Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region I
San Fernando City
La Union

ACTIVITY SHEETS IN ORAL COMMUNICATION

IN CONTEXT GRADE 11
QUARTER 1 (WEEK 1 – 10) MELC #3

MELC: Uses various strategies in order to avoid communication

breakdown.

 K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the student should be able to:
1. Construct meaningful definitions of communication breakdown
2. Identify the reasons for communication breakdown
3. Give strategies to avoid communication breakdown
4. Apply the strategies to avoid communication breakdown

Prepared by:

KRISTINE MAY D. CASIBANG

Teacher III
Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________

Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Arrange It!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid

communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: The letters of the words below are jumbled. Unscramble them to
form communication breakdown words based from the given meaning of each
word.

It refers to any thing, matter or

1. mbeporl - person that is difficult to deal
with, solve or overcome.

It refers to anything that prevents

2. arirber -
to access or passage of message
in a communication flow.

3. sinoe – It is anything that interferes in

the communication process.

4. pvernet -
It is an act of hindrance.

5. clbok - It is to interfere the passage of

message in a communication
process.
Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________

Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Know the Reason

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid

communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: Identify the reasons for communication breakdown on the

following statements. Write the letter of the correct answer on the
space provided before each number.

a. Physical
b. Semantic and Language
c. Psychosocial
d. Organizational
e. Cross-cultural

______ 1. It refers to the problems

arising from the expression or transmission of meaning.
______ 2. It is caused by many factors such as time, place, climate, noise and choice of
medium.
______ 3. It is a barrier due to the diversity of cultures.
______ 4. It hinders the flow of communication because of the moods, attitude, and
relationships of the sender and receiver.
______ 5. It is the distortion of messages as they pass from one level to another.

Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________

Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Fill-in the Gap

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid
communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: The following statements below are strategies to avoid

communication breakdown. Fill each blank with the correct answer.
Choose your answer inside the box.

confidence appropriate

listen common

understood sensitivity

open full attention

clearly argue

1. Make people feel _______________.

2. Be _______________ to feedback

3. Find _______________ ground.

4. Do not _______________.

5. Use _______________ language.

 6. _______________ to the words and actions.

7. Express your ideas _______________.

8. Give _______________ to your audience.

9. Show _______________ when communicating with others.

10. Develop cultural _______________.

Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________

Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Be Clever to Put Together!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid

communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: In each box, write a word that describes communication

breakdown. Use the relationships of these words to construct your own
meaningful definitions of communication breakdown by completing the
statement below.

COMMUNICATION
BREAKDOWN

Communication breakdown is ______________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________

Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Why Don’t You Classify Me?

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid

communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: Classify the communication barriers by naming the specific

barrier on each blank. Choose your answer inside the box.

PHYSICAL
SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE
PSYCHOSOCIAL
ORGANIZATIONAL
CROSS-CULTURAL

1. ringing cellphones _____________________________

2. technical jargons _____________________________
3. authoritarian management _____________________________
4. nervousness _____________________________
5. skin color _____________________________
6. no boyfriend since birth _____________________________
7. religion _____________________________
8.negative comment from social medias _____________________________
9. rules and regulations _____________________________
10. corrupt political image _____________________________
Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________
Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________
Title of the Activity: Spot the Hidden Words

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid

communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: The puzzle below hides 12 strategies for communication

breakdown. You may look up, down, backward and forward. Then encircle
each word you find.

V G Y C O N C I S E A G L W
R A C E F Z Q O E W M K Q E
B E N C V R O L N E V R A L
H N S I N C E G S N E L B L
O P T P R T A L I N E D G G
E W R H E U F I T C B C A R
T A U G M C Y J I V L I T O
A T P O S I T I V E A U P U
C E T B I L N L E G C E H N
I R I S E N T D A Y I J I D
N Y W E H E T E F O G L M E
U A S R I L R T R U O K T D
M I R V O M H A T W L R E G
M R Q A D S E R I K Q P E N
O J G SENSITIVE
N K L O V MINDFUL
E A Y A T M
C S A T C A T N O C E Y E L
POSITIVE LOGICAL
CONCISE CONNECT
WELL-GROUNDED COMMUNICATION
OBSERVANT EYE CONTACT
RESPECT CLEAR

Name:

___________________________________________________Date: _____________
Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Hey! What’s the Problem?

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid

communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: The photo below shows a communication breakdown. Determine

what is the problem and provide how to improve the situation. Write your answer
on the space provided below the photo.

PROBLEM CAUSE SOLUTION

https://www.google.com/search?
q=communication+breakdown+images&sxsrf=ALeKk03BJLKq0Kx6oAvxXpD4KFugKfYsHw:15911700
15027&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDkZeckuXpAhUoILcAHQWhAF4Q_AUoAXoE
CAsQAw&biw=1366&bih=654#imgrc=aWpM54_knHA3GM

Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________

Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Time to Investigate

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid
communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: Analyze the scenarios given below then identify the reason/s
of communication breakdown and give solution or strategy on how to
avoid it.

Scenario Reason/s for Strategies to Avoid

Communication Communication
Breakdown Breakdown
1. A student at the desk next to you
coughs while the teacher is giving
instructions.
2. In English class, you’re learning about
words that end in -s, -ed and -ing and
you’re seated at the back.
3. You are about to give a speech during
graduation and you feel nervous and
uneasy.
4. You and your partner need to finish a
research, but your partner has different
idea about it and you got mad at him.
5. The company you are working with
presented a policy that everyone didn’t
agree on it.

Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________

Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Speak for that Hashtag!
Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid
communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: Choose one hashtag from the word pool and share your thoughts
about it. You are given 2-3 minutes to speak. Apply the strategies to avoid
communication breakdown.

#bawallumabas #Covid19

#newnormal #WeHealAsOne

#ABSCBN #ResistAsOne

#BlackLivesMatter #KimChui

#pandemic #onlineselling

Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________

Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Maximize Your Maxim!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid

communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: Draft a slogan in the box below showing how to become a

good communicator. Then, provide a brief explanation of it. Write your
answer on the space provided.

________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________
Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: It’s Chat Time!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid
communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: Apply the strategies for effective communication in a daily

conversation situation. Write a dialogue on how to start a conversation with a
person you just met in any of the following settings.

1. A bookstore
2. A wedding reception
3. A Salon
4. An audition for a singing contest
5. A waiting area of a dental clinic
6. An airplane going to Batanes

Name: ___________________________________________________Date: _____________

Grade/Section: _____________________________________________Score: ____________

Title of the Activity: Break-it-down!

Most Essential Learning Competency: Uses various strategies in order to avoid
communication breakdown.

K to 12 BEC CG: EN11/12OC-Ia-6

Directions: An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first, last or other
letters in a line spell out a particular word or phrase. Using the word
BREAKDOWN suggest ways on how to avoid communication breakdown.

B- _______________________________________________________________
R- _______________________________________________________________
E- _______________________________________________________________
A- _______________________________________________________________
K- _______________________________________________________________
D- _______________________________________________________________
O- _______________________________________________________________
W- ______________________________________________________________
N- _______________________________________________________________
Answer Key:
Title of the Activity: Arrange It!
1. problem
2. barrier
3. noise
4. prevent
5. block
Title of the Activity: Know the Reason
1. B
2. A
3. E
4. C
5. D
Title of the Activity: Fill-in the Gap
1. understood 6. listen
2. open 7. clearly
3. common 8. full attention
4. argue 9. confidence
5. appropriate 10. Sensitivity

Title of the Activity: Be Clever to Put Together!

Answers vary depending on the learners. Some possible answers are:

Possible Answers: distort, failure, interfere, prevent, noise, distance, incorrect message,
misunderstanding.

Possible Answer: Communication breakdown is the failure to deliver a correct message.

Title of the Activity: Why Don’t You Classify Me?

1. physical 6. psychosocial
2. semantic and language 7. cross cultural
3. organizational 8. psychosocial
4. psychosocial 9. organizational
5. cross
V G Y C O N C I S E A G L W
R A C E F Z Q O E W M K Q E
B E N C V R O L N E V R A L
H N S I N C E G S N E L B L
O P T P R T A L I N E D G G
E W R H E U F I T C B C A R
T A U G M C Y J I V L I T O
A T P O S I T I V E A U P U
C E T B I L N L E G C E H N
I R I S E N T D A Y I J I D
N Y W E H E T E F O G L M E
U A S R I L R T R U O K T D
M I R V O M H A T W L R E G
M R Q A D S E R I K Q P E N
O J G N K L O V E A Y A T M
C S A T C A T N O C E Y E L
cultural 10. Psychosocial

Title of the Activity: Spot the Hidden Words

Title of the Activity: Hey! What’s the Problem?
Answers vary depending on the learners.

Title of the Activity: Time to Investigate

Scenario
1. A student at the desk next
to you coughs while the
teacher is giving instructions.
2. In English class, you’re
learning about words that end
in -s, -ed and -ing and you’re
seated at the back.
Reason/s for Strategies to Avoid
Communication Communication Breakdown
Breakdown
Ask the students to excuse
Physical barrier – the student him/herself when coughing.
coughs and the instructions Ask the teacher to repeat the
are not clear. instructions.
Physical Barrier- the distance Clarify the words that are
is one main reason for mispronounce.
misunderstanding.
Semantic Barrier – the
listener may hear a
mispronounce word/s

3. You are about to give a
speech during graduation and
you feel nervous and uneasy.
4. You and your partner have
to finish a research, but your
partner has different idea
about it and you got mad at
him.
5. The company you are
Psychological Barrier – Just relax, think positive and
nervousness, tense and be confident.
uneasiness make you
uncomfortable and
unconfident.
Psychosocial Barrier – Be open to suggestions or
indifferent of opinions and criticism.
perceptions of both sides.
Attitudinal problem can also
be one reason.
Organizational Barrier – Explain and justify the
 working with presented a organizational policies are not organizational policies to the
policy that everyone didn’t clear to the employees. employees.
agree on it.

Title of the Activity: Speak for that Hashtag!

Answers vary depending on the learners.
Title of the Activity: Maximize Your Maxim!
Answers vary depending on the learners. (see rubrics)
Title of the Activity: It’s Chat Time!
Answers vary depending on the learners. (see rubrics)

Title of the Activity: Break-it-down!

Answers vary depending on the learners.
Here are the possible answers:

B – Be open to critique.
R – Respect other people’s point of view
E – Establish eye contact.
A – Accept answers, queries or even critiques without prejudice.
K – Keep your messages short and simple.
D – Do not argue.
O - Observe your audience.
W – Words and ideas should be used in an orderly manner.
N – Never be distracted by movements and people’s facial expression.
Rubrics
A. Enrichment Activity – Maximize Your Maxim! (Slogan Making)

Criteria 5 Points 3 Points 1 Point

CREATIVITY Slogan is Slogan is creative The slogan does

exceptionally and some thoughts not reflect any
creative. A lot of were used to make degree of
thoughts and the banner. creativity.
efforts were used
to make the
banner.
ORIGINALITY Exceptional use of Average use of No use of new
new ideas and new ideas and ideas and
originality to originality to originality to
create slogan. create slogan. create slogan.
CONTENT The slogan shows The slogan shows The slogan
100% of 75% of effectivity doesn’t show
effectivity in the in the promotion effectiveness in
promotion on how on how to be a the promotion on
to be a good good how to be a good
communicator. communicator communicator
GRAMMAR There is no There are 2 There are more
grammatical grammatical than 2
mistake on the mistakes on the grammatical
poster. poster. mistakes on the
poster.
 Total
Overall Total / 20

B. Enrichment Activity It’s Chat Time! (Dialogue)

Criteria 5 Points 3 Points 1 Point

ORGANIZATION All information is Information is Information is
well-organized in well-organized poorly-organized
a logical order. with one minor with more than two
error. errors.

MESSAGE The message to The message to The message to the

the listener is the listener is listener is unclear.
clear and strong. clear.

PRESENTATION The dialogue is The dialogue is The dialogue is not

presented in a presented in a clearly presented.
clear voice. The clear voice. The Little eye contact
presenters made presenters made was
consistent eye some eye contact made with the
contact with the with the audience.
audience. audience.

Total
 Overall Total /15

References:

A. Books
Jose Rizal O. Dapat, B. E. (2016). Oral Communication in Focus. Quezon City: Lorimar
Publishing, Inc.pp. 17-23

Concepcion G. Doyugan. 2019. Oral Communication in Various Contexts: A Journey

towards Communicative Competence. pp. 99-107. Quezon City: Lorimar
Publishing, Inc.

B. Online and Other Sources

Communication breakdown
https://www.google.com/search?
q=communication+breakdown+images&sxsrf=ALeKk03BJLKq0Kx6oAvxXpD4KFugK
fYsHw:1591170015027&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDkZeckuXpA
hUoILcAHQWhAF4Q_AUoAXoECAsQAw&biw=1366&bih=654#imgrc=aWpM54_kn
HA3GM

Rubric for Dialogue

https://www.tpsnva.org/teach/l_p/047/dialog_rubric.pdf