ENGLISH 6

WEEK 1 DAY 4 QTR 3

Text-types according to Purpose and Language Features-

Enumeration
I. Objectives:
The learners should be able to:
1. Distinguish text-types according to purpose and language features- Enumeration
2. Identify real or make-believe, fact or non-fact images
3. Show tactfulness when communicating with others
II. Content:
Subject Matter: Text-types according to Purpose and Language Features- Enumeration
Sources: EN6RC-IIIa-3.2.8; EN6VC-IIIa-6.1; EN6VC-IIIa-6.1 EN6A-IIIa-17; Essential
English pages 188-198
Materials: meta cards, photo copy of the story

EDWIN N. SUIZO
Teacher III
Palasan ES, Santa Cruz, Laguna
Let’s spell these words.
Dictate the following words. Let the pupils write
the words with correct spelling.

1. designer
2. compromise
3. endurance
4. brilliant
5. apprentice
Let’s have a glimpse of yesterday’s lesson.
What reference materials are used to get/know the
meaning of unfamiliar words?

What other information can a dictionary provide?

(usage, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations,
translation, synonyms and antonyms)
Motivating Question
Ask pupils:

Have you wished for something?

Did it happen?
Unlocking of Difficulties

Connect with a line the correct meaning of the following words.

a large rock procession

easily perceived or understood
unusual or surprising in a way that boulder
is unsettling or hard to understand

a number of people or vehicles strange

moving forward in an orderly fashion

consisting of a large box carried on two rays

horizontal poles by four or six bearers.
obvious
each of the lines in which light
(and heat) may seem to stream from palanquin
the sun or any luminous body
Reading the story
(http://www.kidsgen.com/short_stories/stone_cutter.htm#p594ROf27VwKHCtJ.99)

“The Stonecutter”

Once upon a time there lived a stone cutter ,in a small village. All day
long he worked hard, cutting the hard stones and making the shape
which were needed by his customers. His hands were hard and his
clothes were dirty.

One day he went out to work on a big stone. It was very hard to work
and the sun was very hot. After spending several hours cutting the stone,
he sat down in the shade and soon fell asleep.

After sometime, he heard sound of somebody coming. Walking up he

saw a long procession of people. There were many soldiers and
attendants and in the middle, in a palanquin, carried by strong people at
the king .
 How wonderful it must be to be the great king thought the stone cutter
. How happy I would be if i were the king instead of a poor stone cutter.

As he said these words, a strange thing happened. The stone cutter

found himself dressed in silk clothes and shining jewels. His hands were
soft and he was sitting in a comfortable palanquin.

He looked through the curtains and thought, How easy it is to be a

king, these people are here to serve me.

The procession moved on and the sun grew hot. The stone cutter
,now the king ,became too warm for comfort. He asked the procession
to stop so that he could rest for some time .

At once the chief of the soldiers bent before the king and said Your
Majesty, only this morning you swore to have me hanged to death if we
did not reach the palace before the sun set.
 The stone cutter felt sorry for him and ordered the procession to go on its way again.

As the afternoon wore on, the sun grew hotter, and the king became more and more
uncomfortable.

I am powerful, it is true, but how more powerful the sun is, he thought I would rather
be the sun than a king .

At once, he became the sun ,shining down on the earth.

His new power was hard to control.

He shone too strongly, he burned up the fields with his rays and turned the ocean
into vapor and formed a great cloud which covered the land.

But no matter how hard he shone, he could not see through the clouds.

It is obvious that the clouds are even stronger and more powerful than sun said the
stone cutter, now the sun, I would rather be a cloud.

Suddenly he found himself turned into a huge dark cloud.

 He started using his new power. He poured rain down on
the fields and caused floods. All the trees and houses were
swept away but a boulder, which once he had been cutting
when he was a stone cutter was unmoved and unchanged.

However much he poured down on the stone it did not

move.

Why that rock is more powerful than I am said the stone

cutter now a cloud. Only a stone cutter could change the
rock by his skill. How I wish I were a stonecutter.

No sooner he said the words that he found himself sitting

on a stone with hard and rough hands.
He picked up his tools and set to work on a boulder,
happily. 
Let’s answer some questions below.

1.What is the selection mainly about?

2.How will you describe the character?
3.Why did he wish to be different?
4.What surprised him every time he changed his
form?
5.What did he realize after going through several
changes?
6.Do you think the story is happening in real life?
 Practice Exercise
Part of the selection’s purpose and language feature is enumeration.
Browse the selection again and enumerate the things being asked
below.

Things the Stonecutter saw through the Merchant’s Gateway?

_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________

Forms the Character Changed into

_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________

Things the Character envied about the High Official

_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________

Things the Character did upon Changing into a Wind

_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________

What are the real and make-believe images in the story?

Concept Development

Text-types according to Purpose and Language Features is

Enumeration.

Enumeration is a rhetorical device used for listing

details, or a process of mentioning words or phrases step
by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or division in
which a subject is further distributed into components or
parts. Writers use enumeration to elucidate a topic, to make
it understandable for the readers. It also helps avoid 
ambiguity in the minds of the readers.
Let’s explore.
Examples of Enumeration in Literature
Example #1: I Have a Dream (by Martin Luther King)
“[W]hen we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring
from every village and every hamlet, from every state and
every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of
God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing
in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at
last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ “
In this example, if we remove commas, apostrophes,
and quotation marks, it would be difficult to understand
the text.
Example #2: Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (by Jonathan Swift)

“[A]mong such as deal in multitudes of words, none are comparable to

the sober deliberate talker, who proceedeth with much thought and
caution, maketh his preface, brancheth out into several digressions,
findeth a hint that putteth him in mind of another story, which he
promiseth to tell you when this is done; cometh back regularly to his
subject, cannot readily call to mind some person’s name, holding his
head, complaineth of his memory; the whole company all this while in 
suspense; at length says, it is no matter, and so goes on. And, to crown
the business, it perhaps proveth at last a story the company hath heard
fifty times before; or, at best, some insipid adventure of the relater.”

In this example, by using enumeration, Swift describes a sober,

deliberate talker, and then adds details of his qualities, making his
message clear to understand.
Example #3: Address to the Jury during the Anti-Conscription Trial in
New York City, July 1917 (by Emma Goldman)

“We say that if America has entered the war to

make the world safe for democracy, she must first
make democracy safe in America. How else is the
world to take America seriously, when democracy at
home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed,
peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and
brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is
curtailed and every independent opinion gagged.”

Emma Goldman discusses how America can save

democracy while waging war. She lists details about what
might happen if America does not make it safe at home.
Let’s apply what we have learned.
Groupings: Read the selection below and give details
how the speaker recalls Jane – a dead student.
Elegy for Jane (by Theodore Roethke)

“I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;

And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
And how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped
for her,
And she balanced in the delight of her thought … “
Let’s evaluate.
Evaluation/Rubrics/Checklist:
From the above exercises, were you able to do the task?
Check the space that shows your answer.

With Easily Very Well

difficulty
1. Note significant details.
2. Clarify the meaning of words using dictionaries
and thesaurus.
3. Distinguish text-types according to purpose
and language features: Enumeration.
4. Self-correct when reading
Assignment

Know in advance. What are primary

sources? What are secondary sources?