ENGLISH LESSONS
GRADE 9 QUARTER 2
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WK 1: LISTENING STRATEGIES
★ Listening - is the active process of
receiving, analyzing, interpreting and
evaluating information from a listening
material.
★ Active listener - uses various
strategies in extracting meaning from
a text listened to.
Listening Strategies
Predicting
- An end in mind
- Recall information you have learned
about
Listening for main ideas
- Understanding what it is all about
- What is the speakers main point
Listening for specific details
- Pinpoint ideas in a text
- What do you need to listen for
- Taking down notes
Drawing Inferences
- Going beyond what is said
- Determine the attitude of the speaker
toward an issue
- Prosodic features
Summarizing
- Restate the speaker wants to convey
- Synthesize the lesson
WK 3: LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR TEXT
☆ Reading Path
- The movement or order in which one
reads a text.
- The type of text that you read can
determine the way you read it.
Linear Text
- Reading from beginning to end wherein
words make sense sequentially
according to grammar and syntax.
- The reading path is also linear or in a
straight line.
Example of Linear:
Novels, stories, poems, essays, articles and
letters
Grammar - the study of the way words are used
to make sentences
Syntax - the arrangement of words and phrases
to create well-formed sentences in a language
Non-Linear Text
- Can be read in any order that a reader
prefers
- Non-sequential or does not follow a
fixed order
Examples of Non Linear:
Magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, atlas,
websites, digital texts, maps, and visuals such as
charts, graphs, tables, diagrams etc.
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Poem
- lines and stanzas
Pie chart - more expressive
● used to represent numerical - usually have rhymes
proportions of a whole. - written metrically

Bar graph Examples: Odes, Epics, Sonnets, Ballads

● Uses bars of different lengths or
heights to represent values. Prose
- straight forward
Line graph - ordinary and everyday language
● shows values over a period of time - natural flow of speech
- easier to comprehend
Timeline
● List the occurrence of events in Examples: Fables, News, Reports, Articles, Blog
chronological order Entries

Concept map
WK 5: CHAMBER THEATER
● shows relationship between ideas or
concepts
Theater - playhouse, structure where theatrical
Explanatory diagram works, performing arts and musical concerts are
● uses pictures and labels to describe or presented.
explain
Chamber Theatre- technique of performing
Flowchart narrative prose using the author’s original text
● shows a sequence or process in staging the scenes.

WK 4: POETRY VS PROSE
Both poetry and prose are forms of literature.
Big difference is their structure.
Literature
● written works, especially
considered of superior or
artistic merit.
Point view
First person- subjective view as the narrator
te;;s the story as he/she experiences the events
in the story.
Third person- narrator can be omniscient ,
meaning he/she knows everything and can be
depicted as an objective reporter of events
distant from the characters.
those
lasting ● lines memorized
● narrator speaks directly

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● actors speak for themselves and
reenact what the narrator tells

WK 6: DEVELOPMENT OF A THEME WK 7: THE ZOO STORY

What is the development of a theme? By Edward Albee

The central idea, meaning, or message of a text Setting- Central Park

is called the theme. It is the critical belief about Characters- Jerry and Peter
life that an author is trying to convey through Theme- Comedy/Adventure
his or her work.

The theme is interwoven throughout a text and

ties it together:
- Setting
- Character (s)
- Dialogue
- Plot
- Stage direction