Expanding Your English Vocabulary: Understanding Word Meanings and Context, Exams of English Literature

Download Expanding Your English Vocabulary: Understanding Word Meanings and Context and more Exams English Literature in PDF only on Docsity! 0 Republic of the Philippines Department of Education Regional Office IX, Zamboanga Peninsula ENGLISH Quarter 4 – Module 3 Expanded Definition of Words Zest for Progress Zeal of Partnership 10 Name of Learner: ___________________________ Grade & Section: ___________________________ Name of School: ___________________________ 1 f t d e What I Need to Know Words have different meanings depending on context – this is true when it comes to the English language, especially when you take into consideration how many words it has “borrowed” from other languages. This is why, it is important to address the issue of not only knowing, but recognizing how some of these words work. The main challenge in this topic is recognizing the context that surrounds the words or meanings it may take within the context it is presented. This lesson will help the learner recognize the expanded meaning of a word in which it may take through the use of adjectives, affixes, and contextual clues. This module contains a lesson that will lead you to: Learning Competency: Give the expanded definitions of words. (EN10V-IIIa-13.9) After going through this module, you are expected to: • State the correct expanded definition of words using adjectives and affixes; and • Use expanded words in sentences. What I Know Activity: Fill me Directions: Read the supplied definition for each item. Your task is to supply the missing letters in order to complete the word which is defined in each item. The letters available for each set are given as clues. 1. - to become greater in extend. 2. - the action or the process of stating the meaning of a word. 4 Example: 1. bountiful - We should be thankful with the bountiful blessings from above. What Is It An extended definition may explain the word’s etymology or historical roots, describes sensory characteristics of something (how it looks, feels, sounds, taste, smells), identifies its parts, indicates how something is used, explains what it is not used, provides an example of it, and/or notes similarities or differences between this term and other words or things. Expanded or extended definition of words recognizes the meaning a word may take through the use of contextual clues, adjectives, and affixes. What are context clues? Context clues provide further information about a word or phrase that helps readers understand its meaning. These clues offer insight – either directly or indirectly - into the portion of text that is difficult to understand. Adjectives with suffixes Sentences 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I love the greenish light of your long eyes, Sweet beauty, but today all to me is bitter; Nothing, neither you love, your boudoir, nor your hearth Is worth as much as the sunlight on the sea. Yet, love me, tender hearth be a mother, Even to an ingrate, even to a scapegrace; Mistress or sister, be the fleeting sweetness Of a gorgeous autumn or of a setting sun. Short task! The tomb awaits; it is avid! Ah! Let me, with my head bowed on your knees, Taste the sweet, yellow rays of the end of autumn, While I mourn for the white, torrid summer! 5 Example: Word: idyllic Clues: sunny, warm, and perfect for a walk in the park. Sentence: It was an idyllic day. What is an adjective? Adjectives are words that modify or clearly define the nouns and pronouns to use in your speaking and writing. You can usually tell whether a word is an adjective if it answers the questions what kind, how many, or which one. Adjectives may derive from nouns. Salty, mountainous, and colorful are adjectives derived from nouns. It may become an adjective simply by being used to describe another noun as in salty water, mountainous area, and colorful flowers. Words a, an, and the are special adjectives called articles. The is the definite article. It points out one specific person, place, thing, or idea. A and an are indefinite articles. They are less specific. Examples: Hand me the pen, please. (one specific pen) Hand me a pen, please. (any pen) However, sometimes an ending such as – an, -ian, -n, -ese, or ish is added to a noun to make it adjective. A List of Adjectives angry bad big bitter black bland bloody blue bold chewy chubby classy clever close noisy odd quiet rare smart sore sweaty tall tough ugly chubby cloudy clumsy deadly dense easy faint fair fancy hairy 6 What are affixes? Affixes are a set of letters/syllables generally added at the beginning or end of a root word to modify its meaning. The two main types of affixes are prefixes and suffixes. Prefix is a syllable/word part that may be added at the beginning of a base word or root word. Example: Root word = touch Prefix = un New word = untouch Suffix is a syllable/word part that may be added after the base word or root word. Example: Root word = touch Suffix = able New word = touchable AFFIXES Root Word Prefixes New Word Meaning Root Word Suffixes New Word Meaning social anti- anti- social against suit/ reverse -able, ible suitable/rever sible can be done cycle bi- bicycle two intern/ curt -al, -ail internal/curtai l related to, like rail de- derail opposite invent -ed invented past tense place dis- displace not, opposite of moist -en moisten made of formal/pr oper in, im- informal/ improper in/not paint/far -er, -est painter/farthe st more, one who school inter- interscho ol between harm -ful, -y harmful/harm fully full of 9 What I Have Learned Activity 8: Mystery words Directions: Match the definitions in column B with the words in column A. Write only the letter of your choice on the space provided before each item. Column A Column B _____1. Expanded definition A. A group of letters added the beginning of the root word. _____2. Adjectives B. Points out one specific person, place, thing or idea. _____3. Affixes C. A set of letters added to the beginning or end of the root word. _____4. Definite articles D. The morphological component of a word that contributes to its most basic meaning. _____5. Prefixes E. A word use to modify a noun or a pronoun. F. A word that can take different meanings depending on the context. What I Can Do Activity 9: Check it out Directions: Add a prefix and a suffix to each root word to form new word. Use the new word in a sentence. Ex: un + doubt + ed Sentence: Emma was undoubted about what happened yesterday. prefix root word suffix new word sentence plan charge button infect fortunate 10 Activity 10: Do as I Say Directions: Fill in any of the missing base part using the following given suffixes to form new words. See the example. Example Suffix Adjective nation -al national 1. -ed 2. -less 3. -en 4. -ary 5. -ate 6. -ful 7. -ly 8. -ent 9. -ory 10. -some Directions: Read each item carefully, and encircle the letter of the correct answer. 1. Which of the following words can either mean a season or the act of rapidly moving downwards? A. Fall B. Spring C. Summer D. Winter 2. What is an expanded definition of words? A. A word that can provide factual information B. A word that can take different meaning depending on the context C. A word that can use to expand an idea D. A word that can connect thoughts and opinions Assessment 11 3. When do we use a definite article in a sentence? A. We use it to tell something about a point of view of a person. B. We use it to give specific information about things. C. We use it to point out one specific person, place, thing or idea. D. We use it to follow specific rules and guidelines. 4. How can we identify if the word is an adjective? A. If it describes a verb and adverb B. If it describes a noun or pronoun C. If it describes a preposition D. If it describes a conjunction 5. What do we call the words a, an and the? A. Predicate adjective B. Demonstrative adjective C. Comparative adjective D. Special adjective articles 6. Which among the choices is NOT an adjective? A. An B. Tall C. Cabin D. Old 7. When a set of letters added at the beginning or end of a base word to modify its meaning, we call it _________. A. affix B. prefix C. suffix D. infix 8. Which of the following words is an example of an affix? A. Cycle B. International C. Monologue D. Sorrowful 14 References: Blog Entry Charles Baudelaire, “Song of Autumn”, FleursDuMal.org, 2021, https://fleursdumal.org/ Book Almonte, Liza R., Flandez, Lerma L., Hermosa, Angelina Lourdes, Nedia Lagustan, Liberty A. Mangaluz, Elenita R. Miranda, Paul Anthony B. Mendoza, Lito A. Palomar, Grace B. Annette Barradas-Soriano, and Karen B. Villanueva, Celebrating Diversity through World Literature. Pasig City: Rex Book Store, Inc. 2015, 273, 297, 299, 371-318, 323, 352, 354, 373, 376, 384, Glatthorn Allan A and Brenda C Rosen, Littell English, Evanston,III: McDougal:Littell, 1990. 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Usman, LR Supervisor Helen De Leon, EPS-English, Module Coordinator 15 Region IX: Zamboanga Peninsula Hymn – Our Eden Land Here the trees and flowers bloom Here the breezes gently Blow, Here the birds sing Merrily, The liberty forever Stays, Here the Badjaos roam the seas Here the Samals live in peace Here the Tausogs thrive so free With the Yakans in unity Gallant men And Ladies fair Linger with love and care Golden beams of sunrise and sunset Are visions you’ll never forget Oh! That’s Region IX Hardworking people Abound, Every valleys and Dale Zamboangueños, Tagalogs, Bicolanos, Cebuanos, Ilocanos, Subanons, Boholanos, Ilongos, All of them are proud and true Region IX our Eden Land Region IX Our.. Eden... Land... My Final Farewell Farewell, dear Fatherland, clime of the sun caress'd Pearl of the Orient seas, our Eden lost!, Gladly now I go to give thee this faded life's best, And were it brighter, fresher, or more blest Still would I give it thee, nor count the cost. On the field of battle, 'mid the frenzy of fight, Others have given their lives, without doubt or heed; The place matters not-cypress or laurel or lily white, Scaffold or open plain, combat or martyrdom's plight, T is ever the same, to serve our home and country's need. I die just when I see the dawn break, Through the gloom of night, to herald the day; And if color is lacking my blood thou shalt take, Pour'd out at need for thy dear sake To dye with its crimson the waking ray. My dreams, when life first opened to me, My dreams, when the hopes of youth beat high, Were to see thy lov'd face, O gem of the Orient sea From gloom and grief, from care and sorrow free; No blush on thy brow, no tear in thine eye. Dream of my life, my living and burning desire, All hail ! cries the soul that is now to take flight; All hail ! And sweet it is for thee to expire ; To die for thy sake, that thou mayst aspire; And sleep in thy bosom eternity's long night. If over my grave some day thou seest grow, In the grassy sod, a humble flower, Draw it to thy lips and kiss my soul so, While I may feel on my brow in the cold tomb below The touch of thy tenderness, thy breath's warm power. Let the moon beam over me soft and serene, Let the dawn shed over me its radiant flashes, Let the wind with sad lament over me keen ; And if on my cross a bird should be seen, Let it trill there its hymn of peace to my ashes. Let the sun draw the vapors up to the sky, And heavenward in purity bear my tardy protest Let some kind soul o 'er my untimely fate sigh, And in the still evening a prayer be lifted on high From thee, 0 my country, that in God I may rest. Pray for all those that hapless have died, For all who have suffered the unmeasur'd pain; For our mothers that bitterly their woes have cried, For widows and orphans, for captives by torture tried And then for thyself that redemption thou mayst gain And when the dark night wraps the graveyard around With only the dead in their vigil to see Break not my repose or the mystery profound And perchance thou mayst hear a sad hymn resound 'T is I, O my country, raising a song unto thee. And even my grave is remembered no more Unmark'd by never a cross nor a stone Let the plow sweep through it, the spade turn it o'er That my ashes may carpet earthly f loor, Before into nothingness at last they are blown. Then will oblivion bring to me no care As over thy vales and plains I sweep; Throbbing and cleansed in thy space and air With color and light, with song and lament I fare, Ever repeating the faith that I keep. My Fatherland ador'd, that sadness to my sorrow lends Beloved Filipinas, hear now my last good -by! I give thee all: parents and kindred and fr iends For I go where no slave before the oppressor bends, Where faith can never kil l, and God reigns e'er on high! Farewell to you all, from my soul torn away, Friends of my childhood in the home dispossessed! Give thanks that I rest from the wearisome day! Farewell to thee, too, sweet friend that l ightened my way; Beloved creatures all, farewell! In death there is rest! I Am a Filipino, by Carlos P. Romulo I am a Filipino–inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such I must prove equal to a two-fold task–the task of meeting my responsibility to the past, and the task of performing my obligation to the future. I sprung from a hardy race, child many generations removed of ancient Malayan pioneers. Across the centuries the memory comes rushing back to me: of brown-skinned men putting out to sea in ships that were as frail as their hearts were stout. Over the sea I see them come, borne upon the billowing wave and the whistling wind, carried upon the mighty swell of hope–hope in the free abundance of new land that was to be their home and their children’s forever. I am a Filipino. In my blood runs the immortal seed of heroes–seed that flowered down the centuries in deeds of courage and defiance. In my veins yet pulses the same hot blood that sent Lapulapu to battle against the first invader of this land, that nerved Lakandula in the combat against the alien foe, that drove Diego Silang and Dagohoy into rebellion against the foreign oppressor. The seed I bear within me is an immortal seed. It is the mark of my manhood, the symbol of dignity as a human being. Like the seeds that were once buried in the tomb of Tutankhamen many thousand years ago, it shall grow and flower and bear fruit again. It is the insignia of my race, and my generation is but a stage in the unending search of my people for freedom and happiness. I am a Filipino, child of the marriage of the East and the West. The East, with its languor and mysticism, its passivity and endurance, was my mother, and my sire was the West that came thundering across the seas with the Cross and Sword and the Machine. I am of the East, an eager participant in its spirit, and in its struggles for liberation from the imperialist yoke. But I also know that the East must awake from its centuried sleep, shake off the lethargy that has bound his limbs, and start moving where destiny awaits. I am a Filipino, and this is my inheritance. What pledge shall I give that I may prove worthy of my inheritance? I shall give the pledge that has come ringing down the corridors of the centuries, and it shall be compounded of the joyous cries of my Malayan forebears when first they saw the contours of this land loom before their eyes, of the battle cries that have resounded in every field of combat from Mactan to Tirad Pass, of the voices of my people when they sing: “I am a Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance—for myself and my children and my children’s children—forever.”