This document provides guidance on making a stand by presenting an informed opinion on issues and current events. It defines making a stand as voicing agreement or disagreement and defending a position. Learners are presented with statements on various topics and asked to decide if they agree or disagree. Tips are provided for making a stand, including basing opinions on facts and knowing right from wrong. The difference between facts and opinions is explained. Activities guide learners in identifying statements as facts or opinions, answering questions, stating their position on issues with justification, and planning a stand on a selected issue using a template. The goal is for learners to develop reasoned opinions and clearly support their positions.

1. ENGLISH V
QUARTER 3 MODULE 3

2. MAKING A STAND

3. After going through this module,
you are expected to attain the
following objectives:
Learning Competency:
• Make a stand (EN5OL-IIh-4)

4. Subtasks:
 Define “make a stand.”
Identify factual statements
and opinions
 Give their own ideas or
opinions about current issues.

5.  Develop a strong, clear, claim or
position statement especially focused
on their opinion.
 Make a stand for or against the
message or idea of the given issue.
 Clearly support their position with
research and details

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7. Technology should play bigger role
in sports.
AGREE
DISAGREE

8. Life is easier now than fifty years
ago.
AGREE
DISAGREE

9. Junk foods should be sold in
school.
AGREE
DISAGREE

10. Most children love to
play.
AGREE
DISAGREE

11. Corona Virus (Covid 19) is an
infectious disease.
AGREE
DISAGREE

12. Tattoos are wrong for young
children.
AGREE
DISAGREE

13. Cellular phones should be
allowed in school.
AGREE
DISAGREE

14. I support no homework during
weekends.
AGREE
DISAGREE

15. Everyone should experience watching
movies.
AGREE
DISAGREE

16. What can you say about these
issues?
How many items have you
agreed?
What are these items?
How many items have you
disagreed?
What are these items?

17. What is your opinion about
these statements?
What makes you decide that
you agree or disagree with
these statements?

18. In the activity that you have
done, you have already
shown your opinion about the
issues happening within the
community.
You may choose to strongly
agree or strongly disagree.

19. – Taking a stand means to voice your
opinion on issues that are happening.
– To make a stand is to determine
effort to agree or disagree, to defend
something and to oppose or
commend something.

20. Here are the tips on how you can
make a stand.
1. Look at your own experiences.
2. Collect information about the topic.
3. Always base your opinion on facts.
4. Know what is right and wrong.
5. Always be on the right side.
6. Narrate your opinion properly by stating all
your reasons.

21. FACTS refers to a statement that can be
proven real for all people and places, can
be observed, historical, and 100% true.
On the other hand, an OPINION refers to
one’s feeling, thought, belief, or
judgement that is not 100% true and
cannot be proven.

22. EXAMPLES:
Claim Statement:
San Pedro Elementary School needs to
lengthen recess period because 20 minutes
is not enough for the learners to eat their
snacks
Three Reasons:
1. most learners buy at the canteen
2. canteen is crowded
3. long line

23. 1. most learners buy at the canteen
2. canteen is crowded
3. long line
REASON 1
• Canteen food is cheap and healthy.
• Parents don’t have time to prepare their
children’s snacks.
• Most learners prefer to eat at the canteen.
3 DETAILS
REASON 2
Based on research.

24. • Remember:
When you make a stand based on
an informed opinion, you should
cite facts or truths to defend it.

25. ACTIVITY 1:
Direction: Read and analyze each
statement. Draw a heart if it is a
factual statement; and a star if it is an
opinion.

26. _____ 1. Diseases can make anyone sick regardless of
race and ethnicity.
_____ 2. To protect yourself from COVID-19, it is
important to wash hands regularly, keep at least one
meter distance from others, and eat nutritious food.
_____ 3. Boiled betel leaf cures a person with COVID-
19.
_____ 4. The virus that causes COVID-19 is
transmitted through droplets generated when an
infected person coughs, sneezes, and speaks.
_____ 5. COVID-19 is the most dangerous disease that
exists

27. ACTIVITY 2:
Listen to the excerpt and
answer the questions below.

31. ACTIVITY 3
Direction: Read each statement. Write A if
you agree with it and D if you disagree,
then write your own opinion or justification
why you agree or disagree on that matter.

32. _____ 1. The anti-COVID-19 vaccines should
cater all Filipino people regardless of their
age and status in life.
OPINION:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
__________ 2.Modular/digital distance
learning is the best modality to be used
during this pandemic.
OPINION:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________

33. ACTIVITY 4
Direction: Choose one among the issues
inside the shapes, then fill-out the “Flash
Draft Planning Sheet: Boxes and Bullets”.

35. • Remember:
When you make a stand based on
an informed opinion, you should
cite facts or truths to defend it.

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