Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
DIVISION OF ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR
GUIPOS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Subject: ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

Teacher: MYLA B. EBILLO
WEEK: Week 1

REMINDER: Do not write anything on this worksheet. Use a paper for your answer.

for a week you are going to:

1. determine a structure of a specific academic texts
2. explain specific ideas contained in various academic texts
3. use knowledge of text structure to glean the information he/she needs

Directions: Read the selection below then answer the questions that follow.

Reading Activity 1

Understanding Calories

(1) A calorie, also known as kilocalorie, is a unit of energy. This unit represents the energy required to heat a kilogram of
water on degree Celsius. While people generally link the term calorie with food, it is a unit of measurement that can be
applied to any substance possessing energy. For instance, there are 8200 calories in a litter (about one quart) of gasoline.
(2) Calories describe the potential energy in food to maintain bodily functions, grow or repair tissue, and perform
mechanical work such as exercise. Food calories may take the form of fat, carbohydrates, or proteins. Once consumed,
enzymes act on these nutrients through metabolic processes and break them into their perspective categories of fatty
acids, glucose, and amino acids. These molecules travel through the blood stream to specific cells where they are
absorbed for immediate use or sent on to the final stage of metabolism where they release their stored energy through
the process of oxidation.
(3) The number of calories burned during an exercise depends on various factors including body weight and the type of
exercise. For example, an individual weighing 59 kilograms (130 pounds) would expend roughly 500 calories per hour
swimming or playing basketball. However, this same person would burn an estimated 200 walking or playing table tennis.
To survive and maintain body weight, the average individual requires approximately 2000 to 2500 calories per day.
Gaining or losing weight is a simple process. Add and subtract 7,700 calories over the course of time to gain or lose a
kilogram. Nutrition has nothing to do with it. It is all about calories.

Activity 1 Essay
Questions:

1. What is the function of each paragraph labelled as 1, 2 and 3? Explain your answer.
2. Have you tried reading the nutritional facts of some food before eating them? Why or Why not?
3. What is the importance of understanding calories of the food you are eating?

Activity 2 Looking into Details

Directions: Cut two samples of nutritional facts of different foods then paste it on your paper.
Differentiate the nutritional value of the foods.

Be guided with these questions:

1. Which one offers more energy?
2. Which is healthier?
3. Which among the two will you choose to eat? Why?

Activity 3 Interview Time

Directions: Chat with your PE teacher or a BHW in your barangay and ask him/her about calorie intake. What is a healthy
intake of calories?

Reading Activity 2
Directions: Read the selection below then answer the questions that follow.

Wrigley’s Chewing Gum

(1) Wrigley’s chewing gum was developed as a premium to be given away with other product rather than as a
primary product for sale. As a teenager, William Wrigley Jr. was working for his father in Chicago selling soap that
has been manufactured in his father’s factory. The soap was not very popular with merchants because it was
priced at 5 cents, and this selling price did not leave a good profit margin for the merchants. Wrigley convinced
his father to raise the price to ten cents and to give away cheap umbrellas as a premium for the merchants. This
worked successfully, confirming to Wrigley that the use of premium was an effective sales tool.
(2) Wrigley then established his own company, in his company he was selling soap as a wholesaler, giving baking
soda away as a premium, and using a cookbook to promote each deal. Over time, the baking soda and cookbook
became more popular than the soap, so Wrigley began a new operation selling baking soda, he soon decided on
chewing gum. Once again, when Wrigley realized that the demand for premium was stronger than the demand
for the original product, he created the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company to produce and sell chewing gum.
(3) Wrigley started out with two brands of gum, Vassar and Lotta gums, and soon introduced Juicy Fruit and
Spearmint. The latter two brands grew in popularity, while the first two were phased out. Juicy Fruit and
Spearmint are two of Wrigley’s main brand to this day.

Activity 1

1. Have you ever tasted a chewing gum?

2. Do you think that chewing gum is popular? Explain your answer.
3. Read the opening paragraph. What does it say about the subject matter?

Activity 2 Drawing Time

Directions: Using your skill in drawing, draw the chronological events on how the Wrigley’s chewing gum came to be.

Post-Reading Activity 3

1. Observe how new products are introduced to the market. Are there promotional campaigns to launch the new
products?
2. Do the manufacturers of new products use give-away items in order to sell their products?

Did you
know?

In some countries, chewing gum is banned. A person caught chewing gum ends up paying a fine.

Post-Reading Activity 4
Discuss why there is a chewing gum ban in some countries.
Should chewing gum be banned in the Philippines? Present your stand on this

Reading Activity 3

The Golden Age of Comics

(1) The period from the late 1930s to the middle 1940s is known as the golden age of comic books. The modern comic
book came in the early 1930s in the United States as a giveaway premium to promote the sale of the whole range of
household products such as cereal and cleanser. The comic books, which are printed in bright colours to attract the
attentions of potential customers, proved so popular that some publishers decided to produce comic books that would
come out on a monthly basis and would sell for a dime each. Though comic strips had been reproduced in publications
prior to this time, the Famous Funnies comic book, which was started in 1934, marked the first occasion that a serialized
book of comics was attempted.
(2) Early comic books reprinted already existing comic strips and comics based on known characters, however,
publishers soon began introducing original characters developed specially for comic books. Superman was introduced in
Action Comics in 1938, and Batman was introduced a year later. The tremendous success of these superhero comic books
led to the development of numerous comic books on a variety of topics, though superhero comic book predominated.
Astonishingly, by 1945, approximately 160 different comic books were being published in the United States each month,
and 90 percent of US children were said to read comic books on a regular basis.

Activity 1
Direction: Answer the following questions.

1. Do you read comic books? Why or Why not?

2. What are your favorite comic books and characters?
3. What do you find interesting in comic books?

Did you
A thesis statement is the central idea of the selection. Thesis statement can be
know?
expressed or implied.

Activity 2 Making a Thesis Statement

Directions: Identify the thesis statement of the selection. Write your answers on your paper.

Activity 3 Making an Outline

Directions: Prepare an outline of the selection. Show them how the ideas are arranged in the selection from beginning to the end.

“But all things should be done decently and in order”.

1 Corinthians 14:40  ESV