SHS

Core Subject

Oral Communication in Context

Quarter 1
Module 3: Surveying and Examining Oral
Communication Activities
Oral Communication in Context – SHS (Core Subject)
Quarter 1 – Module 3: Surveying and Examining Oral Communication Activities

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 SHS
Core Subject

Oral Communication in Context

Quarter 1
Module 3: Surveying and Examining Oral
Communication Activities
 Day 1

Pretest
Directions: Read the questions carefully and encircle the letter of the correct
answer.

1. It is a verbal activity which refers to an interaction with the use of words to

relay a message.
a. oral communcation c. journal writing
b.message relay d. nonvermal communication

2. It is a conference with participants in different locations linked by

telecommunication devices.
a. interview b. conference c. teleconference d. lectures

3. The following are examples of classroom oral communication activities,

EXCEPT:
a. role playing c. reporting a topic for discussion
b. business conference d. debate

4. This television/radio program showcases various topics discussed informally with

viewers/listeners as the studio audience.
a. drama c. debate
b. news reporting d. talk show

5. What is an advantage of oral communication?

a. It is more personal and less formal than written communication.
b. It is more flexible than the written communication.
c. It is very effective to immediately address conflicts and problems.
d. All of the above

6. All of the following are informal types of oral communication, EXCEPT:

a. telephone conversations
b. face-to-face conversations
c. presentation at business meetings
d. discussions at business meetings

7. It is a type of conference in which participants in different locations are able to

communicate with each other in sound and vision.
a. video conference c. role play
b. lecture d. telephone conversation
8. An oral communication activity in which a participant acts out or performs the part
of a character.
a. face-to-conversation c. conference
b. role play d. lecture

9. It is an oral presentation intended to impart information or teach people about a

particular topic.
a. speech b. lecture c. oration d. interview

10. It is a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate
another person.
a. interview c. interviews
b. lecture d. face-to-face conversation

11. It is an oral communication activity where one expresses his/her thoughts and
feelings in articulate spoken words.
a. dialogue b. staff meeting c. presentations d. speech

12. A conference with participants in different locations linked by telecommunication

devices.
a. interview c. Teleconference
b. personal discussion d. conference

13. It is defined as the mutual influence of individual’s direct physical presence with
his/her body language.
a. face-to-face interaction c. interview
b. telephone calls d. business meeting

14. The following are the advantages of oral communication, EXCEPT:

a. saves time c. immediate feedback
b. more expensive d. useful in secret matters

15. Which of the following shows a disadvantage of oral communication?

a. useful for long distance c. greater scope for errors
b. no legality d. easily forgotten
 Surveying and Examining Oral
Communication Activities

What I Need to Know

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. discuss the meaning of oral communication;

2. list down oral communication activities; and
3. communicate sensitively, taking into consideration a listener’s gender, religion,
beliefs, and traditions.

What’s In
Directions: Read the dialogue and answer the questions that follow.

Scene: In the Classroom

(The teacher distributes the quiz result)
Teacher : Ok, that’s all for today. Classed dismissed. Audrey, Harvey, and
Clarence please remain here for a while because we need to talk.

(The three students will come closer to the teacher.)

Audrey : What is it, ma’am?
Harvey : What are we going to talk about?
Clarence : Is it about the quiz result, ma’am?
Teacher : Exactly! I was so disappointed at the result of your quiz. What
happened to all of you? Is it hard to understand?
Audrey : We’re sorry ma’am. We just don’t know what to answer.
Harvey : It’s too hard to understand.
Clarence : And besides, we can’t get along with your discussion.
Teacher : Oh! I see. Proceed to your next subject and we’ll talk about it
later.

1. What type of oral communication is utilized in the preceding dialogue?

_____________________________________________________________

2. Give more examples of oral communication that you see around?

_____________________________________________________________
 What’s New

Oral Communication: Definition, Types, and Advantages

Great communication skills are your ticket to success in the academic and business
world. But have you ever been overcome by fear or anxiety prior to a job interview or
speaking in front of an audience? Knowing when to choose oral communication and
polishing your speaking skills can help you at every stage of your career.

Oral communication is the process of verbally transmitting information and ideas from
one individual or group to another. It can be either formal or informal.

With the advances in technology, new forms of oral communication continue to develop.
Video phones and video conferences combine audio and video so that the workers in
distant locations can both see and speak with each other. Other modern forms of oral
communication include podcasts (Audio clips that you can access in on the internet?
And Voiceover Internet Protocol (VoIP), which allows callers to communicate over the
Internet and avoid telephone charges. Skype is an example of VoIP.

Personal
Staff/business
discussions Talk shows
meetings

Speeches/ Telephone
lectures Types of Oral calls
Communication
Activities
Interviews
debate

Face-to-to-face Presentations/
conversation conferences Class
recitations

teleconferences Videoconferences
ORAL INTERACTION ACTIVITIES

1. Individual reports. Students are assigned a topic (or they select one that meets
the instructor’s guidelines). They prepare and present their reports individually.

2. Group reports. Students are assigned to form small groups on their own. Each
group researches the topic, prepares a report, and then presents it to the class.

3. Videopaper. In lieu of a written paper, students may submit to the instructor a

videotaped oral presentation of their research along with a bibliography of sources
they consulted.

4. Convention panels. A group of students is assigned a broad topic relating to the

course’s content. Each student writes a paper focusing on a specific aspect of that
topic. Students orally summarize their research in class, as if in a professional
convention.

5. Oral exams. The instructor prepares a list of questions which students use as a study
guide for an upcoming exam. The instructor prepares slips of paper, with one of
these questions on each slip, and places them in a hat. On the day of the exam,
students draw from the hat one or more slips of paper. The student is given a brief
moment to collect his/her thoughts, and then answers the question(s). The
instructor may ask follow-up questions or may involve other students in asking
questions.

6. Advocacy presentations. A nursing professor has her students identify community

health concerns. Students then prepare and present arguments designed to secure
financial support from a mythical funding agency.

7. Employee appraisal conferences. Students play the roles of supervisor and

subordinate in employee evaluation meetings.

8. Talk Shows. Marty Turnauer reports excellent results with this creative variation of
a group report. A group of students presents their information as though their
classmates were audience members at a talk show (such as Oprah). One member
of the group is the moderator/questioner, and the other members play the roles of
topic experts. The moderator involves the audience (the rest of the class) by
encouraging them to throw questions to the panel of experts.

9. Quiz Shows. Jeopardy, Family Feud, and other quiz show formats can be used to
review course content.

10.Role-playing. Students execute this individually or in groups. For example,

students may play roles of defendant, victim, police officer, and juror to illustrate
 different perspectives and issues in criminal justice.

11.Team debate. Instructors may assign students to debate on ethical, legal, and/or
policy issues related to course content. Instructors have been innovative in
adapting debate formats to their classes. Teams typically range from two or four
in number. Clay Waite includes a media expert on each team in his media studies
course. Another instructor used a tag-team debate format.

12. Group-assisted team debate. Alice Anderson divides her class of approximately
twenty students into two groups. Each group is assigned one side of a topic.
Although only a few members of the group may actually debate, all members
research the topic and prepare possible arguments. Following the opening
speeches, the debaters meet with their group to plan their next speeches. A
member of the group can volunteer to trade places with one of the debaters.

13. Moderating case studies. Instructors have students read and be prepared to
discuss specific cases. A different student is assigned to moderate each
discussion. The moderator prepares a list of questions that highlight the key and
controversial points of the case, and conducts the discussion.

14. Interviews. Students schedule outside-of-class interviews with experts on course-

related topics. Often, they record these interviews on audio or video tape. They
transcribe quotations for use in their papers or they play excerpts from the tapes
for their in-class oral reports.

15. Listening: Breaking up long lectures. After lecturing for twenty minutes, the
instructor asks students to discuss with a person seated next to them the key
points presented. The instructor may want to use an overhead projector to display
a list of questions students should answer in their discussion. After five minutes
have elapsed, the instructor proceeds with the lecture, interspersing occasional
discussion to allow students to digest and reinforce key points.

16. Listening: Using graded and upgraded quizzes. The instructor may motivate
students listening by announcing that there will be a quiz on the material at the
end of the lecture. Or the instructor may focus student listening by displaying a
series of questions that they should be able to answer by the end of the lecture.

17. Listening: Using student summaries. Instructors begin each class by calling on
a student to present a five-minute summary of the material covered in the previous
class period. This random selection encourages all students to take careful notes
before the next class period.
Oral communication is effective when we use words to express ideas which can be
easily understood by the person spoken to. For effective and successful verbal
communication, consider appropriateness, brevity, clarity, ethics, and vividness when
engaging in this type of communication.

Some Advantages of Oral Communication

• Less expensive
• Saves time
• Immediate feedback
• Personal contact
• Useful in difficult situations
• Useful in secret matters
• Persuasive
• Useful for all kinds of audiences

Some Disadvantages of Oral Communication

• No legality
• Lack of accountability
• Low reference value
• Greater scope for errors
• Easily forgotten
• Not useful for long distance

Tips to Improve Verbal/Oral Communication Skills

• Think before you speak

• Be clear and concise
• Speak with confidence
• Vary your vocal tone
• Be a good listener
• Be aware of your non-verbal cues
• Think about the perspective of your audience
• Make eye contact
• Engage your audience
• Remember to smile and breathe
 What I Can Do
Directions: Conduct an interview among your family members about their life during
the pandemic. Prepare a set of questions and make a written report.

What I Have Learned

Direction: Complete the statement below.

Oral communication is ________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
 Day 3

What’s More
TASK I
Directions: Read the speech of Emma Watson about gender inequality and how to
fight it. If you have internet connection at home, you can watch the
video. You can find the link below. Answer the questions that follow.

Emma Watson with UN Secretary General Bank Ki-moon at the launch of

the HeForShe campaign in New York. She gave a smart, important, and
moving speech about gender inequality and how to fight it (New York City,
Alvarez/Stringer).

Today we are launching a campaign called for HeForShe. I am reaching out to you
because we need your help. We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need
everyone involved. This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN. We want to try to
mobilize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change. And, we don’t
just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it’s tangible.

I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women six months ago. And, the more
I spoke about feminism, the more I realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often
become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that
this has to stop. For the record, feminism by definition is the belief that men and women
should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of political, economic and
social equality of the sexes.

I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was 8, I was
confused for being called bossy because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put
on for our parents, but the boys were not. When at 14, I started to be sexualized by
certain elements of the media. When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of sports
teams because they didn’t want to appear muscly. When at 28, my male friends were
unable to express feelings.

I decided that I was a feminist, and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent
research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are
choosing not to identify as feminists. Apparently, I’m among the ranks of women whose
expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, and anti-men.
Unattractive, even.

Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one? I am from Britain, and I think it
is right I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be
able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on
my behalf in the policies and decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that
socially, I am afforded the same respect as men.

But sadly, I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect
to see these rights. No country in the world can yet say that they achieved gender
equality. These rights, I consider to be human rights, but I am one of the lucky ones.

My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born
a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn't assume
that I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influences
were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not
know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists that are changing the world today. We
need more of those. And if you still hate the word, it is not the word that is important. It’s
the idea and the ambition behind it, because not all women have received the same
rights I have. In fact, statistically, very few have.

In 1997, Hillary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly,
many of the things that she wanted to change are still true today. But what stood out for
me the most was that less than thirty percent of the audience were male. How can we
effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in
the conversation?

Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender
equality is your issue, too. Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being
valued less by society, despite my need of his presence as a child, as much as my
mother’s. I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for
fear it would make them less of a man. In fact, in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of
men between 20 to 49, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease.
I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male
success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either.
We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes, but I can see
that they are, and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural
consequence. If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t
feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be
controlled.
Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel
free to be strong. It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, instead of two
sets of opposing ideals. If we stop defining each other by what we are not, and start
defining ourselves by who we are, we can all be freer, and this is what HeForShe is
about. It’s about freedom.

I want men to take up this mantle so that their daughters, sisters, and mothers can be
free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and
human too, reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned, and in doing so, be a
more true and complete version of themselves.

You might be thinking, “Who is this Harry Potter girl, and what is she doing speaking at
the UN?” And, it’s a really good question. I’ve been asking myself the same thing.
All I know is that I care about this problem, and I want to make it better. And, having
seen what I’ve seen, and given the chance, I feel it is my responsibility to say something.
Statesman Edmund Burke said, “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for
good men and women to do nothing.”

In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt, I told myself firmly, “If
not me, who? If not now, when?” If you have similar doubts when opportunities are
presented to you, I hope those words will be helpful. Because the reality is that if we do
nothing, it will take seventy-five years, or for me to be nearly 100, before women can
expect to be paid the same as men for the same work. 15.5 million girls will be married
in the next 16 years as children. And at current rates, it won't be until 2086 before all
rural African girls can have a secondary education.
If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists that I spoke
of earlier, and for this, I applaud you. We are struggling for a uniting word, but the good
news is, we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. I invite you to step forward,
to be seen and to ask yourself,

“If not me, who? If not now, when?”

Thank you very, very much.

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Questions:

1. What do you know about Emma Watson? Who is she?

_______________________________________________________________
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_______________________________________________________________
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_______________________________________________________________

2. What is her role in the UN?

_______________________________________________________________
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3. Define feminism.
_______________________________________________________________
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4. What does Emma Watson ask for women to be equal with men?
_______________________________________________________________
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_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

5. What is your reaction to Emma Watson’s call for gender equality?

_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
TASK II
Directions: Analyze each picture and choose two oral communication activities for
each with corresponding topic of each of the two, imparting a message
to an audience or to the public. An example is given as your guide.

Example: a. Team debate : To be resolved: Government should award

trashless barangays.
b. Advocacy presentation : Adopt a river, adopt a life.

1.
a.
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b.
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https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/water-pollution

2.

a.
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b.
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 Day 4

Post Test
Directions: Using a separate sheet of paper, write the letter of the correct
answer for each item. Label your paper as Post Test- Module 3
in Oral Communication in Context

1. It is the process of verbally transmitting information and ideas from one

individual or group to another.
a. speech writing c. oral communication
b. journal writing d. written communication

2. Which of the following is not a type of oral communication?

a. body language c. role playing
b. video conferencing d. oration

3. All are informal types of oral communication, EXCEPT:

a. telephone conversation c. presentations at business meetings
b. face-to-face conversation d. greeting a friend

4. Which of the following expresses the disadvantage of oral communication?

a. It is more personal and less formal than written communication.
b. It is more flexible than the written communication.
c. It is very effective to address conflicts and problems.
d. None of the above

5. Oral communication is not necessary when____________________________.

a. important information needs to be documented
b. you want to boost the morale of your employees
c. a business requires quick resolution
d. you are going to record a podcast

6. Theresa is a surgeon. She is asked to speak at her daughter’s third-grade class

for career day. For her presentation, Theresa plans to use higher level of
vocabulary to discuss a very complicated gastrointestinal procedure. What may
be the outcome of her presentation?
a. It will make Theresa look highly intelligent.
b. It will make the audience respect Theresa more.
c. It will engage the audience because they will want to know the meaning of
her words.
 d. It will result in confusion if the audience does not understand the meaning
of her words.

7. The following are examples of oral communication, EXCEPT:

a. class recitation c. interview
b. group discussion d. listening to news

8. Oral communication can be either formal or informal.

a. true b. partly true c. false d. partly false

9. The following are examples of oral communication, EXCEPT:

a. video editing c. teleconferencing
b. video calling d. VoIP

10.The following are the advantages of oral communication, EXCEPT:

a. more expensive c. persuasive
b. personal context d. immediate feedback

11. Which of the following expresses disadvantage of oral communication?

a. lack of accountability c. greater scope for errors
b. no legality d. useful for long distance

12. Jeopardy and Family Feud are examples of what type of oral communication
activities?
a. talk show c. quiz shows
b. interview d. team debate

13. Tonight with Boy Abunda is an example of a ______________.

a. conference d. interview c. lecture d. talk show

14. What type of oral interaction when students submit to the instructor a
videotaped oral presentation of their research along with a bibliography of
sources they consulted?
a. teleconferencing c. videopaper
b. videoconferencing d. lecture

15. Which of the following is/are tip/s to improve verbal communication skills?
a. Think before you speak c. Vary your vocal tone
b. Speak with confidence d. All of them
 Task II: Answers vary.
1. Emma Watson is an international actress. She is famous
as Hermione Granger in the movie, Harry Potter.
2. She is appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN
Women.
3. Feminism by definition is the belief that men and women
should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the
theory of political, economic and social equality of the
sexes.
4. -to be paid the same way as her counterpart
-to be able to male decisions about her body
-to involve women in her behalf in the policies that affect
her life
-to be socially afforded the same respect as men
5. Answers vary.
What’s More: Task I
Oral communication is the process of verbally transmitting
information and ideas from one individual or group to nanother. It
can be either formal or informal.
What I Have Learned
What I Can Do: Answers vary
1. face-to-face interaction
2. debate, speech, lecture, face-to-face interaction, personal discussion, conference,
staff/business meetings, interview, etc.
What’s In
Test I
1. a 6. c 11. d
2. b 7. a 12. c
3. b 8. b 13. a
4. d 9. b 14. b
5. d 10.c 15. d
Pretest
Answer Key
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