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English
Quarter 3 – Module 4
Provide Evidence to Support
Opinion / Fact
English – Grade 5
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 3 – Module 4, Provide Evidence to Support Opinion / Fact
First Edition, 2020

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English
Quarter 3 – Module 4
Provide Evidence to Support
Opinion / Fact
Introductory Message
For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the English 5 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Quarter 3

Module 4 Provide Evidence to Support Opinion / Fact EN5OL – IIf 3.5.1.
This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by
educators from both public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or
facilitator in helping the learners to meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum
while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also
aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
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Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the Learner:

Welcome to English 5 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Quarter 3 Module 4

Provide Evidence to Support Opinion / Fact EN5OL – IIf 3.5.1.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn from
the module.

What I Know The activity in this part is designed to check

what you already know about the lesson. If
you get all the answers correct, you may
decide to skip this module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this section, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an
activity, or a situation.

What Is It This section provides a brief discussion of the

lesson. This aims to help you discover and
understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding of the
topic. You may check the answers to the
exercises using the Answer Key found at the
end of the module.

What I Have Learned This part may require you to answer

questions or complete statements to help you
see a summary of what you have learned from
the previous sections of this module.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you apply your new knowledge or skill
into real-life situations.

Assessment This section tests your level of mastery in

realizing the objectives of the lesson which
are based on the learning competency.

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 Additional Activities In this section, another activity will be given
to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of the
lesson that was presented.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

At the end of this module, you will also find the References which contains the
list of all sources cited or used as a guide in developing the material.

To get the most out of this module, you should take note of the following
reminders:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any
part of the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the
exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other
activities included in the module.
3. Read the instructions carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
5. Finish each task before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through
with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that they are there
to help you.

We hope that through this material, you will enjoy a meaningful learning
experience and gain a deeper understanding of the relevant competencies and skills.
You can do it!

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 What I Need to Know

How do you value opinion of your classmates? In coming to you what do you
want to wear? Do you want to wear uniform or not? In this module you are going to
learn how to Provide Evidence to Support Opinion / Fact. What are you waiting
for, start learning and have fun!

With the help of this module you will learn to:

• Identify fact or opinion;

• Provide evidence to support opinion/fact;
• Write a paragraph to show one’s opinion with evidence about an issue.

What I Know

Directions: Read the sentences about the picture. Write F if states a fact
or O if it states opinion.

___1. Antoine de Saint Exupery is the author of the story

“The Little Prince”.
___ 2. The Little Prince is a beautiful movie that touches
everyone’s heart.

___3. The Little Prince feels lonely as he flies up in the sky.

___4. The title of the movie is “The Little Prince”.

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 Lesson
Provide Evidence to Support
1 Opinion / Fact

A fact is a statement that can be verified or proven true by objective means. We

use records, experimentations or observation to verify the statement.

An opinion is a statement that cannot be verified by objective means. It can

express a person’s feelings about an idea or situation. It can also express a judgment
or a prediction based on facts. However, an opinion is valid only if facts are stated to
support it.

What’s In

What is fact? Opinion?

Notes to the Learner

Remember: In giving opinion/fact

Provide evidence to support opinion/fact to be valid and worth
considering.
Evidence may include the claims, facts and figures, graphs,
statistics, surveys, and experiment as the core sources to support
your opinion.
Fact and Opinion Review
➢ A fact is a statement which experiences and experiments
have proven to be true. It is directly observable.

➢ An opinion is a view or guess which may or may not be true

.It tells what someone thinks or feels about something. It
can be verified but only indirect

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 What’s New

Carbon, Blessing or Bane?

Carbon is truly wonderful. With its four outer shells, carbon easily links with other
atoms in the atmosphere. Thus, numerous carbon compounds are formed. While this may
indicate that carbon is helpful to man, it can also be destructive. Carbon has its good
functions but it should be used well to produce desired results. As humans and animals
breathe out carbon dioxide during respiration, the air retains a little amount of carbon. This
is where the problem lies. Due to the wide use of carbon-based fuels by automobiles, the
combustion of these fuels give off carbon dioxide. Carbon quickly combines with oxygen and
this is when we have to find quick solutions.

With so many cars, buses, and jeeps running, on these fuels, carbon dioxide level in
the atmosphere is high, very high indeed. With the high amount of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere, the terms “greenhouse effect” and “global warming” became household words. It
was found out that the alarming accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been
trapping heat from escaping into the outer space. This has caused man to respond alarmingly
to the situation.

There are new efforts to limit carbon dioxide emissions. If not, there will be disastrous
changes. Global warming will bring about climate change in all parts of the world. As we now
experience, wet seasons, become wetter, there are more flooding, and dry seasons have
become hotter and drier-there are droughts. Man has awakened to the reality of carbon, while
a friend to the environment could also be an enemy if abused and misused.

Vocabulary: Match column A with column B

Column A Column B
___1. carbon A. causing great damage
___2. blessing B. the product and discharge of
something especially gas or radiation
___3. bane C. God’s favor
___4. accumulation D. the chemical element of atomic number
6, a non-metal which has two main for
(diamond and granite) and which also
occurs in impure form in charcoal,
soot, and coal.
___5. emission E. something produced as a copy
___6. disastrous F. acquisition or gradual gathering of
something
G. a cause of great distress or annoyance

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 Comprehension Questions:

1. What was the report about?

2. Why is carbon helpful to man? Why is it harmful?
3. As the combustion of fuels give off carbon dioxide, what happens to the
carbon?
4. What should we do if this happens?
5. What was found out that has been trapping heat from escaping from the outer
space?
6. How does the man respond to this accumulation of carbon dioxide?

What Is It
Read again the report aloud, to yourself or to anybody with you.

1. It was stated that carbon is truly wonderful. (Find the paragraph where it is
stated)
Opinion (based on feelings)

Carbon is truly wonderful. With its four outer shells, carbon easily links with
other atoms in the atmosphere, thus, numerous other compounds are formed. (fact)

Evidence

(Ex. Carbon when added with iron made steel.)

2. On the other hand, it may be a bane. How could this happen? (Find the
paragraph where it is stated)
Opinion (a personal view)

Carbon is a bane when it is abused and misused like the wide use of carbon-based
fuels by automobiles. The combustion of these fuels give off carbon dioxide, high
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere trap the heat, thus resulted to global warming.
(fact) Evidence

Evidence like fact is used to support the opinion to make it worth

considering.

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 What’s More
Read the weather news report below.

PAGASA: Brace for rains for 5 more days

MANILA, Philippines – State weather bureau PAGASA warned Luzon and

Western Visayas to brace for more heavy rains in the next 5 days.

PAGASA said there would be more monsoon rains in Metro Manila, Zambales,
Bataan, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna,
and Batangas.

There will also be occasional rains in the rest of the Ilocos Region, the
Cordillera Administrative Region, and the rest of Central Luzon, as well as Mimaropa
and Western Visayas.

The rest of Luzon and the rest of the Visayas should expect light to moderate
rains and thunderstorms.

Mindanao, in contrast, will have generally good weather on Sunday with just
isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms.

Aurelio explained that a low pressure area (LPA) and a tropical depression
which are both outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) are enhancing the
southwest monsoon.

Source: www.rappler.com

Science Vocabulary:

monsoon rains - the heavy rains that accompany the seasonal wind of S Asia that
blows the southeast in summer

low pressure area (LPA) - is a region on the topographic map where the air pressure
is lower than that of surrounding locations.

tropical depression – is a tropical cyclone that has a maximum of sustained surface

winds ( one-minute average) of 38 mph (33 knots) or less.
 A. Directions: Give your opinion regarding each item below. Provide evidence
to your answers.
1. Does weather differ in all parts of our country?
____________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________.

2. Does weather affect man’s daily activities? What is your opinion?

____________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________.

B. Directions: Choose the statements that are Opinion. Provide evidence for your
answer.

Example: Women are better cook than men.

Answer: Opinion. My uncle cooks better than my aunt. (accept other answers)

1. Scientists are still looking for dinosaur bones.

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.

2. Lifting the bones must be hard work.

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.

3. Scientist who study dinosaurs are very smart.

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.

4. The bones indicate the size of dinosaurs.

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.

5. I think that dinosaurs were greenish gray.

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.
 What I Have Learned

Directions: Read each sentence and underline whether it is fact or opinion. Provide
evidence to support your answer. Write your answer on the blank.

1. President Donald Trump was born in the United States. (fact opinion)

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

2. China has quarantined the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province. (fact opinion)

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

3. Although for most people COVID-19 causes only mild illness, it can make
some people very ill. (fact opinion)

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________
 What I Can Do

Write F if the sentence states a fact and O if it states an opinion. Provide evidence
to your answer

____ 1. Avoid prolonged used of mask as it would lead to carbon dioxide

intoxication or oxygen deficiency.
(Evidence) ______________________________________________________________________

____ 2. Bottled water is no better than tap water.

(Evidence) ______________________________________________________________________

____ 3. Sunblock is only needed when the sun is out.

(Evidence) ______________________________________________________________________

____ 4. If you exercise, you can eat whatever you can without getting fat.
(Evidence) ______________________________________________________________________

Assessment

Directions: Classify the statements of the selection as fact or opinion. Write your
answers in the boxes below.

Jellyfish
Jellyfish is a poisonous creature that lives in the ocean. It does stay
in one place; it floats all around. I am very much afraid of being stung of
a jellyfish. It hurts! The jellyfish stings with its long tentacles, which hang
down from its body. The only way to protect yourself from being stung is
to wear a suit over your entire body. I would rather see a large shark than
a swimming jellyfish near me.
https://innovativeclassroom.com/Lesson-Plans/Fact+versus+Opinion
 Fact Opinion

1. ___________________________ 1. ___________________________

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2. ___________________________ 2. ___________________________

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3. ___________________________ 3. ___________________________

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Additional Activities

Write a one or two- paragraph answer to the question below. (Follow the
mechanics in writing such as correct indention, margin, capitalization, punctuation,
grammar and spelling).

“Earth has many treasures. How am I going to use those treasures?”

Note: Write your answers in your English journal.

 Answer Key
jellyfish near me.
shark than a swimming
3. I would rather see a
entire body.
being stung is to wear a suit
2. The only way to protect
stung by a jellyfish.
fat
calories accumulated as
calories and burn less,
O, if you eat more 4.
apply sun protection
large tentacles. weather is, we need to
3. The jellyfish stings with its long O, no matter what the 3.
F 2.
or oxygen deficiency.
over your cause CO2 intoxication
properly worn doesn’t
O, when mask is 1.
yourself from
from one pupil to another)
2. It does not stay in one place.
A. (Evidence given may vary
What Can I Do

being
1. Jellyfish is a poisonous creature. 1. I am very much afraid of
Answers may vary.
Opinion . Fact Additional Activities:
Assessment

Fact 3.
What's New Opinion 2.
Answers to Comprehension Questions:
Fact 1.
Have Learned What I
1. The report is about the usefulness and harm of carbon.
2. Carbon is helpful because when it links to other atoms, it formed
numerous compounds.
3. As the combustion of fuels give off carbon dioxide, carbon 6. A 3. G
combines with oxygen; forming carbon dioxide, a harmful 5. B 2. C
element. 4. F 1. D
4. Possible answers: (accept other answers) Vocabulary:
• limit carbon dioxide emission What's New
• practice proper car maintenance
• limit the use of cars
• encourage use of non-fuelled transportation like bicycle
2. Opinion
1. Fact
• limit use of carbon-based automobiles What I Know
• encourage mass transportation
• plant more tree
5. Carbon dioxide has been trapping heat from escaping from the
atmosphere.
6. Refer to #4 for possible answers (accept other answers)

What's More
A. 1. Weather differs in all parts of the country because of the
different point of entry or location the low pressure is situated.
2. Weather affects man’s daily activities as certain weather
conditions limit if not withholds activities due to risk or
inappropriateness to the weather.
(Accept other related answers

B. Answers may vary.

References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cipXm45ObDI

(http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit)

Felipa R. Cunican; Belinda D. Amlon- Division of Ozamiz City

E.A. Moras , (From A Language Teacher's Guide )

http://www.uefap.com/writing/exercise/spell/ado1fram.htm

Ma. Teresa Montemayor, “Duterte Legacy: Comfortable lives for all” (January 21, 2020)
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1091415

Mara Cepeda, “Laban ng Masa to oppose Duterte’s ‘sins of commission, omission,” (October
27, 2017) https://www.rappler.com/nation/186576-laban-ng- masa-duterte-sins-
commission-omission

Jodesz Gavilan, “TIMELINE: The Marcos Burial Controversy,” Third Update, (November 18,
2016) https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/151667-timeline-ferdinand-marcos-burial-
controversy
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