Distinguishing Text Types According to (Explanation)
Distinguish Text Types According to Features (Explanation) (EN5RC-IIc-3.2.1) Learning Competencies At the end of this lesson, you are expected to:
Good Morning children !
How are you today?
Preparation
Directions: Read the short passage below.
Forests are essential to our survival and well-being. Forests can clean our air, our water, and our soil, and they regulate our climate, amongst many other things. Trees and forests are not always associated with urban landscapes. However, there, too, they provide invaluable, often, invisible services.
What is the text all about? Why forests essential to our survival and well-being?
LESSON PROPER
Directions: Read the paragraph carefully.
Access to green environments make us happier and our bodies healthier. Scientific studies show that urban forests and green spaces help improve physical heath and mental well-being.
With more than three quarters of Europeans living in urban areas, trees, forests, and green spaces mean more than ever before.
Is the paragraph an explanation text-type?
APPLICATION
Directions: Read the following sentences . Identify which sentence DOES NOT explain the importance of planting trees.
GENERALIZATION
An explanation text is a non-fiction text that is used to describe how or why things happen.
It begins with the topic, describes items related to the topic in the right order, and explains how these items are related to each other. It may have a conclusion.
When do I use it? To tell or explore how things work or how they came to be.
EVALUATION
A.Directions : Read each text-type. Write YES if it gives explanation and NO if it does not.
________6.The wonder of cellular technology has truly made communication among people easier, faster and more constant. Even in the absence of a face-to-face encounter, people seem to be closer to each other despite distance.
________7. A country inspector came over to check on the mechanical teacher. This teacher had been giving the students test after test in Geography, and they had been doing badly in their scores.
________8. Joshua is doing his assignment due next day. Suddenly, a power shortage occurs. So, Joshua sleep early and wake up early to finish his assignment.
________9. We breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide to live. Oxygen is necessary for people and animals to live. The carbon dioxide that people and animals breathe out are taken in by plants. Truly, oxygen and carbon dioxide are very important gases that make life possible on earth.
________10. The building up of gases in the Earth’s atmosphere causes the green house effect. With so many gases in the atmosphere, Earth becomes like greenhouse because heat from the surface cannot easily escape into the outer space. Because of gases that block the heat from escaping to the outer space, there is global warming, thus, the temperature of the Earth rises.
ASSIGNMENT
Read some more explanation texts for our discussion tomorrow.