Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Regional Office IX, Zamboanga Peninsula

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Quarter 3 – Module 2:
(INDOOR RECREATION)

Name of Learner: ___________________________

Grade & Section: ___________________________
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Name of School: ___________________________
 What I need to Know?
Indoor recreational activities are voluntarily undertaken for pleasure,
exercise, relaxation, and leisure. It is a way of rejuvenating the mind and the
body especially when you are caught in situations such as hectic jobs and
routine chores. This is why you have these modules, for you to indulge in some recreational
activities like scrabble, chess, and domino.
Scrabble, chess, and domino are varieties of activities that affect what, when, and how
people recreate including change in lifestyle, family structure/commitments, work demands,
and work-life balance. Participating in this leisure and recreational activities can foster a
range of positive benefits including. Opportunities for health, well being, and quality
lifestyle for the community. Personal development, expressions, creativity, individuality,
social, physical and intellectual, and close family ties/relationship.

Content Standard
The learner demonstrates understanding of the benefits that the family can derive from
participating in indoor recreational activities.

Learning Competencies
The learner demonstrates understanding of the benefits that the family can derive from
participating in indoor recreational activities.
At the end of the module, they should be able to
1. discuss the nature/background of the game scrabble, chess;
2. explain the health and fitness benefits derive from playing scrabble;
3. practice proper and acceptable behaviour when participating in indoor recreational
activities
4. execute basic skills and tactics in indoor recreational activities;
5. interpret rules and regulations of the game scrabble and chess;
6. apply knowledge of rules and regulations in scrabble and chess;
7. promote indoor recreational activities to family members.

Performance Standard
The learner takes part in indoor recreational activities that promote lifelong fitness and
wellness in the family

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 What I know?
In your previous module you have learned about Team Sports- Basketball
and Baseball.
Let’s put it in a test!
Activity 1
Directions: The table indicates the basic skills in playing basketball and baseball. Identify
which sport is appropriate for each of the skills is given. Write the corresponding team sport
on the space provided.

BASKETBALL BASEBALL

Basic Skills Team Sports

1. Dribbling

2. Passing

3. Batting

4. Pitching

5. Throwing

What’s In?
Activity 2
This activity will assess the learners’ encounter with scrabble and will serve as
the basis in planning the sequence of their learning activities regarding indoor
recreational activities. Ask them to reflect on their participation in a scrabble
game by accomplishing the questionnaire below.

QUESTIONS YES NO
Have I experience playing SCRABBLE
Do I play SCRABBLE often?
Do I play SCRABBLE with friends? Do I play
SCRABBLE with friends?
Do I play SCRABBLE with family?

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Am I a member of a SCRABBLE team in school?
Do I enjoy participating in a SCRABBLE game?
Do I consider the benefits derived from playing
SCRABBLE?
Are there SCRABBLE game enthusiast in my
family?
Do I plan to make SCRABBLE as one of my
lifelong activity?

What’s New?
Activity 3
Table A contains terms used in playing different indoor recreational activities
while Table B will be your matching board.
Select from Table A the terms used in playing Scrabble and place it on the space providedfor
in Table B.
Table A: Terms used in Different Indoor Activities
Spy Boneyard Rice Knight Hardway
Tiles Jail Spade Double Word Cardboard
Double Letter Bankrupt Heart Hook Letter Free Space
Soldier Square Triple Word Open Board Queen
Flag Castling Blank Tiles Chance Joker
Rectangle Draw Insignia Rook Count Tiles
Bones Chips Rank Mate Double Challenge
Adjutant Stock Go to Jail False Alarm Shuffle

Table B: Scrabble Board

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

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 What’s in?
Scrabble
1. BINGO- Any word played that uses all seven letters on the rack, earning a bonus of 50
points.
2. BLOCKING -The act of playing a word on the board that stops the opponent from making
a potentially large score. It also refers to the act of playing words that make it harder for
either player to score many points.
3. CHALLENGE-An opponent calls a "CHALLENGE" when s/he thinks a play is not
acceptable (i.e. not in the OWL or Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh
Edition). A Word Judge is called to verify which words are acceptable or not. Whenever
there is a challenge, someone loses one turn.
4. COUNT TILES- players often count tiles at two different times: 1) before a game begins
to ensure that there are 100 tiles; 2) near the end of the game, when knowing exactly how
many tiles remain to be played can be crucial for the astute player.
5. DOUBLE-DOUBLE-When a player makes a play with letters that cover two
Double-Word Squares. The bonus for covering two DWSs one play: quadruple the sum of
the value of the letters of the "Double-Double" word. The sum should include that extra
values earned form any DLS covered that turn only.
6. END GAME-The portion of a SCRABBLE game when there are less than seven tiles left
to draw from the bag.
7. HOOK LETTER (A.K.A. HOOK)-A letter that will spell a new word when it is played
with in the front of or at the end of a word already on the board. Example: With HARD on
the board, the letter Y is a hook letter since HARDY is acceptable. Likewise, the letter C can
be "hooked: since CHARD is acceptable.
8. PASSING-A player may pass his/her turn by not exchanging tiles and not making a play
on the board. The player scores zero and says "Pass!" and starts opponent's timer. It is now
opponent's turn.
Note that when there are 6 consecutive scores of zero in a game, the game is finished. 9.
SCRABBLE- is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words
from individual lettered tiles on a gameboard marked with a 15-by-15 grid.
10. TILES - Game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used
in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc

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CHESS
Brief History of Chess
Do you know where chess originated? Chess is a game that has been played for centuries and
was thought to have originated in India over the 15th century. Long ago, it was considered a
game reserved only for Kings and members of the upper classes. Nowadays, chess is played
by common people even at early age.
The modern design of chess pieces bears the name Staunton, who was an English master in
the mid-18OO's. These are the type of pieces that are now used in all tournaments worldwide.
The first international chess tournament was the London Tourney played in 1851. A German
named Adolf Anderssen won the game. He became the unofficial best chess player of the
world because he did not receive any award or title.
The first great American-born chess player is Paul Morphy. Paul traveled to Europe in the
185O's, where he beat all challengers, including Adolf Anderssen. However, the English
champion of the time (Staunton) refused to play with him, so Morphy never became a world
chess champ.
The first official championship chess tournament was played in 1866 in London, with sand
clocks to restrict the length of a game. A Bohemian (Czechoslovakian) Jew named Steinitz
won the game. He became the world's first official chess champion, holding this title until
1894.
Have you wondered who rules in the world of chess today? Recently, Russia dominates the
game of chess. This results from the establishment of government schools for talented chess
players after the communist revolution of 1917. Since 1927, many of the top chess players
have been citizens of the former USSR, and include: Tal, Alekhine, Petrosian, Spassky,
Smyslov, Anatoli Karpov, and Gary Kasparov.

Chess is an indoor recreational activity which is now being introduced as a major part of
secondary level curriculum because of the benefits it gives to the students.
You probably know some of the benefits derived from playing chess. Here are some of the
benefits which can be derived from playing chess.

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Proper and Acceptable Behavior when Participating In Indoor Recreational Activities.

There are proper and acceptable behaviors which you should remember when participating
in indoor recreational activities.
1. Never boast over a victory (no happy dances) or show of rude behavior over a defeat.
Always show sportsmanship.
2. Minimize talking when at the events venue.
3. Refrain from giving comments on another game that is in progress, it may distract the
other players.
4. Do not make it obvious if you make a mistake or you see someone else make a mistake
while playing. It might be that your opponent will not notice your mistake if you play quietly.
5. Never blame others for something they did not do or lie about your move in order to save
a point.
6. If you disagree with what your opponent has done and believe he/she has made an illegal
move, raise your hand and ask for help.

RULES AND REGULATIONS IN CHESS

As you watch a chess match, there are two players on opposite sides of a board containing 64
squares of alternating colors. Each player has 16 pieces: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops,
2 knights, and 8 pawns. The goal of the game is to checkmate the other king. Checkmate
happens when the king is in a position to be captured (in check) and cannot escape from
capture.

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The eight vertical columns of squares are called ‘files’. The eight horizontal rows of squares
are called ‘ranks’. A straight line of squares of the same color, running from one edge of the
board to an adjacent edge, is called a ‘diagonal’.
Starting a Game
There are some steps which you need to follow to start a game of chess. These are the
following:
1. Begin by laying out the chess board so that each player has the white color square in the
bottom right hand side
2. Arrange the chess pieces in the following order: all pawns on the second row, rooks in the
corners, then the knights, bishops, and finally the queen, who always goes on her own
matching color (white queen on white, black queen on black), and the king on the remaining
square.
3. The player with the white pieces always moves first. The players decide who will have the
white pieces. The white and black moves alternately until the end of the game.
How the Chess Pieces Move
Do you know the different functions of each 6 different kinds of pieces chess pieces? You
need to remember each specific move to win a game. Pieces can be moved to capture an
opponent's piece. This is done by landing on their square and then replacing them. Pieces can
also move to defend other pieces in case of capture, or control important squares in the game.
The King
The king is the most important pieces, however it is
considered one of the weakest. The king only moves one
square in any direction - up, down, to the sides, and
diagonally. The king may never move himself into check
(where he could be captured).
The Queen
The queen is the most powerful piece. It moves in any one
straight direction - forward, backward, sideways, or
diagonally. As all the other pieces except the knight, it
cannot move over any intervening piece.

The Rook
The rook may move to any square as far as it wants, but only
forward, backward, and to the sides. The rooks are
particularly powerful pieces when they are protecting each
other and working together!

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 The Bishop
The bishop may move as far as it wants, but only diagonally.
Each bishop starts on one color (light or dark) and must
always stay on that color. Bishops work well together because they cover up each other’s
weaknesses.

The Knight
Knights moves by going two squares in one direction, and
then one more move just like an “L” shape. Knights are the
only pieces that can move over other pieces.

The Pawns
Pawns move forward, but capture diagonally. They can never
move backwards. On its first move, the pawn can advance two
squares at a time. Succeeding moves will be one square at a
time.
Promotion
Pawns have another special ability and that is that if a pawn reaches the other side of the
board it can become any other chess piece except the king. A pawn may be exchanged to a
queen, rook, bishop or a knight. Pawns exchange is not restricted to a piece that has been
captured. Only pawns may be promoted.

Check and Checkmate

Let us recall, the purpose of the game is to checkmate the opponent’s king. Checkmate
occurs if the king is checked and cannot get out of check. If a king is checked, he can get out
in by moving out of the way, blocking the check with another piece, or capturing the piece
threatening the king. If a king has no possible move to escape, then the game is over.
Draws In a chess game, if nobody ends as a winner, it is declared as a draw. There are 5
reasons why a chess game may end in a draw:
 The position reaches a stalemate when it is one player’s turn to move, but his king is
NOT in check and yet he does not have another legal move.
 The players agree to stop playing.
 There are not enough pieces on the board to force a checkmate (example: a king and a
bishop vs. a king)
 A player declares a draw if the same exact position is repeated three times.

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 Fifty consecutive moves have been played where neither player has moved a pawn or
captured a piece.
Another thing is that in the game of chess, take note that there is a “touch-move” policy.
Once a player touches one of its own pieces he must move that piece as long as it is a legal
move. If a player touches an opponent’s piece, he must capture that piece. In case a player
intends to adjust a piece on the board, he must first announce the intention by saying
“adjust”.

Lastly, there are basic strategies that you should always remember:
1. Always protect your king.
2. Don’t give pieces away
3. Control the center.
4. Use all of your pieces. Try and develop all of your pieces so that you have more to use
when you attack the king.

What’s more?

Activity 4: Playing with Family

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HOW I APPRECIATE THE GAME:
Activity 5: Answer the following questions

Note: To enhance your learners’ skills in playing scrabble, tell them to play online
scrabble game at www.games.com>Word Games.
which I can used in my life 5. Enhanced my capabilities in terms of vocabulary

What I have Learned?

Activity 6
WHAT VALUE I LEARNED FROM PLAYING SCRABBLE?
One of the important aspects in playing scrabble is about developing good values.
Complete the survey by determining values learned while playing scrabble.
Not Slightly Most
Important Important Important
1. Developed camaraderie among my peers
2. Established good relationship with my
family
3. To make intelligent decisions in my life
4. To be smart in which I can used in my
life
5. Enhanced my capabilities in terms of
vocabulary

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Activity : The King and I.
Write the function of each chess piece and the function of the family members.
Synthesize the results by emphasizing that like chess, every family member has a
function to perform in the family.

What I can Do?

Activity 7: I WANT TO PLAY !

This is now the opportunity for you to demonstrate the basic skills in scrabble you
have practiced online.
Instruction:

 With your family form a group with 4 members each.

 Assign an observer & a recorder while the other members of the group will play.
While playing, the observers / recorders will record their observations on skills /
tactics used/applied by the players.
 At the end of the game, make a reflection paper 3-5 sentences sharing your
experiences in the game.

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 ASSESSMENT

Direction: Read the questions carefully. Encircle the letter of your choice.
1. Which of the following is not a characteristic of an Indoor Recreation?
A. Pleasure B. Income C. Relaxation D. Exercise

2. Which game is composed of two to four players score points by forming words from
individual lettered tiles on a gameboard?
A. Scrabble B. Chess C. Domino D. Snake and Ladder

3. How many tiles does scrabble have?

A. 98 B. 100 C. 120 D. 50

4. What portion of the game when there are less than seven tiles left to draw from the bag?
A. Blocking B. Challenge C. End Game D. Tiles

5. Who was the first great American-born chess player?

A. Paul Morphy B. Adolf Andersen C.Steinitz D. James Naimsmith

6. How many chess pieces does each player have?

A. 14 B 16 C. 18 D. 20

7. Which of the following is a proper and acceptable behavior in playing chess?

A. Ben congratulated his opponent after he lost the game.
B. Risa was noisy during the competition.
C. Claire was coaching Lea during the game.
D. David was eaing during the game.

8. Which chess piece is the most important and moves only 1 square in any direction?
A. Queen B. King C. Pawn D. Bishop

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9. Which piece has special ability to promote as it reaches the other side of the board it can
become any other chess piece except the king?
A. Rook B. Bishop C. Queen D. Pawn

10. Which of the following is not a basic strategy of playing chess?

A. Protect your queen
B. Don’t give pieces away
C. Protect your King.
D. Control the center.

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 References:
Scrabble
1. Wikipedia : The free Encyclopedia
2. www.Scrabblefinder.com
3. 3. www.lifestyle.indianetzone.com
4. http://www.google.com.ph
5. MAPEH-CAT IV By Vilma Perez, et.al.
6. http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/glossary.cfm

Chess
http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=124&view=article
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/basic-rules-of-chess-how-to-play-chess.html
http://www.oksports.ie/games-rules/chess/
http://clatskaniechessclub.tripod.com/id70.html http://www.learn-
chess.com/the_history_of_chess2700

DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Writer: JERRA MAE S. CIRCULADO

Editor: GILBERT B. BENITEZ
Language Editor: JANICE L. CADUGDUG
Proof Reader: AHMAD A. ABUBAKAR
Illustrators: ODEZA G. ACUÑA
Layout Artist: ODEZA G. ACUÑA

Management Team:
Julieto H. Fernandez, Ed. D., CESO VI
SDS-Isabela City
Maria Laarni T. Villanueva, Ed. D., CESE
ASDS-Isabela City
Henry R. Tura, CID Chief
Elsa A. Usman, LR Supervisor
Jani P. Ismael, EPS-MAPEH, Module Coordinator

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 The Footprints Prayer Trees by Joyce Kilmer
One night I had a dream. I dreamed I think that I shall never see
that I was walking along the beach A poem lovely as a tree.
with the LORD.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
In the beach, there were two (2) sets Against the earth’s sweet flowing
of footprints – one belong to me and breast;
the other to the LORD.
A tree that looks at God all day,
Then, later, after a long walk, I And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
noticed only one set of footprints.
A tree that may in Summer wear
“And I ask the LORD. Why? Why?
A nest of robins in her hair;
Why did you leave me when I am sad
and helpless?”
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
And the LORD replied “My son, My Who intimately lives with rain.
son, I have never left you. There was
only one (1) set of footprints in the Poems are made by fools like me,
sand, because it was then that I But only God can make a tree.
CARRIED YOU!

The Footprints Prayer Trees by Joyce Kilmer

One night I had a dream. I dreamed I think that I shall never see
that I was walking along the beach A poem lovely as a tree.
with the LORD.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
In the beach, there were two (2) sets Against the earth’s sweet flowing
of footprints – one belong to me and breast;
the other to the LORD.
A tree that looks at God all day,
Then, later, after a long walk, I And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
noticed only one set of footprints.
A tree that may in Summer wear
“And I ask the LORD. Why? Why?
A nest of robins in her hair;
Why did you leave me when I am sad
and helpless?”
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
And the LORD replied “My son, My Who intimately lives with rain.
son, I have never left you. There was
only one (1) set of footprints in the Poems are made by fools like me,
sand, because it was then that I But only God can make a tree.
CARRIED YOU!
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Answer Key

Activity 1
1. Basketball
2. Basketball
3. Baseball
4. Baseball
5. Basebal

Activity 3

1. Tiles
2. Triple Word
3. Count Tiles
4. Shuffle
5. Hook Letter
6. Double Letter
7. Double Word
8. Double Challenge
9. Blank Tiles
10. Open Board

Assessment:
Answer Key:
1. B
2. A
3. B
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. D
10. A

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