The document outlines a Grade 7 lesson focused on the characteristics and components of expository texts, emphasizing reading strategies and summarization techniques. It highlights the distinction between expository texts and other types of texts, and discusses multimedia as an effective communication method. The lesson concludes with reflective questions to assess understanding of the material presented.

1. National Learning Camp for Grade 7
Lesson 7: Features of Expository
Texts

2. Most Essential Learning Competencies:
• Use appropriate reading strategies to meet one’s purpose
(e.g., Scanning, skimming, close reading, etc.) (EN7RC-IV-b-10)
• Use appropriate reading strategies for various text types
(EN7RC-IV-b-10)
• Summarize key information from a text (EN6OL-IVj-3.6)
• Cite evidence to support a general statement (EN7RC-IV-g-
10.4)
• React to what is asserted or expressed in a text (EN7RC-IIIe-
2.1.7)

3. Short Review
Last week we talked about different types
of texts.We learned that they are called
Narrative,Expository,Explanation,Recount or
Persuasive and we focused on types of text that
involved telling a story – sometimes they were
factual,they actually happened (recounts) and
some of them were fictional,made up,
imaginary (narratives).

4. Today we are going to focus on
types of texts that give us information –
Expository Texts and Explanation texts.

5. Look at these headings taken from textbooks
and decide whether they are Expository or
Explanation text types – give reasons for your
answers.
Title
Explanation or
Expository?
Reason
1. How Does Rain Happen?
2. Tornadoes,Cyclones and
Hurricanes
3. Japan
4. Why the Dinosaurs Became
Extinct

6. With a partner, work out 3 types of
information you would expect to find
in a text called Tornadoes, Cyclones and
Hurricanes and write them on your
worksheet.
Topic Type of Information
Tornadoes,Cyclones and
Hurricanes
1.
2.
3.

7. Possible answers:
 Definitions of tornadoes, cyclones and hurricanes;
 differences between them;
 how they formed;
 how they are named;
 features of tornadoes, cyclones and hurricanes; big
ones from the past;
 damage from cyclones, hurricanes etc.

8.  Expository texts like Information
Reports usually have 2 major
components:
1.A definition of the topic or thing,sometimes called a
CLASSIFICATION.
2.Paragraphs for the each of the various aspects of the topic
or thing.
Some Expository/Information Reports
may have a third feature – a conclusion,
usually in the form of a general statement
about the topic or thing. It’s not always
there though because the main thing about
these types of texts is to give you a lot of

9. Lesson Language Practice!
MULTIMEDI
A
INTEGRATED
ANIMATION
INTERACTIVI
HYPERMEDI
A
INFOGRAPHI
CS
WEBINAR

10. • Multimedia – is a form of communication that combines
different content forms integrated together.
Whenever text, audio, still images, animation, video,
and interactivity are combined together, the result is
multimedia.
• Integrated –a number of different things combined
together in such a way that they form a whole.
• Animation – cartoons
• Interactivity – “the ability of a computer, program or
other content to respond to the actions of the person
who is using it.”
• Hypermedia –another term for multimedia, usually
involving links between sites and functions on the
internet.
Vocabulary

11. Multimedia
Multimedia is a form of communication that combines different content forms
integrated
together.Whenever text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity are combined
together, the result is multimedia. Other terms that are sometimes used for multimedia include
hypermedia or rich media.
An example of multimedia is a web page with animation. Multimedia can be also an
interactive media such as video games and CDROMS. Slides for example are considered to be
multimedia as they combine text, images, sometimes video and other types.
Below is a list of various multimedia formats used in education.
• Text and Graphics – PowerPoint, diagrams, infographics, slideshow presentation
• Audio – Podcast
• Video – screen capture, lecture capture, talking head, animation, glass screen
• Others – webinar and online meeting, blogs, interactive content.
There are other multimedia formats used in business, entertainments, recreation, and
the likes. Multimedia plays an important role in our society. It enables us to keep up with the times.
[Philippines Department of Education (nd). Multimedia.English 7 Q3Week 1 (p.3).]

12. Answer these questions on the worksheet,
Q1.What goes in the opening paragraph of an Information Report?
answer: Definition or classification of multimedia
Q2.Give each paragraph a heading that indicates which aspect of multimedia they are
about. Match each heading to the components of Expository texts/Information Reports
that we talked about at the start of the lesson.
Q3.How does the author show that multimedia‘enables us to keep up with the times’?
Q4. Define multimedia in your own words.
Q5. List the things in the first 2 paragraphs that are examples of multimedia when used
together.
Q6. Imagine that your job was to design an advertisement for multimedia that would show
its benefits to society.You have to write the script for a webpage orTV advertisement.
a. How would you change the heading?
b. How would you change the first paragraph?
c. How would you change the last sentence?
d.What visuals would you add?

13. Lesson Conclusion
Q1.The focus of the lesson was on learning about
how information is presented in an Expository text
like an Information Report. How has the lesson
helped you to understand this?
Q2.Which questions were easy to answer?Why?
Q3.What strategies did you use to answer the harder
questions?