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In
English

Submitted to:

Miss Aileen Rosario

English Teacher

Submitted by:

Maria Guada Rica H. Guerrero

II – Adelfa

Ilocos Sur National High School

Vigan City, Philippines
I. Overview of the Subject

Overview of English

English is a subject that teaches how to speak the

language. How to pronounce every word, because one
mispronunciation can change the meaning of what you are trying
to say; How to assemble sentences properly to let people
understand what you are saying.

English teaches us the parts of speech which help us

assemble sentences better. It teaches people to understand
famous sayings and literature from famous writers from the past.

II. Works
a. Best Works

b. Worst Works

III. Other Activities

Speak Up for the Debate!

Last July 30 – 31, 2008, we had a debate in our class and

everyone was excited and nervous at the same time. Nervous
and excited because it was our first time to do a debate, and
also because I was one of the speakers in that debate.
It all started after we read the story “Footnote to Youth”,
it was a story about a seventeen year old guy who wanted to
get married early but when he got married reality knocked on
his door and regretted everything. After all the discussion was
done ma’am decided to have a debate whether it was alright
to get married at a young age or not, so we were divided into
two groups the affirmative side and the negative side and I
was at the affirmative side. Then we had to make speeches, at
first I didn’t know what to write but I know that there are
advantages and disadvantages in everything so I started with
that. So we passed our speeches to ma’am then to out team
captains.
 Next day, it was time for the debate everyone was nervous
specially the speakers. We arranged the chairs and waited for
ma’am to arrive. When ma’am arrived we started the debate after
the prayer. In the debate our group was the first one to share
his/her speech then the negative side will ask some questions to
the speaker after that they will also share their speech and we will
ask some questions about their speech too. Everyone did great; we
all tried our best to answer each question. Good job everyone! But
the most common questions were “What did you say? Can you
please repeat?” and “Can you make your voice louder?”
After the debate we had what Miss Rosario called an
“Argument” where all you had to do was answer questions and
tell questions.
Then ma’am asked for two volunteers from each group to
answer a few questions after that ma’am explained the
answer to the question “Is it alright to get married at a young
age?” so that we won’t get confused.
For me, I think you should get married when you think
you are ready to accept the responsibility and the challenges
of a married life. And people shouldn’t be in a hurry because
there’s always time for everything.

The Beginning and the Launching…

“Kindly speak to me in English or Filipino”. We first saw

this tag in the first day of classes Miss Rosario was wearing
this tag; she encouraged us to wear one just like it. So that
tag started with ma’am then the whole class started to wear
one but it didn’t last very long. But it didn’t stop there, after a
few days on July 23, 2008 the English teachers launched a
campaign to encourage not only the students in one section
but all the students in the entire school.
Before the Campaign started Miss Rosario asked us to
make our own slogans that encourage other people to speak
English or Filipino and we will bring it during the flag
ceremony. We will raise it after the flag ceremony for
everyone to see.
The launching began, and we saw other slogans that
were made by the other sections. All our slogans were
encouraging and also very creative. A lot of English teachers
shared speeches on why we should speak in English or
Filipino.
After the program we all went back to our classroom and
almost everyone was already speaking in English or Filipino.
As days pass I can only hear a few students speaking in
Ilocano, maybe because they’re not use to it yet. Keep it up
guys!
 The Power of Speech

Earth, wind and fire

Echo God’s choir

Man is the king of discourse

His speech he uses free

To reach his own decree

Inspirational gem

By: Og Mandino

I believe that one of the most powerful forces in the

world is the will of a man who believes in himself who dares to
aim high to go confidently after the things that he wants from
life. I can. It is a powerful sentence. I can. It’s amazing how
many people can use that sentence realistically. For the
overwhelming majority of people, that sentence can be a true
one. It works. People can do what they believe they can do.
Apart from the few people in the world who are deluded in a
psychotic sense, the gap between what a man thinks he can
achieve and that is actually possible to him is very very small,
but first he must believe that he can

IV. Reflection

In think in this grading I did okay, in the next

grading I will do my best to be better than okay. But I know
in this grading I did my best and that’s all I can do. Miss
Rosario is a good teacher in English she’s good at speaking
in English like Ma’am Lorenzo. She taught us how to speak
English fluently and properly using “The Power of Speech”
and “Inspirational Gem by: Og Mandino”, and other
reminders about life.
V. Readings
 Leisure Reading Report

Reader’s Digest

“Smart Animals”

I. Titles of the Stories:

A Race to Bed
Meowsical Chair
Sleeping Dogs Roll Over and Play Dead
II. Author of the Story:
DEREK BOS, Highbury, SA
III. Reference:
Reader’s Digest
http://www.readersdigest.com.au/content/smart-
animals--get-com/
IV. Setting: Highbury, SA
V. Characters:
A Race to Bed:
– His girlfriend
– Her boyfriend (the one who wrote the story)
– Their Maltese-Pomeranian puppy, Alfie
VI. Vocabulary
1. Adamant - utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite
of
All appeals, urgings, etc. Inflexible, rigid,
uncompromising.
Example: Both of us were adamant that we hadn’t done it.

2. Pampered - to feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut;

as, to pamper the body or the appetite.
Example: Alfie, was too pampered so we decided he would
not be sleeping in the lounge room anymore.
3. Softie - a person regarded as weak or sentimental.
a person who finds it difficult to punish or be strict.
Example: An argument ensued between them as to which
“softie” had given in and moved his bed back to the lounge
room.
4. Fuss - a complaint or protest, esp. about something
relatively unimportant.
 Example: We watched him hop in his bed with no fuss.

5. Lounge - a place for sitting, waiting, smoking, etc., esp. a

large public room, as in a hotel, theater, or air terminal,
often with adjoining washrooms.
Example: They decided he would not be sleeping in the
lounge room anymore.

VI. Background of the Story:

A Race to Bed
His girlfriend and he had decided that their
Maltese-Pomeranian puppy, Alfie, was too pampered. So they
decided he would not be sleeping in the lounge room
anymore, but rather, be left at night in the laundry.
On the first night of the new sleeping arrangement they
put his bed in the corner of the laundry and watched him hop
in with no fuss. When they woke up the following morning,
they found Alfie asleep in his racecar-shaped bed in the
lounge room. An argument ensued between them as to which
“softie” had given in and moved his bed back to the lounge
room. Both of them were adamant that they hadn’t done it.
The next night they put the bed back in the laundry and
again Alfie jumped straight in. About an hour later, as he lay in
bed, he heard a strange scraping sound coming from the
hallway. He got up, turned the light on and there was Alfie,
with the end of his bed firmly in his mouth, dragging it all the
way from the laundry down the long hall to the lounge room,
where he obviously preferred to sleep. Now they let him put
his bed wherever he likes.

VIII. Significant Event:

What parts of the story do you like the most? Or has affected
you most? Why?
– I like the part where Alfie was dragging his bed with
his mouth to move it to the lounge room, because it so
smart of for a dog to do that.
IX. Significant Signature:
A character from the story you like most? Why?
 – Alfie, because I like pets and because he was smart for
a dog.
X. Lesson
Values you have learned from the story.
– I learned that you should trust your partner and take
good care of your pets.