English 8 quarter 2

1. Recognizing Positive
and Negative
Messages

2. In this lesson you are expected to recognize
positive or negative messages conveyed in a
text.

3. WRITER and SPEAKER differ in styles in terms
of delivery and composition.
Choice of words, tone and voice are just few of
the elements that may make or break their piece.
These two things make a huge difference in
making the message clear or vague to an
audience.

4. As a receiver of these messages, it is
important that you are able to distinguish the
kind of messages you are about to receive or
are receiving.

7. These images, like text, carry with them some
messages which may be POSITIVE or
NEGATIVE in nature.
Beyond these images, you are to examine the
messages portrayed by the given text in this
lesson. Let us determine how messages
embedded in texts are identified and classified.

8. Positive and Negative Messages
Writer have their own style in expressing
their messages.
Their choice of words mainly creates the
atmosphere, mood and emotions
depending on the occasion.

9. Positive Messages
Are type of messages that provides good
news, acceptance , or congratulations.
Positive messages are often the easiest to
wrote because the receiver is expected to be
fairly receptive to the presented information.

10. Negative Messages
Are type of messages that are more direct
approach. It often includes refusing requests
and delivering bad news.
It is usually difficult to write because the
audience is being told exactly to what they
don’t want to hear.

11. Positive and Negative Messages
Fictional Texts Non- fictional
Texts
Isn’t based on
facts, but on
imagination.
Is based on facts.

12. Positive and Negative Messages
Fictional Text
Authors carefully weave words in
order to give shape to the story and
provide the voice for characters.
It is what creates the personality of
the selection.

13. Positive and Negative Messages
Non- fictional Texts
A writer chooses words that would
express his/her attitude toward a subject.
It tells the reader how they should read
the text – funny, serious, angry, friendly,
etc.

14. Positive and Negative Messages

15. Tone
Refer to the emotion and attitude
that the writer embeds in writing.
It gives more context beyond the
words used.

16. You see the words on the page,
interpret their meaning, and add a
layer of emotional context.
These create the concept of a message
as to being POSITIVE or NEGATIVE.

17. Tone Words
- are used by WRITERS to
establish a MESSAGE.

18. Example:
1.Teacher : You made an A on the test.
Students: “ That’s incredible news!”
“ The tone of the students is POSITIVE”
2.Teacher: You made an A test on the test.
Students: “ I did?”
“ The tone of the student is SKEPTICAL”

19. 3.Teacher: You made a B on the test.
Students: “ of course. I knew it.”
The student’s tone is SARCASTIC.
4. You made a pathetic C on the test.
the tone is NEGATIVE.

21. Likewise emotions, which can rise and fall as
to how specific words can be synonymous,
indicate a variety on levels of responses.
It is necessary to recognize the differences
when selecting appropriate synonyms.

22. Economical vs. Cheap
Positive Negative
Alesandra performs
a survey before
buying any product.
She is economical.
Alesandra performs
a survey before
buying any product.
She is cheap.

23. Challenges vs. Difficult
Positive Negative
Doing the indicated
tasks in the module
is really a
challenge.
Doing the indicates
tasks in the module
is really difficult.

24. Conversationalist vs. Chatty
Positive Negative
Listening to him
fascinates me. He
is an excellent
conversationalist.
Listening to him
irritates me. He is
indeed chatty.

25. Unique vs. Weird
Positive Negative
Anthony loves to
experiment,. His
hobby is indeed
unique.
Anthony loves to
experiment. He is
really weird.

26. Curious vs. Nosy
Positive Negative
My cousin always
asks question. He
is curious of
everything.
My cousin always
asks questions. He
is a nosy child.