ENGLISH VI

QUARTER 2 WEEK 7
MAKING A STAND
Learning Competency:
•Make a stand
(EN6LC-IIId-3.1.13)
Subtasks:

 Define “make a stand.”

Identify factual statements and

opinions

 Give their own ideas or

opinions about current issues.
 Develop a strong, clear, claim or
position statement especially
focused on their opinion.

 Make a stand for or against the

message or idea of the given
issue.

 Clearly support their position

with research and details
JUMPSTART:

SECONDS TO !

WIN IT!
TASK
NO.
1
Technology should play bigger role
in sports.

A: AGREE

B: DISAGREE
TASK

2
Life is easier now than fifty years
NO. ago.

A: AGREE

B: DISAGREE
TASK Junk foods should be sold in

3
NO.
A:
school.

AGREE

B: DISAGREE
TASK
Most children love to

4
NO.
A:
play.

AGREE

B: DISAGREE
TASK Corona Virus (Covid 19) is an

5
NO. infectious disease.

A: AGREE

B: DISAGREE
TASK Tattoos are wrong for young

6
NO. children.

A: AGREE

B: DISAGREE
TASK Cellular phones should be

7
NO. allowed in school.

A: AGREE

B: DISAGREE
TASK I support no homework during

8
NO. weekends.

A: AGREE

B: DISAGREE
TASK Everyone should experience watching

9
NO. movies.

A: AGREE

B: DISAGREE
What can you say about these
issues?
How many items have you
agreed?
What are these items?
How many items have you
disagreed?
What are these items?
What is your opinion about
these statements?

What makes you decide that

you agree or disagree with
these statements?
In the activity that you have
done, you have already
shown your opinion about
the issues happening within
the community.
You may choose to strongly
agree or strongly disagree.
– Taking a stand means to voice your
opinion on issues that are happening.

– To make a stand is to determine

effort to agree or disagree, to defend
something and to oppose or
commend something.
Here are the tips on how you can
make a stand.

1. Look at your own experiences.

2. Collect information about the topic.
3. Always base your opinion on facts.
4. Know what is right and wrong.
5. Always be on the right side.
6. Narrate your opinion properly by stating all
your reasons.
FACTS refers to a statement that can be
proven real for all people and places,
can be observed, historical, and 100%
true.

On the other hand, an OPINION refers

to one’s feeling, thought, belief, or
judgement that is not 100% true and
cannot be proven.
EXAMPLES:

Claim Statement:

San Pedro Elementary School needs

to lengthen recess period because 20
minutes is not enough for the learners
to eat their snacks

Three Reasons:
1. most learners buy at the canteen
2. canteen is crowded
3. long line
 1. most learners buy at the canteen
2. canteen is crowded
3. long line

REASON 1
• Canteen food is cheap and healthy.
3 DETAILS
• Parents don’t have time to prepare their
children’s snacks.
• Most learners prefer to eat at the canteen.

REASON 2
Based on research.
• Remember:

When you make a stand based on

an informed opinion, you should
Let’s Explore!
cite facts or truths to defend it.
ACTIVITY 1:

Direction: Read and analyze each

statement. Draw a heart if it is a
factual statement; and a star if it is an
opinion.
 _____ 1. Diseases can make anyone sick
regardless of race and ethnicity.
_____ 2. To protect yourself from COVID-19, it is
important to wash hands regularly, keep at least
one meter distance from others, and eat nutritious
food.
_____ 3. Boiled betel leaf cures a person with
COVID-19.
_____ 4. The virus that causes COVID-19 is
transmitted through droplets generated when an
infected person coughs, sneezes, and speaks.
_____ 5. COVID-19 is the most dangerous disease
that exists
ACTIVITY 2:

Listen to the excerpt

and answer the
questions below.
ACTIVITY 3
Direction: Read each
statement. Write A if you
agree with it and D if you
disagree, then write your own
opinion or justification why
you agree or disagree on that
matter.
_____ 1. The anti-COVID-19 vaccines should
cater all Filipino people regardless of
their age and status in life.
OPINION:
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
______ 2.Modular/digital distance learning
is the best modality to be used during this
pandemic.
OPINION:
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
ACTIVITY 4

Direction: Choose one among the issues

inside the shapes, then fill-out the “Flash
Draft Planning Sheet: Boxes and Bullets”.
• Remember:

When you make a stand based on

an informed opinion, you should
Assignment
cite facts or truths to defend it.