LEARNING MODULE

English G7 | Q2

Examining and
Resolving
Conflicts
 Module 2: Conflicts And Chances
Lesson 1: Examining and Resolving Conflicts

INTRODUCTION AND FOCUS QUESTIONS:

Have you at any time in your life asked yourself who would you like to be in the
future? As a young Filipino, what are your dreams and aspirations in life? What are the
things that you should do or avoid in order to achieve these goals? Have you ever
wondered how people victoriously achieve their dreams in life despite the conflicts they
have encountered? Do you think it is possible to give answers to these questions from the
Philippine literature?

In this lesson, Examining and Resolving Conflicts, you will find out how critical
understanding of and appreciation for Philippine literature in English help you recognize the
ideas, feelings, values and attitudes of the Filipinos as they examine and resolve conflicts
and create chances of envisioning their dreams and meeting people in the big world.

Remember to search for the answers to the following questions:

 1. How do conflicts in culture affect a person’s perception
and understanding of the world around him/her?
2. How should a person deal or cope with conflicts around him/her?
3. In what ways can these conflicts shape a person’s understanding of
the world?
4. How can he maintain his integrity in the modern world?
5. How does literature during the Apprenticeship Period mirror
lives of the Filipinos?

LESSONS AND COVERAGE:

In this module, you will examine this question when you take the following
lessons:
Listen to extract information, recognize key ideas and infer the
purpose of the text.
Engage in dialogs by observing appropriate suprasegmentals like
Lesson 1 pitch, juncture, rate and voice projection
Use appropriate tools to locate specific resources
 4. Explain how a selection may be influenced by culture,
history, environment, or other factors.
5. Gather information from varied print and non print media.
6. Narrate events from texts listened to.
7. Summarize ideas using appropriate phrases.

1. Listen in order to infer emotions and thoughts, make

predictions and note details.
2. Engage in conversations by observing appropriate
gestures, turn taking, turn giving and topic control
strategies.
Lesson 2 3. Identify figures of speech (irony, oxymoron, paradox) in
literary selections.
4. Gather information from books and general references.
5. Read in order to determine tone and mood, draw
similarities and differences and examine and resolve
conflicts.
6. View in order to get information and note details, sequence
and relationships.
7. Simplify ideas by using correct clauses and sentences.

MODULE MAP:
Here is a simple map of the above lessons you will cover:
 EXPECTED SKILLS:

To do well in this module, you need to remember and do the following:

1. Read all instructions carefully and follow them diligently.

2. View videos and movies critically and respond to them intellectually.
3. Find meaning of words which are difficult or unfamiliar to you.
Dictionaries, thesaurus and books can help you.
4. Strive to learn from this module by studying the inputs and answering
all online activities.
5. Take time to answer all process questions after each activity.
6. Having a checklist of tasks to do can help you.
7. When in doubt or difficulty, always consult your teacher.
8. Be guided by criteria and rubrics as you accomplish certain tasks. Performing
better and monitoring your progress can be a lot easier by using these
standards.
9. Manage your time properly. Perform tasks and submit outputs promptly.
10. Take down important notes. These maybe useful as you take the succeeding
module.

LEARNING GOALS AND TARGETS

For you to accomplish the activities in this lesson, write your goals and objectives
in the scroll provided below. Let this piece of writing be your constant guide and
reminder so that you can finish this module successfully.

My Goals in Learning this Module

 LESSON 1: EXAMINING AND RESOLVING CONFLICTS
PRE-ASSESSMENT
Let’s find out how much you already know about this module. Encircle the letter
that you think best answers the question. Do answer all items and after the
discussion you will see your score. Take note of the items that you were not able
to correctly answer and look for the right answer as you go through this module.

1. Which of the following learning resources is USUALLY not to be found in the

library?
A. Newspaper
B. textbooks
C. encyclopedia
D. multi-media projector

2. Which of these sentences is expressed using literal language?

A. Her voice affected him like fingernails scraping across a chalk board.
B. Paul tried to turn his bike but it was too late, and he ran into the tree.
C. Paul wrapped his bicycle around a tree.
D. She gazed up into the cotton candy sky.

3. Study Joe Garcia Villa’s poem below and identify the dominant figure of
speech used:

First, A Poem Must Be Magical

By Jose Garcia Villa

First, a poem must be magical,

Then musical as a seagull.
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering
It must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
It must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.
It must be able to hear
The luminance of dove and deer.
It must be able to hide
What it seeks, like a bride.
And over all I would like to hover
God, smiling from the poem’s cover.

What dominant figure of speech is used in the underlined lines above?

A. Hyperbole
 B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Simile

4. Study an excerpt of the poem below:

I am lovers of all quietness

unechoed songs within a silent heart,
a silver pond, a statued loveness
where words can take no part.

What sensory image is stimulated within you as brought about by the use
of the words “quietness”, “unechoed” and “silent” in the poem?
A. Sight
B. Smell
C. Sound
D. Touch

5. Below is an incomplete sentence. Decide which phrase can best complete

its meaning.

Courtesy demands .
A. Giving bad example.
B. Sleeping in a well-ventilated home.
C. Seeing the mistakes of others.
D. Answering an invitation promptly.

6. "I was awakened by the strong odor of a freshly brewed pot of coffee."
This is an example of what type of imagery?
A. hearing
B. sight
C. smell
D. touch

7. Which of the following group words in considered a phrase?

A. My favorite grocery store.
B. After I worked in the grocery store.
C. The grocery store offers low prices.
D. The thief went out of the grocery store fast.

8. Read the passage carefully.

It was beginning to get dark. My brother and I were still not home yet. I bet
Father is going to be mad at us, I thought. I yelled at my brother Bob to ride
his bike faster, but it was difficult to ride bikes uphill. I was so tired that
every
 muscle in my legs was burning. Bob finally got off his bike and sat down. I
stopped and went back to help him. Suddenly, there was a car coming
toward us. I could see headlights. It was Papa. He had come to look for us,
since we were so late getting home. I knew I was going to get into trouble,
but at least we were safe. Papa picked us up and took us home.

What is the BEST summary of this passage?

A. Two boys got into trouble, were very late getting home and could not
ride their bikes anymore.
B. It was beginning to get dark and was difficult for two young bikers to
move uphill. So, they decided to wait for their father.
C. Two boys were late getting home and their father came looking for
them. He took the boys home.
D. A father went looking for his two lost sons, found them in the mountain
and brought them home.

9. The first thing to do when resolving conflict with someone else is to…
A. Assertively but diplomatically state your perspective.
B. Brainstorm possible solutions to the problem.
C. Slap some sense into them.
D. Listen to their perspective.

10. Below is an excerpt of Jose Garcia Villa’s “Footnote to Youth”. Read and
understand the lines carefully to answer the question: What sort of conflict
confronts the leading character?

“In a few moments he would be a father. 'Father, Father,' he

whispered the word with awe, with strangeness. He was young, he
realized now, contradicting himself nine months ago. He was very
young... He felt queer, troubled, uncomfortable. “

A. Man VS man
B. Man VS himself
C. Man VS nature
D. Man VS society

11. Read the summary of Carlos Bulosan’s “My Father Goes to Court”.

The story is set in a city in the Philippines. The young narrator begins by
describing his large family. Though they are poor they are full of mischief
and laughter. The children are all strong and healthy even though they
often go hungry. In contrast, their rich neighbor’s children are thin and
sickly although they are given plenty of good food, which their
impoverished neighbors enjoy smelling over the fence. Consequently, the
rich man brings a charge against the narrator's family for stealing the spirit
of his family’s
 food. The absurd case goes to court, and the narrator’s father agrees to pay
back the rich neighbor. He does this by collecting coins from all his friends
present in his hat, then shaking the hat full of coins. Being charged to pay
for the spirit of food which his family supposedly got from its smell, he
maintains that the jingling of the coins is a fair equivalent. The judge rules in
the poor father’s favor, and the rich man is forced to depart with no other
payment than the “spirit” of the money the poor man collected.
Source: My Father Goes To Court - Carlos Bulosan.docx - Google Docs

What does the story tell us?

A. Even the spirit of food can be stolen.
B. Money is not everything in this world.
C. Money can always make people happy.
D. Laughter can save people from injustice.

12. In the story “My Father Goes to Court” found in Item No.11, the narrator
tells us that he and his family were poor. What does the story reflect about
the Filipino culture in the 1940s when the story was written?
A. There is a significant ‘oppression’ of sorts of the poor by the rich.
B. The early Filipinos were usually happy-go-lucky to cover up their poverty.
C. Poor people used to collect money from their friends using hats.
D. There is a competition between the rich and the poor, the rich being
favored by the judge.

13. Read the following passage carefully.

A small black mouse that lived in my room grew for many days on nibbles
of my snacks. I'd pack a meal before bed and, while I slept, he would take
small bites of my food. He'd take a cracker crumble here, and a bread
crumb there, but he wouldn't take too much and he'd always clean up after
himself. Things were going quite well for him and I didn't even know he
existed, until he got careless and untidy. One night while I slept, he ate all
of my chips and left behind a big mess. When I awoke to this sight, I knew
what had happened to my chips. So the next night when he returned for
another snack, he found a nice, delicious piece of cheese... lightly
balanced on a mouse trap. Now I don't have to share my chips anymore.
What is the message of the selection?
A. Don’t be greedy. Share your cheese.
B. Don’t be careless; clean up after yourself.
C. Always share your food, not a mouse trap.
D. Keep your food in a safe place, away from animals.

14. Refer to the passage in No. 13.

What happens in the story that makes you choose your answer in No. 13?
A. The host / owner was very generous with his food.
 B. The host did not notice that a mouse existed in his room.
C. The mouse was enjoying the food in his master’s room.
D. The mouse lived a happy life, until he got brave and daring.

15. Read the passage and identify its main idea.

When one hears the term "reality" applied to a television show, one might
expect that the events portrayed occurred naturally or, at the least, were
not scripted, but this is not always the case. Many reality shows occur in
unreal environments, like rented mansions occupied by film crews. Such
living environments do not reflect what most people understand to be
"reality." Worse, there have been accusations that events not captured on
film were later restaged by producers. Worse still, some involved in the
production of "reality" television claim that the participants were urged to
act out story lines premeditated by producers. With such accusations
floating around, it's no wonder many people take reality TV to be about as
real as the sitcom.
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/reading-worksheets/main-idea-
answers.html
A. Many reality shows occur in unreal environments.
B. Events not captured on film were later restaged by producers.
C. The participants were urged to act out story lines premeditated by
producers.
D. Reality television shows are not really “real.”

16. When you are selecting ideas from an article to include in your précis,
which of the following questions should you ask yourself:
A. If this idea or concept were remitted, would the fundamental meaning of
the article be changed?
B. If this idea or concept were omitted, would the fundamental meaning of
the article be changed?
C. If this idea or concept were admitted, would the fundamental meaning
of the article be changed?
D. If this idea or concept were conceited, would the fundamental meaning
of the article be changed?

17. Which of the following should not be included in a summary?

A. Examples
B. Key words
C. Main ideas
D. Main sentence

18. Which of these groups of words can best complete the meaning of the
sentence “ , they all enjoyed a glass of
lambanog wine on the terrace overlooking the sea.”
A. To celebrate their arrival at the villa,
 B. Watching soccer in the town plaza,
C. To rest after a long travel from the city,
D. Fascinated by the stalactites and stalagmites in the cave,

19. Kay Elise was lost. She didn't know where she was, or how to get
where she was going. She had left the directions at home and she
didn't have a map. Now, she was in a strange neighborhood and she
was confused. If she could find a familiar landmark, she might figure
things out.

A summary is a short retelling of something, for example, a story or

article. Which of these choices best sums up what the story is about?
A. Getting lost
B. Wanting a map
C. Kay Elise was lost.
D. On a strange place

20. Many Filipinos buy lotto tickets, but not many win. Even fewer give
away their prize. Odie Maghanoy, a fast food assistant manager, won
Php 1,000,000.00 in the state lottery and decided to give the money to
an orpahange in Cebu. The club's director could not believe Odie's
generosity. Odie didn't think it was any big deal. "The kids need it
more than I do," he said.

Which of the following sums up best what the short passage is about?
A. Orphans needing help
B. One man’s generosity
C. The dangers of gambling
D. Winning in the state lottery