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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
National Capital Region
Schools Division Office of Caloocan
Caloocan City

Module in English 9
Listen to Learn and Lead

Third Quarter

Most Essential Learning Competency (MELC):

Judge the validity of the evidence listened to
(EN9LC-IVh-2.15)

LUNINGNING G. GATON
VERONICA B. SIRIBAN

Authors
 Name:_______________________________ Grade and Section:_____________

To the learners
Before you use this module, I want you to take note of the following reminders.

1. Find a quiet area so you can hear all the listening activities. Note important details in preparation
for the questions to be answered after the activity.
2. Set up a comfortable and practical schedule so that you can give this module the time it needs
and deserves. It is expected that you will have fewer mistakes in the activities with the guidance
of your parents/guardians.
3. Be responsible for your own learning and monitor your progress. If there are mistakes, don’t let
the day pass without doing something about it.
4. Don’t be afraid to ask questions to your teacher through text or chat if there are topics you don’t
understand, remember asking relevant questions is a sign of intelligence.
5. Find out more about the topic covered in the activities by doing research and reading further.

Expectations
This Module is especially made for you to develop your proper skill and attitude in listening and
coping up with this new normal modality.

The lesson and learning activities in this module will give you a deeper understanding of the most
essential learning competency which is judging the validity of the evidence listened to. Furthermore, you
will also enjoy, learn and acquaint yourself with the latest updates today in our society through listening,
reading and viewing.

It is hoped, therefore, that using this module will help you:

 listen attentively to the text;

 familiarize with the technical terms used;
 build your ability to recognize valid evidence;
 unlock difficult terms used in the selection;
 give judgement on the validity of the evidence listened to, and
 appreciate the value of the text listened to.

Pre- test
Your listening skill will be tested today, please open the link below. Listen closely to the
telephone conversation in the video and answer the questions that follow. Write the letter of the correct
answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6SDu0V98Y

1. Whom was the woman calling?

A. friend B. helper C. nurse D. operator
2. What was the address she mentioned?
A. Murray Hill 4-0098 C. Murray Hill 4- 0908
B. Murray Hill-4 9800 D. Murray Hill 4- 0000
3. What did she overhear while she was calling?
A. Men who are planning a date.
B. Men who are planning a murder.
C. Men who are planning a surprise party.
D. Men who are planning to have a vacation trip.
4. Can the conversation between the persons she heard be considered valid? Explain your
answer. ______________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
5. What values did you learn from the video?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

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 Looking Back
Analyze the pictures below then do what is asked for.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cartoon+prejudices

1. Draw the icon beside the ideas that best explain the images.
a. Discriminating one’s look and ability ___________
b. Bullying stranger ___________
c. Respecting other’s differences ___________
d. Showing fairness and equality ___________
2. Do they happen today in our society? Justify your answer.
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
3. What will you do if you’ll experience such?
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

Brief Introduction
Listening is very important to every person. It is through this skill that we get information. Most of
the time, we listen to be informed of all the things that are happening around us.
Listening does not only help us understand what people are saying. It also helps us to speak
clearly to other people. It helps us learn the correct pronunciation of words, the proper intonation, and
where to stress words. This makes other people listening to us understand what we are saying.
According to Oxford Living Dictionaries, to listen is to give attention to sound or action. When
listening, one is hearing what others are saying, and trying to understand what it means. The act of
listening involves complex affective, cognitive, and behavioral processes. Affective processes include the
motivation to listen to others; cognitive processes include attending to, understanding, receiving, and
interpreting content and relational messages; and behavioral processes include responding to others with
verbal and nonverbal feedback.
However, not all information that we hear can be valid, some may not. In this lesson, you are going
to find out how to evaluate the validity of the evidence from a text listened to.
Let’s find out first what validity and evidence are.
From Cambridge Dictionary, validity means the quality of being based on truth or reason, or of
being able to be accepted, and evidence is anything that helps to prove that something is true or not.

To understand the validity of the text listened to, it must have the following characteristics:
1. true, 4. Logical,
2. on topic, 5. can be supported, and
3. reasonable, 6. important.

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 To understand evidence, there must be:
1. facts
2. proof
3. information that backs something up, and
4. information that supports a claim.

Activity 1. Listen to Give Your Point

Please refer to the link below to listen to a short essay, then answer the questions that follow.
https://thisibelieve.org/essay/16820/#:~:text=From%20the%201950s%20series%2C%20Pulitzer,race%2C
%20culture%2C%20and%20language.
1. What is the title of the selection?
______________________________________________________________________________
2. Why do you think it was given such a title?
_______________________________________________________________________________
3. What do you think is the author’s purpose in writing the essay?
____________________________________________________________________________
4. According to the author, he believed that every man on this earth is his brother. Write the evidences
that will prove about his claim.
1.____________________________________________________________________
2.__________________________________________________________________________
3.__________________________________________________________________________

Activity 2. Listen for Evidences

Another audio/video will be presented to you, copy the link in your browser, then open it. This
time, you will be tasked to do the following: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvLFz1KSYMA)
A. Check the proper way of stopping the spread of the virus as shown in the video.
______sneeze and cough into your elbow
______shake hands to anybody you meet
______do not touch your eyes, nose or mouth
______wash hands for two minutes
______observe social distancing

B. List down five evidences from the video to support the validity of the information presented.
1.________________________________________________________________________
2.________________________________________________________________________
3.________________________________________________________________________
4.________________________________________________________________________
5.________________________________________________________________________

Activity 3 Building Your Vocabulary

Choose the letter of the best meaning of the underlined word in each sentence.
1. We should not be a Luddite especially during this time that technology is of great use.
A. a person who is adept to technology
B. a person who likes to socialize with others
C. a person opposed to new technology
D. a person who loves to work and loves to explore technology
2. Indigent Filipinos who leave their tribes, find themselves untethered in a city, no work and where there
is no place to sleep.
A. not free
B. it describes something that's tied up
C. not confined or restricted with a rope or chain
D. tie with a rope or chain so as to restrict its movement
3. The teacher shushed the students because she can’t hear the answer.
A. to bow down
B. tolerate someone to make noise
C. to encourage loudness in a place
D. tell or signal (someone) to be silent

4. There has been a slight setback in our plans because of Covid 19 pandemic.
A. to make things possible to do
B. something that pushes through
C. to make things happen at any rate

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 D. something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
5. Unsociable people frequently feel a sense of alienation from those around them.
A. feeling of oneness
B. the feeling of being accepted
C. belonging to a group or community
D. the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity

Activity 4. Read to Find the Evidence

Read the text below, then answer the questions that follow.

For Conversation, Press #1

by Michael Alvear

I’ve got a cell phone, e-mail, and voice mail. So why am I so lonely?

A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to one
another. I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our
conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and–poof!–I became invisible,
absent from the conversation.
The park was filled with people talking on their cell phones. They were passing other people
without looking at them, saying hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pet their puppies. Evidently, the
untethered electronic voice is preferable to human contact.
The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel
absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver shushed the rest of us because he could not
hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends zooming down the
highway, unable to talk to one another because of a gadget designed to make communication easier.
Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in
communications technology is a setback to the intimacy of human interaction. With e-mail and instant
messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With
voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question,
I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every conceivable contact between human beings gets automated, the alienation index
goes up. You can’t even call a person to get the phone number of another person anymore. Directory
assistance is almost always fully automated.
Pumping gas at the station? Why say good- morning to the attendant when you can swipe your
credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact?
Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborhood when you
can just insert your card into the ATM?
Pretty soon you won’t have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery store. Some
supermarket chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those annoying
clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing.
I am no Luddite. I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice-mail system, an e-mail account. Giving
them up isn’t an option–they’re great for what they’re intended to do. It’s their unintended consequences
that make me cringe.
More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being
relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn’t really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping
me keep in touch is making me lonelier–or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts.
So I’ve put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging with people who live near me, no
cell-phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I’m home.
What good is all this gee-whiz technology if there’s no one in the room to hear you exclaim, “Gee
whiz”?

A. From the selection, copy the evidence to support the claim given.
I am no Luddite-
___________________________________________________________________
Pretty soon you won’t have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery store.
____________________________________________________________________

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B. What are the technology restrictions imposed by the author to himself? Write your answer on the
phone screen.

C. List down ways on how the use of cellphone prevents us from talking to other people.
1._________________________________________________________________________
2._________________________________________________________________________
1.
3._________________________________________________________________________
D. Cite other claims about the good and bad effects of using gadgets.

Good Effects Bad Effects

1. 1.

2. 2.

Activity 5.
A. Valid or Not Valid?
Let’s see if you can now distinguish between valid and non- valid evidence in supporting
a claim. Check the appropriate box.

Bullying is a real problem in schools across the country.

 Surveys indicate that 50 percent of children are bullied at some time
during their school years.

Valid Not valid

1.
Smoking cigarettes is harmful to your health.
 Cigarette smoke smells bad and that smell sticks to your hair and
clothes.

Valid Not valid

2.

Exercise and proper diet are important for the growth and development of
children.
 Children must watch too much television.

Valid Not valid

3.

Simple changes can make us worry.

 Kids can help parents by doing some household chores.

Valid Not valid

4.

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 Fruits and vegetables have many benefits in our body.
 Eating lots of fruits and vegetables will make the immune system.
strong.
Valid Not valid
5.

B. Let’s Find This Out!

List down information that you have heard which has something to do with Covid ’19 pandemic.
Give its claim, evidence and source such as radio, television, you tube and others. Do this with your
parent, guardian or sibling.
Research Chart
Claim Evidence Source
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Rubric for Assessment

Score Description
Demonstrate complete understanding of the topic. All requirements of task are
5 included in the response.
4 Demonstrate complete understanding of the topic. Most requirements of task are
included.
3 Demonstrate understanding of the topic. Some requirements of task are missing.
2 Demonstrate little understanding of the topic. Most requirements are missing.
1 Demonstrate no understanding of the topic. All requirements are missing.
0 No response/Task not attempted.

Remember
After the discussion and after answering several activities, please bear in mind the salient points
about this lesson:

 to understand the validity of the information, one must make sure that the following
characteristics are present: verifiable, reasonable, logical, important and can be supported by
facts;
 to understand evidence, it is anything that one sees, experience, read, or are told that causes
you to believe that something is true or has really happened. Furthermore, proof and
information that backs up something must be evident;
 without evidence, validity of the information cannot be measured or seen; and
 in evaluating the validity of the evidence of the text listened to, it is a must to know the author of
the source and find-out how the source gets its information.

Check your understanding

Put a check mark if the statement is correct and an x mark if otherwise.

_____1. Statement can be valid with proper evidence.
_____2. Validity and evidence are two factors that help clarify things.
_____3. Everything that we hear can be considered valid.
_____4. Through listening, knowledge can be acquired.
_____5. Social media such as radio, television, and others are sources of right information.

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 _____6. A statement is valid if it is true, reasonable, logical and with valid document.
_____7. Evidence is having an information that does not support a claim.

Post- test
A. Write the letter of the correct answer to complete each statement.
1. ____________is giving attention to sound or action.
A. To listen C. To speak
B. To read D. To write
2. ___________ is one of the skills that we use to hear information.
A. Listening C. Speaking
B. Reading D. Writing
3. To understand the validity of what one has heard, it must be supported by__________.
A. facts C. family
B. friends D. feelings
4. ___________ is the quality of being based on truth or reason, or of being acceptable.
A. Evidence C. Usefulness
B. Soundness D. Validity
5. __________is anything that helps to prove that something is true or is not true.
A. Evidence C. Usefulness
B. Soundness D. Validity

B. Listen and watch again the short video presented to you in Activity 2, copy the link in your
browser and click. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvLFz1KSYMA
Put a check if the statement shows evidence on the validity of idea based on the video
presented.
____ A. Sneezing without covering the mouth can transmit the virus.
____ B. Once a person holds something, the virus can easily stick to it.
____ C. When Justin says good morning, virus travels to the next person.
____ D. The spread of virus from the train where Justin coughed, stopped.
____ E. If Justin have coughed on his elbow, the virus would not have transmitted.

My Reflection
Your journey through this lesson has been an additional experience. Write what this lesson
enables you to learn in the book; what it made you realize in the head and what you commit to do in the
hand. In the heart, write some of the values you learned and hope you can share them with others.

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SOURCES:
Books
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 4th Edition.
English Time, Vol. XXII No.3, 2018

Internet
https://umd.instructure.com/courses/1082806/pages/what-is-a-good-source-determining-the-
validity-of- evidence

https://www.caldwellschools.com/cms/lib/NC01811136/Centricity/Domain/306/ALLfile28541.pdf
https://www.google.com/search?q=cartoon+prejudices
Oxforddictionaries.com. Oxford University. Retrieved 5 December 2018.

Audio/Videos

https://thisibelieve.org/essay/16820/#:~:text=From%20the%201950s%20series%2C%20Pulit,race
%2C%20culture%2C%20and%20language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6SDu0V98Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvLFz1KSYMA