Name: Francine Valenzuela

Grade and Section: G8-Sycamore

Subject: English 

Learning Task 4:

Roque: Duterte to deliver SONA at Batasan even as some expecte attendees 

tested positive for COVID-19

President Rodrigo Duterte will still deliver his fifth State of the Nation 
Address (SONA) at the Batasang Pambansa even as some individuals expected to
attend the event have contracted COVID-19, Malacanang said Monday.

“As of 2:30 ( p.m.) President Duterte is expected to deliver his 5th SONA at Batasan.”
presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in a messages in reporters.

Roque issued the statement after House Deputy Speaker Johnny 

Pimentel and atleast 6 Palace Personel who were supposed to render
 technical support during the SONA tested positive for COVID-19.

Only those who will tested negative for COVID-19 will be allowed to attend the
 SONA physically based on the event’s safety protocols.  

Earlier, it was reported that Cabinet executives who tested negative are
Attending the SONA at the Batasan - Secretaries Menardo Guevarra (Justice). 
Wendell Avisado (Budget and Management) and Delfin Lorenzana (Defence) as well
as presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.

Secretaries Eduardo Año (Interior and Local Goverment) and William Dar
(Agriculture) as well as Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles will also be present 
during the event, according to separate report by dzBB’s Tuesday Niu.

Duterte will deliver his SONA before a joint sessions of Congress at 4 p.m. - 

Learning Task 5:
President Roa Rodrigo Duterte announce that he will stand in the Philippine’s
battle against China in the West Philippine Sea. In the early years of his term,
Duterte declared that he preferred the “Chinese way,” saying warming ties with
the superpower would pay off in economic gains.
Learning Task 6:

President Rodrigo Duterte delivered

cont his 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA)
on Monday, July 27, against the backdrop of a pandemic that has disrupted the
lives of millions of Filipinos and which continues
cont to spread
co across the Philippines. 
Duterte used most of his annual address, which lasted for nearly two hours, to
threaten
cont “oligarchs,” failing to go into detail on a pandemic recovery roadmap for
the country which had been earlier promised by Malacañang. 

Learning Task 7:
In this regard, the words of former President Ramon Magsaysay ring fresh and
relevant today as on the day they were said decades ago. He said: We need men
of integrity and faith like Rizal and del Pilar, men of action like Bonifacio, men of
inflexible patriotism like Mabini. If we allow greed, self-interest and ambition will
rule us.