended to?

3. If you had been Hooker, what would you have done differently during the battle of
Chancellorsville? Would you have made the same decisions? Why or why not?

4. What is your greatest battle that you face in life? How did you overcome it?

LEVEL 14
PROMPT: Why is it important to understand the tools of persuasion? What impact do they have
on our lives today?

TOOLS OF PERSUATION

Persuasion is the art of convincing someone to agree with your point of view. According to the ancient
Greek philosopher Aristotle, there are three basic tools of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos.

Ethos is a speaker's way of convincing the audience that she is a credible source. An audience will
consider a speaker credible if she seems trustworthy, reliable, and sincere. A speaker can develop ethos
by explaining how much experience or education she has in the field.

Pathos is a speaker’s way of connecting with an audience’s emotions. For example, a speaker who is
trying to convince an audience to vote for him might say that he alone can save the country from a terrible
war. These words are intended to fill the audience with fear, thus making them want to vote for him.

Logos is the use of facts, information, statistics, or other evidence to make your argument more
convincing. Use of logos can also increase a speaker’s ethos; the more facts a speaker includes in his
argument, the more likely you are to think that he is educated and trustworthy.Although ethos, pathos,
and logos all have their strengths, they are often most effective when they are used together. Indeed, most
speakers use a combination of ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade their audiences.

Questions:
1. What is the effective tool of persuasion?

2. What causes Logos to create ethos?

3. Some persuasive programming involves only ethos, some involves only pathos, and some
involves only logos. Which of these single-tactic persuasion types do you find most
effective? Which one are least effective? Why?

4. Sometimes ethos, pathos, and logos can be used to make people believe things that are
not entirely true. Can you think of an example? How can people avoid being tricked by
faulty persuasion tactics?

LEVEL 12
PROMPT: We all have roads in our lives that we decide not to take.
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
By: Robert Frost
1 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
2 And sorry I could not travel both
3 And be one traveler, long I stood
4 And looked down one as far as I could
5 To where it bent in the undergrowth;

6 Then took the other, as just as fair,

7 And having perhaps the better claim,
8 Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
9 Though as for that the passing there
10 Had worn them really about the same,

11 And both that morning equally lay

12 In leaves no step had trodden black.
13 Oh, I kept the first for another day!
14 Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
15 I doubted if I should ever come back.

16 I shall be telling this with a sigh

17 Somewhere ages and ages hence:
18 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
19 I took the one less traveled by,
20 And that has made all the difference.

Questions:
1. In the first stanza, why was the traveller feeling sorry?
2. Why was the poet doubtful about the first road?
3. Does the speaker feel that he has made the wrong choice in taking the road ‘less travelled by’?
If not, why does he ‘sigh’? What does he regret?
4. Discuss a road in your life you chose not to take. Looking back, do you regret not taking the
road? Why? Why not? How might your life be different today had you taken that road?
 PHILIPPINE
INFORMAL
READING
INVENTORY

Submitted by: Clint Josinne Salinas BSED-ENGLISH III

Submitted to: Mrs. Carmelita Arradaza