Information Gathering For Everyday Life Usage: Module in English 10
Information Gathering For Everyday Life Usage: Module in English 10
EARYL L. MOLITAS
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Department of Education • Cordillera Administrative Region
Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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What I Know
TRUE OR FALSE. Write the complete word TRUE if the statement is correct.
Otherwise, write the complete word FALSE if the statement is incorrect. Write your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. How well you listen has a major influence on study effectiveness, and on the
quality of your relationships with others.
2. Informational Listening promotes conflict and misunderstanding.
3. Informational listening is listening for judging, criticizing, or evaluating the
message.
4. Becoming a better listener can develop your productivity as well as your ability to
influence, convince and negotiate.
MATCHING TYPE: Match the listening ideas in column A with their explanations in
column B.
5. Don't judge or argue A. Make sure you receive the same thoughts
prematurely which speakers are trying to convey.
6. Look for key ideas B. Repeating the speaker’s words as he or she
says them will strengthen his or her
message and help you to stay attentive
7. Info listening C. Focus, stay disciplined in the face of
distractions, actively and mentally say no to
distractions, and accept responsibility in
getting the listening task at hand
accomplished.
8. Paraphrase D. We should be open-minded when
attempting to properly listen and retain
information.
9. Knowledge of E. Listen carefully to the speaker to find out the
vocabulary main ideas that he or she is trying to convey.
10. Concentration F. While listening, write down key concepts
and terms instead of trying to write down
everything that is being said.
11. Memory G. Try to understand the speaker's ideas before
judging them.
12. Refraining from H. When listening, asking mental questions to
judgment further grasp the information as the
speakers are talking can mean that the
listener is truly comprehending the
information that is being said.
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13. Asking questions I. We can recall experiences and information
from our lives to help make sense of
information in informational listening.
14. Taking notes J. Increasing mastery of vocabulary through
techniques like learning a new word a day or
reading books can contribute in being a
good informational listener.
What’s In
One of your major responsibilities is to gather information related to the subjects
that you are studying. You read your textbooks, watch informative medias and even
listen to news reports in order to fully understand not only your academic topics but as
well as what’s happening around you.
Information gathering is the act of getting varied kinds of information for a
particular reason or purpose. The type of information you are trying to obtain, as well
as the people or other resources providing the information will determine which
techniques you should use.
The common methods in gathering information are the following:
1. listening
2. reading
3. interviews
4. questioning
5. questionnaires
6. observation
7. study of existing reports
In the present-day society, there is a great and urgent need for access and availability
of accurate information because it is an aid in decision making, policy making or simply
increasing the knowledge of the information recipient. Thus, noting details plays crucial
part in gathering truthful information for everyday life usage.
You can gather information from news reports, speeches, informative talks,
panel discussions and many other more. You can note details using the Cornell
method wherein as you listen to the informative talks you divide the paper in two
columns. The first column is used to enter key or cue words while the second is the
notes column for recording ideas and facts. The Outlining Method organizes
information into main topic and sub topic by using numbers, roman numerals and
letters. Mind Mapping Method is the method to see the “big picture” and how
information relates to one another. This method uses diagram which represents words,
ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word.
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What’s New
Activity: Check Me Out
Read the statements and put a check ( / ) mark on the ones that correctly describes
informational listening. Answer on a separate paper.
Answer Statements
1. 1. Informational listening is for understanding.
2. 2. The goal of informational listening is to evaluate or scrutinize
what is being said
3. 3. Informational listening focuses on the ability to understand a
speaker's message.
4. 4. Informational listening is considered a passive form of
listening because the listener is not judging, criticizing, or
evaluating the message.
5. 5. Informational listening is similar with appreciative listening or
listening for enjoyment.
6. 6. We usually engage in informational listening so that we may
encourage others to trust and like us.
7. 7. Informational listening requires restating the speaker’s words
to strengthen his or her message and help you to stay
focused.
8. 8. Informational listening leads to assumptions and
misunderstandings.
9. 9. Increasing mastery of vocabulary through techniques like
learning a new word a day or reading books can contribute in
being a good informational listener.
10. 10. Effective informational listening involves receiving the same
ideas which speakers are trying to convey.
What is It
Listening is a significant skill you should have. How well you listen has a major
influence on study effectiveness, and on the quality of your relationships with others.
For example, we listen to obtain information, to understand, for enjoyment and to learn.
Evidently, listening is a skill that we can all benefit from improving. By becoming a
better listener, you can develop your efficiency, as well as your ability to influence,
convince and negotiate. In addition, you'll avoid conflict and misinterpretations.
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For example, Maria is listening to an informative talk about the modern cultural
trends of her fellow millennials. In order to effectively engage in informational listening,
Maria must keep her conservative traditional beliefs at bay in order to abstain from
judging and critiquing the message her classmate is trying to convey.
Tay (2020) identifies some of the effective informational listening approaches which
are:
Info listening. Make sure you receive the same thoughts which speakers are trying
to convey.
Don't judge or argue prematurely. Try to understand the speaker's ideas before
judging them.
Look for key ideas. Listen carefully to the speaker to find out the main ideas that he
or she is trying to convey.
Paraphrase. Restate in your own words the message of the speaker. Repeating the
speaker’s words as he or she says them will strengthen his or her message and help
you to stay attentive.
Gonzalez (2020) also added that informational listening helps us learn, become
keener, and become better at what we do in life. Consequently, it is clear that
improving skills that develop our informational listening abilities is advantageous to our
lives. Other skills that help with informational listening are:
Knowledge of Vocabulary. The more words we know, the more we can understand.
Therefore, increasing mastery of vocabulary through techniques like learning a new
word a day or reading books can contribute in being a good informational listener.
Concentration. We must know that in order to concentrate, we need to be motivated
to focus, stay disciplined in the face of distractions, actively and mentally say no to
distractions, and accept responsibility in getting the task at hand accomplished.
Informational listening requires immense concentration.
Memory. With good memory, we can recall experiences and information from our lives
to help make sense of information in informational listening.
Refraining from Judgment. This skill requires an open mind. If we begin judging and
jumping to conclusions when attempting to properly listen and retain information, our
mind will wander and possibly miss valuable pieces of information.
Organization. This means identifying key concepts from auditory information and
mentally organizing them into an outline so that you can better understand and
remember material.
Asking Questions. If listening to a panel discussion, asking mental questions to
further grasp the information as the speakers are talking can mean that the listener is
truly comprehending the information that is being said.
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Taking Notes. This is a common skill that enhances informational listening in school.
One valuable tip in taking notes is to only write down key concepts and terms instead
of trying to write down everything that is being said.
What’s More
Activity 1: Fill-in-the-blanks
Listen to the audio recording of Emma Watson’s speech about gender inequality
through the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Dg226G2Z8 and fill-in-the-blanks
to complete the transcript. You may choose your answers from the option box and
verify them as you listen.
Choices:
involved submissive true equal socially
of a man inequality unpopular secondary limit
gender feminism stereotypes triumph applaud
human hating advocates invitation inadvertent
This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN: we want to try and galvanize as many
men and boys as possible to be 2.) __________ for change. And we don’t just want
to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible.
I was appointed six months ago and the more I have spoken about 3.) __________
the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become
synonymous with man- 4.) __________. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is
that this has to stop.
For the record, feminism by definition is: “The belief that men and women should
have 5.) __________ rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political,
economic and social equality of the sexes.”
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When at 15 my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they
didn’t want to appear “muscly.”
I decided that I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent
research has shown me that feminism has become an 7.) __________ word.
Apparently, I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too
strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive even.
I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male
counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own
body. I think it is right that women be 8.) __________ on my behalf in the policies
and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that
9.) __________ I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly, I can say that
there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these
rights.
No country in the world can yet say that they have achieved gender equality.
These rights I consider to be 10.) __________ rights but I am one of the lucky ones.
My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was
born a daughter. My school did not 11.) __________ me because I was a girl. My
mentors didn’t assume I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one
day. These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I
am today. They may not know it, but they are the 12.) __________ feminists who
are changing the world today. And we need more of those.
And if you still hate the word—it is not the word that is important but the idea and
the ambition behind it. Because not all women have been afforded the same rights
that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been.
In 1997, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights.
Sadly, many of the things she wanted to change are still 13.) __________ today.
But what stood out for me the most was that only 30 per cent of her audience were
male. How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel
welcome to participate in the conversation?
Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal 14.) ___________.
Gender equality is your issue too.
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Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society
despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother’s.
I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness unable to ask for help for fear it
would make them look less “15.) __________”—in fact in the UK suicide is the
biggest killer of men between 20-49 years of age; eclipsing road accidents, cancer
and coronary heart disease. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted
sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality
either.
We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender 16.) __________ but I
can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women
as a natural consequence.
Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should
feel free to be strong… It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as
two opposing sets of ideals.
If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by
who we are—we can all be free.
I want men to take up this mantle. So, their daughters, sisters and mothers can be
free from prejudice but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and
human too—reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be
a more true and complete version of themselves.
You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on
stage at the UN. It’s a good question and trust me, I have been asking myself the
same thing. I don’t know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about
this problem. And I want to make it better.
And having seen what I’ve seen—and given the chance—I feel it is my duty to say
something. English Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces
of evil to 18.) __________ is for enough good men and women to do nothing.”
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In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt I’ve told myself
firmly—if not me, who? If not now, when? If you have similar doubts when
opportunities are presented to you. I hope those words might be helpful.
Because the reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly
a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.
15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children. And at current rates
it won’t be until 2086 before all rural African girls will be able to receive a 19.)
__________ education.
If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists I spoke of
earlier.
We are struggling for a uniting word but the good news is we have a uniting
movement. It is called HeForShe. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen to
speak up, to be the “he” for “she”. And to ask yourself if not me, who? If not now,
when?
Thank you.
Listening is a significant 1.)__________ you should have. How well you listen
has a major 2.)___________ on study effectiveness, and on the quality of your
relationships with others. For example, we listen to obtain 3.) ___________, to
understand, for enjoyment and to learn. Evidently, listening is a skill that we can all
benefit from improving. By becoming a 4.)____________ listener, you can develop
your efficiency, as well as your ability to influence, convince and negotiate. In addition,
you'll avoid 5.)___________ and misinterpretations.
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What I Can Do
Task : Listen and Choose
Listen to the panel discussion entitled Bullying: Teen Panel Discusses the Issue
through the YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfVxrtF8C88 and
answer the questions of the said panel discussion by choosing the letter of the correct
answer.
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the anti-bullying act. This is understandable, since no parents or even
school administration would like his/her family or school to be famous
because of bullying.
d) Panel: Outgoing and aggressive bully might make fun of you to your face
or physically hurt you.
4. Moderator: What effective methods do you think adults can use to help
kids deal with bullying and stand-up for themselves?
a) Panel: Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged
children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior
is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who
are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.
b) Panel: Kids who bully use their power such as physical strength, access
to embarrassing information, or popularity to control or harm others.
Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even
if they involve the same people.
c) Panel: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential
to happen more than once.
d) Panel: All the extra-curricular activities that schools use to have like the
clubs, dramas and all those types of things, I think these always help
kid’s confidence and when you have kids that have confidence in
themselves, it’s easier to make friends and do those same things like
those clubs. And the more people that are friends with each other, the
less chance you have of being bullied.
5. Moderator: Should school’s teach kids about morals and ethical behavior
like discipline, respect, confidence, responsibility towards each other?
Should that be a part of school curriculum?
a) Panel: Schools, however, to mitigate the effects and reduce the
incidence of bullying, should comply with the Implementing Rules and
Regulations of the Anti-bullying law of 2013 to address the root causes
of bullying.
b) Panel: If we are going to teach them at a young age then we should take
it to the parents as well and not just the kids.
c) Panel: Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading
rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding
someone from a group on purpose.
d) Panel: Bullying can occur during or after school hours. While most
reported bullying happens in the school building, a significant percentage
also happens in places like on the playground or the bus.
6. Moderator: Should teachers be required to pass a course on conflict
resolution as part of their accreditation so they understand how to deal
with the situation?
a) Panel: As adults, parents, teachers and others who are involved in the
lives of our children, it is our job to help end this harmful epidemic.
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However, we can’t be there 24-hours a day. We can’t protect our children
from every hurt feeling or confront bullies when they appear.
b) Panel: Schools to have prevention program that is comprehensive,
multi-faceted, and shall involve all education stakeholders and
personnel.
c) Panel: Cyberbullying is when bullies use the internet and social media
and say things that they might not say in person. This can include
sending mean texts, posting insults about someone on Twitter, or
making rude comments on their Instagram pictures.
d) Panel: If they establish that at the beginning of the school year that they
are the dominant person in the classroom ang get the accreditation to
solve any problems peacefully then the whole problem right there can
be eliminated.
7. Moderator: Why are the policies of bullying not working?
a) Panel: Physical bullying is when bullies hurt their targets physically. This
might be shoving, tripping, punching, or hitting.
b) Panel: I think the problem that it’s not working as no one wants to
enforce the rules. No one wants to take the time, the effort. And, when
they do the time, effort and punishment isn’t fitting the crime. It’s picking-
up trash or staying after school.
c) Panel: Some bullies don't understand normal social emotions like guilt,
empathy, compassion, or remorse. These people need help from a
mental health professional like a counselor, social worker, psychiatrist,
or psychologist.
d) Panel: If you've been bullied with rumors or gossip, tell your friends so
that they can help you feel safe and secure. Avoid being alone,
especially when the bullying is happening a lot.
8. Moderator: Why do we feel the need to judge other people?
a) Panel: I deeply believe that people bully people because they’re bored.
They have nothing better to do because if you have something better to
do like you had to go somewhere, you wouldn’t take the time to sit there
and make fun of somebody.
b) Panel: Join your school's bullying or violence prevention programs. Peer
mediation is another way you may be able to work things out with a bully.
If your school doesn't have these programs, start one of your own.
c) Panel: Try talking to a trusted adult to talk about why you have become
a bully. Ask them for some advice on how you could change.
d) Panel: You're more likely to be hurt and get into trouble if you try to fight
a bully. Work out your anger in another way, such as exercising or writing
it down.
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Post-Assessment
TRUE OR FALSE. Write the complete word TRUE if the statement is correct.
Otherwise, write the complete word FALSE if the statement is incorrect. Write your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. How well you listen has a major influence on study effectiveness, and on the
quality of your relationships with others.
2. Informational Listening promotes conflict and misunderstanding.
3. Informational listening is listening for judging, criticizing, or evaluating the
message.
4. Becoming a better listener can develop your productivity as well as your ability to
influence, convince and negotiate.
MATCHING TYPE: Match the listening ideas in column A with their explanations in
column B.
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13. Asking questions I. We can recall experiences and information
from our lives to help make sense of
information in informational listening.
14. Taking notes J. Increasing mastery of vocabulary through
techniques like learning a new word a day or
reading books can contribute in being a
good informational listener.
Additional Activity
Task : Self-Check
Write the complete word YES if you have already acquired the listening skill, the
complete word NO if you haven’t and the complete word IMPROVING if you are still
developing the listening skill.
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What I Know Lesson 1 Post Additional
1. TRUE What’s New Assessment Activity
2. FALSE 1. √ 6. 1. TRUE Answers
3. FALSE 2. 7. √ 2. FALSE may
4. FALSE 3. FALSE vary
3. √ 8.
5. TRUE 4. FALSE
6. G 4. √ 9. √ 5. TRUE
7. E 5. 10. √ 6. G
8. A What’s More 7. E
9. B 8. A
10. J 1. inequality 11. limit 20. applaud 9. B
11. C 2. advocates 12. inadvertent 10. J
12. I 3. feminism 13. true 11. C
13. D 4. hating 14. invitation 12. I
14. H 5. equal 15. of a man 13. D
15. F 6. gender 16. stereotypes 14. H
7. unpopular 17. submissive 15. F
8. involved 18. triumph
9. socially 19. secondary
What I Have Learned
1. skill
2. influence
3. information
4. better
5. conflict
What I Can Do
1. c 4. d 7. b
2. d 5. b 8. a
3. a 6. d
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