Lesson title: Cycle 3, Speaking Session: Expressing

Opinions
Materials:

Lesson Objectives:
1. To orally produce a focused and cohesive statement
References:
with 4-8 sentences.
2. To self-reflect on speaking skills.

Productivity Tip: Whether working from home or working in school – there will be human
distractions. Even chat messages can disrupt your workflow. Protect your workflow by announcing
to your groupmates and family that you need Quiet Time – set 1-2 hours in the morning and in the
afternoon when you are absolutely not going to entertain questions and messages.

A. INTRODUCTION
As a university student and a future professional, one of the important communication skills
you must have is the skill to express your opinion in a clear and cohesive manner. When
writing about an opinion, you’ll have time to edit and revise – when speaking your opinion,
you’ll have no chance to edit and revise. This means that preparation and practice in speaking
is very important.

Keep track of our learning targets for the day:

 To orally produce a focused and cohesive statement with 4-8 sentences.
 To self-reflect on speaking skills.

Outputs for submission

1. Video recording: Speaking task #6: Dreams

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 C. LESSON REVIEW/PREVIEW
Activity #1: Match the vowel sound in column A with their appropriate underlined letters
in column B.
Column A Column B
1. [i] A. family
2. [I] B. leisure
3. [ɛ] C. savage
4. [æ] D. matrix
5. [e] E. steady

 Check your answers against the Key to Corrections found at the end of this SAS. Write your
score here: ___________

D. MAIN LESSON
Activity #2: Content Notes
Expressing opinions or giving your thoughts is part of our daily lives. We give our opinions about
many topics such as education, politics, business, or even with the choices or people around us.
However, our opinions might differ with other people. Hence, it is always better if we justify or
explain why we have that opinion. With this, there are certain ways to start your opinions.

Expression Meaning Example

Clearly/ Obviously Easy to understand or see Clearly, Maria seems to like you.

Personally, I don’t think she is good for

Personally Showing that it is your opinion
you.

Generally, students from PHINMA are

Generally Usually or in most situations
reliable.

Unexpectedly or in a way that Surprisingly, the government is doing

Surprisingly
is unusual something in this crisis.
The students did not pay attention to
In a way that cannot be
Inevitably their classes. Inevitably, they got low
avoided
scores.

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 Predictably, traffic congestion will soon
Predictably As expected
arise in Iloilo.

Frankly, I did not expect that you will

Frankly To be honest and direct
pass the exam.

Sadly, Regrettably, Unhappy, sad, or sorry about Unfortunately, I happened to fail the
Unfortunately something test.

As soon as you have started giving your opinions, you need to elaborate or explain your reason
for your opinion. You may use the following transitional devices:
• • •
• • •
• • •
• •

Activity #3: Start it right. Underline the correct word that corresponds with the thought of the
sentence.
1. (Personally, Generally), students study their lessons ahead of time.
2. (Sadly, Generally) a number of students do not study their lessons.
3. (Surprisingly, Inevitably), those who do not study have low chances of passing.
4. (Generally, Surprisingly), despite minimal efforts of studying some students pass.
5. (Personally, Frankly), only those who are smart and lucky enough could pull this through.
6. (Predictably, Unfortunately) the students who come prepared before taking the test pass.

 Check your answers against the Key to Corrections found at the end of this SAS. Write your
score here: ___________

Activity #4: Opinions should be explained for clarity and to prevent misunderstanding. In this
next task, write a possible explanation for each sentence. You may compare answers with your
classmates. Example: Obviously, the passing rate is high since teachers are highly motivated in
teaching their students.

1. Generally, Christmas is considered the most important holiday

______________________________________________________________________________________________

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 2. Most Filipinos are unsatisfied about the government
______________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Unfortunately, many are too preoccupied by trivial matters
______________________________________________________________________________________________

 Check your answers against the Key to Corrections found at the end of this SAS. Write your
score here: ___________

Activity #4: Speaking Practice

4.A: Brainstorm (5 mins)
Instructions: To prepare and organize your thoughts, create a concept map about on dreams.

4.B: Speaking about Something Important

1) Part 1: In 6-8 sentences, talk about “dreams”.
2) Part 2: Answer these follow-up questions. You may ask a family member or a friend to read the
questions for you, may also use your teacher’s recording of the questions, or just answer straight
away.
1. Do you dream much at night?
2. Do you often remember your dreams?
3. Do you think we can learn anything from dreams? (Why)?
4. Do people in your country talk about their dreams? (Why)?
5. Do you think that dreams can come true?

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4.C Record and prepare to submit to your teacher.
Be prepared. Your teacher will ask random students to share.
Video record yourself and send your output to your teacher. Name your file accordingly:
Family Name, First Name_Speaking #_Task name
Santos, Leandro_Speaking #6_Dreams

4.D Evaluate your speaking performance

RUBRICS for SPEAKING
4 – Exceeds the Criteria, 3 – Meets the Criteria, 2 – Meets some of the Criteria, 1 – Does not meet the
criteria
Coherence Lexical Grammar Pronunciation Fluency and
and Answers Resource Elaboration
The sentences are Uses The speaker has Pronunciation is Speaks at length
very coherent, sophisticated consistent precise and is without effort, and
and a wide use of vocabulary with a grammatical effortless to only few short
transitional very natural control. The understand. pauses are
devices is being control of lexical errors evident. Answers
Descriptors
employed. features and committed are are being
precisions in many just simple “slips”. elaborated
Answers are very topics
much connected
with the topic.

Rate

Total

E. THINKING ABOUT LEARNING

1. Who is one person – real or fictional – whom you admire the most in terms of speaking?
___________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Why do you like this person/character’s manner of speaking?
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________

You have completed lesson 12! Nice going!

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KEY TO CORRECTIONS
Activity #1
Column A Column B
1. B [i] A. family
2. C [I] B. leisure
3. E [ɛ] C. savage
4. A [æ] D. matrix
5. D [e] E. steady

Activity #3
1. Generally
2. Sadly
3. Inevitably
4. Surprisingly
5. Frankly
6. Predictably

Activity #4: Give yourself 2 points if you gave a reason related to the opinion stated. Sample
answers below – you may write your own explanations.
1. Generally, Christmas is considered the most important holiday because most Christians all
over the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
2. Most Filipinos are unsatisfied about the government as evidenced in the heated exchanges in
social media posts.
3. Unfortunately, many are too preoccupied by trivial matters since most social media posts are
often more about what they look like than how to make life better for all.