ORAL COMM ACTIVITIES

THURSDAY

PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION

1. Cite situations and examples of NOISE/BARRIERS during your online class.

PHYSICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL

2. Read the poem “ The Monkey’s Point of View”. Then answer the questions after it.

THE MONKEY’S POINT OF VIEW

Three monkey’s in a coconut tree

Discussing things as they’re said to be
Said one to the others, “Now listen you two,
There’s a certain rumor that can’t be true,
That man descended from our noble race.
The very idea, it’s a dire disgrace!
No monkey’s ever deserted his wife,
Starved her baby, and ruined her life.
And you’ve never known of a mother monk
To leave her baby with others to bunk.
Or pass them on from another one to another
Till they hardly know who is their mother
Another thing you’ll never see
A monk build a fence around a coconut tree
And let the coconut go to waste
Forbidding all other monks to taste
Starvation would force you to steal from me
Besides, what monk would smoke a pipe and burn the tree,
Pollute his air and kill himself?
Here’s another thing a monk won’t do
Go out at night and get in a stew
Or use a gun, a club or knife
To take some to other monkey’s life
Yes, man descended the ordinary cuss
But brother he didn’t descend from us.

COMPPREHENSION AND INTERPRETATION

1. Who are engaged in a discussion?
2. What was their topic?
 3. What was the rumor all about?
4. What do the monkey feel about the rumor?
5. State the attributes of men mentioned in the poem.
6. State the acts committed by the monkeys.
7. What is the author trying to tell us through this poem?
8. What could be the message of the poem?

GIVING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACKS

Share your insights about the poem. State your positive and negative feedback on the message of the
poem.

I. Read the lines/dialogues and give the functions of communication in the opposite column.

LINE DIALOGUE FUNCTION OF COMMUNICATION

1. “Faith is being sure of what we can only hope for,
and being certain of what we do not see.”
2. “ Come out from under the table you coward.”
3. “Begin!”
4. Ugh!
5. Sir, it was all one! My favour at her breast,
The drooping of the daylight in the West.
6. I want to fly high like a free bird.
7. Be my group member
8. Heal the world, make it a better place, for you and
for me and the entire human race. (Michael Jackson)
9. Where is Boracay?
10. Tsk, tsk, tsk!

II. From the given instances below, write 2 (per number) interactive lines/dialogue using
Regulation/Control function of communication.
1. A teacher to his/her students during examination day.
2. Parents to their children before leaving for a 2day retreat.
3. The referee to the players before the boxing starts.
4. Consoling a friend from a break up relationship.
5. A traffic enforcer to a driver who violated traffic rules.
6. A security guard at the entrance of a department store.
7. A customer of a milk tea shop.
8. Lending a pen to a classmate.
9. A speaker to his/her audience
10. Librarian to the students at the entrance of the library.