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English

Quarter 2 - Learner’s
Activity Sheet 2

Electronic Search
Engine

English 7
Quarter 1 - Learner’s Activity Sheet 2
 Electronic Search Engine

Name: __________________________________________________________
Section: ________________________________ Score: ___________________

I. TOPIC: Electronic Search Engine

II. MELC: Use a search engine to conduct a guided search on a given topic
(EN7SS-II-c-1.5.3)
Navigate a website using essential features, e.g. using headings, links, etc.
(EN7V-IV-D-23.1)

a. Define what Electronic Search Engine (ESE) is;

b. Recognize most commonly used search engines;
c. Compile all research activities on electronic search engines.

III. WHAT I NEED TO KNOW

Directions: From the Word Pool below, choose 5 words which you think are
examples of Electronic Search Engines (ESE).

AOL Bing Google Facebook

Ask Yahoo!

What is an Electronic Search Engine

What’s In

In your everyday life, you always encounter questions that need to be answered. Who can
answer your questions? Where can you get answers to your questions?
In your class, when your teacher asked you to research, where do you usually go? Watch the
video on “Libraries in the Internet Age” using this link http://youtu.be/L9MDKPC9yeM on
youtube and answer the questions in your English activity notebook.

After watching the video, you need to answer the questions to check your understanding.
1. Where can you find sources of information aside from the library?
2. How important is the internet in searching for information?
 Look closely at the picture. What do you think is the student doing? Like most of the
students these days, she is probably doing research using different search engines. What do
you think is an Electronic Search Engine (ESE)?
This lesson will help you maximize the use of electronic search engine most especially in
conducting a guided search on a given topic.

Electronic Search Engine

 a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide
Web.
 The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as
search engine results pages (SERPs)
 Search Engine is a computer program that searches databases and internet sites
for the documents containing keywords specified by a user

Listed below are the top 5 most commonly used search engines according to eBizMBA in
October 2015. These rankings are continuously updated using various factors.

1. Google
 Estimated 1,100,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 Originally known as BackRub.
 A search engine that started development in 1996 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as a
research project at Stanford University to find files on the Internet.
2. Bing
 Estimated 350,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 A search engine created and operated by Microsoft, replacing its former Live Search,
Windows Live Search, and MSN Search offerings.

3. Yahoo!
 Estimated 300,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 Short for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle! Yahoo! Was created in
February, 1994 by two Stanford University Ph.D candidates David Filo and Jerry
Yang.

4. Ask
 Estimated 245,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 Ask is the common name for Ask.com search engine, which allows users to perform a
search in the form of a question to find relevant results.
 Ask.com was started in 1996 by Garret Gruener and David Warthen.
5. AOL
 Estimated 125,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 America Online is the name of a popular online service. It is often abbreviated as
AOL.
 The company founded in 1985 and is considered an early Internet pioneer, providing
many Internet services in the 1990’s.

These search engines will help you search for different topics that you can think of. These
will also provide you information on current news and events around the world.
This time, let us check your understanding by answering the questions on the next page.

How to Use Electronic Search Engine?

Searching the Web requires both skills and patience but, where should we start?
To enter the world wide web (www), you need to have either of these two:

 Internet connection or WIFI (it can be a modem or a pocket wifi) or

 Data subscription (cellphone load)

There are two ways to search for information:

A. Using keyword/s
B. Using Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Searching Using Keyword/s

Follow the steps wholeheartedly that are provided for you so you can arrive at the correct
output.
Step 1. Open the page first using Google Chrome and enter the texts or keywords in the
search bar pointed by the red arrow to find relevant information.
Step 2. Type in the search bar the word “COVID-19”.
There, you will find out several information about the topic.

Step 3. Click the first search result inside the red box and copy the information about
COVID-19 in your English activity notebook.
Step 4 Click the Back Button to go back to the Home Page.
A. If you’re using a cellphone click the x button as pointed by the red arrow.
B. If you’re using a computer, click the back button enclosed in a red box as shown in
picture B.

Step 5. To explain more, open the page shown below and type this URL
https://youtu.be/7RIB1CJovTs in the address bar pointed by the red arrow.

To better get specific results:

 Use minus sign or hyphen (-) to exclude a word.
 Use quotation marks (“ ”) to find pages that have the exact term.

This time, you will research using Uniform Resource Locator or URL. URL is the page
address that you will find in the long bar at the top of your Web browsers.
 Searching Using URL

Step 1. Click Google Chrome in your screen.

Step 2. Type the name of the website

http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-basics
in the address page as pointed by the red arrow.

Step 3. Press ← Enter key if you are using a computer. Press the Search icon as
pointed by the red arrow if you are using a cell phone.
You are now about to explore the content of the URL.

Step 4. Read the content of the page and write 5 unfamiliar words that you have
encountered in your English activity notebook.

Step 5. Click the Back Button as pointed by the red arrow to go back to the Home Page.

Activity 1
Directions: Write your answers in your English activity notebook.
1. What is an Electronic Search Engine?
2. What are the 5 most commonly used Search Engines?
3. Which of the 5 most commonly used search engines have you tried using?
4. Did you find what you are looking for?
5. As a student, how do electronic search engines help you in providing answers to your
questions?

Activity 2
Electronic Search Engines like Google can be a resource that saves your time. In this activity,
you will learn how to search on your own using a given topic. Follow the steps that you have
learned from the previous activity so you can arrive at the correct answer. Write your answers
in your English activity notebook.

Directions: Find answers to the questions below by typing in the keywords “K-POP”
using Google as your search engine.

1. What is K-Pop?
2. What are the styles and genres that influenced K-Pop music?
.
IV. GENERALIZATION
After having gone through a series of challenging activities, have you realized the importance
of using Google as an Electronic Search Engine in doing a guided search? Write your
understanding by completing the sentence below.

I have learned that Electronic Search Engine allows me to_________________________

V. APPLICATION
Answer the question briefly.
As a student like you, what is the importance of Electronic Search Engine? Write your
answer in a sheet of paper.

VI. ASSESSMENT
Using your knowledge on search engine, write the possible keywords in searching the information,
copy the URL of your chosen search result and provide a short description about the topic. Use the
table in providing your answer.

Keywords Used URL Short Description about

the topic
Example: https://zamboanga.com Calamba was a forested area
Origin of Calamba, Mis. were the Subanens or
Occ. Subanons frequented. They
called the place “Solinog,”
after the deep river bank.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
VII. ANSWER KEY
What I Need to Know
 Google
 Bing
 Yahoo
 Ask
 AOL

What’s In (Answers vary)

Activity 1. (Answers vary)

Activity 2. (Answers vary)

Generalization (Answers vary)

Application (Answers vary

VIII. REFERENCES

American Red Cross. “COVID-19: Safety Tips For You.” Published May 13, 2020.
http://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2020/coronavirus-safety-and-
readiness-tips-for-you.html
Fermin, Edison A., and Marla C. Pampango. English 7 Learner’s Material.1st ed. Pasig City,
Philippines: FEP Printing Corp. 2017.
GCF Global. “Internet Basics: Using Search Engines.” Accessed June 1, 2020.
http://edu.gcfglobal.org./en/internetbasics/using-search-engines/1/.
Google.“COVID-19 PH Official Website.”Accessed June 15, 2020.
http://www.covid19.gov.ph
Health Harvard. “COVID-19 Basics.” Updated on June 1, 2020.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-basics.
Slideshare. “Using Search Engines to find information to prepare resources and worksheets.
Accessed on June 1, 2020. https://www.slideshare.net./mobile/yonlkizz/using-search-engines-
to-find-information-to-prepare-resources-and-worksheets.
Solution. “Why Are Search Engines Important?.” Published October 16, 2015.
https://www.solutio-inc.com/why-are-search-engines-important/.
Visit-philippines. “The 10 New Places of the Philippines to visit in 2019. Accessed June
17,2020.
https://visit-philippines.fr/blog/2019/04/26/the-must-dos/
Wikipedia. “K-pop”. Accessed June 17, 2020. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-pop.