English Majorship Notes 1

Darangan (epic) Bantugan (hero)

Distinguishes Filipino myth from other More into superstitious beliefs and
mythologies around the world supernatural creatures
Accusation of the rich father in My Father Stealing the aroma of the food
Goes to Court
First novel written by a Filipino after the World Without Seeing the Dawn
War 2
“Gonzalo: I attach myself to nothing and to Indifference
nobody.”
The overriding issue tackled in the Song of Loyalty to God and King
Roland
Difference between figures that Dante In Paradiso, they have neither bodies nor
encounters in the three canticles of the Divine images by not corporeal substance.
Comedy  In Inferno, they become more corporeal as
Dante descent into tower circles.
 In Purgatorio, they have corporeal shape
but not corporeal
The Prince Nicholo Machiavelli
Antigone was sentenced to death because She performed the burial rituals for her brother
NOT a theme that is customarily associated The great potential of adultery
with Dostoevsky’s work
“The king who tastes his kingdom like Elixir, bit Treasures his kingdom, not his position.
by bit, who does not overtax its life, will fully
relish it.”
“On the day, find the right way, die properly at We need to work hard in the morning and rest
night.” properly at night.
Literary device used by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Narrative technique
in his most famous story, In the Grove
NOT a characteristic of African oral literature Tonal Alliteration
Line from “Vulture” by Chinua Achebe that Broken bones and a dead tree
represents a miserable or bleak scene
“The wind stood up and gave a shout. He Personification
whistled on two fingers.”
Persuaded to join Thorin and his 12 dwarfs to Bilbo Baggins
recover their stolen treasure guarded by the
dragon Smaug
“At the top of a squatty, three-story brick Sue Third Person Omniscient
and Johnsy had their studio. “Johnsy” was
familiar for Joanna. One was from Maine; the
other from California. They had met at a table
d’hôtel of an eighth street “Delmonico’s” and
found their tastes in art, chicory salad, and
bishop sleeves so congenial that the joint
studio resulted.
First American to win the Nobel Prize for Sinclair Lewis
Literature in 1930
A water snake glided slowly up to the pool, Nature takes its course despite human
twisting its periscope head from side to side; activities
and its swam the length of the pool and came
to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in
the shallows. A silence head and beak lanced
down and plucked it out by the head, and the
beak swallowed the little snake while its tail
waved frantically.
Teach vocabulary explicitly Tier 2
To teach the idea that there is range of Cline
meaning between opposite words
Type of listening used to find a specific Listening for specific details
information
Paragraph-pattern approach  Students copy paragraph
 Analyze the form of model paragraphs
 Imitate model passages
Test constructed with the assumption that Discrete point
language can be broken down into component
parts like the skills in listening, speaking,
reading, writing, and viewing
to connect an intensive drilling of basic Do pattern practice
sentence patter
 learn English by translating to and from Grammar-translation
their native language
 memorize irregular forms of verbs by
writing them down over and over
major difference between Communicative CLT involves situational scripts
Language Teaching (CLT) and Audio Lingual
Method (ALM/AM)
role of teachers in Grammar Translation Evaluator
Method
Quick Write or Quick Draw, then they crumple, Snowball toss
throw and read so that they can stay rooted in
one place
Listening is more than merely hearing words. Agree
Keeping up ______ the latest fashion is with
pocket draining.
relative pronouns that is neutral in form That
You gave me computer-data, _________ you? Didn’t
BREXIT Blending
speech sounds made simply by shaping the Vowels
oral cavity to give the sound a particular color
or “timbre"
correct in structure and form Of the areas that produce lanzones, the
Camiguin Island has the sweetest.
After the show, the board members went to Hung
another area and ______ out with their fans.
Conversation according to cooperative Quantity, Relation, Quality, Manner
principal is governed by
Statements that has a noun clause My mother told me that you knew where to find
the best caterer in town.
Phonemic units are decoded and linked Bottom-up
together to form words, words are linked
together to form phrases, phrases are linked
together to form utterances, and utterances
are linked together to form complete
meaningful texts.
Skill involves understanding and responding to Listening
what has been heard and the recognition of
sounds, syllables, words, and sentences
Help students make sense of new information Schema Activation
in light of what they already know, and to make
the necessary connection between the two
The speaker should change the language Sophisticating the language by using high
according to the needs of the listener or based terminologies for basal learners
on the dictate of the situation like the examples
below except for
Examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, contextualization
and illustrations, are based on local-culture,
history, and reality.
to ensure the continuity of curriculum across Observe the coding of competencies made by
stages the DepEd
Students are asked to listen to an excerpt from Selective
the SONA of President Duterte to scan for
certain information
Despite his age and regional dialect, Manny Motivation
Pacquiao still speaks in English and has slowly
improved his oral proficiency.
we spend ______ of our everyday 50%
communication time
Independent variable in a study comparing the Presence or absence of music during studying
effects of studying with music versus no music
on reading comprehension, an investigator
administers a comprehension test after a
reading study period. She finds that scores
were higher for the group who listened to
classical pieces.
black cats, not the white ones, are sleeping The cats, which are the black ones, are
sleeping
Of the three kinds of verbals, infinitives are the Adverbs
most versatile as they function as nouns,
adjectives, or ____
improve the sentence, "David had to clean up The kids had messed up the room so David
the mess that the kids had made." had to clean it
"THAT Dan won the essay contest surprised Noun signal
Marla”
“When their aspiration has been curtailed Subordinate
allegedly”
The millennials decline ___ the ideas and from, to
principles but ___ the new trends
That’s my cousin contraction
Al Gore nearly became the 43rd President of The sentences do not have the same meaning
the United States. even if with the same referent

Al Gore nearly became George W. Bush.

special meaning which are different from its Idiom
actual meaning
derivational morpheme New word, same lexeme
Frank L. Baum’s most famous story The Wonderful Wizards of Oz
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a Life has its ups and downs.
happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in
love with the spring.”
Drink to me only with thine eyes/ And I will
pledge with mine Song to Celia

Or leave a kiss but in the cup/ And I’ll not look

for wine
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose Their names keep Romeo and Juliet apart.
by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet Disappointment
sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be
morrow.”
Say it with Flowers by Toshio Mori dominantly Businesses fool their clients and customers.
talks about
Played by brave warriors, bandits, crafty and Ching
evil ministers, upright judges, loyal statesmen,
at times god-like supernatural beings
“One Thousand and One Nights”  It is also called Arabian Nights
 Stories were compiled during the Islamic
Golden Age
 It is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales
Philippine literary period used as context of the Spanish
story May Day Eve
Magnificence refer to The mother’s comforting presence
English is the MOST INTERESTING subject Superlative adjective
tor Ryza
The last 50 years of the ASEAN _________ has proven
that as a whole, the Association is greater than
the sum of its parts.
"consumables" refers to resources such as computer jargon
toner, ink, and paper
“I wish I could join you in your Caribbean Subjunctive
Cruise.”
If there is a list of adjectives at the end of the And
clause, _______ should precede the last
adjective