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English
Quarter 1–Module 2:
Distinguishing Between Oral and Written Language Use

Development Team of the Module

Writer: Rhica G. Agustin

Editor: June D. Cunanan, EPS-I, English
Reviewer: June D. Cunanan, EPS-I, English
Illustrator: Rhica G. Agustin
Layout Artist: Aziel D. Tolentino

Management Team Zenia G. Mostoles EdD, CESO V, SDS

Leonardo C. Canlas EdD CESE, ASDS
Rowena T. Quiambao CESE, ASDS
Celia R. Lacanlale PhD, CID Chief
Arceli S. Lopez PhD, SGOD Chief
June D. Cunanan EPS- English
Ruby M. Jimenez PhD, EPS-LRMDS

Published by the Department of Education, Schools Division of Pampanga

Office Address: High School Boulevard, Brgy. Lourdes, City of San Fernando, Pampanga
Telephone No: (045) 435-2728
E-mail Address: pampanga@deped.gov.ph
Introductory Message
For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the English 7 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Distinguishing Between
Oral and Written Language Use.

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators from public
institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set
by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints
in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent learning
activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help learners acquire the
needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that will help
you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module. You also need
to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their own learning.
Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as they do the tasks
included in the module.

For the Learner:

Welcome to the English 7 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Distinguishing

Between Oral and Written Language Use.

One of the challenges that you might experience in achieving success as an individual is the
process of tracing your beginnings. Identifying your past and knowing how to connect it to your
present satiations are key factors that you need to learn in attaining the victories in life that you
envisioned to be realized in the future.
This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for guided and
independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to process the contents of
the learning resource while being an active learner.
 What I Need to Know

This module will assist you in encouraging the learners to share their personal
experiences, feelings and emotions using oral and written language as part of their
everyday lives.
Please help the learners in sharing their ideas and knowledge from their
experiences so that there will be collaboration and learning will be easy.
Answers are written at the back of this module. Inculcate to the learners the
value of honesty while answering this module.

For the learner:

Imagine if we do not have language? What do you think will happen if a person
wants to impart something to you without using language? How can we understand
each other? Do you think life without language will be in order?
At the end of this module, you are expected to:
1. understand what language is and its importance;
2. compare and contrast oral and written language; and
3. distinguish if the language used is oral or written.

What I Know

As an individual you already have much of experiences which dealt about the
use of language and every time you can find yourself engaging into using it. With all of
your past dealings to language surely you can write your insights about the importance
of language in connection with the given illustration.

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Lesson
Distinguishing Between Oral and Written
2 Language Use

Language is basically a system of communication where sound or signs convey

objects, actions and ideas. It is the key to human lives. They can eliminate
misunderstanding by using it as an instrument to transfer communication among
people.

What’s In

Write the ten words that you can find that are associated with the word
COMMUNICATION. Do this on a separate paper.

1. 11.
2. 12.
3. 13.
4. 14.
5. 15.
6. 16.
7. 17.
8.
9.
10.

Notes to the Teacher

The teacher must consider the prerequisite skills needed in the development of this
competency including the schema or background knowledge which may reinforce learning.
This module will help the learners bridge the gap of learning to attain mastery of the lesson
in its spiral progression.
 What’s New

Most of the times we are sharing our ideas to others by means of saying or
writing the things we want to impart. In what manner you can express what’s on your
mind effectively? Which do you find easy for you to use in delivering your thoughts? Is it
by using oral or written language? Write your answer on a separate paper.

What is It

Discussion of Activity 1

Oral language is designed to be listened to and to sound conversational, which

means that word choice must be simpler, more informal, and more repetitive. It is about
communicating with other people which needs the process of applying thinking,
knowledge and skills in order to speak and listen effectively. Gestures and body
movements are essentials in oral language.
On the other hand, written language uses a larger vocabulary and is more formal
and precise. The writer can write and rewrite at great length thus, some maybe done
until years. Written outputs can be well-kept and preserved for a long period of time.

What’s More

Independent Activity 1

Put a check mark (∕) on the blank if the phrase tells about oral language and a cross
mark (x) if it describes written language. Be sure to do this on a separate paper.
______ 1. The language used is formal.
______ 2. It is planned, organized and transactional.
______ 3. It is unplanned, less structured and interactive.
______ 4. It uses gestures or body language.
______ 5. There is a variation in speed when applying it.
 ______ 6. It doesn’t use informal language.
______ 7. It usually permanent and cannot be changed once produced.
______ 8. Slang words are not use in this type of language.
______ 9. Sounds is essential in using this type of language.
______ 10. It uses fewer complex words and phrases.

Independent Assessment 1

Write the word ORAL on the blank if the statement suggests Oral Language and
WRITTEN if it tells about Written Language. Write your answers on a separate sheet
of paper.
______ 1. It is intended to be listened to and to sound conversational.
______ 2. It requires a larger vocabulary.
______ 3. The words used are more informal.
______ 4. It can preserve ideas.
______ 5. Formal words are needed in this type of language use.
______ 6. It is more precise because words are carefully chosen.
______ 7. It involves intonation, stress, rhythm, pausing and phrasing.
______ 8. It requires efficient and correct sentences.
______ 9. It works along non-verbal gestures and movements.
______ 10. The word choice must be simpler.

Independent Activity 2

Read each scenario given then, identify the language needed to be used. Write
O for Oral or W for Written on the blanks. Be sure to write your answers on a
separate paper.
_______ 1. The girl is excited to tell her mom about her fieldtrip experience.
_______ 2. A young professional is busy in preparing his letter of application.
_______ 3. Ms. Gavino teaches her students how to read.
_______ 4. Honeylette is starting collecting ideas for her essay.
_______ 5. My mother wants the company to know her complaints regarding the
appliances she bought.
_______ 6. My neighbors enjoy the food they are eating.
_______ 7. That guy always uses slang words.
_______ 8. A group of students gathers data about their case study.
_______ 9. The scribe prepares the minutes of the meeting.
________10. Finally, the CEO sent the final report.
Independent Activity 3
Identify if the phrase deals with oral language or written language. Write OL if it is
oral and WL if it is written on a separate paper.

_____ 1. a mother who is teaching her child how to read

_____ 2. a college student studying his thesis for his final defense
_____ 3. a newspaper article being read by an old man while having his
coffee
_____ 4. boys and girls talking about their sports fest
_____ 5. a lady who is submitting her letter of resignation to her boss
_____ 6. parents who are playing with their little ones
_____ 7. a student buying from sari-sari store
_____ 8. a saleslady offering her bestselling product
_____ 9. an employee preparing for her project proposal
_____ 10. A doctor giving prescription to the patient

Independent Assessment 2

Look at the pictures, box the number if the pictures show the use of oral
language, and encircle the number if it uses written language. Choose and write your
answers on a separate paper.

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 10. 10.
Independent Assessment 3

Analyze the group of pictures. Write on the table the people from the pictures
who are using oral and written language. Do this on a separate paper.

Oral Language Written Language

1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
4. 4.
5. 5.

What I Have Learned

Supply the correct word to complete the paragraph. Choose your answers from
the pool of words below and write them on a separate answer sheet.

informal language understand formal sounds

written letter spoken vocabulary oral

In order for us to be able to communicate we are using 1. __________ as our

medium, it can be either in 2. __________ and 3. __________form. These two have
distinctive features which work hand-in –hand in delivering our views and ideas.
 Oral language is a mix of 4. __________ to express thought. These sounds are
put together to form 5. __________ words that can be a single sound or group of
sounds. 6. __________and easy to 7. __________words are used in oral language.
Words of oral language have their corresponding equivalent in written language.
Written Language on the other hand, is more 8. __________. It uses a wide
range of 9.__________, and the words to be used are carefully chosen. 10.
__________ are used to form written language. Information which is written can come
across time and space.

What I Can Do

A. Imagine you are tasked to buy vegetables to be used by your mother in

cooking Sinigang. Complete the dialog between you and the market vendor
by following the given instructions. Do this on a separate paper.

At the Market

You: Good morning!

____________________________________________________ (1)
(Asking the vendor about the prices of the tamarind, petchay, string beans and onion)
Vendor: The tamarind packed with siling haba is just 10 pesos, petchay is also 10 pesos
per bundle, string beans costs 20 pesos per bundle and onion is three pesos only.
You: ____________________________________________________ (2)
(Telling the vendor that he or she will buy the said ingredients)
Vendor: Do you like to add tomatoes?
You: ____________________________________________________ (3)
(Refusing the offer of the vendor)
Vendor: To make the soup clear you can add banana blossom.
You: ____________________________________________________ (4)
(Telling the vendor that he/she will buy also the banana blossom and asking the price of
the said vegetable)
Vendor: This is only 15 pesos.
You: ____________________________________________________ (5)
(Asking the vendor, the total amount of your purchased items)
Vendor: All of these cost 58 pesos, here.
You: __________________________________________________ (6) Thank you!
(Paying the vendor)
 B. Read the short newspaper article. Translate it into language that would be
orally appropriate. Write your answer on a separate paper.

PRINCESS CLEA ARCELLAZ

July 9, 2020
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Central
Luzon recently announced that all haircutting services and hair treatment services are
finally allowed in areas under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ).

The DTI-Central Luzon issued Memorandum Circular 20-38, which was approved by the
Inter-Agency Task Force through its Resolution No. 51 series of 2020, updating the
guidelines for the operations of barbershops and salons.

The said issuance was based on the monitoring of the compliance of barbershops and
salons to mandatory health protocols since these establishments were allowed to
operate on June 7, 2020.

Aside from haircutting and hair treatment services, other services that are allowed in
MGCQ areas are nail services, basic facial care services such as make-up, eyebrow
threading, eyelash extension and facial massage.

Other basic personal care services such as waxing, threading, shaving, foot spa and
hand spa are also permitted to operate but subject to strict health protocols on hand
sanitation, facial mask and face shields, gloves, and sterilized equipment.

DTI-Central Luzon, however, reminded business owners to continue implementing

safety protocols such as the "no facemask, no entry" policy, provision of rubbing
alcohol, and conduct of thermal scanning.

Administration of health checklist for contact-tracing purposes, social distancing

markers on tables and chairs, proper exhaust and ventilation and regular sanitation of
the establishment must also be conducted.

The DTI-Central Luzon office said that while no accreditation is necessary for the
continuous operation of the aforementioned establishments, the agency together with
the Department of Labor and Employment and local government unit will monitor the
compliance of barbershops and salons throughout the region.

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 Assessment

A. Analyze and understand the given illustration of one of the well-known fables
in the Philippines then, summarize it into five sentences as if you are
narrating it to your friends. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

The Tagalog Story of the Monkey and the Tortoise Illustrated by Jose
Rizal
EVENT 1 EVENT 2

EVENT 3 EVENT 4
 EVENT 5 EVENT 6

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B. Answer the given question to form a five-sentence paragraph.
What is the importance of having healthy eating habits?

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Additional Activities

Write your ideas inside the box about the importance of language and the
differences between oral and written language use.
Answer Key
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