Recognizing Positive

and Negative
Messages
WRITER and SPEAKER differ in styles in terms
of delivery and composition.
Choice of words, tone and voice are just few
of the elements that may make or break their
piece.
These two things make a huge difference in
making the message clear or vague to an
audience.
 As a receiver of these messages, it is
important that you are able to distinguish
the kind of messages you are about to
receive or are receiving.
In this lesson you are expected to recognize
positive or negative messages conveyed in
a text.
 These images, like text, carry with them
some messages which may be POSITIVE or
NEGATIVE in nature.
Beyond these images, you are to examine
the messages portrayed by the given text in
this lesson. Let us determine how messages
embedded in texts are identified and
classified.
Positive and Negative Messages
Writer have their own style in expressing
their messages.

Their choice of words mainly creates the

atmosphere, mood and emotions
depending on the occasion.
Positive and Negative Messages
Fictional Texts Non- fictional
Texts
Isn’t based on Is based on facts.
facts, but on
imagination.
Positive and Negative Messages
Fictional Text
Authors carefully weave words in
order to give shape to the story and
provide the voice for characters.
It is what creates the personality
of the selection.
Positive and Negative Messages
Non- fictional Texts
A writer chooses words that would
express his/her attitude toward a
subject.
It tells the reader how they should
read the text – funny, serious, angry,
friendly, etc.
Positive and Negative Messages
Tone
Refer to the emotion and
attitude that the writer embeds in
writing.
It gives more context beyond
the words used.
You see the words on the page,
interpret their meaning, and
add a layer of emotional
context.
These create the concept of a message
as to being POSITIVE or NEGATIVE.
Tone Words
- are used by WRITERS to
establish a MESSAGE.
Example:

1. Teacher : You made an A on the test.

Students: “ That’s incredible news!”
“ The tone of the students is POSITIVE”

2. Teacher: You made an A test on the test.

Students: “ I did?”
“ The tone of the student is SKEPTICAL”
3.Teacher: You made a B on the test.
Students: “ of course. I knew it.”
The student’s tone is SARCASTIC.

4. You made a pathetic C on the test.

the tone is NEGATIVE.
 Likewise emotions, which can rise and fall
as to how specific words can be
synonymous, indicate a variety on levels of
responses.
It is necessary to recognize the differences
when selecting appropriate synonyms.
 Economical vs. Cheap
Positive Negative
Allesandra Allessandra
performs a survey performs a survey
before buying any before buying any
product. She is product. She is
economical. cheap.
 Challenges vs. Difficult
Positive Negative
Doing the Doing the
indicated tasks in indicates tasks in
the module is the module is
really a challenge. really difficult.
 Conversationalist vs. Chatty

Positive Negative
Listening to him Listening to him
fascinates me. He irritates me. He is
is an excellent indeed chatty.
conversationalist.
 Unique vs. Weird
Positive Negative
Anthony loves to Anthony loves to
experiment,. His experiment. He is
hobby is indeed really weird.
unique.
 Curious vs. Nosy
Positive Negative
My cousin always My cousin always
asks question. He asks questions. He
is curious of is a nosy child.
everything.