NAME: Raymund A. Pesidas. GR.

& SECTION: 9 - JUPITER

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET (LAS)

ENGLISH 9 4TH QUARTER (WEEK 3-5)

Most Essential Learning Competency

React to lay value judgment on critical issues that demand sound analysis and call for
prompt actions B

Enabling Competencies
Get the different sides of social, moral and economic issues
affecting the nation Relate text content to particular issues,
concerns and dispositions in real life Take a stand on critical
issues brought up in the material viewed

INTRODUCTION PHASE
In the previous lesson, you have learned to identify the tone and mood of the author
towards the topic, and in doing so, it helped you find the meaning in the story or passage that
help you to feel connected to the text itself.

In this week’s lesson, you will learn identify the different issues that affect our nation,
especially in times of pandemic. Being aware of these issues would enable you to take a stand,
make decisions and act towards the betterment of yourself, your family, community and our
nation.
PRE-TEST
Answer the crossword puzzle based on the definition below to identify the type of issue that is
being described.
 ANSWERS:

1. ENVIRONMENTAL
2. SOCIAL
3. ECONOMIC
4. MORAL
5. POLITICAL

DEVELOPMENT PHASE

Learning Task 1. Issues in the Philippines

Our country is currently plagued with a lot of issues and problems. These issues are
categorized by the following: Social, Moral, Environmental, Political and Economic.

Can you group the following issues according to its correct category?
Social Moral Environmental Political Economic
Racism Prostitution Deforestations Corruption Poverty
Gender Abuse of Climate Change Crime Unemployment
Inequality authority Drug War Low-income
Hunger Abortion Inflation
Discrimination Overpopulation
Illiteracy Lack of access
to Health Care

Corruption Crime Climate Change Racism Discrimination

Poverty Deforestations Inflation Gender Inequality Hunger
Prostitution Unemployment Abortion Drug War Illiteracy
Abuse of authority Low-income Overpopulation lack of access to health care

Learning Task 2. What are your issues?

A. Despite your young age, you are also exposed to these kinds of issues and problems
in your own family and community. Choose 3-5 issues from the list above that you
have experienced and share how you were affected by these issues.

Ex. Unemployment – My father had lost his job due to pandemic.

1. Low-income – Our family business has not been running well.
 2. Racism – Foreign members of our community are often made fun of especially by young
children.
3. Illiteracy – My cousin had a hard time learning to read although he’s older.
4. Inflation – Our community was also really affected by the inflation that has been affecting
everyone nowadays
5. Unemployment – My brother had a hard time finding a job while currently studying in a college.
B. How did you deal with these issues? What did you do to solve/overcome these
issues/concerns/problem?

Ex. Unemployment- We sell ukay ukay/do part-time jobs/etc…

1. Low-income – By saving in a lot of ways as much as we can.
2. Racism – By telling and educating them that it’s wrong and why.
3. Illiteracy – By creating routines that slowly helps him learn to pronounce words.
4. Inflations – By being smarter about our expenses/ what we spend our money on.
5. Unemployment – Looked for a job that he could do without his job and school manners
affecting one another.

Learning Task 3. Reading beyond the text

Directions: Read the short paragraph in the box and answer the questions that
follows. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
Coronavirus and Vaccine

Scientists at the University of Oxford, UK, say that a possible vaccine for COVID19
could be ready in September, which is months earlier than was originally planned.
Researchers are hoping to get emergency approval from regulators, which would allow
them to make millions of vaccines by the fall. Oxford vaccines, that was effective over the
last year, involved trials on macaque monkeys. Oxford scientists hope to conduct
thousands of clinical trials in the coming weeks; however, scientists are not sure that humans
have the same immunity as monkeys. Sometimes it takes years to develop a vaccine and to
make it available for patients. In case of a vaccine for COVID -19, health officials have
suggested that it could take between 12 to 18 months.

1. What is the writer’s purpose in writing this article?

a. To entertain b. to confuse c. to inform d. to convince

2. Why do some experts argue about the affectivity of the Covid19 vaccine?
a. There are no credible proofs about the vaccine.
b. Scientists used random animals for testing.
c. It would take years to develop a vaccine.
d. Scientists are not sure that humans have the same immunity as monkeys.

3. What makes the news article important to readers?

a. People are waiting for the release of the vaccine.
b. That is the sole purpose of news article.
c. A lot of readers are curious if the vaccine will work.
d. This serves as a channel to update the readers about their queries in Covid-19
vaccine.

4. What do you think was the main reason the vaccine will be released earlier than usual?
 a. They can make another one if it is not going to be effective.
b. To finally put an end to this pandemic crisis.
c. A lot of people are eager to go out because of the ECQ
d. For the scientist to be well-known all over the world.

5. Why do scientists often perform experiments on monkeys?

a. Because monkeys look almost the same as human beings.
b. Because monkeys are not classified as extinct.
c. Because monkeys and human beings have the same nervous system.
d. Because monkeys are easy to train.

6. Which among the following statements is TRUE about Corona Virus?

a. Covid-19 is spread through respiratory droplets, when an infected person sneezes,
coughs or speaks.
b. Drinking alcohol, methanol or bleach kills Covid19.
c. Covid 19 is transmitted through insects like mosquitos and houseflies.
d. Exposing yourself to the sun or a hot temperature will remove the Covid-19 in your
body.

Exercise is Essential for Well-Being during COVID-19 Pandemic

Measures taken to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are causing changes in everyday
schedules are disrupting workout routines for many Filipinos. Exercise is especially important now
because it can reduce stress, prevent weight gain, boost the immune system, a nd improve sleep.
You can safely engage in physical activity by exercising with family, getting outdoors, using online
fitness resources, taking a virtual class, setting exercise goals, and doing calorie -burning chores.

Most adults are aware of the physical and mental health benefits of exercise and understand
the importance of engaging in some form of regular physical activity. As Philippines copes with the
new coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, business closures, social distancing, and changes in
everyday schedules are disrupting just about every aspect of ordinary life — and exercise routines
are no exception.

7. What makes the article interesting to read?

a. It’s always better than to sleep all day doing nothing.
b. It is very timely. It gives the readers an idea that being healthy is always important.
c. It’s nice to read new lighter content to stay calm and relax nowadays.
d. Majority of people are inside their houses because of the ECQ.

8. How is mental health as important as physical health?

a. Our brain is more sensitive than other body parts.
b. We need to be smart in dealing with this pandemic.
c. People nowadays are suffering from stress and depression.
d. A sound mind and a sound body are always interrelated to one another.

9. If you are the writer, how are you going to write the article?
a. Give plenty of facts about the topics so readers can readers relate to it.
b. Based the article from my own experience so it will be more realistic.
c. Provide more details about the exercise routines we can do inside our houses.
 d. Provide more interviews with a doctor or even a wellness instructor.

10. As a teenager, what workout routines is the most effective thing you can do during the
ECQ?
a. Do regular jogging routines at your community park.
b. Download workout applications in your mobile phones.

Why do we need to Effects of exercising to our How can you convince

exercise body other people to exercise?

Because not only

does exercising
present benefits
physically, but it
also affects us
c. Build your own improvised gym materials/equipment
mentally.
in your house.
d. Be productive by doing some heavy chores in your
house.

ENGAGEMENT PHASE

Learning Task 4. Overcoming Hindrances?

Read the short excerpt of It
one of the most prolific By proving
Filipino writers, F. Sionil them
Jose’s speech all
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the benefits that
on why the Filipinos had become poor and answer the guide questions that follows.
prevent weight gain,
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Filipinos so Poor? exercising can have
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In the ’50s and ’60s, thesystem, and
Philippines was the most envied country in Southeast Asia. What
physically but even
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happened?
mentally.
By F. Sionil Jose
1
What did South Korea look like after the Korean War in 1953? Battered, poor – but look
at Korea now. In the Fifties, the traffic in Taipei was composed of bicycles and army trucks, the
streets flanked by tile-roofed low buildings. Jakarta was a giant village and Kuala Lumpur a
small village surrounded by jungle and rubber plantations. Bangkok was criss-crossed with
canals, the tallest structure was the Wat Arun, the Temple of the Sun, and it dominated the
city’s skyline. Ricefields all the way from Don Muang airport — then a huddle of galvanized
iron-roofed bodegas, to the Victory monument. Visit these cities today and weep — for they are
more beautiful, cleaner and prosperous than Manila. In the Fifties and Sixties we were the most
envied country in Southeast Asia. Remember further that when Indonesia got its independence
in 1949, it had only 114 university graduates compared with the hundreds of Ph.D.’s that were
already in our universities. Why then were we left behind? The economic explanation is simple.
We did not produce cheaper and better products.
2
The basic question really is why we did not modernize fast enough and thereby
doomed our people to poverty. This is the harsh truth about us today. Just consider these:
some 15 years ago a survey showed that half of all grade school pupils dropped out after grade
5 because they had no money to continue schooling. Thousands of young adults today are
therefore unable to find jobs. Our natural resources have been ravaged and they are not
renewable. Our tremendous population increase eats up all our economic gains. There is
hunger in this country now; our poorest eat only once a day. But this physical poverty is really
not as serious as the greater poverty that afflicts us and this is the poverty of the spirit.
3
Why then are we poor? More than ten years ago, James Fallows, editor of the Atlantic
Monthly, came to the Philippines and wrote about our damaged culture which, he asserted,
impeded (slowed) our development. Many disagreed with him but I do find a great deal of truth
in his analysis. This is not to say that I blame our social and moral malaise on colonialism
alone. But we did inherit from Spain a social system and an elite that, on purpose, exploited the
masses.
Then, too, in the Iberian peninsula, to work with one’s hands is frowned upon and we inherited
that vice as well. Colonialism by foreigners may no longer be what it was, but we are now a
colony of our own elite.
4
We are poor because we are poor — this is not a tautology. The culture of poverty is
self-perpetuating. We are poor because our people are lazy. I pass by a slum area every
morning – dozens of adults do nothing but idle, gossip and drink. We do not save. Look at the
Japanese and how they save in spite of the fact that the interest given them by their banks is so
little. They work very hard too.
5
We are great show-offs. Look at our women, how overdressed, over-coiffed they are,
and Imelda epitomizes that extravagance. Look at our men, their manicured nails, their
personal jewelry, their diamond rings. Yabang – that is what we are, and all that money
expended on status symbols, on yabang. How much better if it were channeled into production.
6
We are poor because our nationalism is inward looking. Under its guise we protect
inefficient industries and monopolies. We did not pursue agrarian reform like Japan and
Taiwan. It is not so much the development of the rural sector, making it productive and a good
market as well. Agrarian reform releases the energies of the landlords who, before the reform,
merely waited for the harvest. They become entrepreneurs, the harbingers of change.
7
Our nationalist icons like Claro M. Recto and Lorenzo Tanada opposed agrarian
reform, the single most important factor that would have altered the rural areas and lifted the
peasant from poverty. Both of them were merely anti-American.
8
And finally, we are poor because we have lost our ethical moorings. We condone
cronyism and corruption and we don’t ostracize or punish the crooks in our midst. Both
cronyism and corruption are wasteful but we allow their practice because our loyalty is to family
or friend, not to the larger good.
9
We can tackle our poverty in two very distinct ways. The first choice: a nationalist
revolution, a continuation of the revolution in 1896. But even before we can use violence to
change inequities in our society, we must first have a profound change in our way of thinking, in
our culture. My regret about EDSA is that change would have been possible then with a
minimum of bloodshed. In fact, a revolution may not be bloody at all if something like EDSA
would present itself again. Or a dictator unlike Marcos.
10
The second is through education, perhaps a longer and more complex process. The
only problem is that it may take so long and by the time conditions have changed, we may be
back where we were, caught up with this tremendous population explosion which the Catholic
Church exacerbates in its conformity with doctrinal purity. We are faced with a growing
compulsion to violence, but even if the communists won, they will rule as badly because they
will be hostage to the same obstructions in our culture, the barkada, the vaulting egos that
sundered the revolution in 1896, the Huk revolt in 1949-53.
11
To repeat, neither education nor revolution can succeed if we do not internalize new
attitudes, new ways of thinking. Let us go back to basics and remember those American
slogans: A Ford in every garage. A chicken in every pot. Money is like fertilizer: to do any good
it must be spread around.Some Filipinos, taunted wherever they are, are shamed to admit they
are Filipinos. I have, myself, been embarrassed to explain, for instance, why Imelda, her
children and the Marcos cronies are back, and in positions of power. Are there redeeming
features in our country that we can be proud of? Of course, lots of them. When people say, for
instance, that our corruption will never be banished, just remember that Arsenio Lacson as
mayor of Manila and Ramon Magsaysay as president brought a clean government. We do not
have the classical arts that brought Hinduism and Buddhism to continental and archipelagic
Southeast Asia, but our artists have now ranged the world, showing what we have done with
Western art forms, enriched with our own ethnic traditions. Our professionals, not just our
domestics, are all over, showing how accomplished a people we are!
12
Look at our history. We are the first in Asia to rise against Western colonialism, the first
to establish a republic. Recall the Battle of Tirad Pass and glory in the heroism of Gregorio del
Pilar and the 48 Filipinos who died but stopped the Texas Rangers from capturing the president
of that First Republic. Its equivalent in ancient history is the Battle of Thermopylae where the
Spartans and their king Leonidas, died to a man, defending the pass against the invading
Persians. Rizal — what nation on earth has produced a man like him? At 35, he was a novelist,
a poet, an anthropologist, a sculptor, a medical doctor, a teacher and martyr. We are now 80
million and in another two decades we will pass the 100 million mark.
13
Eighty million — that is a mass market in any language, a mass market that should
absorb our increased production in goods and services – a mass market which any
entrepreneur can hope to exploit, like the proverbial oil for the lamps of China.
Japan was only 70 million when it had confidence enough and the wherewithal to challenge the
United States and almost won. It is the same confidence that enabled Japan to flourish from the
rubble of defeat in World War II.
I am not looking for a foreign power for us to challenge. But we have a real and insidious
enemy that we must vanquish, and this enemy is worse than the intransigence of any foreign
power. We are our own enemy. And we must have the courage, the will, to change ourselves.

Learner Task 4. Cause-Effect-Remedy!

Based on the essay on Why the Filipinos are poor, complete the chart below by writing
what causes poverty, what are the effects in our society and how you, a Filipino youth
can help remedy it? Complete the graph below.
 What can be done to remedy poverty?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

ASSIMILATION PHASE
Learning Task 5. Be an Advocate of Change!

One doesn’t need to be a superhero or be a famous person just to be able to save the
world, you can do it in your own ways. You could be an advocate!
An advocate is person who is passionate about making a difference, making
their voices heard, and to contribute to the betterment of the society they are living in.
Everybody could be an advocate and an agent of change. Examples of advocates are
people who are passionate in taking care of abandoned animals, protecting the
environment, educating other people, helping those who are in need or just resolving
some various social and moral issues plaguing our country today.
Choose one (1) from the following issues and complete the picture-graph with
the details.
Environmental: Improper disposal of plastics/ used face mask to our seas

Economic: Community Pantries

Social: Teenage Pregnancy

Education: Hardships in Distance Learning

Health: Increasing Covid 19 cases/ deaths in our Municipality

What can be done to solve__________________ ?
1.
2.

3.

4.

5.

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