ENGLISH

Inferring meaning of
compound Words
•What are the
elements of literary
texts?
Activity
•Write the name of the
picture on the paper
• 1. When he had stolen these words, he intended to take them
• apart and sell the letters to book publishers.
• 2. Those girls were deaf, and had to communicate using sign
• language.
• 3. The girls followed him to his hideout on the top of a hill next
to
• the sea.
• 4. It started to suffer a power overload, which got more and
more
• serious as the girls went on communicating.
• 5. The chief-of-police arrested the crook.
•Let the pupils read aloud the
short story with accuracy.
Answer the questions and
identify the compound words
used.
 A Trip to Town
by Jean Paul V. Banay

• One Saturday morning, Marissa and her

mother went to town to buy supplies for
the household.
• They first stopped at the repairman’s
shop to follow up the repair of their
electric fan. The repairman said they
could pick it up on Monday.
• Afterwards, they went to the supermarket to
buy groceries. They bought meatballs, tomato
sauce, and pasta. Mother will be cooking
spaghetti that night. They also bought
cooking oil, soy sauce, banana catsup,
vinegar, salt and pepper. They also purchased
some bathing supplies, like bath soap,
shampoo, conditioner, and lotion. At the
cleaning supplies section, they bought
detergent soap, fabric conditioner, and
dishwashing paste.
•After paying for the groceries, they went
to a pizza house. Marissa ate one-fourth
of the pizza.
•On their way home, they stopped over
the local bakery to buy doughnuts and
cupcakes as take home for Marissa’s
father and siblings.
•It was a nice trip to town.
Compound words
•Compound words are two
words put together to create
a new word.
•They can be open, closed, or
hyphenated.
Examples:

•Open Compound
Words
•dog house, ice cream,
funny book
Examples:

•Closed Compound
Words
•ladybug, toothpaste,
bedroom
Examples:
•Hyphenated Compound
Words
•editor-in-chief,
•officer-in-charge,
•life-saver
•GROUP ACTIVITY: Each
group will give examples of
at least 5 compound words
and infer the meaning of
each compound word.
•Gr.1- hyphenated compound
word
•Gr. 2- Open compound word
•Gr.3- closed compound word
•Gr.4- Closed compound word
•Gr. 5- Open compound word
Read the sentences below. Find the compound
word and break them into two smaller words and
infer the meaning:
• 1. Mary and I were sleeping in her backyard.
• _____________+ ____________=_______________
• 2. My brother and I went to watch the baseball game.
• _____________+ ____________=_______________
Read the sentences below. Find the compound
word and break them into two smaller words and
infer the meaning:
• 3. I love to use mint flavored toothpaste when I brush
my teeth.
• _____________+ ____________=_______________
• 4. Tommy and his brother love to go down to the
riverbanks to catch frogs.
• _____________+ ____________=_______________
Read the sentences below. Find the compound
word and break them into two smaller words and
infer the meaning:
• 5. The favorite part of my vacation was when I got to
ride in the airplane.
• _____________+ ____________=_______________
•What is a compound word?
What are the types of
compound words?How do you
infer the meaning of
compound words?
•What should you do in
order to develop your
reading ability?
Fill in the blanks with the correct compound word and infer its
meaning as used in the sentence:

heart-to-heart
editor-in-chief
heat cramps
passersby
headline
heart attack
Fill in the blanks with the correct compound word and infer its
meaning as used in the sentence:
• 1. Mr. Tan has been working as the _____ of a leading
entertainment magazine in the country.
• 2. One morning, his name was in the ___ of a daily
newspaper.
• 3. Mr. Tan suffered ____ while at work due to poor ventilation
in his office.
• 4. In the evening, he was rushed to the hospital because of
_____.
• 5. Before the incident happened, he had a ___ talk with his
fellow workers, sharing with them how he loved and enjoyed
his job.
Read the following sentences. Identify and underline the compound word. On the line
before each number, classify the compound word if it is open, closed, or hyphenated
compound word.

• ___1. I dropped my mail at the post office.

• ___2. The milkman delivers milk to the hospital.
• ___3. I ate too many pancakes this morning.
• ___4. Jordan is chasing dragonflies on the field.
• ___5. Mary was surprised when she opened the
jack-in-the-box.