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ENGLISH
Quarter 22 –– Module
Quarter Module 22

ELECTRONIC SEARCH ENGINE

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English – Grade 7
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 2 – Module 2: Electronic Search Engine
First Edition, 2020
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Quarter 2 – Module 2
Electronic Search Engine

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 Introductory Message

For the learner:

Welcome to the English 7 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on
Electronic Search Engine!
How was your experience with technology? Does it make your work easier
and faster?

Nowadays, your knowledge in the use of the internet is already a must. This
would help you to search for information especially that we are now in the world of
technology.

As you go through, you will experience different individual activities and

encounter texts that will help you answer the question: How does Electronic Search
Engine help you in doing your research activities?

Likewise, your skills in reading, vocabulary development, viewing, listening,

language fluency, and grammar awareness will be enhanced.

In the end, you will be compiling all your Electronic Search Engine (ESE)
activities.

In this module, you are guided with a set of learning icons that will help you
understand on how to recognize the beauty in others.
This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an
activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of the

lesson. This aims to help you discover and
understand new concepts and skills.
 What’s More This comprises activities for independent
practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the answers
to the exercises using the Answer Key at the
end of the module.

What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank

sentence/paragraph to be filled in to process
what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or skill
into real life situations or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your

level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given to

you to enrich your knowledge or skill of the
lesson learned. This also tends retention of
learned concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.
At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in developing

this module.
The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of the
module. Use your English activity notebook in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.

If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are not
alone.
We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and
gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!
What I Need to Know ---------------- 1

What I Know ---------------- 2

Lesson 1 What Electronic Search

Engine Is ---------------- 4

What’s In ---------------- 4

What’s New ---------------- 4

Activity 1 ---------------- 7

Lesson 2 How to Use the Electronic

Search Engine ---------------- 8

What is It ---------------- 8

What’s More ---------------- 13

Activity 2 ---------------- 13

What I Have Learned ---------------- 13

What I Can Do ---------------- 14

Activity 3 ---------------- 14

Assessment ---------------- 14

Additional Activity ---------------- 15

Answer Key ---------------- 16

References ---------------- 17
 What I Need to Know

Welcome to a new year of discovery and explorations! This module is designed

for you to meet your unique needs and interests. This aims at the comprehensive
development of your reading, vocabulary development, viewing, listening, language
fluency, and grammar awareness. As a 21st century learner, you must be fully
equipped with knowledge on how to use a search engine to make learning more
effective.
Electronic Search Engine allows you to find the information that is valuable to you.
It eliminates the need to move through numerous amounts of irrelevant web pages.
Essentially, it allows you not only quickly, but also easily, find the information that is
essential for your progress.
As you go along with this module, you will find out that Electronic Search
Engine can provide you with search results that lead to relevant information on high
quality websites.
This module is divided into two lessons, namely:
 Lesson 1 – What is Electronic Search Engine
 Lesson 2 – How to use an Electronic Search Engine

After reading this module, you should be able to use a search engine to
conduct a guided search on a given topic (EN7SS-II-c-1.5.3). Specifically, you
should:
1. define what Electronic Search Engine (ESE) is;
2. identify the five most commonly used search engines;
3. compile all research activities on electronic search engines.

We encourage you to take good care of this module so, be responsible in using it.
Have a meaningful journey!

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 What I Know

Let us see what you already know about Electronic Search Engine (ESE)
and how to use it in searching for information. Write your answers in your English
Activity Notebook.

Test A
Directions: Read and answer the following questions. Copy the letter of the correct
answer.
1. What is the software system that is designed to search for information in the
World Wide Web?
A. Epson B. Smadav C. search engine D. Microsoft Office
2. What search results are generally presented in a line of results?
A. Search Engine Databases C. Search Engine System Results
B. Search Engine Results Pages D. Search Engine Program Results
3. What does www stand for?
A. World Web Wide C. Western Wide Website
B. World Wide Web D. Wide Western Website
4. Below are some of the most popular search engines EXCEPT:
A. Bing B. Google C. Hyperlink D. Yahoo!
5. What should a user type in the search bar to receive a list of websites,
images, videos, or other data?
A. Keywords B. Query C. Subject D. Topic
6. What symbol will you use when you want to exclude certain words in your
search?
A. dash or minus sign B. quotation marks C. fewer words D. and/or
7. What is the most commonly used search engine?
A. AOL B. Bing C. Google D. Yahoo
8. What symbol will you use when you want to emphasize a certain topic in your
search?
A. dash or minus sign B. quotation marks C. fewer words D. and/or
9. Where are you going to enter the URL if you’re searching for a specific topic?
A. Insert tab B. Search bar C. Return Key D. Address bar

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 10. Why are Electronic Search Engines important?
A. They can narrow your search down to the exact information you need with
a search engine.
B. They make it easier to find information rather than linking it to yourself.
C. They sort through information; kind of like a library card catalog.
D. All of the above.

Test B. 11-15.
Directions: From the Word Pool below, choose five words which you think are
examples of Electronic Search Engines (ESE).

AOL Bing Google Ask Yahoo! Facebook

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Lesson
What an Electronic Search
1 Engine is

What’s In

In your everyday life, you always encounter questions that need to be

answered. Who can answer your questions? Where can you get answers to your
questions?
In your class, when your teacher asked you to research, where do you usually
go?
Watch the video on “Libraries in the Internet Age” using this link
http://youtu.be/L9MDKPC9yeM and answer the questions in your English activity
notebook.
After watching the video, you need to answer the questions to check your
understanding.
1. Where can you find sources of information aside from the library?
2. How important is the internet in searching for information?

What’s New

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 Look closely at the picture. What do you think is the student doing? Like most
of the students these days, she is probably doing research using different search
engines. What do you think is an Electronic Search Engine (ESE)?
This lesson will help you maximize the use of electronic search engines most
especially in conducting a guided search on a given topic.

Electronic Search Engine

 a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide
Web.
 The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to
as search engine results pages (SERPs)
 Search Engine is a computer program that searches databases and internet
sites for documents containing keywords specified by a user.
Source: www.slideshare.net

Listed below are the top 5 most commonly used search engines according to
eBizMBA in October 2015. These rankings are continuously updated using various
factors.
Google
 Estimated 1,100,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 Originally known as BackRub.
 A search engine that started development in 1996 by Sergey Brin and
Larry Page as a research project at Stanford University to find files on
the Internet.

Source: www.google.com

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1. Bing
 Estimated 350,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 A search engine was created and operated by Microsoft, replacing its
former Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search offerings.

Source: www.bing.com

2. Yahoo!
 Estimated 300,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 Short for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle! Yahoo! Was
created in February 1994 by two Stanford University Ph.D. candidates
David Filo and Jerry Yang.

Source: www.yahoo.com

3. Ask
 Estimated 245,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 Ask is the common name for the Ask.com search engine, which
allows users to perform a search in the form of a question to find
relevant results.
 Ask.com was started in 1996 by Garret Gruener and David Warthen.

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 Source: www.ask.com
4. AOL
 Estimated 125,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 America Online is the name of a popular online service. It is often
abbreviated as AOL.
 The company was founded in 1985 and is considered an early Internet
pioneer, providing many Internet services in the 1990s.

Source: www.aolsearch.com

These search engines will help you search for different topics that you can
think of. These will also provide you information on current news and events around
the world.
This time, let us check your understanding by answering the questions on the
next page.
Activity 1
Directions: Read and answer the questions in your English activity notebook.
1. What is an Electronic Search Engine?
2. What are the five most commonly used Search Engines?
3. Which of the five most commonly used search engines have you tried using?
4. Did you find what you are looking for?
5. As a student, how do electronic search engines help you in providing answers
to your questions?
Well done! You have successfully answered the activities in Lesson 1. Now,
brace yourself as we move to Lesson 2. This time, you are going to learn how to use
a search engine in searching for a specific topic. Since Google is the most commonly
used search engine as mentioned earlier, you will be exploring it. Are you ready?

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Lesson
How to Use the
2 Electronic Search Engine

What is It

Searching the Web requires both skills and patience but, where should we
start?

To enter the world wide web (www), you need to have either of these two:

 Internet connection or WIFI (it can be a modem or pocket wifi) or

 Data subscription (cellphone load)

There are two ways to search for information:

A. Using keyword/s
B. Using Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Searching Using Keyword/s

Follow the steps wholeheartedly that are provided for you so you can arrive at the
correct output.
Step 1.
Open the page first using Google Chrome and enter the texts or keywords in
the search bar pointed by the arrow to find relevant information.

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Step 2. Type in the search bar the word “COVID-19”.
There, you will find out vast information about the topic.

Step 3. Click the first search result inside the red box and copy the information about
COVID-19 in your English activity notebook.

Step 4 Click the Back Button to go back to the Home Page.

A. If you’re using a cellphone click the x button as pointed by the arrow.

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 B. If you’re using a computer, click the back button enclosed in a red box as
shown in picture B.

A B

Step 5. To explain more, open the page shown below and type this URL
https://youtu.be/7RIB1CJovTs in the address bar pointed by the arrow.

Points to Remember

To better get specific results:

 Use minus sign or hyphen (-) to exclude a word.
 Use quotation marks (“ ”) to find pages that have the exact term.

This time, you will research using a Uniform Resource Locator or URL. URL is
the page address that you will find in the long bar at the top of your Web browsers.

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Searching Using URL

Step 1. Click Google Chrome on your screen.

This will appear on your screen.

Step 2. Type the name of the website

http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-
conditions/covid-19-basics in the address page
as pointed by the arrow.

Step 3. Press ← Enter key if you are using a computer.

Press the Search icon as pointed by the arrow if you
are using a cell phone.

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 You are now about to explore the content of the URL.

Step 4. Read the content of the page and write 5 unfamiliar words that you have
encountered in your English activity notebook.

Step 5. Click the Back Button as pointed by the arrow

to go back to the Home Page.

Congratulations! You have successfully followed the steps in conducting a

guided search using Google. If you wish to gather more information, you are free to
explore more by following the same steps.

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 What’s More

Electronic Search Engines like Google can be a resource that saves your
time. In this activity, you will learn how to search on your own using a given topic.
Follow the steps that you have learned from the previous activity so you can arrive at
the correct answer. Write your answers in your English activity notebook.

Activity 2
Test A. USING KEYWORDS
Directions: Find answers to the questions below by typing in the keywords “K-POP”
using Google as your search engine.
1. What is K-Pop?
2. What are the styles and genres that influenced K-Pop music?

Test B. USING URL

Directions: Go to https://visit-philippines.fr/blog/2019/04/26/the-must-dos/ and list
down the ten (10) new places of the Philippines to visit in 2019.

What I Have Learned

After having gone through a series of challenging activities, have you realized
the importance of using Google as an Electronic Search Engine in doing a guided
search? Write your understanding by completing the sentence below.

I have learned that Electronic Search Engine allows me to_______________

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________.

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 What I Can Do

Activity 3
This time you will be looking for information using Google as your electronic
search engine.
A. Directions: Type in the keyword “ANIME” using Google as your
search engine and copy its description.
B. Directions: Type the URL http://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-
and events/news/2020/coronavirus-safety-and-readiness-tips-for-
you.html in the address bar. Copy the important details in your
English notebook.

Assessment

As you are about to end this module, your knowledge will be tested by
applying all the things that you have learned from your previous activities.

Suppose you are going to write an essay about the origin of your
municipality and you need to gather the following information:
 original name of your place  festivals
 number of barangays  economy
 population

Using your knowledge on search engine, write the possible keywords

in searching the information, copy the URL of your chosen search result and
provide a short description about the topic. Use the table in providing your
answer.

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Keywords Used URL Short Description about the topic
Example: Calamba was a forested area were
Origin of https://zamboanga.com the Subanens or Subanons
Calamba, Mis. frequented. They called the place
Occ. “Solinog,” after the deep river bank.
1.

2.

3.

Congratulations! You’ve done a great job.

Additional Activity

As a Grade 7 student, you like to explore many things especially that we are
in the world of technology. Usually, when there are things that interest you, you
immediately surf the internet for a wider understanding.
In this activity, you will search for the things that interest you. List five (5)
possible keywords, the URLs used, and descriptions of your interest. Write your
answers in your English activity notebook.

Congratulations! You have successfully completed Module 2. Please

proceed to Module 3 and learn about navigating a website using
essential features.

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Answer Key

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 References

American Red Cross. “COVID-19: Safety Tips For You.” Published May 13, 2020.
http://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2020/coronavirus-
safety-
and-readiness-tips-for-you.html

Fermin, Edison A., and Marla C. Pampango. English 7 Learner’s Material.1st ed.
Pasig
City, Philippines: FEP Printing Corp. 2017.

GCF Global. “Internet Basics: Using Search Engines.” Accessed June 1, 2020.
http://edu.gcfglobal.org./en/internetbasics/using-search-engines/1/.

Google.“COVID-19 PH Official Website.”Accessed June 15, 2020.

http://www.covid19.gov.ph

Health Harvard. “COVID-19 Basics.” Updated on June 1, 2020.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-basics.

Slideshare. “Using Search Engines to find information to prepare resources and

worksheets. Accessed on June 1, 2020.
https://www.slideshare.net./mobile/yonlkizz/using-search-engines-to-find-
information-to-prepare-resources-and-worksheets.

Solution. “Why Are Search Engines Important?.” Published October 16, 2015.
https://www.solutio-inc.com/why-are-search-engines-important/.

Visit-philippines. “The 10 New Places of the Philippines to visit in 2019. Accessed

June
17, 2020. https://visit-philippines.fr/blog/2019/04/26/the-must-dos/

Wikipedia. “K-pop”. Accessed June 17, 2020. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-pop.

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