QUARTER 4 ENGLISH 8

1. Most essential learning competencies
With the Corresponding CG Codes/ Suggested LRs
• Using appropriate grammatical
signals or expressions suit

2. Read the following sentences:
1. Now take the pie out of the
oven and let it cool on the
stovetop.
2. Mix the dry ingredients with
the liquid ingredients.
3. Set the pie crust aside while
you make the filling.

3. General to specific

4. Many people consider Manila, to
be an environmentally friendly,
pollution-free place to live. They
would be shocked to know how
many pollutants are in the air
causing a multitude of health
problems in its citizens.

5. When Nancy moved to Manila,
with her husband and two kids,
she expected to find a
clean, pollution-free city. She
was shocked and angered when
her daughter was
diagnosed with asthma caused
by air pollution.

6. Paragraph 1
• Problem and mentions
pollution’s impact on all citizens
Paragraph 2
• Focuses on one specific family

7. Other Ways to Think about
Organizing
My Ideas
• Most important information first (
consider what you want readers to focus
first)
• Chronological order( the order in time
that events take place)
• Compare and contrast ( ideas are
organized together because of their
relationship to each other)

8. Grammatical Signals
-They give meaning to a piece of
writing. They signal relationships of
ideas between sentences and
paragraphs.

9. What is the function of Grammatical
Signals:
-They are words that show the
reader, the direction of the writer or
speaker's thought. They also
indicate the course of events in a
text. We also refer to them as
'signpost' or 'road sign' words.

10. Methods of Development
•Cause and Effect
•Problem- Solution
•Chronology or Narrative
•Comparison and Contrast

11. Cause and effect

12. Problem- solution
• Describes a problem and
proposes a solution.
• It often debates the relative
merits of multiple solutions before
arguing in favor of the best
solution.

13. Chronology or Narrative
• Describes the sequence in which
events occur in time.
• Narrative is made of
successive events. Not
necessarily in the order they
occurred.
• Chronology is the order of
these events consecutively in time.

14. COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
• explains how two or more objects
or events are similar or different.
• it is often useful to create graphic
organizers, such as venn diagrams,
compare/contrast lists, and data
matrices, to compare features
across different categories.