1. The text is a story told from the perspective of a taxi driver about his observations of social changes in Singapore over 20 years, including increases in population, traffic, and cost of living. 2. He discusses the challenges of raising a large family with little education or capital, and expresses relief that his children are now grown. However, he is worried about ways youth culture has changed, with teenagers spending freely and dating foreigners. 3. The driver shares his shock at discovering his favorite daughter engaging in the same behavior, and his angry reaction of beating her as punishment before locking her in her room for three days.

1. English Activity Sheet
Quarter 2–MELC 5 Week 5
Recognizing Positive and Negative
Messages Conveyed in a Text
REGION VI – WESTERN VISAYAS
8

2. ii
English 8
Activity Sheet No. 5
First Edition, 2020
Published in the Philippines
By the Department of Education
Region 6 – Western Visayas
Republic Act 8293, section 176 states that: No copyright shall subsist in any work of the
Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the government agency or
office wherein the work is created shall be necessary for exploitation of such work for
profit. Such agency or office may, among other things, impose as a condition the payment
of royalties.
This Learning Activity Sheet is developed by DepEd Region 6 – Western Visayas.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this learning resource may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical without written
permission from the DepEd Regional Office 6 – Western Visayas.
Development Team of English Activity Sheets
Writer: Ma. Sarah C. Baes
Illustrator:
Editor: Vivian L. Doromal
Layout Artist: Camille V. Vestidas
Division of Capiz Management Team:
Salvador O. Ochavo, Jr., EdD, CESO V
Segundina F. Dollete, EdD
Shirley A. De Juan
Salvador Dale B. Artates
Regional Management Team
Ma. Gemma M. Ledesma, CESO V
Dr. Josilyn S. Solana, CESO V
Dr. Elena P. Gonzaga
Donald T. Genine
Nestor Paul M. Pingil, EdD, PhD

3. iii
INTRODUCTORY MESSAGE
Welcome to English 8!
The Learning Activity Sheet is a product of the collaborative efforts of the
Schools Division of Capiz and DepEd Regional Office VI - Western Visayas
through the Curriculum and Learning Management Division (CLMD). This is
developed to guide the learning facilitators (teachers, parents and responsible
adults) in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Basic
Education Curriculum.
The Learning Activity Sheet is self-directed instructional materials aimed
to guide the learners in accomplishing activities at their own pace and time using
the contextualized resources in the community. This will also assist the learners
in acquiring the lifelong learning skills, knowledge and attitudes for productivity
and employment.
For learning facilitator:
The English 8 Activity Sheet will help you facilitate the teaching-learning
activities specified in each Most Essential Learning Competency (MELC) with
minimal or no face-to-face encounter between you and learner. This will be made
available to the learners with the references/links to ease the independent learning.
For the learner:
The English 8 Activity Sheet is developed to help you continue learning
even if you are not in school. This learning material provides you with meaningful
and engaging activities for independent learning. Being an active learner, carefully
read and understand the instructions then perform the activities and answer the
assessments. This will be returned to your facilitator on the agreed schedule.

4. 1
Quarter 2 Week 5
Learning Activity Sheets (LAS) No.5
Name: ___________________________________Grade and Section: ____________
Date: _________________________________
Activity Sheets in English 8
Recognizing Positive and Negative Messages Conveyed in a Text
I. Learning Competency
Recognize the positive and negative messages conveyed in a text
II. Background information for learners
Reading is like a painting. Just as the artist has a way of making us
find meaning in the way he interprets his subject; a writer can also make
the reader interpret and imagine what he is reading through the skillful
use of language in the text.
Moreover, reading is also a thinking process. As the reader reads, he
may use what he already know, called as prior knowledge, or relate what
he had experienced to what he had read. During this processing of
information, this ability of the readers to use their background knowledge
and thinking ability to make sense of what they read; in recognizing the
positive and negative messages along with the context.
Positive messages are a type of communication that provides good
news, acceptance, or congratulations. Positive messages are often the
easiest to write because the receiver is expected to be fairly receptive to the
presented information. They tend to follow the direct pattern by stating the
idea first, followed by an explanation.
Negative messages, on the other hand, are more of a direct
approach. They most often include refusing requests and delivering bad
news. Negative messages are usually difficult to write because the
audience is being told exactly what they don't want to hear.
The main difference between these two types of messages is the
feeling of optimism found in the positive message; and the lack thereof in
the negative message. Both types of messages, however, serve a common

5. 2
Quarter 2 Week 5
purpose and that is to disseminate information and to encourage the
understanding and acceptance of that information.
III. REFERENCES
Embracing our Heritage. Learning Module for English Grade 8 pp168-169.
Roberta Brown BA305 web Biweekly Written Assignment #2.Positive, Negative,
and PersuasiveMessages.Retrieved on October 20,
2020https://lchickering.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/ba305_biweekly_ass
ignment_2.pdf
IV. ACTIVITIES
Activity 1. AM I GOOD OR BAD?
Directions: Read and analyze the texts. Write GOOD if it conveys good news
and NEGA if it conveys bad news. An example is provided for your reference.
Use a separate sheet of paper as your answer sheet.
Example:
Millions of Filipinos suffer brownout at the height of “Rolly.” NEGA
____________1. Honest cop awarded
____________2. ABS-CBN denied of its franchise
____________3. 3rd Tranche SAP assistance proposed
____________4.Unknown body found dead in abandoned house
____________5. Capiz now free of COVID-19
____________6. PNP, BJMP sued for ‘cruel, inhuman degrading treatment’ to
Nasino
____________7.PBA player confirmed of COVID-19 disease
____________8.Sputnik-V vaccine now on 3rd phase
____________9. Suicide cases rise, gov’t on guard
____________10. Typhoon ‘Ursula’ damaged nearly 5B properties
Activity 2. LOOK FOR ME
Directions: Look at the words inside the boxes below. Identify the words that
connote positive and negative meanings and write them under their respective
column. Use a separate sheet of paper as your answer sheet.

6. 3
Quarter 2 Week 5
Activity 3. WHAT’S WITH ME?
Directions: Analyze Text 1 and Text 2, and then identify the negative and
positive message conveyed. Explain why they connote negative or positive
messages. An example is given for your reference. Use a separate sheet of
paper as your answer sheet.
DEPRESSED
corrupt
HAPPY
fantastic
clumsy
LUCKY
harmful
victory
fail
energetic calm
cold-hearted worthy
creepy EVIL naughty
friendly oppressive
creative success
POSITIVE NEGATIVE

7. 4
Quarter 2 Week 5
Example:
Answer:
Negative Message
Most of us are not aware of our actions. We throw whatever we have
anywhere we want. Before we know it, we can be covered by wastes.
This text conveys negative message because it shows lack of discipline
among us.
Positive Message
Let us not wait that it will be too late. Segregate waste to create a
friendly and healthy environment.
This text conveys positive message because this encourages us to be
responsible citizens who can contribute greatly for the good of our environment.
Waste segregation. This has been a perennial problem in our
country. Why are we having such a problem? Lack of discipline is one of
the reasons. Most of us are not aware of our actions. We throw whatever
we have anywhere we want. Before we know it, we can be covered by
wastes.
Let us not wait that it will be too late. Segregate waste to create a
friendly and healthy environment.

8. 5
Quarter 2 Week 5
Text 1
Challenges. Troubles. Difficulties. We are surrounded by these countless
problems every day; problems that might compel us to strive harder or to
just give up and surrender. Some people see these as motivation to be better
and to achieve their goals in life while others tend to stop hoping by ending
their own lives without thinking twice of the people that they might leave
behind.

9. 6
Quarter 2 Week 5
Text 2
Crime rate increase has been rampant these days. Most syndicates
nowadays use minors as their puppets for the distribution of their illegal
merchandise, most commonly, drugs.
The bill that would lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility
from the age of 15 to the age of 9 was approved justifying that it aims to
protect children from being used and framed by syndicates.
If that's the case, aren't we supposed to protect them? To help them?
Not to put them behind bars.
Let the young ones have the chance to be with the proper guidance of
the society. Let them maximize the potential that they can be.

10. 7
Quarter 2 Week 5
Activity 4. READ AND TAKE DOWN NOTES!
Read “The Taximan’s Story.” Understand the message of the text and take note
of the positive and negative messages that are conveyed. Then, list down in its
proper column 5 positive and 5 negative messages. Use a separate sheet of
paper as your answer sheet.
The Taximan’s Story
by Catherine Lim
(Story taken from Embracing our Heritage, Learning Module for English Grade 8
pp168-169)
Very good, Madam. Sure, will take you there in plenty good time for your
meeting, madam. This way better, less traffic, less car jams. Half hour should
make it, madam, so not to worry.
2 What is it you say, madam? Yes, yes, ha, ha, been taxi man for twenty
years now, madam. Long time ago. Singapore not like this so crowded so busy.
Last time more peaceful, not so much taximen, or so much cars and buses.
3 Yes madam, can make a living. So so. What to do. Must work hard if
wants to success in Singapore. People like us, no education, no capital for
business, we must sweat to earn money for wife and children.
4 Yes, madam, quite big family---eight children, six sons, two daughters.
Big family! Ha! Ha! No good, madam. In those days. Where got Family Planning
in Singapore? People born many, many children, every year, one child. Is no good
at all. Today is much better. Two children, three children, enough, stop. Our
government say stop.
5 Luck for me, all my children big now. Four of my sons working---one a
businessman, two clerks, one a teacher in Primary school, one in National
Service, one still schooling, in Secondary Two. My eldest daughter, she is twenty
plus, stay at home, help the mother. No, not married yet---Very shy and her
health not so good, but a good, and obedient girl. My other girl Oh, Madam! Very
hard for father when daughter is no good and go against her parents. Very sad
like punishment from God. Today, young people not like us when we are young.
We obey. Our parents say don’t do this, we never do. Otherwise, the cane. My
father cane me. I was big enough to be married, and still, got caning. My father
he was very strict, and that is good thing for parents to be strict. If not, young
boys and girls become very useless. Do not want to study, but run away, and go
to night clubs and take drugs and make love. You agree with me madam?
6 Today, young people they are very trouble to their parents. Madam, you
see this young people over there, outside the coffee house? See what I mean,
madam? They are only school boys and school girls, but they act like big shots,

11. 8
Quarter 2 Week 5
spending money, smoking, wearing latest fashion, and making love. Ah, Madam,
I know, I know! As taximan, I know them and their habits. Madam, you are a
teacher, you say? You know or not that young school girls, fifteen, sixteen years
old, they go to public lavatory or hotel and change into these clothes, and they
put make-up on their face. Their parents never know. They tell their Mum got
school meeting, got sports and games, this, that, but they really come out and
play the fool.
7 Ah, madam, I see you surprise, but I know, I know all their tricks. I take
them about in my taxi. They usual is wait in bowling alley or coffee house or
hotel, and they walk up, and friend, friend, the European and American tourists,
and this is how they make fun and also extra money. Madam, you believe or not
when I tell you how much money they got? I say! Last night, madam, fourth floor
flat---and she open her purse to pay me, and I say! All American notes---ten
dollar notes all, and she pull one out and say keep change as she has no time
already. Madam, I tell you this, every month, I get more money from these young
girls and their American and European boyfriends in my taxi, more than I get
from other people who bargain and say don’t want go by meter and wait even for
ten cents change. Phui!! Some of them really make me mad. But these young
girls and their boyfriends don’t bargain, they just pay, pay, and they make love
in taxi so much they don’t know if you go round and round and charge them by
meter! I tell you, Madam, some of them don’t care how much they spend on taxis.
It is like this: after the 1 a.m. taxi fare double, and I prefer working this time,
because naturally, much more money. I go and wait outside Elroy Hotel or Tung
Court or Orchid mansions, and sure enough, madam, will have plenty business.
Last Saturday, madam, no joking, on one day alone I make nearly one hundred
and fifty dollars! Some of it for services. Some of tourists don’t know where, so I
tell them and take them there, and that’s extra money. Ah, madam, if I tell you,
no end to the story.
8 But I will tell you this, Madam. If you have a young daughter and she
says Mummy I got meeting today in school and will not come home, you must
not say, Yes, yes but you must go and ask her where and why and who, and you
find out. Today young people not to trust, like young people in many years ago.
Oh, Madam, I tell you because I myself have a daughter---oh, madam, a daughter
I love very much, and she is so good and study hard. And I see her report cards
and her teacher write “Good work” and “Excellent” so on, so on. Oh, madam, she
my favorite child, and I ask her what she want to be after left school, and she
says go to University. None of my other children could go to University, but this
one, she is very smart and intelligent---no boasting, madam her teachers write
“Good” and “Excellent”, and so on, so on, in her report cards. She study at home,
and help the mother, but sometime a little lazy, and she say teacher want her to
go back to school to do extra work, extra coaching, in her weak subject, which
is math, madam. So I let her stay back in school and day after day she come
home in evening, then she do her studies and go to sleep. Then one day, oh
madam, it makes me so angry even now---one day, I in my taxi driving, driving

12. 9
Quarter 2 Week 5
along and hey! I see a girl looking like my Lay Choo, with other girls and some
European outside a coffee---house but I think, it cannot be Lay Choo, how can,
Lay Choo is in school, and this girl is all dressed up and make-up, and very bold
in her behavior, and this is not like my daughter at all. Then they all go inside
the coffee-house, and my heart is very, very--- hoe you describe it, madam, my
heart is very “susahhati” and I say to myself, I will watch that Lay Choo and see
her monkey tricks.
9 The very next day she is there again I stop my taxi, madam, and I am so
angry. I rush up to this wicked daughter and I catch her by the shoulders and
neck, and slap her and she scream, but I don’t care. Then I drag her to my taxi
and drive all the way home, and at home I trash her stupid fool and I beat her
and slap her till like hell. My wife and some neighbors they pull me away, and I
think if they not pull me away, I sure to kill that girl. I lock her up in her room
for three days, and I ashamed to tell her teacher, so I just tell the teacher that
Lay Choo is sick, so please to excuse her. Oh, madam, how you feel in my place?
Make herself so cheap, when her father drive taxi all day to save money for her
University.
POSITIVE MESSAGES NEGATIVE MESSAGES

13. 10
Quarter 2 Week 5
Activity 5.LET’S PRETEND!
Imagine that you would be a senator for a day. Make a speech to the
nation conveying positive and negative messages regarding the problem
encountered by our country in the present. Be guided by the following
rubrics.
RUBRICS FOR SPEECH SCRIPT
CRITERIA 4 3 2 1
CATCHY
INTRODUCTIO
N
15%
Exceptiona
l
introductio
n that
grabs the
interest of
the reader
and states
the topic
Proficient
introductio
n that is
interesting
and states
the topic
Basic
introductio
n that
states topic
but lacks
interest
Weak or no
introductio
n to the
topic
ORGANIZATIO
N
20%
The
student
presents
informatio
n in a
logical,
interesting
sequence
that the
audience
can follow
Student
presents
information
in a logical;
sequence
that the
audience
can follow
The
audience
has
difficulty
following
the
presentatio
n because
the
student's
idea jumps
around
The
audience
cannot
understand
the
presentatio
n because
there is no
sequence
of
informatio
n.
MECHANICS
15%
The
presentatio
n has no
misspelling
s or
grammatic
al errors.
The
presentatio
n has no
more than
five
misspelling
s and/or
grammatica
l errors.
The
presentatio
n has more
than five
but not
more than
ten
misspelling
s and/or
grammatica
l errors.
The
presentatio
n has more
than ten
misspelling
s and/or
grammatic
al errors.

14. 11
Quarter 2 Week 5
V. Reflections
My POV (Point of View)
1. How do I usually react to positive messages?
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
2. How should I deal with negative messages?
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
VI. Answer Key
Activity
1
1.
GOOD
2.
NEGA
3.
GOOD
4.
NEGA
5.
GOOD
6.
NEGA
7.
NEGA
8.
GOOD
9.
NEGA
10.
NEGA
Activity
2
Positive
Negative
energetic
corrupt
calm
clumsy
happy
depressed
lucky
harmful
victory
cold-hearted
worthy
fail
creative
creepy
friendly
evil
success
naughty
fantastic
oppressive
For
Activities
3-5,
answers
may
vary.