ENGLISH 6

Listening Comprehension
EN6LC-IIc- 3.2
Distinguish various types of informational/factual text

Vocabulary Development
EN6V-IIc- 12.3.3
EN6V-IIc- 12.4.1.3
EN6V-IIc- 12.4.2.3
Infer meaning of borrowed words and content specific
terms using
-context clues -affixes and roots -other strategies (Health)
Attitude
EN6A-IIc-16
Observe politeness at all times
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 In the previous week, you
learned about various types of
informational text
Today, you will learn
more about types of
informational text and
how to distinguish one
from the other.
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 Task 1. For Your Information
Let’s Try This (FYI)

Listen to me as I
read the text below.
Be ready to answer
questions
about the text.
 Eating Healthy

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Ethan loved eating chicken nuggets, pizza, fries, and burgers. To drink,
he always liked milk shakes, cola, or sugary drinks. The sweeter it was, the
more he liked it.
“You can’t keep eating this stuff!” Ethan’s mom complained.
“Why? It tastes so good.”
His mother frowned and crossed her arms. “You eat too much sugar.”
“Yum! Sugar.” Ethan smiled happily.
“Look at what you’re eating for breakfast.”
Ethan looked at the food in front of him. It looked good to him.
“I’m having juice, super rainbow sugar sprinkle krispies, and a donut.”
He smiled and took a bite of his glazed, jelly-filled donut. He chewed and
then stopped when his teeth began to ache.
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 “Ethan, you’re going to have to go to the dentist if you’re getting
cavities.”

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“No, I’m not!” Ethan denied it. He took another bite to prove he was fine.
His teeth really ached, though.
“See?” His mother sighed.
“Why do all the delicious things have to be bad for me? I can’t eat
broccoli forever. I’m not a rabbit.”
“I know, but you don’t get all the vitamins and minerals you need from
the stuff you like to eat. All that food is sugar and fat. You need good food
for healthy teeth, eyes, and even your brain!” His mother explained. “If you
can’t start making healthy choices more often, I won’t buy any junk food or
sweets to keep in the house for snacks.”

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“That’s not fair!” Ethan whined.
Whining didn’t work with mother. It made her more serious. “Snacks
are
supposed to be occasional treats, not your regular meals. I should have
bought more healthy breakfast foods for you. Tomorrow you will have eggs,
toast without jam, bacon, some fresh fruit, and a glass of milk.”
“That doesn’t sound too bad.”
“I’m not going to put all these sweets in your lunch anymore, either. You
will get yogurt, raisins, or fresh fruit for your dessert in your lunch, okay?”
Ethan didn’t want to agree, but his mom’s suggestion wasn’t really that
bad. Maybe his teeth wouldn’t hurt so much anymore, either. He really
didn’t like trips to the dentist.

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 Use the information in the story to answer the following
questions.

1. What kind of food does Ethan like to eat?

A. Healthy food
B. Only meat
C. Sweet food
D. Organic food

2. Why do Ethan’s teeth hurt?

A. He’s getting cavities.
B. He’s chewing too much.
C. He just went to the dentist.
D. None of the above
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 Use the information in the story to answer the following
questions.

3. Which is a NOT a reason why Ethan’s mom wants him to eat healthy?
A. Healthy foods have vitamins.
B. Healthy foods won’t hurt his teeth.
C. Healthy foods help his body.
D. Healthy foods taste bad.

4. Why does Ethan think he won’t mind breakfast tomorrow?

A. He gets to eat the same sweet stuff still.
B. He gets to go to a restaurant for breakfast.
C. He gets to eat ice cream for breakfast.
D. The food he gets to eat tomorrow sounds delicious.
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 Use the information in the story to answer the following
questions.

5. What is another benefit for Ethan of eating healthy?

A. He won’t have to see the dentist so often.
B. He will get fat.
C. He will not like the food.
D. He will be sad, because he can’t eat delicious food.

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 Task 2. Look for that Clue
Let’s Try This
Remember that the five types of context
clues are
(1)definition (synonym/restatement),
(2)contrast,
(3)examples,
(4)general sense of the sentence, and
(5)clue from another sentence.
For each sentence below, use the context
to help you determine the meaning
of the italicized word.
1. Because there was so little precipitation this year, the
crops dried up and died.
A) fertilizer
B) planting
C) rain

2. Although I was unable to understand all of the details of

the presentation, I did get the gist of it.
A) humor
B) main point
C) notes

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3. At a special ceremony, the police chief gave the officer a
commendation for bravery.
A) an award for an outstanding achievement
B) an object designed to bring good luck
C) a lecture

4. One brother is an erudite professor; the other brother,

however, has never shown any
interest in books or learning.
A) old; elderly
B) well-educated; well-read
C) snobbish; stuck up
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5. Night is the time when many animals forage, or search,
for food.
A) come out at night
B) sleep
C) search for food

6. The waiter was so brusque that we left only a small tip.

He was impolite and impatient, and seemed annoyed
whenever we asked for something.
A) acting or speaking in a rude, abrupt manner
B) frightening looking
C) knowledgeable and skilled
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7. The store specializes in cutlery, such as forks and knives,
that has unique designs.
A) spices and seasonings
B) plates, bowls, and cups
C) silverware; eating utensils

8. My sister loathes broccoli, but she loves spinach.

A) dislikes intensely
B) eats eagerly
C) prepares and cooks

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9. Psychologists have conducted research on altruism,
which can be defined as "putting the needs and welfare of
others above one's own needs and well-being."
A) psychologists who conduct research
B) research conducted by psychologists
C) putting the needs and welfare of others above one's own
needs and well-
being

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Let’s Study This

You listened to an informational text.

Informational text is defined as text with the
primary purpose of expressing information about
the arts, sciences, or social studies. This text
ranges from newspaper and magazine articles to
digital information to nonfiction trade books to
textbooks and reference materials.

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 There are specifically four types of informational text: literary nonfiction,
expository, argument or persuasion, and procedural.
Literary Nonfiction
Literary nonfiction includes shorter texts, such as “personal essays, speeches,
opinion pieces, essays about art or literature, biographies, memoirs, journalism, and
historical, scientific, technical, or economic accounts (including digital sources) written
for a broad audience.” Autobiographies, biographies, other narrative nonfiction,
informational picture books, and informational poetry often fit into this category.

Narrative informational text typically communicates accurate information and has

a well-defined beginning, middle, and end. Informational poetry weaves facts into
poems.

Finally, informational alphabet and counting books allow authors to use a creative
format to share factual information, as in Alan Schroeder’s Ben Franklin: His Wit and
Wisdom from A–Z. Schroeder includes details of Franklin’s life and his sayings
in a clever, almanac style.
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Procedural Texts
Procedural texts provide step-by-step
guidelines that describe how to complete a task.
They often include a materials-needed section and
graphics that illustrate the process, as found in
Doug Stillinger’s The Klutz Book of Paper
Airplanes. Jane Drake and Ann Love’s Get Outside
provides readers with rules for games and
directions for making things like bird feeders, kites,
and sundials.
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Expository Texts
Expository texts utilize various text
structures, such as description, cause
and effect, comparison and contrast,
problem and solution, question and
answer, and temporal sequence.

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Argument or Persuasion Texts
Argument or persuasion texts provide evidence
with the intent of influencing the beliefs or actions
of the target audience. These texts typically include
claims, evidence, and warrants to explain how the
evidence is linked to the claims. Writers of
persuasion or argument also make appeals—
appeals to the author’s credibility, to the
audience’s needs, or to reason and evidence .
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Can you distinguish the
types of informational text?
 Task 3. Talking About This
Let’s Do This
With your groupmates,
read and talk about the
informational text you
listened to. Fill in
the table below with your
responses

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 Title Type of Informational Text

Eating Healthy Literary Non

Fiction

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 Task 4. I Heard Them Right!
Let’s Do This
Group yourselves into four. Your
teacher will assign informational text
to your group. With your
groupmates, read the text in front of
the class. As you read, ask the
other groups to listen and tell them
to identify what type of informational
text you are reading. Let them write
their answer on a “show me board.”

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GROUP
Dr Jose Protacio Rizal was born in the town of Calamba,
Laguna on 19th June 1861. The second son and the seventh among
the eleven children of Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso.
With his mother as his first teacher, he began his early
education at home and continued in Binan, Laguna. He entered a
Jesuit-run Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1872 and obtained a
bachelor's degree with highest honors in 1876. He studied medicine
at the University of Santo Tomas but had to stop because he felt that
the Filipino students were being discriminated by their Dominican
tutors. He went to Madrid at Universidad Central de Madrid and in
1885 at the age of 24, he finished his course in Philosophy and
Letters with a grade of “Excellent.”
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GROUP
A sundial compass is a combination of these two instruments,
consisting of a portable sundial which is attached over a compass via a
hinge. There are some adjustable legs that need to be used to level the
instrument if not on level ground. The gnome is hinged and needs to be put
in the up position where it locks into place. There should be what looks like
a protractor that is to the right of the gnome that is on a hinge, and this
needs to be flipped up as well. The protractor is used to set the sundial to
the correct latitude angle, while the compass is used to find true north
based on the area’s magnetic north declination.
Once your sundial compass has been leveled, set to the correct
latitude, and to true north, a shadow will be cast onto the sundial’s face by
the gnome. For use in the southern hemisphere, the same procedure is
followed with the exception that true South must be found instead of true
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Just like visible light, infrared light, and radio waves,
ultraviolet light is electromagnetic radiation. On the
spectrum, ultraviolet light lies between violet light and x
rays, with wavelengths ranging from four to 400
nanometers. Although it is undetectable to the naked eye,
anyone who has been exposed to too much sunlight has
probably noted the effects of ultraviolet light, for it is this
radiation that causes tanning, sunburn, and can lead to
skin cancer.
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Teenagers are forever being told that they need a
good education so that they can have the career they
want, but many do not listen. However, it is important to
remember that your schooling, no matter how long it may
feel, lasts for just a few short years compared to the rest
of your life ahead of you. Therefore, it is better to sacrifice
a little bit of fun now so that you can find happiness in
later life, as you will be happier if you can do a job that
you enjoy and afford to do the things you want.
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GROUP literary nonfiction

GROUP procedural text

GROUP expository text

GROUP argument/persuasion text

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 Task 5. Mix and Match
Let’s Do This
Match the following types
of informational text to its
description. Write the
letter of the correct
answer on the blank
before each number.

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 Task 6. Cut it Out
Let’s Enrich Ourselves
Cut a short selection from
old newspapers or
magazines. Paste it in
your notebook then, write
what type of informational
text it is.

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