DIVISION OF GEN.

TRIAS CITY
Project ISuLAT – ACTIVITY SHEETS in ENGLISH 9
(Intensified Support to Learning Alternatives Through Activity Sheets)

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ACTIVITY SHEET #3: Making Judgements

GEAR UP
MELC: Judge the relevance and worth of ideas, soundness of author’s reasoning and the effectiveness
of the presentation

At the end of this worksheet, the learners will be able to:

1. define relevance, worth of ideas, soundness of author’s reasoning, and effective presentation; and
2. determine the relevance and worth of ideas, soundness of author’s reasoning and the effectiveness of
the presentation

ENGAGE
MAKING JUDGEMENTS
Every day, we read, watch, and listen to different ideas from various sources such as radio, television,
newspapers, print ads, online sources and many more. These media offer a lot of information. Sometimes, the
information they offer are the same, other times they are different. Therefore, we need to be careful in choosing
whether to believe everything that we read, watch, or listen to.
As a student, it is very important that you know how to judge the relevance and worth of ideas, soundness of
author’s reasoning and the effectiveness of the presentation to be able to determine if the information provided
is true, credible, and believable. When you make judgements, you make a decision, or form an opinion
objectively and wisely after thinking carefully about the following:

RELEVANCE
Relevance typically refers to learning experiences that are either directly applicable to the personal aspirations,
interests, or cultural experiences of students (personal relevance) or that are connected in some way to real-
world issues, problems, and contexts (life relevance). It is also the perception that something is interesting and
worth knowing. Notice that it has two parts: (1) interest and (2) worth knowing. The two ways to establish
relevance is to see the information’s utility value and relatedness. Utility value answers the question “Yeah, but
what am I going to use this for?” Relatedness on the other hand, answers the question “What’s this have to do
with me?”

WORTH OF IDEAS
Worth of Ideas refers to the value of the information or ideas presented; something that is important for us to
know or understand. These are truthful information that are verifiable and can be determined based on the
credibility of the sources and its relevance.

SOUNDNESS OF AUTHOR’S REASONING

Sound Reasoning is simply reasoning that makes sense and follows some sort of logic. This can also be seen
as reasoning that is free from any form of bias or prejudice. Prejudice is judging someone without knowing
them, based on what they look like or what group they belong to. Sometimes, these prejudices are expressed
or communicated in the information shared through different media. Bias, on the other hand, happens when
key information is either measured, collected, or interpreted inaccurately. This is common when only one side
of the issue is presented.

EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION
The main purpose of presentation is to give information, to persuade the audience to act and/or to create
goodwill. A good presentation should have a good subject matter, should match with the objective, should best
fit the audience, and should be well organized. To communicate the desired information, effective presentations
should use more of visual aids such as transparencies, diagrams, pictures, charts, and the like. If the
presentation is written, the ideas must be logically organized using appropriate transition words and divided into
inter-connected paragraphs to effectively convey ideas. Meanwhile, if the presentation is oral (watched or
heard), delivery should be clear with varying tone, rate, and volume of voice to aid the meaning, complexity,
and importance of what is being said.
* Please see sources in References

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TEST
Directions: Study carefully the post of ABS-CBN News quoting the President’s words on the issue of the
West Philippine Sea. Then, answer the questions that follow.

Source: https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1389255150238273536/photo/1

1. What is the post all about? What is the main issue?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

2. What important information were included in the post that helped you better understand the issue?
_____________________________________________________________________________________

3. Do you think these information are true? How can you say?
_____________________________________________________________________________________

4. How was the information presented?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

5. Did the presentation of ideas helped you better understand the main issue? How?
_____________________________________________________________________________________

REINFORCE
Directions: Read carefully the news article below. Then, answer the questions about it.
Duterte: Retaking West Philippine Sea was Never a Campaign Promise
by David Tristan Yumol
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 4) - President Rodrigo Duterte emphasized on Monday he never promised
to retake the West Philippine Sea from China when he sought the country’s top post in 2016.
“I, never in my campaign as president, promised the people that I would retake the West Philippine Sea. I did
not promise that I would pressure China,” Duterte said during his weekly national address. “I never mentioned about
China and the Philippines in my campaign because that was a very serious matter.”
The President’s statement was contrary to his controversial remark during the 2016 elections, where he said he
would ride a jet ski to plant a Philippine flag on man-made islands occupied by China.

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During the CNN Philippines Town Hall meeting in February 2016, Duterte mentioned he would stop the
expansion of China in the West Philippine Sea.
“If I will be in the presidency for two years, walang nangyayari (and if there’s nothing happening), China keeps
on expanding, I will tell them you better stop them because that is ours,” he said.
Days before he assumed the presidency in June 2016, Duterte stated he would not surrender the country's
rights over the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
In his latest national address on Monday, Duterte stressed that Beijing remains the country’s benefactor.
“Just because we have a conflict with China doesn't mean we have to be rude and disrespectful. As a matter of
fact, we have many things to thank China for— the help in the past and itong mga tulong nila ngayon (their help
now),” the President said.
Duterte was referring to Beijing’s involvement in some of the administration’s “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure
projects and Manila’s COVID-19 pandemic response, such as the provision of test kits and Chinese-made COVID-
19 vaccines, which comprise the largest bulk of the country’s present vaccine supply.
In his speech, Duterte appealed to China to let Filipino fishermen fish “in peace” in the disputed waters.
“Kindly let our fishermen to fish in peace. There is no reason for trouble. If there is one brewing, we can talk
immediately to solve the problem,” he said.
Source: Yumol, David Tristan. (4 May 2021). Duterte: Retaking West Philippine Sea was Never a Campaign Promise. CNN
Philippines. Retrieved from https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2021/5/4/duterte-west-philippine-sea-never-campaign-promise.html

1. What is the news article all about? What is the main issue?
_____________________________________________________________________________________

2. What important information were included in the news article that helped you better understand the issue?
_____________________________________________________________________________________

3. Do you think these information are true? How can you say?
_____________________________________________________________________________________

4. How was the information presented?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

5. Did the presentation of ideas helped you better understand the main issue? How?
_____________________________________________________________________________________

INTEGRATE
Direction: Compare the post in TEST and the news article in Reinforce. Then, answer the following
questions.

QUESTIONS ANSWERS

1. What was the main issue in the

post and the news article?

2. What important information is

found in the news article but were
not mentioned in the post?
3. According to the news article,
what is/are the President’s
reason/s for not claiming the West
Philippine Sea?
4. Do you think his reason for not
retaking the West Philippine Sea is
sound? Why or Why not?

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5. How is the issue presented

relevant to you as a student?
Explain briefly.
6. How is the issue presented
relevant to you as a Filipino?
Explain briefly?

ASSESS
Directions: Read each question carefully. Write the letter of your answer on the blank.
______ 1. What should be considered before we believe in the ideas presented in different media?
a. relevance b. worth of ideas c. soundness of reasoning d. all three
______ 2. What are the two ways to establish relevance?
a. rightness and wrongness of information c. credibility of source of information
b. utility and relatedness of information d. value of the information presented
______ 3. What is meant by “worth of idea”?
a. Ideas presented are important for us to know. c. Ideas presented are lacking in evidence.
b. Ideas presented are deep and thoughtful. d. Ideas presented are very convincing.
______ 4. How can sound reasoning be established / determined from ideas presented?
a. It is free from bias and prejudice.
b. It presents only one side of an issue.
c. It contains testimonials that favors a certain group of people.
d. all three
______ 5. Which DOES NOT characterize an effective presentation?
a. It meets the objective of the presentation.
b. It helps the reader/ viewer / listener better understand the information.
c. It is very long and contains a lengthy explanation that is a bit disorganized.
d. It contains diagrams, pictures, and to like to effectively convey the information.

SHARPEN
Directions: After reading, analyzing, and judging the relevance and worth of ideas, soundness of author’s
reasoning and the effectiveness of the presentation, write a letter to President Duterte expressing your
own views and opinions about the issue on West Philippine Sea. Follow the conventions in letter writing.
Use the lines below for your letter.

________________________

__________________________

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Rubric
Criteria Standards Points Score
The body of the letter clearly demonstrates the learner’s understanding and judgement of the relevance, ideas,
LETTER 5
soundness of reason, and effective presentation of the given issue.
CONTENT
Learners’ ideas were clearly expressed in the body of the letter and are well-organized. 5
The different parts of the letter were correctly placed. There very few to no errors in spelling, grammar,
CONVENTIONS 5
punctuation and capitalization.
EFFORT All requirements of the output were met. The letter was neatly written with very little to no erasures. 5

References:
Effective Presentation Skills. (2021). Retrieved from https://www.managementstudyguide.com/effective-presentation-skills.htm
Effective Oral Presentations. (2014). Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/effective-oral-presentations-
13906743/#:~:text=Delivering%20effective%20oral%20presentations%20involves,helps%2C%20filter%20out%20what%20hurts.
REASONINGpptx/#:~:text=Sound%20ReasoningSound%20reasoningis,Sound%20reasoning%20meanslogical%20reasoning.&text=Types%20of%20Sound%20ReasoningDeductive%20reasoningis%20from%20generalto,Musli
ms%20do%20not%20eat%20pork.
Relevance. (29 August 2013). Retrieved from https://www.edglossary.org/relevance/
Roberson, Robin. (September 2013). Helping Students Find Relevance. Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2013 /09/students-relevance
Sound Reasoning. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.coursehero.com/file/35777417/3-SOUND-
What is Information Bias? (24 June 2016). Retrieved from https://www.statisticshowto.com/information-bias-
observation/#:~:text=Information%20bias%20(also%20called%20observation,to%20John's%20Hopkins%2C%20it's%20when%3A&text=information%20is%20collected%20differently%20between,the%20conclusion
%20of%20the%20association.%E2%80%9D
Yumol, David Tristan. (4 May 2021). Duterte: Retaking West Philippine Sea was Never a Campaign Promise. CNN Philippines. Retrieved from https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2021/5/4/duterte-west-philippine-sea-never-
campaign-promise.html
Image retrieved from https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1389255150238273536/photo/1

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