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Determine tone, mood, and purpose of the author

EN6F-Ic-1.6
Read aloud grade level appropriate text with an accuracy
rate of 95 – 100%

WEEK 3
DAY 1
QUARTER 1
Direction: Infer the meaning of the underlined idiomatic expressions. Write the letter of the correct answer on
your paper.

1. After a series of achievement tests, Cheska needs a breathing spell.

A. a time to remember C. an ample amount of money
B. a period of rest D. a room to stay
2. Painting is a
labor of love.
A. a poem of love C. a creation for someone
B. a nice picture D. done with inspiration
3. I don’t like fair weather
friends.
A. pretty friends C. show great concern
B. only on happy days D. helpful to one in need
4. Our secret is
under lock and key.
A. don’t tell anybody C. lock in the cabinet B. kept inside the box D. allow one to speak
5. Chris has nest egg for his college education.
A. a bird’s egg C. money saved for future
B. collection of eggs D. a book used to study
•1. A bicycle is your best means of
transportation in China. There are so
many people in the cities that can create
enormous traffic jams. Bikes on the other
hand, are smaller and easier to
manoeuvre. And of course, you save
gasoline. You absolutely must get a bike.
•2. Have you ever tried eating with
chopsticks? As far as I’m concerned,
people who use these are magicians. I
am not a magician. I’m somebody who
can’t get this soup to stay in my
chopsticks.
 Author’s Purpose in Writing
1. To Inform: the author aims to provide factual and objective
information on a particular subject or topic.
2. To entertain: The author seeks to engage and amuse the
readers by telling a story, creating fictional worlds, or using
humor.
3. To persuade: the author attempts to convince the audience
of a particular viewpoint, argument, or idea.
 Read the following paragraphs. Determine the purpose of the author in
writing each paragraph whether to entertain to inform, or to persuade.

•1. You’ll never get me up in one of those things; said

Mandy, eying the huge hot-air balloon. Then she took
another picture.
•2. How to make pork curry: heat oil and sauté pork
with garlic, onion, pork broth cube and curry. Add
eggplant and red pepper. Pour evaporated milk and
season chili sauce.
Read the following paragraphs. Determine the purpose of the author in
writing each paragraph whether to entertain to inform, or to persuade.

•3. Unfortunately, many species of bats are endangered or already extinct. It is vital
that we join forces to protect the bats that remain. Bats feed on harmful insect
pests. They are also responsible for up to 95% of the residing of the tropical rain
forests. Without those forests our delicate balance of oxygen and moisture could
be destroyed.

4. Our day a hungry fox runt searching for food. Soon he saw some ripe grape at
the top of a vine that grew up along a high wall.

5. Water from this river will overflow if there are no trees to stop it. And if this will
happen. Our plants and animals will die and people will be very much affected.
Let’s do thru-planting activities. Let us all unite our efforts so that we will all survive
in this world .
Read each paragraph. Think about the authors’ purpose in writing them.
Write E if the purpose is to entertain, I if to inform, P if to persuade.

•1. The earth is made up of three layers: the crust, the mantle and the core.
The outer layer, called the crust, is between 16 and 40 kilometers thick. It floats on a
thicker layer known as the mantle, which is 2,895 kilometers thick. The core, which is 3,475
kilometres thick, is surrounded by the mantle.
•The innermost part is solid (the inner core) while the outer part is liquid (the outer core).

2. An old man suffering from a nagging back ache went to see his doctor. The doctor wrote
the prescription and told the man to apply it on his back.
After a week, he came back still complaining about the pain. The doctor asked him if he
followed the directions. The man turned and on his back was the prescription firmly
posted.
Read each paragraph. Think about the authors’ purpose in writing them.
Write E if the purpose is to entertain, I if to inform, P if to persuade.

•3. At no time in history have humans produced so much waste. Ours is a throw-away
society. No matter which area is examined, it is found that for health, safety, advertising, or
other reasons, we produce more waste. We have to implement ways to make use of
people’s waste to prevent further damage to humanity.

•4. The year is 2020. Global warfare is raging. Not one country against another. This is all-
out war-humans against computers. Back in 2018 – what seems ages ago – the Athan
Computer Group perfected a revolutionary new chip that enabled computers to learn. And
learn they did – at a rate incomprehensible to humans.

•5. Residents of a small village in Nueva Vizcaya can now look forward to a continuous
supply of clean and safe water with the completion of a water system project. The new
water system in Barangay Bangaan here, which was funded by the Church of Jesus Christ of
the Latter-Day Saints, was formally inaugurated last week.
Read the paragraphs. Determine the purpose of the author in
writing each paragraph.

•1. Once upon a time in a far away village there lived a beautiful maiden
named Ursula. All the men in the village wanted to win her heart. But Ursula
only loves one man and he is Artemio.

•2. Our city is getting dirty, people do not show concern anymore. Yet people
are the ones largely responsible for all the dirt and mess in the city. Let us
work together hand in hand in making this place beautiful once more, you
can do it. Together we can make something out of it.

• 3. Preparing salad is very easy. First gather all your ingredients. Next dice
the ingredients in the size desired then pour the cream and mix thoroughly.
Refrigerate.
Read the passages, on the blank before the number write author’s
purpose.

•1. I’m sorry I was not able to attend your birthday party. My
mother was rushed to the hospital because she was
complaining of having a chest pain. I hope to visit you this
coming summer vacation.

•2. Fossils are usually formed on hard rocks. Prints on rocks

are not easily destroyed or washed away. Plants, insects and
bodies of animals are sometimes buried in layers of
sedimentary rocks. Because of heat and pressure, they
become parts of the hardened rocks.
Read the passages, on the blank
before the number write author’s
purpose.
1. Kites come in many shapes and sizes. They can be constructed from a large
variety of materials, from the simplest, such as paper or cloth, to the most
advanced, such as carbon fibre and tear-proof sail sheet.
2. A thesaurus is a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms. It is a special
dictionary that given a listing of words with words that are similar and opposite
in meaning. This book is important to everyone who wishes to communicate his
ideas precisely and vividly by using different words.
3. What is El Niño? It is a Spanish word which means little boy or child Jesus.
Peruvian Anchovy fisherman used the term traditionally to describe the
appearance of warm ocean current following the South American Coast. El
Niño is a large oceanic fisherman that developed in the Pacific Ocean and which
is associated with extreme climate variability.
Read the passages, on the blank before the number write author’s
purpose.

•4. I’m sorry I was not able to attend your birthday party. My
mother was rushed to the hospital because she was
complaining of having a chest pain. I hope to visit you this
coming summer vacation.

•5. Fossils are usually formed on hard rocks. Prints on rocks

are not easily destroyed or washed away. Plants, insects and
bodies of animals are sometimes buried in layers of
sedimentary rocks. Because of heat and pressure, they
become parts of the hardened rocks.
YOU TRY
•Direction: Read each selection and determine the tone of the author.
1. The School
by: Donald Barthelme
And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don't know why they
died. They just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff
we got from the nursery wasn't the best. We complained about it. So, we got
thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we've got
these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was
depressing.
A. joyful B. unhappy C. humorous D. arrogant
2. A River Runs Through It
• by: Anonymous
This was the last fish we were ever to see Paul catch. My father and I
talked about this moment several times later, and whatever our
other feelings, we always felt it fitting that, when we saw him catch his
last fish, we never saw the fish but only the artistry of the fisherman.
• A. nervous B. wistful C. admiring D.confused
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3. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
by: Hemingway's
It was very late and everyone had left the café except an
old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made
against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty,
but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to
sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and
he felt the difference.
A. peaceful B. threatening C. joyful D.
disappointed
4. A Tale of Two Cities
by: Charles Dickens
There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its
forlornness up the hill like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. A
Clammy and intensely cold mist, it mae it slow way through the air in
ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the
waves of an unwholesome sea might do. It was dense enough to shut
out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own
workings, and a few yards of road: and reck of the labouring houses
steamed into it, as if they had made it all.

A. calm B. guilty C. forceful D. mysterious

5. Charlotte's Web
by: Anonymous
But I feel peaceful. Your success in the rain this morning was to a small
degree, my success. Your future is assured. You will live, secure and safe,
Wilbur. Nothing can harm you now. This autumn days will shorten and grow
cold. The leaves will shake loose from the trees and fall. Christmas will come
and the snows of winter. You will live to enjoy the beauty of the frozen world,
for humane a great deal to Zuckerman and he will not harm you, ever. Winter
will pass, the days will lengthen, the ice will melt in the pasture pond. The song
sparrow will return and sing, the frogs will awake, the warm wind will blow
again. All these sights and sounds and smells will be yours to enjoy, Wilbur.
This lovely world, these precious days.

A. happiness B. acceptance C. mysterious D. proud

Direction: Read each selection. Determine the mood of the
author. Write the letter of the mood that is best expressed in the
selection.

• 1. " What kind of concert? Altos sounding like frogs on a rainy day,
sopranos shrill with impatience. All the money wasted!"

A. disappointed B. guilt C. curiosity D. sadness

2. The crowd stoo in silence, their eyes downcast. A woman broke the
stillness as she spoke.

A. tiredness B. hunger C. fear D. anger

3. "Oh dear, who can it be, I haven't finished my project and it's already
late in the after
•4." Mary failed in all the tests," she cried bitterly. "Mother does
not know what to do."

A. hatred B. fairness C. indifference D.

sorrow

5. My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

A. joy B. fear C. sadness D. sympathy

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