Gifts for the

City
1. Span-DISTANCE
2. Laid-PLACED,PUT
3. Avenues-ROADS, STREETS
4. Menial-BORING,
5. Burdens-PROBLEMS
6. Dispose-SET OUT PROPERLY
7. Smog-SMOKE,POLLUTION
8. Garbage-TRASH,WASTE
9. Shrubs-WOODY PLANTS, BUSHES
 Gifts for the City
Along the wide span of sphere
Roads that connect into a sun
Name of leaders have laid their mark
From Garcia, Quirino, and Quezon

I walked slowly along the avenues

Thinking of thoughts to help this city ,too
From menial tasks to heavy burdens be
I thought of sharing my gifts to see
Follow traffic rules in signage on the streets
,please
Dispose garbage made of paper ,plastic , and
silts
Remember to clear the air of smog
By planting green and shrubs

Gifts as simple as flower I can give

Simple thoughts to renew each life with a kiss
A person, a student or a citizen
There are gifts we can give and share
 WORDS MEANINGS
MAGICAL Knowledge and wise attitude
SEA-GULL Stay near
FLOWERING Something wonderful
SLENDER Weapons of shooting arrows
WISDOM Emitting or reflecting light
BOWS Thin or very narrow
KNEEL Searches or finds
LUMINANCE process of unfolding of unfolding
SEEKS Bend the knee
HOVER Bird that lives near the ocean
 SIMILE
• A simile is a word or phrase that compares
something to something else. It uses the
words like or as.

Examples of similes:
eat like a pig
• sleep like a baby
• as cute as a kitten
• as white as snow
 METAPHOR
• A metaphor is a comparison of two different things, without "like"
or "as." It makes a description more interesting or powerful.

Examples of metaphors:
wooden face (= a face as stiff as wood)
• army of letters (= letters as great in amount and as powerful as an
army)
• sea of sadness (= sadness as huge and endless as the sea)
• My plan was a house of cards (= as fragile and unstable as a house
of cards)
2nd day
First Poem Must be a Magical
 First Poem Must be a Magical (Lyric 17)
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.
rd
•A précis is a summary of something's
main points. If you've ever jotted down
notes about your main ideas before
writing a persuasive essay, you've used
a precis.
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PREPOSITION
•Prepositions are words which begin
prepositional phrases.
•A prepositional phrase is a group of
words containing a preposition,
a noun or pronoun object of the
preposition, and any modifiers of the
object.
•A preposition sits in front of (is “pre-
positioned” before) its object.
Examples of Prepositional Phrases

1. Thecupcake with sprinkles

is yours.

2. The cupcake with colorful

sprinkles is yours.
3. We climbed up the hill.

4. We climbed up the very steep hill.

5. The rabbits hopped through the

garden.

6. The rabbits hopped through the

perfectly manicured garden.