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Module 8
Refuting Arguments
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What This Module Is About
Occasionally there maybe local, national or international issues on which you
are concerned and of which you wish to argue about. Like most people of your age,
you may be questioning, doubting and wondering about the truth in some issues. Go
ahead and wonder. Doubt. Think. Ask. Listen. Study. Find out the truth and argue. In
the process, you’ll grow and become a better person.

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In an argument, you need to present evidence that support your stand. One
effective way to clarify your stand is to express your opinion clearly. Once your
position is clarified, you are now ready to present evidence to refute the argument.
You have to show what is wrong with the opposing evidence and to offer insights
overlooked by the opposition. How about that for a start?
In this module, your thoughts about the main challenges of refuting arguments
will be clarified. This module will shed lights on what are the proper ways, of refuting
argument. How do you refute an argument? Why do you need to refute an argument?
The answer to these questions and other related ideas/thoughts will be answered as
you learn the act of refuting arguments. Similarly, you’ll learn how to prove an
argument, how to defend ideas ad how to verbalize your thoughts.
What You Are Expected To Learn
• Listen for arguments presented
• Take note of the expressions used to facilitate the flow of ideas
• Agree/disagree with statement or observations made
• React to assertions and proofs statements presented in the text
• Draw conclusions
• Identify and use noun forming suffixes
• Show close relationships of ideas by using transitional markers
• Interpret and explain allusions used to achieve certain effects
• React to the experiences and arguments of the speaker in relation to real
life situations
• Revise the draft of a research paper.
Prepare well for…
How Much Do You Know
Reading
Direction: Read the passage and write the letter of the words or phrases that complete
each sentence after it.
PUBLICITY
by: John Berger
1.) It is important here not to confuse publicity with pleasure or benefits to be
enjoyed from the things it advertises. 2.) Publicity is very effective precisely because
it feeds upon the real. 3.) Clothes, foods, cars, cosmetics, sometimes are real things to
be enjoyed. 4.) Publicity begins by working in a natural appetite for pleasure but it

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can’t offer the real object of pleasure’s own terms. 5.) The more convincingly the
publicity conveys the pleasure of, for example, bathing in a warm distant sea, the
more the spectator – buyer will be aware that he/she is hundred miles away from that
sea and the more remote the chance of bathing in it will come to him. 6.) Publicity is
never a celebration of pleasure in itself. 7.) It is always about the future buyer. 8.) It
offers him the glamour of life through the product being advertised. 9.) The image
makes him envious of himself as he might be. 10.) It is about social relations not
objects. 11.) It promises happiness via pleasure offered by the products. 12.)
Happiness, then, is judged from the outside.
1. The issue being clarified is publicity’s ____________.
A. benefits B. effects
C. future D. image
2. According to the writer, publicity in most cases is ______________.
A. about objects B. about pleasure
C. an appetite D. very effective
3. To prove his point, the writer uses the best reason which is publicity
__________.
A. begins in appetite B. convinces the buyers
C. feeds upon the real D. promises happiness
4. The writer’s argument appeal more on the readers’ ________.
A. emotion B. imagination C. knowledge D. reason
5. Sentence number 2 is based on _____________.
A. fact B. imagination C. opinion D. survey
6. Most probably, the strongest evidence used by the writer is stated in sentence
number _____________.
A. 3 & 1 B. 4 & 5 C. 9 & 10 D. 11 & 12
7. Obviously, the writer is ____________ publicity.
A. against B. for C. ignoring D. supportive of
8. The last two sentences of the articles gives a feeling of ___________.
A. certainty B. doubt C. fear D. hope
Vocabulary
Direction: Write the letter of the antonym of each underlined word in the sentences
below. Use the word pool for your answers.
A. artificial D. distaste G. simpleness/naturalness
B. clarify E. pain
C. discourage F. near

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1. Ads confuse buyer 5. Women appreciate glamour
2. Ads feeds upon the real. 6. Remote areas are covered by
3. Men have appetite for good us
4. We prefer natural beauty 7. We cater for your pleasure
Grammar
Directions: Write the letter of the correct transitional device to complete each
sentence. Use the word pool for your answer.
In own eagerness to exact equal treatment, we women seem to forget who we
are. We are not men, ____(1)___ men can’t bear children. ____(2)_____, for a
woman, the birth of a child is a transforming experience.
It’s true that we women have much to do to achieve equal treatment in the job
market. That fight has to go on, ____(3)____, I sense a militancy that it’s harder for
women to stay at home, ____(4)_____ our freedom to work outside our home must go
to the freedom to work inside our home. It is good choosing to stay at home
____(5)_____ that’s where our heart is.
To make great, you have to start with great tasks.
Let’s try. Ready?
Listening
Just like news broadcast about significant events, happenings and
commentaries about issues, radio or T. v. ads reach us in varied ways.
Listening to a radio or television advertisements allows your to weigh and
analyze, judge the relevance or irrelevance of an idea. As you listen, you also verify
then reasons, advantages and disadvantages of the product being advertised. You may
look for facts and evidences just like refuting arguments.
Activity 1
Read and react to the truth or falsity of this statement.
“Ads mislead consumers instead of ads giving the truth and information about
the product.”
Do you agree with the statement? Prove your point.
Activity 2
Listen to the taped commercial ad once to get the general impression of what it
is all about.
A. but B. because C. obviously D. similarly E. at the same time

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Activity 3
Listen for the second time, and as you listen check the questions which are
answered in the ad.
Question:
_______ 1. What is being advertised?
_______ 2. What are the features of the product?
_______ 3. How can this product helps in giving better life to the consumers?
_______ 4. Where are this product available?
_______ 5. Why is this product important? What reasons are presented/highlighted in
the ad?
_______ 6. What makes this ad interesting?
_______ 7. Is the “come on” line based on fact or opinion or both?
Activity 4
Listen to the ad again and write brief but concise answers to the question in
activity 3.
Activity 5
Listen to the ad again and complete the chart with appropriate entries.
Activity 6
Listen again and point out ideas which you agree or disagree most.
Give reasons for your choices
Product being Advertised _______________________________________
Come on line: _____________________________________________
Reasons/Advantages Appeal (emotion, reason, competition)
1. ____________ ______________________________
2. ____________ ______________________________
3. ____________ ______________________________
etc. ___________ ______________________________
View Reason View I Reason
I agree most Disagree most

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Activity 7
React on what you think of the product being advertised. Give the advantages
(pros) and disadvantages (cons).
Activity 8 Look out! World View!
Think of a national or local problem which is related to or which can be solved by
this commercial ad. Point out their relationship or give reasons why this ad can be
used as a solution to such problem. Remember to clarify how it can solve the
problem as well.
Here’s something which will ignite your spirit!
You can’t help but try this one, right?
Reading
As you know, argument is a decent and respectable way to develop ideas.
What’s more, it can be personal and can move people to action. When you agree to an
idea, you must first convince and give others people specific reasons. You need facts
and figures. Your words must work for others to believe and take your side.
Product: _________________________
Advantages Disadvantage

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Activity 1
Read by taking a closer look at the four frames of the comic strips. Determine
what the characters are saying. Fill in the frames by writing the characters’ words to
be chosen from the speech bubbles below.
Activity 2
Determine which of what the character are saying are factual and which are
opinion based.
(1 – 5)
That’s a universal
problem!
Absolutely! People must fear
destruction by nuclear force
Is it possible to
keep peace in
the world?
At present, every country is
afraid of being destroyed by
superior nuclear power.
Yes, we have to
find ways to
ensure world
peace.

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Activity 3
Vocabulary Spot and copy the noun forming suffix in the
following words
1. fatalities 7. prevention
2. approval 8. manufacturer
3. government 9. protection
4. violence 10. solution
5. tragedy 11. resident
6. proponent 12. dealer
Activity 4
Read “Should Citizens Arm Themselves?” by Nandy Pacheco and fill in the
grid that follows it with appropriate entries. What are the arguments by the gunless
society?
Should Citizens Arm Themselves?
“The more you arm the society, the more fatalities you will have.”
Nandy Pacheco
Founder and President,
Gunless Society
It’s time for each and every one of us to work, to change the culture of
violence that has engulfed our country. It’s time to turn the tide against gun culture.
A gun is made to kill and maim – not to prolong life or to improve the
quality of life. Even the Stars and Stripes of the US Armed Forces, said, “The hand-
gun has ten functions: to kill, to kill, to kill, to kill, to kill, to kill, to kill, to kill, to
kill, and to kill more.”
Good men can become bad men especially when too drunk, too paranoid, to
depressed, to jealous, etc. and when they have access to guns human frailties can
rapidly become tragedies. Can anyone guarantee that an individual, even after
passing a neuro-psychiatric test, can continue to be fit to have access to guns? A gun
is a tragedy waiting to happen.
Arming the law-abiding is no solution. Arm the people? Arm ourselves and
become Wild, Wild West? God forbid! Violence begets more violence. Bearing
arms is not a right but a wrong. The way we manage conflicts may well be the single
most important activity in determining the quality of our lives.
Madman’s Idea
Arming the people for self-defense can only be a madman’s Idea of a
peaceful society. It’s only the animals in the jungle that do so.
They kill to survive only until they are killed themselves. In a society where
everybody carries a gun in public, everyone is a potential killer.
The lessons of America cannot be ignore: a nation rife with guns is rife with
violence
Our sorry peace and order situation is due to the government’s pro-gun
sentiment, the government’s policy to promote guncry, the “an eye for an eye, a
tooth for a tooth” policy, the behavior and lifestyle of most politicians, government
official and their VIPs, and the macho image deeply embedded in our culture, which
is perpetuated by the movie industry and advertiser.

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Fear
Pro-gun proponents say over and over again that they need “to protect
themselves from criminals.” Don’t fall for this trap. The more you arm the society, the
more fatalities you will have. The pro-gun argument prevents the introduction of
crime-prevention measures, leads to more violence, and promotes the reign of fear.
The argument means that if gun is the problem, gun is the solution. One does
not put out fire with fire. The pro-gun argument is selfish, un-Christian and anti-
communitarian.
It does not promote the common good. It favors only gun manufacturers and
dealers.
What can the government do to change the environment of violence and keep
citizens and foreign residents safe from crime? One way is the passage of a total gun
ban in public places except for the police, military and licensed private security
guards, who are authorized, in uniform and on duty. Keeping of a licensed gun at
home for protection or in a gun club may be allowed. Gun control is only one element
in the package of policies necessary to reduce gun violence in the country.
We have been advocating the passage of a gun control bill for the past 12 years
but to no avail. Gun control passed because we have a pro-gun Congress and pro-gun
President except Corazon Aquino.
Other enemies of gun control are the criminals, the gun manufacturers and gun
dealers, the machos, and the pro-gun lobby. But I must say, a truly responsible gun
owners support a total gun ban in public places. The gun ban is in line with the saying
“an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” With the gun ban, the government
removes situations that give rise to temptation or problem. Many gun related deaths,
and injuries over traffic and other incidents could have been avoided if the gun,
whether licensed or not, or even if there is permit to carry, is not available.
If the government can be hard on drugs, why can’t it be hard on guns? You
cannot control crime unless you control the criminals, and to do this the government
must control the guns. Without the gun, the criminal’s capability is greatly
diminished. Ensuring the removal of the means to kill and injure is one of the first
principles taught in crime intervention.
Control
Gun control isolates and easily identifies the outlaws and gun control violators,
thus facilitating their apprehensions and confiscations of their weapons. Concerned
citizens can blow the whistle without fear that they are pointing at the wrong person.
Says an ordinary police officer in uniform and in foot patrol, “Without the gun ban it
is extremely difficult to distinguish criminals from the plainclothes or from those with
‘permit to carry’ or from bodyguards, because they are all in civilian clothes.”

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Arguments presented by the gunless society.
MADMAN’S IDEA ADVOCATED FEAR GUN CONTROL
Activity 5
Answer the following questions.
1. What is the author’s answer to the title?
2. What arguments did he present to strengthen his stand?
3. According to the writer, what lessons can we learn from America?
4. What can the government do to have a peaceful society and its people safe
from crime?
5. How can the gun ban promote peace?
Activity 6
Reread the article again. Tell whether the writer is for or against or cautious
about arming the people for self-defense. Find out also what he used to appeal to the
readers. Copy the table and complete it with appropriate information.
Message Stand (for, against or
cautious
Appeal (emotion,
reason, competition
If we have a gun ban during the election period, why can’t we have it throughout
the years? We can make the gun ban more effective if there are no exemptions.
The gun ban helps you keep the Fifth Commandment: “You shall not kill.” It
prevents you from joining the criminal population.
We are not losing hope because in Christianity there is room for despair. We will
never have peace in this country for as long as our leaders follow “the ways of the
world.” Peace will come when we, the people, including our leaders, are converted into
the ways of peace Christ gives based on love, justice, reconciliation, active nonviolence
and progressive disarmament. “It’s time to abandon the language of arms,” says pope
John Paul II.

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Activity 7
Go over the list of arguments in the table for Activity 5. Decide which ones
you agree most and which ones you disagree strongly on. Gives reasons for your
choices.
I agree most One reason I disagree strongly The reason
on ______ is ________ on ____________ is
________
__________ __________ ______________
__________
__________ __________ ______________
__________
__________ __________ ______________
__________
__________ __________ _____________
__________
__________ __________
Activity 8
Design a sticker or an ad flyer that supports the idea of gun ban for citizens
and its importance. Plan what you’ll include in your flyer or sticker to make it as
interesting and appealing to the people as possible.
That’s encouraging!
It’s worth the effort.
Grammar
When refuting an argument, you need to win others to your position. You can
do this by using words and sentences which are most effective. Words which show
clear connection between ideas smoothens expressions.
Activity 1
Add each words/expression inside the box at appropriate point in the text.
A. Thus D. Third
B. On the whole C. First
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My mother’s education greatly affected me also. ____(1)____, our nightly
lessons gave me the ability to grasp languages easily. With a little work, I can master
anything ____(2)____, I know all about ignorance. ____(3)____, when giving
directions to assistants or teaching my students, I have the patience to help them.
_____(4)____, I believe there is no age limit to learning. Upon turning 36, I, like my
mother, began studying subjects which I had never had the chance to study before.
____(5)____, all I asked for was the strength and the faith that I could do it.
From: “My Mother, My Teacher”
Readers Digest, Sept. , 1983 p. 69
Activity 2
An effective way to show logical development of ideas in a paragraph or in a
composition is to use transitional words or phrases. Some transitional words or
phrases are listed below (in the box). Go over these transitional words, and find out
which of them can be written in the appropriate boxes.
Order emphasis Time Place Purpose
Cause
Result Example Difference Likeness Addition End
obviously as a result to summarize
certainly afterwards whereas
similarly later in conclusion
likewise to the right at any rate
for instance to this end again
to illustrate
in addition above in short
next in brief meanwhile
again, in other words to put it indifferently
finally accordingly in the meantime
because in short the reasons for ….
since

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Activity 3 Below is a well unified paragraph with transitional words/phrase. Read it
carefully and spot the transitional words/phrases. Tell what each transitional word
emphasizes.
These have been only a few times in my adult life when I have known for certain that
I made a terrible decision in choosing to become a writer. Obviously, all of them have
taken place at the theatre. What I mean is at the musical theatre. In brief, it began
when someone stopped the show. Anyone in the theatre, at any rate, can give you a
nice, precise obvious definition of what it means. For example, a show stopper, they
tell you literally to stop the show. In addition, they’ll do this to the point where the
audience will not let the performers do their thing anymore. In other words, the show
goes downhill. All the preparations are meaningless. It’s over.
Activity 4
Complete the paragraph by supplying appropriate transitional words or
phrases at specific points. Use the words enclosed in parenthesis as guide.
Transitional words often signal the need to begin a new paragraph. 1._(reason)
these would provide obvious linkers that a readers can depend on. Cautious students
Key Points
• To make connections explicit, to state connections plainly, Transitional words
or phrases are used
• Each transition device serves a specific purpose. Generally each transitional
word/phrase signals a new but related idea
• Some of the transitional words/phrases are grouped below according to purpose.
Likeness: likewise, similarly, at the same time
Difference: but, however, yet, still, nevertheless, on the other hand, on the contrary,
in contrast
Addition: and, moreover, equally important, next, again, also, too, besides,
furthermore
Order: first, second, third, etc. in the first place, in the second place, etc.
Example: for example, for instance, to illustrate
Time: soon, in the meantime, afterwards, later, meanwhile, earlier,
simultaneously
Place: here, there, over there, beyond, nearly, opposite, to left, to the right
Purpose: for this purpose, to this end
End: in conclusion, to summarize, finally, on the whole
Restatement: in short, in other words, in brief, to put it in differently
Conclusion
Result: therefore, as a result, consequently, accordingly, thus, then, hence, so
Cause: because, since, as, for

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are known to overuse some of them. 2. (purpose, be on guard against using them. 3.
(restatement), where your text could be clear without transition word, avoid using
one. When you do use them, be especially careful not to use transition words/ phrases
inaccurately, 4. (example) where your material doesn’t show connection clearly,
forget the idea. They are not to be used as desperate measures to fasten together ideas,
5. (conclusion) every link must make sense.
Activity 5
The following begin with three arguments. Select one and copy it on your
paper. Write at least three objections to refute the argument. Present the advantages or
disadvantages of the argument as reasons for your choice. Use transitional markers to
smoothen the flow of your ideas.
1. Watching movies is a more enjoyable pastime then reading books, because
films maintain a faster pace. It involves the audience to a greater extent. It
requires little effort on the part of the viewers.
2. It is no longer necessary for people to learn mathematics. In today’s world
all basic computation can be performed quite simply on convenient
calculation, computers and cellphones.
3. Politics is not a promising field for a conscientious person to enter. There
are too many possibilities for corruption.
Continue exploring life, now!
you can surely unravel life’s mysteries. Ready?
Literature
Activity 1
We are looking for a three letter word which gives fear or apprehension to
almost all people throughout the world. What do you think is it? To solve it, use the
following clues.
_________ 1. It’s first letter is at the beginning of the world.
________ 2. It’s second letter is at the middle of van.
________ 3. I’m at the end of terror
What am I? the word is __ __ __.
Can things happen if there is war?

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Vocabulary
Activity 2
Vocabulary Development
Choose from the words in parenthesis the meaning of the underlined
words found in the selection.
1. to indulge in the illusion of hope
(image, belief, aspiration, message)
2. arduous struggle for liberty
(committed, foolish, ill-timed, laborious)
3. to solace themselves
(help, convince, comfort ], sacrifice)
4. insidious smile
(treacherous, cheerful, sad, confident)
5. a snare to your feet
(cover, balm, noose, weight)
6. implements of war and subjugation
(destruction, militarization, conquest, death)
7. to avert the storm
(prevent, turn off, fly over, get over)
8. we have prostrated ourselves
(lifted up, thrown down, turned over, looked into)
9. so formidable an adversary
(ally, friend, countrymen, enemy)
10. invincible by any force
(unconquerable, defensible, destructible, inexhaustible)

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Activity 3
Which do you value more in life freedom or power? Read “Liberty or Death”
by Patrick Henry to find out why and how other people value freedom.
Liberty or Death
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry (1736-1799). He began to practice law in 1760. in
1765, he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. As delegate to the
First Continental Congress, he opened his speech with “I am not a Virginia,
but an American.” On March 25, 1775, he delivered this speech at the
Virginia Convention.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others
may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to
shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to that song of siren till she
transforms us into beasts. Is this part of wise men, engaged in a great and
arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those
who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which nearly
concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it
may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to
provide for it.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guide, and that is the lamp
of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. And
judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the
British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which
gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that
insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not,
sir: it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed
with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition
conforms with those warlike preparations, which cover our waters and
darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and
reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwillingly to be reconciled
that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive
ourselves. These are the implements of war and subjugation – the last
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I ask, gentlemen, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to
force us into submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for
it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this
accumulation of navies and armies? No, she has none. They are meant for us:
they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us
those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what
have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? We have been trying that
for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject?
Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it was capable;
but it has been all in vain.
Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall
we find, which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you,
deceive ourselves longer. We have done to avert the storm, which is now
coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated;
we have prostrated ourselves at the foot of the throne, and implored its
interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our
petition have been slighted; our remonstrance’s have produced additional
violence and insult; our supplications have disregarded; and we have been
spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!
In vain, after these things, nay we indulge the fond hope of peace and
reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, of
we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have
been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggled
in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves
never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we
must fight! I repeat it, WE MUST FIGHT! An appeal to arms and to the God
of hosts in all that is left us! the brave. Besides, we have no election, if we
were base enough to desire it; it is now too late to retire from the contest.
There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forced! Their
clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable – and let
it come! I repeat, LET IT COME.
They tell us that we are weak – unable to cope with so formidable an
adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will be the next week, or next year?
Will it be totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed In very
house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire
the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging
the delusive phantom of hope until our enemies shall have bound has hand and
foot? We are not weak, If we make a proper use those means which the God of
nature hath place in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy
cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible

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Activity 4
1. Judging from the tone of the speech, what would be the attitude or mood of the
delegates to the First Continental Congress?
2. What are the preparations for the war that the British were making?
3. What are the questions the author asks the delegates?
4. What did the writer want the delegates in the convention to realize?
5. What arguments did the author give to convince the delegates that war was
inevitable?
6. If you were a delegate to this convention, would you be convinced to agree
with him and join him?
7. What does the last paragraph mean? Explain its significance.
8. State the writer’s objective in writing or delivering his speech.
Activity 5
Writers use allusion to compress great deal of meaning into a very few words.
Allusion is a reference, generally brief, to a person, place, thing, event which the
reader is presumably familiar. It works if it’s clearly understood. For example “Oh
Rizal, let your love for freedom ring!” Patrick Henry used the following allusions.
1. “song of the siren till she turns into beasts”(mythological allusion)
2. “betrayed with a kiss” (biblical allusion)
What do these allusions mean?
Give other examples of allusions?
by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, we shall not
fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of
nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles of us. The battle is
not to the strong alone; it is not to the vigilant – the active –
It is vain to extenuate the matter. Gentleman may cry, Peace, Peace –
but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps
from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our
brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is that
gentleman wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet,
as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty
God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty
or give me death!

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Activity 6
Choose one argument that P. Henry used and of which you agree or disagree
strongly. Analyze and express its pros and cons. Copy the tree diagram below and fill
it with appropriate entries.
Pros Cons
Activity 7
Scout for quotation that upholds the value of freedom or liberty.
Let’s say you made it good, no perfectly I mean. What’s next?
Writing
What is the next best thing you should do after writing the first draft of your
research paper?
Your probably need to revise it once you have completed the first draft.
Look at it with “new eyes”. When you revise it, you do far more than correcting
spelling, punctuation and grammar errors. You look at it as a reader so you can see if
the ideas are presented clearly. That is, your consider and improve both the content
and the style of your paper.
Activity 1 (Reviewing the content)
To make sure that your ideas are presented clearly and completely, review
your paper for the following.
How well do you know these terms?
Go over the description below and examine which are familiar to you. Identify what is
being described in each numbered item.
Argument:
My Stand:

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1. I am a very important idea for the research paper I am the general statement
that serves as sentence nucleus of the paper upon which the stand or argument
of the researcher will be proven.
2. I’m IP. I set the tone for the research paper in three or more paragraphs. I
create an interesting beginning by clearly presenting the stand or argument. I
present the importance and the purpose of the topic to be discussed. I also give
the scope and the controlling background information.
3. I have fully developed and organized paragraphs by providing the facts that
support the thesis statement and I provide smooth transitions from the thesis
statement to the rest of the parts, thereby I shape the thoughts of the paper in
different ways. I set out information logically to support the thesis statement.
My initials are B.O.P.
4. I tie together what has been writer in part, 1 and 2. I draw the paper to a close
by summarizing the main idea and expressing the findings, generalizations and
recommendations I restate the main topic in other way.
5. I provide a smooth flow of ideas and I made clear connections between
sentences or paragraphs.
6. I am the framework or the plan for the research paper. I enable you to check
the sequence of ideas and to rearrange the order if necessary I also show the
amount of support you need for each main point.
7. I am one form of documenting your paper whenever you use information that
is not your own. Using superscript is needed to provide number of information
that are borrowed. You can avoid plagiarism because of me.
8. I am the last page of your research paper. I include alphabetical listing of all
the serves of specific ideas you read.
Activity 2 Parts to a whole
How do you arrange the parts of your research paper?
Using the information you gathered in Activity 1, write the parts of the
research paper in the order they are to be presented. Copy the following flow
chart, and fill it up with appropriate entries.
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page - Page -
last page 2nd
to the last page
?? ? ? ?
? ?

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Activity 3 Reviewing the Mechanics and Style
Read through the checklist and find out which step you agree or disagree on. If
you disagree, point out the word/phrase that makes it wrong. Substitute it with the
correct one.
1. Use white band paper, 8 ½ by 11 inches.
2. Double-space your typing throughout except including quotations.
3. Keep your margin consistent.
4. Indent the first word of a paragraph five spaces from the left margin. Indent
long quotations of four lines or more ten spaces from the left margin.
5. Do not underline your title.
6. Put your last name and page number on the top right hand corner one and ½
inch from the top of the page.
7. Number all pages consecutively without using any punctuation and without
using letter “p” before the number.
8. Research paper should be written in the third person.
9. Use contraction such as “don’t” or “can’t or abbreviation like “w/out” and
“w/”.
10. Works of theory should be cited in the past tense.
11. Results of experiments, surveys are reported in the present tense.
12. Generalization and conclusion are stated in the past tense.
13. Transitional words and phrases should be used to relate or to connect
paragraph.
14. The thesis statement should be reinforced in the conclusion and the endnotes.
15. Formal and simple words should be used.

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Key Points
In revising your research paper, you must.
• Read through your draft carefully several times.
• Refer to your outline and check to see that you have all the points in correct
order. You can reorganize the sequence if you want to improve your paper.
• Check each section or part for unity. Each supporting detail should clearly
relate to the point being made. Delete words or parts that do not support your
main point.
• Be sure you have enough information in introduction body and concluding
part.
• Make use of transitional devices to produce a coherent whole.
• Use third person and not first or second person pronouns.
• Formal and serious words should be used. Special terms should be defined or
described clearly.
• Correct errors in grammar, usage, spelling, punctuation and capitalization.
• Make sure there is no error in endnotes and bibliography. Omission of entries
should be avoided.
• Use white bond paper, 8 ½ 11 inches. If you use computer paper, make sure to
tear off the edges before turning in your paper.
• Double-space your typing throughout, including quotations and the list of
works cited.
• Keep your margins consistent. Except for page numbers, leave one inch on
both sides and one inch at the top and bottom. Do not justify the type if you
are using a word processor,
• Indent the first word of a paragraph five spaces from the left margin. Indent
long quotations of four lines or more ten spaces from the left margin.
• On the first page of the research paper, begin one inch below the top of the
page and flush with the left margin type the following information:
Your name
Your instructor’s name
Title of the course
Date
• Double-spaces again and center the title of the paper on that line. Double-
spaces between the title and the first line on the text.
• Do not underline your title, enclose it in quotation marks, or type in all capital
letters. Underline only those words you would underlined in the text, such as
the title of the book.
• Put your last name and the page number in the top right-hand corner one-half
inch from the top of the page, even on the first page………..Number all pages
consecutively without using any punctuation and without using the letter p
before the number.

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Activity 4
Read through your first draft carefully. Check your paper against the key
points and for the following points.
1. Did you develop each paragraph sufficiently?
2. Did you make all your paragraphs unified?
3. Did you make clear transitions between paragraphs?
4. Did you check the organization of your draft against your outline?
5. Do all the points in the paper support the thesis statement?
6. Is each point clearly stated and developed?
7. Is your paper unified?
8. Did you connect your ideas with transitional words?
9. Are the parts logically arranged?
10. Is your finished paper neat and free of errors?
Keep it up!
Harvesting time once again.
How Much Did You Learn
Reading
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Write the letter of the expression which best
fits each sentence that follow the passage.
1) But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the
threshold which leads into the palace of freedom and equality. 2) In the process of
gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
3) Let us not seek to satisfy our trust for freedom by drinking from the cup of
bitterness and hatred. 4) We must forever conduct our struggle on the high place
dignity and disciplines. 5) We must not allow our creature protest to degenerate into
physical violence. 6) Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting
physical force with soul force.
7) The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the negro community
must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as
evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied
up with our destiny and they have came to realize that their freedom is inextricably
bound to our freedom. 8) We cannot work alone.
9) And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march
ahead. 10) We can’t turn back.
- From! “I have A Dream” by: Martin Luther King Jr.

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1. The issue given comment on is thirst for _____________.
A. discipline and dignity C. freedom and equality
C. struggle and protest D. violence and terror
2. The speaker’s stand is to gain freedom and equality through ____________.
A. making pledges C. physical force
C. rightful deeds D. wrongful deeds
3. The article clearly shows that the speaker is ________ the issue of gaining
freedom and equality not through wrongful deeds.
A. against B. for C. ignoring D. verifying
4. Sentence number 8 is a statement based on ________.
A. hearsay B. fact C. opinion D. rumor
5. One of the evidence presented by the speaker to support his argument is the
_______________.
A. cup of bitterness B. march ahead of them
C. presence of their “white brothers” D. process of gaining
6. When the speaker says, “We can not walk alone.” It means that he _______ on
meeting physical force with soul force.
A. agress B. disagrees C, ignores D. wonder
7. The reasons cited by the speaker ________ his argument.
A. clarify B. nullify C. support D. both A and C
8. The speaker’s purpose in presenting his argument, doubtlessly, is to ______.
A. call attention B. express his views
C. more people to act D. oppose other views
Vocabulary
Directions: For each underlined word in the sentences, there is an antonym in the
box below to help your understand it’s meaning. Write the letter of the correct
antonym of each underlined word.
1. We fight for our freedom.
2. He stands on the warm threshold.
3. We are not guilty of wrongful deeds.
A. agreement E. ordinary
B. bondage F. rightful
C. exit; end point G. sweetness
D. increase H. full of hindrance

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4. Don’t drink in the cup of bitterness.
5. We must struggle with dignity.
6. Our protest degenerate into physical violence.
7. We must rise to the majestic heights.
8. Their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
Grammar
Directions: Write the letter of the transitional word that best completes each sentence.
Education is not an end ____(1.)____ a means to an end. _____(2.)_____, we
do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them ____(3.)______ our
purpose is to fit them for life.
it is preparation for life _____(4.)________, when we say that all of us must be
educated in such a way that ____ (5.)_______, each of us can do whatever job is
suited to one’s ability and brain. ______(6.)________ we can realize all jobs are
necessary to our society and _______(7,)_______ it is bad to be ashamed of one’s
work.
A. but D. firstly G. in other words
B. because E. secondly
C. equally important F. in fact

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Check Yourself
How Much Did You Know
Reading
1. B (effects)
2. D (very effective)
3. C (feeds upon the real)
4. D (reason)
5. A (fact)
6. B (4 and 5)
7. A (against)
8. A (certainty)
Vocabulary
1. B (clarity is the opposite of confuse)
2. C (discourages is the opposite of feeds)
3. D (distaste is the opposite of appetite)
4. A (artificial is the antonym of natural)
5. G (glamour is the opposite of simpleness/naturalness)
6. F (near is the antonym of remote)
7. C (pain is the antonym of cater)
Grammar
1. B (because the following clause clarifies reason)
2. A (but the following clause signals a opposition)
3. E (at the same time the following clause signals addition)
4. D (similarly the following signals similarity)
5. C (obviously the following clause signals clarification)

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Listening
Activity 1 (answer may vary)
Yes, ads mislead consumers instead of giving the truths about the product. Ads
use come on liner or arguments based on the opinion. Most of the times, they promise
pleasure and lend people to buy things which are not needed. They are full of
promises.
Activity 3 Activity 4
1. 1. BIG charge credit card.
2. 2. a. most powerful credit card in he world.
3. b. ticket to the world
4. c. accepted all over the world
5. 3. The most useful card in the world
6. 4. telephone numbers are given
7. 5. give the comfort and pleasure
- give chance to see the world
- accepted all over the world
- most powerful card in the world
6. it caters to the need of the people
7. both (fact and opinion)
Activity 5
Product advertised: BIG charge credit card
Come on line: Remember that cash isn’t necessary!
What is important? Your comfort and pleasure!
Reasons/Advantages Appeal
1. Ticket to the world of International business reason
2. More than a credit card reason
3. Accepted all over the world reason
4. There is a special introductory gift reason/emotion
5. Most useful and in the world reason
6. Travel in self-assured manner emotion
7. important emotion
Activity 6 (answers may vary)
View
I agree most
Reason View I
Disagree most
Reason
…more than a
credit card
There are other
features aside from
being a credit card.
Travel in self-
assured manner of
experienced
business people
who are in control.
- Very
competitive
- based on the
opinion

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Sample answers
Product: BIG charge card
Advantages Disadvantages
experienced traveling with business
people
accumulate credit
chance to possess an executive travel case
for free
temptation to have more than one can
afford
cash is not necessary lost control in expenses
Our economy is down and this is the change for small scale businessman
to look out for other possibilities of economic stability through small business deals
abroad.
Reading
Activity 1
1. 2.
3. 4. 5.
Activity 2
1. opinion
2. fact
3. fact
4. opinion
5. opinion
Is it possible to
keep peace in
the world
At present every country
is afraid of being
destroyed by superior
nuclear power.
That’s a
universal
problem
Yes, we have to
find ways to
ensure world
peace
Absolutely! People must
fear destruction by
nuclear force.

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Activity 3
1. – i ties 7. - ion
2. – al 8. - rer
3. – ment 9. - ion
4. – nce 10. - ion
5. – dy 11. - nt
6. – nent 12. – er
Activity 4
Arguments Presented
Madman’s Idea Advocate Fear Gun Control
• animals in the
jungle do so-kill to
survive
protection from
criminals
• isolates and
identifies the
outlaws easily
• sorry peace and
order because of
pro-gun
pro gun is selfish, in
Christian
• Keep the 5th
commandment
• macho image Gun ban is needed to
avoid injuries, death abuse
• gun ban throughout
the year
• lifestyles of
politicians
• control’s criminals • abandon the
language of arms
• Perpetuated by the
movie industry
• crime intervention
Activity 5
1. No, citizens need not arm themselves.
2. Positive arguments.
3. A gun is a tragedy waiting to happen. Violence begets violence
4. promote gun bar
5. Gun ban is one best way for peace. It can lesson if not totally eradicate
violence.
Activity 6
Message Stand Appeal
“It’s time to turn the tide
against gun culture.”
against gun culture reason and emotion
Activity 7
I agree most The reason I disagree The reason
on “a gun is for this is strongly on arming the
a tragedy if aim a the idea that people can
waiting to person, he it is for self- be the
happen.” will be gaining defense reason for
courage to them to be
use it unne- violent.
cessarily.

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Grammar
Activity 1
1. First
2. second
3. Thus
4. Third
5. On the whole
Activity 2
Order emphasis Time Place Purpose Cause
Result Example Difference Likeness Addition End
Activity 3
1. obviously emphasis
2. In brief restatement
3. at any rate emphasis
4. For example example
5. In addition addition
6. In other words likeness
Activity 4
1. for
2. for this purpose
3. In short
4. for instance
5. therefore
1. Reading is more enjoyable than watching movies since it will enrich your
vocabulary. You will wider your knowledge and you will gain vicarious
experiences.
2. Mathematics is a basic subject. Not all problems can be solved by calculations,
computer and cell phone. Math sharpens the skills of humans.
next
afterwards
obviously
Certainly
At any rate
in brief
for
again later
meanwhile
later
because
since
to the right
above
finally
hence
to this end
in addition
also
furthermore
similarly
likewise
inlike
manner
in other
words
whereas
but
for instance
to illustrate
as a result
inconclusion
so thus

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3. Politics is not good for conscientives reason since it is a dirty place in life.
one can be temped to lean on to negative side because of pressure and like.
Moral virtues are not considered always in politics.
Literature
Activity 1
1. W
2. A
3. R
Activity 2
1. image
2. laborious
3. comfort
4. treacherous
5. weight
6. conquest
7. prevent
8. thrown down
9. enemy
10. defensible
Activity 4
1.
2. accumulated armies and naives
3. “Is life so dear, so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and
slavery?”
“Is the part of wise men engaged in the great and ardous struggle for liberty?
“Are we dispose to be the number of those who having eyes see not, having
ears, hear not?
“What means this martial away, if its purpose be not to force us to
submission?”
“Has Great Britain no enemy in this quarter of the world?
“Shall use try argument?”
“Have we anything new to offer upon the subject?”
“Why stand we here idle?”
“What is it that gentleman wish?”
4. The war is inevitable.
5. There is no peace.
The war has actually begun.
Our brethren are already in the field.
6. No, I wouldn’t be convinced to agree with him.
7. There is no tuning back. They have to wage war and be ready for sacrifices.
They know war entails death but their love for liberty supersedes the love for
life.
8. Most probably, he did want to convince and move people to action.

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Activity 5
1. They ought to fight in war until the time that they could not avoid to kill their
enemies.
2. You have been fooled by someone who showed fake concern and love.
Sample
answers
Pros___________ _________Cons_______
We can’t have everything by force. War is so destructive.
Tolerance must be practiced. Its affects are long term.
Peaceful solutions should There will be so much
Be tried instead of war. killings and hatred.
Writing
Activity 1
1. thesis statement
2. Introductory part
3. Body of the paper
4. Conclusion
5. transitional words
6. outline
7. footnote/endnote
8. bibliography
Argument: War is inevitable
My stand: War must be
avoided

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Activity 2
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page-
Page -
Last page 2nd
to the last page
Activity 2
1. agree
2. agree
3. agree
4. agree
5. agree
6. one and ½ (should be ½ inch)
7. agree
8. agree
9. disagree – use constructions (should be don’t use contractions) formal
language must be used.
10. disagree – past tense (it should be present tense)
11. disagree – present tense (results should be presented in the past tense)
12. disagree – past tense (generalizations and conclusion are stated in the present
tense)
13. agree
14. agree
15. agree
How Much Did You Learn
Reading Vocabulary
1. C (freedom and equality 1. B (bondage)
2. C (right feel deeds) 2. C (exit; end point)
3. B (for) 3. F (rightful)
Title
Page
Body
of the
paper

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4. C (opinion) 4. F (sweetness)
5. C (presence of their white brothers) 5. A (agreement)
6. A (agrees) 6. D (increase)
7. D (both A and C) 7. E (ordinary)
8. C (move people to act) 8. H (full of hindrance)
Grammar
1. A (but)
2. D (Firstly)
3. B (because)
4. E (secondly)
5. G (in other words)
6. F (in fact)
7. C (equally important)
It’s a success!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You’ve made it. Now you’ve completed the activities in this module,
you may want to go over the parts you found.
a. most interesting
b. most challenging
c. most rewarding
Completed the reflections before you move to the next module.
The next module will help you become more proficient at
_____________.
Your Score
19-23 Excellent! Keep up the good work!
14-18 Very good! You’re doing fine.
10-13 Good job! Go over the ones you missed.
6-8 Fair! Try to do better next time.
0-5 Needs Improvement. Double your effort.

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Listening Text (tape script)
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card in the whole world?
Here are three big reasons why you should have it.
The BIG charge card is more than a credit card. It is your ticket to the
world of International business travel. You will find it accepted all over the
world.
If you wish to apply for membership, please call us. Our numbers are 434
11 23 / 434-11-24 / or 491 7854. If you apply this Monday, you will receive an
executive travel case. This special introductory gift is beautifully designed and
styled for special people like you.
Why not put your signature on the most useful card in the world?
Travel in self-assured manner of experienced business people who are in
control.
Remember that cash is not necessary!
What is important? Your comfort and pleasure!

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