1st QTR QT (ENGLISH)

Vocabulary (The Passionate Shepherd to His Love)

Steepy – high face or rock

Wool- soft and durable fiber from sheep

Kirtle- a garment with a skirt, a mantle

Myrtle- an evergreen shrub

Buckles- metal clasps for fastening with strap

Ivy- woody climbing plants

Amber- a translucent yellowish or brownish color

Stud- collection of horses and mares for breeding

Vocabulary (Like the molave)

Spanned – Extended across time

Sinews – strength or power

Flaccid – lacking firmness or elasticity

Oblate – flattened at the poles

Scour – making a research

Promethean – a man chained to a rock

Matrix – give shape and form to something

Frivolous- unimportant

Resilient- recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change

Indolent- habitually inactive or idle

Marmoreal- likened to marble

Figures of Speech (sound)

1. Alliteration – it is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning or two or

more words that are next to each other or near each other.

Ex. The gold sold to them brings good luck.

2. Allusion- it is an indirect reference or mention. It explains through hints often

made to people, places, and things that are already well known.

Ex. He’s no Dr. Jose Rizal. (Dr. Jose Rizal stands for a national hero.)

3. Assonance- it is used often in poetry in which there is the existence of vowel

rhyme or words that have the same vowel sound.

Ex. Slowly, mighty, plenty, lovely

4. Cacophony- it is the noise, harsh, or unpleasant combination of sounds.

Ex. Bang, zip, smash, ring, grrrrr

Reading Comprehension

- Skimming & Scanning

How can we improve our reading?

Skimming=To read quickly to get the general idea of the selection

(To understand general idea of passage)

Scanning=Search for specific information (key words)

= move quickly over the page, less reading, more searching

(For specific words, numbers, details or answer)

Objectives & Benefit for

SCANNING & SKIMMING

- Identify topics for readings

- Knowing opinions of people
- Determine the organization of writing
- To get the important part needed and no reading
- To refresh what we’ve read

Conclusion

- Scan for specific information

- Work quickly when skimming & scanning
- Skimming & Scanning is used in reading all types of documents
- We skim to get the idea of what the document is. Skim documents before
reading.

Word Formation

1. Blending- it is done by combining two words together by way of their sounds.

Ex. Breakfast + Lunch= Brunch

Electric + execute = Electrocute

Smoke + fog = Smog

2. Clipping- it is cutting a part of a word to form another

Ex. Hamburger = burger

Internet = net

Memorandum = memo
3. Acronomy- it is the combination of initial letters or syllables.

Ex. DENR= Department of Energy and Natural Resoures

WHO= World Health Organization

DOH= Department of Health

4. Compounding- It is the combination of two or more words to form one

another.

Ex. Breakfast, superhero, bamboo-fence

5. Etymology – it is the formation of a root word with affixes. (suffix & prefix)

Ex. Care + ful = careful ,dis + honest= dishonest, im + provement= improvement

Proper Conjugation of Verbs

-The verb in active voice form uses the proper conjugation as present, past, and
future tense. The past participle form of verbs is used in the passive voice of
verbs.

Base Form Present Past Future Past Participle

Regular Verbs (will/shall) (has/have/had)
1. Act Act acted Will act Has acted
2. Advice advice advised Will advice Has advised
3. bewitch bewitch bewitched Will bewitch Has bewitch
4.complain complain complained Will complain Has
complained
5. concern concern Concerned Will concern Has concerned
Proper Capitalization

We capitalize the ff.

1. Proper Nouns

Ex. Mrs. Brown, Los Angeles, Security Bank, Greenland Academy

2. The pronoun I

Ex. I shouted out so loud.

3. Months of the year and days of the week

Monday, January, Friday, July, Thursday

4. It is used in all the words in the greeting of a business letter.

Ex. Dear Sir, Dear President

5. It is used in a geographic location when they refer to specific areas or the map.

Ex. We had lived in the East for eight years

North, Far East

Punctuation Marks

1. Period (.) - used in declarative or telling sentences.

Ex. He succeeded because of his patience.

Etc. Ms. Mrs. Dr.

2. Question Mark (?) – used in interrogative sentences, sentences that ask a

question.

Ex. What is the message of the story?

How old are you?

3. Exclamation point (!)- used to show strong emotion or feelings

Ex. Yes, how magnificent it was!

How wonderful it is!

4. Semi-colon (;) –connect two independent clauses in one sentences

Ex. The wanderer ran; he fell down.

5. Comma (,) - separating words, separating two sentences with a coordinating

conjunction.

Ex. I closed the doors, not the windows

6. Colon (:) - beginning of a list, divide hour and minute, pause in a sentence

Ex. 4:20

7. Quotation marks (“ “)- to cite something someone said exactly, mark out
idiomatic expression

Ex. “ I love you” the daughter said.

8. Ellipsis (…) - where words have been missed out, show omission of words in
sentences

9. Apostrophe (‘) - form possessives of nouns, omission of letters, indicate certain

plurals of lowercase letters

Narrative & Lyric poem