SAINT JOSEPH COLLEGE

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

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LEARNER’S LEARNING MATERIAL

7
ENGLISH
Quarter 2 Week 10
ELECTRONIC SEARCH ENGINE

CHRISTIAN JAKE S. MORALDE

SUBJECT TEACHER
ELECTRONIC SEARCH ENGINE!
How was your experience with technology? Does it make your work easier and faster?
Nowadays, your knowledge in the use of internet is already a must. This would help you to search
information especially that we are now in the world of technology.
As you go through, you will experience different individual activities and encounter texts that will help you
answer the question: How does Electronic Search Engine help you in doing your research activities?
Likewise, your skills in reading, vocabulary development, viewing, listening, language fluency, and grammar
awareness will be enhanced.
In the end, you will be compiling all your Electronic Search Engine (ESE) activities.
In this module, you are guided with a set of learning icons that will help you understand on how to recognize the
beauty in others.
This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:
This will give you an idea of the skills or competencies
What I Need to Know you are expected to learn in the module.
This part includes an activity that aims to check what
What I Know you already know about the lesson to take. If you get
all the answers correct (100%), you may decide to
skip this module.
This is a brief drill or review to help you link the
What’s In current lesson with the previous one.
In this portion, the new lesson will be introduced to
What’s New you in various ways such as a story, a song, a poem, a
problem opener, an activity or a situation.
This section provides a brief discussion of the lesson.
What is It This aims to help you discover and understand new
concepts and skills.
What’s more This comprises activities for independent practice to
solidify your understanding and skills of the topic. You
may check the answers to the exercises using the
Answer Key at the end of the module.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the module.

At the end of this module you will also find:

Bibliography This is a list of all sources used in developing this

module.
The following are some reminders in using this module:
 Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of the module. Use your English
activity notebook in answering the exercises.
 Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities included in the module.
 Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
 Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your answers.
 Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
 Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
 If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher
or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are not alone.
 We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and gain deep understanding of
the relevant competencies. You can do it!
 WHAT I NEED TO KNOW

Welcome to a new year of discovery and explorations! This module is designed for you to meet your unique
needs and interests. This aims at the comprehensive development of your reading, vocabulary development,
viewing, listening, language fluency, and grammar awareness. As a 21 st century learner, you must be fully equipped
with knowledge on how to use a search engine to make learning more effective.
Electronic Search Engine allows you to find the information that is valuable to you. It eliminates the need to
move through numerous amounts of irrelevant web pages. Essentially, it allows you not only quickly, but also easily,
find the information that is essential for your progress.
As you go along with this module, you will find out that Electronic Search Engine can provide you with search
results that lead to relevant information on high quality websites.
This module is divided into two lessons, namely:
 Lesson 1 – What is Electronic Search Engine
 Lesson 2 – How to use an Electronic Search Engine

After reading this module, you should be able to use a search engine to conduct a guided search on a given topic
(EN7SS-II-c-1.5.3). Specifically, you should:
 define what Electronic Search Engine (ESE) is;
 identify five most commonly used search engines;
 compile all research activities on electronic search engines.

WHAT I KNOW

Before starting with this module, let us see what you already know about Electronic Search Engine (ESE) and
how to use it in searching for information. Use your English Activity Notebook in answering the test.

Test A. 1-10
Directions: Read and answer the following questions. Copy the letter of the correct answer.
1. What is the software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web?
A. Epson B. Smadav C. Search Engine D. Microsoft Office
2. What search results are generally presented in a line of results?
A. Search Engine Databases B. Search Engine Results Pages
C. Search Engine System Results D. Search Engine Program Results
3. What does www stand for?
A. World Web Wide B. World Wide Web C. Western Wide Website D. Wide Western Website
4. Below are some of the most popular search engines EXCEPT:
A. Bing B. Google C. Yahoo! D. Hyperlink
5. What should a user type in the search bar in order to receive a list of websites, images, videos or other data?
A. Keywords B. Query C. Subject D. Topic
6. What symbol will you use when you want to exclude certain words in your search?
A. dash or minus sign B. quotation marks C. fewer words D. and/or
7. What is the most commonly used search engine?
A. AOL B. Bing C. Google D. Yahoo
8. What symbol will you use when you want to emphasize a certain topic in your search?
A. dash or minus sign B. quotation marks C. fewer words D. and/or
9. Where are you going to enter the URL if you’re searching for a specific topic?
A. Insert tab B. Address bar C. Return Key D. Search bar
10. Why are Electronic Search Engines important?
A. You can narrow your search down to the exact information you need with a search engine.
B. Makes it easier to find information rather than linking it to yourself.
C. They sort through information; kind of like a library card catalog.
D. All of the above.

Test B. 11-15.
Directions: From the Word Pool below, choose 5 words which you think are examples of Electronic Search Engines
(ESE).

AOL Bing Google Facebook Ask Yahoo!

1.________________ 2._______________ 3.___________________ 4.__________________ 5.________________

WHAT’S IN

In your everyday life, you always encounter questions that need to be answered. Who can answer your
questions? Where can you get answers to your questions?
In your class, when your teacher asked you to research, where do you usually go? Watch the video on
“Libraries in the Internet Age” using this link http://youtu.be/L9MDKPC9yeM on youtube and answer the
questions in your English activity notebook.
After watching the video, you need to answer the questions to check your understanding.
1. Where can you find sources of information aside from the library?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
2. How important is the internet in searching for information?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________

LESSON
WHAT IS AN ELECTRONIC SEARCH
1 ENGINE

WHAT’S NEW

Look closely at the picture. What do you think is the student doing? Like most of the students these days,
she is probably doing research using different search engines. What do you think is an Electronic Search Engine
(ESE)?
This lesson will help you maximize the use of electronic search engine most especially in conducting a guided
search on a given topic.

ELECTRONIC SEARCH ENGINE

 A software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.
 The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as
search engine results pages (SERPs)
 Search Engine is a computer program that searches databases and internet sites for
the documents containing keywords specified by a user.
Source: www.slideshare.net
Listed below are the top 5 most commonly used search engines according to eBizMBA in October 2015. These
rankings are continuously updated using various factors.
1. GOOGLE
 Estimated 1,100,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 Originally known as BackRub.
 A search engine that started development in 1996 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as a research project at
Stanford University to find files on the Internet.

Source: www.google.com

2. BING
 Estimated 350,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 A search engine created and operated by Microsoft, replacing its former Live Search, Windows Live Search,
and MSN Search offerings.

Source: www.bing.com

3. YAHOO!
 Estimated 300,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 Short for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle! Yahoo! Was created in February, 1994 by two Stanford
University Ph.D candidates David Filo and Jerry Yang.

Source: www.yahoo.com
4. ASK
 Estimated 245,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 Ask is the common name for Ask.com search engine, which allows users to perform a search in the form of a
question to find relevant results.
 Ask.com was started in 1996 by Garret Gruener and David Warthen.

Source: www.ask.com
5. AOL
 Estimated 125,000,000 unique monthly visitors
 America Online is the name of a popular online service. It is often abbreviated as AOL.
 The company founded in 1985 and is considered an early Internet pioneer, providing many Internet services
in the 1990’s.

Source: www.aolsearch.com
These search engines will help you search for different topics that you can think of. These will also provide you
information on current news and events around the world.

LESSON
HOW TO USE THE
2 ELECTRONIC SEARCH ENGINE

WHAT IS IT
Searching the Web requires both skills and patience but, where should we start?
To enter the world wide web (www), you need to have either of these two:
 Internet connection or WIFI (it can be a modem or a pocket wifi) or
 Data subscription (cellphone load)
There are two ways to search for information:
 Using keyword/s
 Using Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

SEARCHING USING KEYWORD/S

Follow the steps wholeheartedly that are provided for you so you can arrive at the correct output.
STEP 1. Open the page first using Google Chrome and enter the texts or keywords in the search bar pointed by the
red arrow to find relevant information.

STEP 2. Type in the search bar the word “COVID-19”. There, you will find out several information about the topic.
STEP 3. Click the first search result inside the red box and copy the information about COVID-19 in your English
activity notebook.

STEP 4. Click the Back Button to go back to the Home Page. If you’re using a cellphone click the x button as pointed
by the red arrow. If you’re using a computer, click the back button enclosed in a red box as shown in picture B.

A B

STEP 5. To explain more, open the page shown below and type this URL https://youtu.be/7RIB1CJovTs in the
address bar pointed by the red arrow.

POINTS TO REMEMBER

To better get specific results:

 Use minus sign or hyphen (-) to exclude a word.
 Use quotation marks (“ ”) to find pages that have the exact term.
 This time, you will research using Uniform Resource Locator or URL. URL is the page address that you will find in
the long bar at the top of your Web browsers.

SEARCHING USING URL

STEP 1. Click Google Chrome in your screen.

This will appear in your screen.

STEP 2. Type the name of the website http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-basics in

the address page as pointed by the red arrow.

STEP 3. Press ← Enter key if you are using a computer. Press the Search icon as pointed by the red arrow if you are
using a cell phone.

You are now about to explore

the content of the URL.

STEP 4. Read the content of the page and write 5 unfamiliar words that you have encountered in your English
activity notebook.
STEP 5. Click the Back Button as pointed by the red arrow to go back to the Home Page.
 ANSWER KEY

What I Know

1. C
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. A
6. A
7. C
8. B
9. A
10. D
11.15. (In any order)
Google Bing AOL
Yahoo! Ask

What’s New
1-5. Answers Vary
Assessment
1-10. Answers Vary