Grade 7 - Consolidation Camp-Lesson 7-Features of Expository Texts - Dapal-Ag

CONSOLIDATION CAMP
Lesson 7
FEATURES OF EXPOSITORY TEXTS

SHORT REVIEW
Question number 1.
Look at these headlines taken from textbooks
and decide whether they are Expository or
Explanation text types-write your answers on
the Worksheets:
SHORT REVIEW
1. How Does Rain Happen?

2. Tornadoes, Cyclones and Hurricanes
3. Japan
4. Why the Dinosaurs Became Extinct
SHORT REVIEW
Answer
1.How Does Rain Happen?
Answer: Explanation
2. Tornadoes, Cyclones and Hurricanes
Answer: Information Reports
SHORT REVIEW
3. Japan
Answer: Information Reports
4. Why the Dinosaurs Became Extinct
Answer: Explanation
SHORT REVIEW
Question number 2.
With a partner, workout 3 types of
information you would expect to find in a text
called Tornadoes, Cyclones and Hurricanes’ and
write them on your worksheet.
SHORT REVIEW
Answer
Definitions of tornadoes, cyclones and
hurricanes; differences between them; how they
formed;
SHORT REVIEW
Answer
How they are named; features of tornadoes,
cyclones and hurricanes; big ones from the past;
damage from cyclones, hurricanes etc.
PURPOSE OF THE LESSON
This lesson we look at a short Expository
text and we are going to see how it works so
that when you get a text to read that you have
not seen before you know:
1. Whether it is an Expository text such as an

Information Report
2. How it works—its parts or structure—how it
starts and then how the rest of it is organized
3. Where its most important information is located

Expository texts like Information Reports
usually have 2 major components:
1. A definition of the topic or thing, sometimes
called a classification.
2.Paragraphs for the each of the various aspects
of the topic or thing.
LESSON LANGUAGE PRACTICE
Vocabulary
Interactivity Multimedia
Hypermedia Infographics
Integrated Webinar
Animation
Vocabulary
Multimedia It gives information
Integrated a number of different things
combined together in such a way
that they form a whole
Vocabulary
Animation cartoons
Interactivity “the ability of a computer, program or
other content to respond to the actions of
the person who is using it.”
Vocabulary
Hypermedia another term for multimedia,
usually involving links between
sites and functions on the
internet]
Vocabulary
Infographics a visual rather than a verbal
presentation of information
Vocabulary
Webinar an event on the internet where
people can join in using their
computer
LESSON ACTIVITY
Teacher reads the text, drawing attention
to the words listed in Lesson Component 3,
especially the meanings of ‘multimedia’ and
‘hypermedia’.
LESSON ACTIVITY
Multimedia
Multimedia is a form of communication that
combines different content forms integrated
together.
LESSON ACTIVITY
Whenever text, audio, still images,
animation, video, and interactivity are
combined together, the result is multimedia.
Other terms that are sometimes used for
multimedia include hypermedia or rich media.
LESSON ACTIVITY
An example of multimedia is a web page

with animation. Multimedia can be also an
interactive media such as video games and
CDROMS.
LESSON ACTIVITY
Slides for example are considered to be

multimedia as they combine text, images,
sometimes video and other types.
LESSON ACTIVITY
Below is a list of various multimedia formats
used in education.
• Text and Graphics – PowerPoint, diagrams,
infographics, slideshow presentation
• Audio – Podcast
LESSON ACTIVITY
• Video – screen capture, lecture capture, talking
head, animation, glass screen
• Others – webinar and online meeting, blogs,
interactive content.
LESSON ACTIVITY
There are other multimedia formats used in

business, entertainments, recreation, and the likes.
Multimedia plays an important role in our society.
LESSON ACTIVITY
It enables us to keep up with the times.

[Philippines Department of Education (nd).
Multimedia. English 7 Q3 Week 1 (p.3).]
LESSON ACTIVITY
Look at the opening paragraph or section of

this text- what sort of information do we get
here- what is a single word that describes this
paragraph?
LESSON ACTIVITY
Questions:
Q1.What goes in the opening paragraph of an

Information Report?
LESSON ACTIVITY
Q2. Give each paragraph a heading that
indicates which aspect of multimedia they are
about. Match each heading to the components of
Expository texts/Information Reports that we
talked about at the start of the lesson.
LESSON ACTIVITY
Q3. How does the author show that multimedia

‘enables us to keep up with the times’?
FEATURESOF EXPOSITORY TEXTS
LESSON ACTIVITY
Answers:
Q1. Definition or classification of multimedia
Q2. Be prepared for differently worded answers
here but they should be close to Definition;
LESSON ACTIVITY
Answers:
Examples of multimedia (Aspect of
multimedia 1); Examples of multimedia in
education (Aspect of multimedia 2);
Multimedia in other areas (Aspect of
multimedia 3); importance of multimedia
(Conclusion).
LESSON ACTIVITY
Answers:
Q3. By showing how many different types of

work and professions use multimedia now.
LESSON ACTIVITY
Questions:
Q4. Define multimedia in your own words.
Q5. List the things in the first 2 paragraphs that
are examples of multimedia when used together.
LESSON ACTIVITY
Questions:
Q6. Imagine that your job was to design an
advertisement for multimedia that would show its
benefits to society. You have to write the script for
a webpage or TV advertisement.
LESSON ACTIVITY
a. How would you change the heading?
b. How would you change the first paragraph?
c. How would you change the last sentence?
d. What visuals would you add?
LESSON ACTIVITY
Answers:
Q4. A combination of different types of forms of
communication like text, audio, still images,
animation, video, and interactivity into one text.
LESSON ACTIVITY
Answers:
Q5. Text, audio, still images, animation, video, and

interactivity.
LESSON ACTIVITY
Answers:
Q6. Be prepared for a range of answers – the main
thing here is for students to see how information can
be used for 2 different purposes in 2 different types
of texts.
LESSON CONCLUSION
Read the question carefully and write your

responses to the questions in your notebooks.
LESSON CONCLUSION
Q1.The focus of the lesson was on learning about

how information is presented in an Expository text
like an Information Report. How has the lesson
helped you to understand this?
LESSON CONCLUSION
Q2. Which questions were easy to answer? Why?

Q3. What strategies did you use to answer the
harder questions?
Thank you campers!

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CONSOLIDATION CAMP

FEATURES OF EXPOSITORY TEXTS

1. How Does Rain Happen?

1. Whether it is an Expository text such as an

3. Where its most important information is located

An example of multimedia is a web page

Slides for example are considered to be

There are other multimedia formats used in

It enables us to keep up with the times.

Look at the opening paragraph or section of

Q1.What goes in the opening paragraph of an

Q3. How does the author show that multimedia

Q3. By showing how many different types of

Q5. Text, audio, still images, animation, video, and

Read the question carefully and write your

Q1.The focus of the lesson was on learning about

Q2. Which questions were easy to answer? Why?

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