After going through this module, you are expected to identify the genre of a

material viewed such as movie clip, trailer, news flash, internet-based program,
documentary, video, etc. (EN7VC-I-d-6)specifically, you should be able to:
1. define the term genre;
2. identify the genre of the material viewed;
3. differentiate the genres of viewing by examining the various examples
presented;
4. organize information of the material viewed and evaluate its
importance;
5. observe correct subject and verb agreement in writing personal journal;
6. present a graphic organizer containing information from a material
viewed.
 What I Know

Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. It is a commercial advertisement for a feature film that will be exhibited
in the future at a cinema.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer
2. It is a non-fictional, motion picture intended to document reality,
primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a
historical record.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer

3. It is a program available online and is more likely to be free of monthly

charge.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer
4. It is a report that contains information about precipitation, wind speed
and direction, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer
5. A report on an important piece of news that is given in the middle of
another television or radio show.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer

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 Genres of Viewing
What’s In

In your previous lesson, you learned about the common types of relationships
in analogy. One of those is synonym. Today, you will apply what you have
learned by answering the organizer provided.

When you hear the word genre, what comes immediately into your
mind? Choose the words associated with the term genre from the pool of
words provided below.
Sunshine Idea Organizer

Genre

kind sort type category classification

style form content view literary

Activity 1 Weekly Television/Online Viewing Log

As an average student, you spend at least 900 hours a year in school

and 1,200 hours viewing television, movies, and online videos. With that, you
get tons of information about the world and how you could interact with
people.

Use this log to keep track of your daily television or online viewing
habits whether done at home or at your neighbor’s place. At the end of day 5,
add the viewing time for each day to discover your daily total for viewing.

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 For those who do not have access to television, you may write zero in
your viewing time.

DAY SHOW TITLE VIEWING TIME

Total Viewing Time: ________ hours and _____ minutes

What is It Activity 2 Let’s Get Familiar

Below is a chart of materials or programs which you can view from your
television sets or through the internet. Examine each item and put a check
mark under the column not familiar if you have not seen the material and
familiar if you have seen it.
Materials Not familiar Familiar

1. documentary

2. internet-based

3. movie trailer

4. news flash

5. weather report

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 Our daily living highly involves visual media such that the television and
online platform allows us to become active in the modern way of
communicating around the world. We see advertisements, films, diagrams,
symbols, photographs, videos, drama, drawings, sculpture and paintings in a
daily basis that pave way to developing the viewing skill, as the fifth macro
skill of learning English language.

Viewing helps you understand the message by seeking and checking

understanding. It is classified according to its purpose and type of information
presented. The classification of viewing is called genres of viewing.

There are five genres of viewing: news flash, weather report,

internet-based program, movie trailer, and documentary.

Genres of Viewing

When there are current issues that the news organizations like ABS-
CBN, GMA, and CNN feel the warrant of interrupting their scheduled
programming in television, news flash is aired. The information conveyed in a
newsflash is important enough for viewers to take a quick break. For example,
a typhoon with heavy rain would come to your place, a timely news will
interrupt your favorite television shows like teleserye and movies.

Another genre is weather report, which is a part of an entire news

program that updates and foretells weather conditions on a specific area.
Weather forecasts are made by collecting data about the current state of the
atmosphere at a given place. When you wanted to know the weather for the
next day, you could watch the news program’s weather report to be updated.

Internet-based program also provides the viewers informative shows

that can be accessed through websites using internet connection. Netflix,
iWant TV, and many more internet-based programs provide shows that are
highly dependent to the internet. It would also require accessing through
desktop computers, laptops, and smart phones.

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 Oftentimes, when there are upcoming movies, there are series of
selected shots that are shown in television or internet. As these movie
trailers attract you because of its exciting, funny, or noteworthy parts of the
film, these are usually short to avoid spoilers.

Finally, a documentary is a genre of viewing that is based on

research. You can usually see it in long duration. As it is lengthy, it has the
ability to bring us a broader, more deeply engaged and wider view of the
current issues.

Activity 3 Language Connections

Read and study the following sentences.
• A documentary contains factual information that teaches us
about the fast, changing world.
• An effective news flash is written with very important details
about certain events that could affect us.

• Learning weather reports are helpful in determining future

events.

Process Questions:
1. What do you notice about the underlined words?
2. What do you call the underlined words?
3. What do you notice about the boxed words?
4. Which of these words are singular? Which are plural?
5. What do you need to remember about subjects and verbs
in sentences?

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 A subject is a part of a sentence that contains the person, place, thing
or idea performing the action in a sentence.
In the sentences above, the underlined words documentary, news
flash, and reports are the subject of each sentence while the boxed words
contains, teaches, are and is written are called verbs.
Verbs are the action words in a sentence that describe what the
subject is doing. Some verbs can function as main verbs or helping verbs also
called an auxiliary verb.

Basic Rule on Subject – Verb Agreement

• Subjects and verbs must agree in number.
A singular subject needs a singular verb; a plural subject
needs a plural verb.
Ms. Salig is a doctor by profession. Good leaders are open-minded. subject
verb subject verb
Basic Pattern

Singular Plural
First person I walk we walk
Second person you walk you walk
Third person he/she/it walks they walk

Examples:
Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a threat to all people worldwide.

Overseas Filipinos are allowed to return home provided they submit

themselves for quarantine.

World Health Organization (WHO) advises people of all ages to

take steps to protect themselves from the virus.

Senior citizens appear to be more vulnerable to becoming severely

ill with the virus.

Source: https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp

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 What I Have Learned

Read the following sentences about the points to ponder for genres of

viewing. Choose the correct form of the verb inside the parentheses.

1. Viewing(is,are) an active process of comprehending visual media,

such as in television and online platform wherein there (is, are)

advertising images, films, diagrams, symbols, photographs, videos,

drama, drawings, sculpture and paintings.

2. Viewing(help, helps) us acquire information and appreciate ideas that

visually communicated by others.

3. On television,news flash(is, are) an important, timely piece of news

that (is,are) delivered quickly that could interrupt the currently aired

program.

4. Weather reports(is,are) part of a television program that (feature,

features) a prediction of a specific place’s weather observation.

5. Any informative program or show that (is, are) accessed through a

website in an online platform (is, are) called internet-based program.

6. Movie trailers(is, are)short clips that are usually shown before a movie

(is, are) officiallyreleased.

7. A research-based compilation of information about a certain subject (is,

are) a documentary.

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 What I Can Do

Activity 4 Generating Viewing Ideas

Watch the video clip Here's How to Spot Coronavirus
Misinformation on Social Media and answer the graph that follows. Copy
the graph on your 1 whole paper.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcNLrmChKBM

Video Title: ______________________

Source:_________________________

What are the common misinformation How do you check for valid
about preventing COVID-19? information about COVID-19?
___________________________ ___________________________
___________________________ ___________________________
___________________________ ___________________________
___________________________ ___________________________
___________________________ ___________________________

Why is it very important to check the information from social media?

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

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 Assessment
Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on ½
crosswise paper.
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1. A segment in ABS-CBN news last August 3, 2018 which talked

about a low-pressure area located at 630 km East of Guiuan,
Eastern Samar.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer
2. In the middle of a show in ABS-CBN last January 26, 2020 at
around 4:10 in the afternoon, an important news was aired about a
place in Luzon with no electricity due to typhoon “Ompong”.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer
3. A short clip from the film “Hello, Love, Goodbye” was advertised on
television for promotion purposes.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer

4. “Mythbusters” is an informative online show hosted by Jon Lung

and Brian Louden. The show will take over testing crazy science
experiments.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer
5. “Manny” is a hard-hitting feature length film that explores the many
triumphs and tribulations of Filipino boxing sensation Manny
Pacquiao.
a. documentary d. news flash
b. internet-based e. weather report
c. movie trailer

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 Additional Activity

Nuggets of Wisdom. Go over the various tasks that you came across
in the lesson. Reflect on the valuable insights that you have gained. Make
sure to write down your reflection below observing the
correct subject-verb agreement rules.

What do you think is the most useful genre of viewing? Why do you
think so?

_____________________________________________________________
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Would you believe that the genres of viewing can impact your study
habits? In what way?
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