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English
Quarter 2 – Module 4:
Extracting Information
Strategies
English – Grade 7
Quarter 2 – Module 4: Extracting Information Strategies
First Edition, 2020

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English
Quarter 2 – Module 4:
Extracting Information
Strategies
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to
use this module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress
while allowing them to manage their own learning at home.
Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as
they do the tasks included in the module.

For the learner:

As a learner, you must learn to become responsible of your own
learning. Take time to read, understand, and perform the different
activities in the module.
As you go through the different activities of this module be
reminded of the following:
1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on
any part of the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in
answering the exercises.
2. Do not forget to answer Let Us Try before moving on to the other
activities.
3. Read the instructions carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking
your answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are
done.
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!

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 Let Us Learn

Hey there! Are you excited about your new learning journey? Today,
you will be learning another important writing and reading strategies. In this
module, you be extracting ideas and make a summary, a précis, and a
paraphrase.

In this module, you will be accomplishing series of exercises to help

you improve your interpreting skills. After going through this, you are
expected to:

1. define summary, précis, and paraphrase through “Six-Letter Solution

Game”;

2. express the importance of summarizing, making a précis, and

paraphrasing through constructive written explanation; and

3. extract information from a text using summarizing, making a précis,

and paraphrasing through short reading activity (EN7WC-II-c-5).

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 Let Us Try

This activity is called Six-Letter Solution Game. In this game you will
guess the three secret words and to know what these words are, you need to
omit six letters in each group. Just mark “X” the letter you would like to
omit. Are you excited? Don’t worry there will be a definition given to each
group as your hint. Go and play!

S Q U M V M A Z X P R T Y

It is a brief statement that gives the most important points of

something.

P Y Q R L É X C A I Z S

It is a way of summarizing in which the tone, proportions, and

meaning of the original text are maintained.

P Y A W R K A P S H C R A F S E

It is to repeat something written or spoken using different

words, often in a humorous form or in a simpler and shorter form that
makes the original meaning clearer.

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 Let Us Study
How are you doing so far? Are you learning from your exercises?
Before we move on, first let us be guided with this discussion.

 Summaries omit the details, and focus on the core, most important
points in a longer piece of information. It determines essential ideas
and consolidates important details that support them. It enables the
readers to focus on key words and phrases of an assigned text that
are worth noting and remembering. To do the summarizing you need
to read first the whole selection and identify the main ideas, the
crucial details necessary for supporting details and the irrelevant and
unnecessary information. Lastly, use the key words/phrase to
identify the main points from the text.

Example:

Original Text: The amphibians which are the animal class, to

which our frogs and toads belong, were the first animals to crawl from
the sea and inhabit the earth.
Summary: The first animals to leave the sea and live on dry
land were the amphibian.

 When you write a précis, you use one or two concise sentences to give
the essence of a passage. A précis is a concise summary. It should
contain only the essential points, statements, or facts with the focus
on reproducing the logic, organization, and emphasis. To present a
shortened version of a source, while maintaining key words, data, or
concepts from the original. To do the précis you need to identify and
use the keywords used in the original text or speech, then maintain
the order and structure of the original and serve as a shorter
substitute for the original text or speech. See the example below.

Example:

Original Text: Laura made a terrible, terrible mistake when she

took David’s letter from him, and Henry had to despise her with all his
heart her name, which was the best evidence of his great devotion and
love.
Précis: Although Henry was angry with Laura, he was still in
love with her.

 When you paraphrase, you retell the story in your own words in a
passage that is about the same length as the original. A paraphrase

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 thus has no space limits. Indeed, a paraphrase might be much longer
than the original text.

Example:

Original Text: common belief can change over time. For

example, most people once thought the Sun orbited around the Earth.
Paraphrase: People believe at one time that the Sun orbited the
Earth. Nowadays, people know the opposite, showing that common beliefs
don’t stay the same.

It seemed that you have an idea already on what you will be learning
in this module. Great! Read the selection below and answer the following
questions. Go and begin!

'Health' is a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Health is thus a level of
functional efficiency of living beings and a general condition of a person’s
mind, body and spirit, meaning it is free from illness, injury and pain. It is a
resource of everyday life and a positive concept emphasizing physical
capabilities.

Good health is a secret of every happy man. There is an old saying,

'Health is Wealth'. Staying healthy for children is vital for proper growth and
development of mind and body as they need to focus in the class and fully
participate in the activities on the field. Parents must take their children for
medical check-up and learn from experts about their development in terms
of height and weight, as it has a huge impact on their overall performance
and efficiency. If you are strong and healthy, you can be a shining example
to others and teach them how to achieve vibrant health.

Good health is a matter of great concern, to maintain it, healthy living

and a disciplined life is a must. One of the best ways is to drink plenty of
water as it reduces the risk of infection, keeps your skin healthy, reduces
the risk of heart attack, burns body fat and regulates our body temperature.
We should sleep well as it relaxes our body and reduces stress. We need to
have a balanced diet and go for long, brisk walks. Our motto should be to
keep our body clean in order to remain healthy. We must laugh more as
laughing is a therapy and a secret of good health. The government should
include integrated health programs into their public policies and control
specific health problems.

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Let’s answer.

1. What is health?
_____________________________________________________________________

2. Why is health important in life?

_____________________________________________________________________

3. How do you keep yourself healthy?

_____________________________________________________________________

4. What do you think will happen to the society if people do not have
proper health care?
_____________________________________________________________________
5. Do you agree with the statement “Health is Wealth?” Explain your
answer.
_____________________________________________________________________

Let Us Practice
Now let us try to extract some important information from the
selection above. Make a summary, a précis, and a paraphrase of the
text.

1. Summary
_____________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

2. Précis
_____________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

3. Paraphrase
_____________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

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Answer the following questions correctly.

1. What is summary? What is précis? What is paraphrase?

2. What is the difference between summary and précis?
3. How do we write a summary, précis, and paraphrase?
4. How do these writing strategies help you in research or gathering
details?

Let Us Practice More

Hello there! How is your previous learning exercise? Did it help
you or did still confuse you? Don’t worry; the next activity can help
you. Read the paragraphs below. Extract the important information and
write a summary, a précis, and a paraphrase inside the box. Good luck!

Text No. 1: Summarize me!

Alexander Flemming accidentally discovered the penicillin which
makes him well-known. It was 1940, when he returned home from vacation,
he discovered mold growing on a laboratory petri dish. Knowing that the
mold was adept at killing the disease in the same dish, he actively tried to
replicate it. Eventually, this resulted in the innovation on the penicillin
drug.

Text No. 2: Précis it!

Teaching is the noblest of professions. A teacher has a sacred duty to
perform. It is he on who rests the responsibility of molding the character of
young children. Apart from developing their intellect, he can inculcate of
good citizenship, remaining neat and clean, talking decently and sitting
properly. These virtues are not easy to be imbibed. Only he who himself
leads a life of simplicity, purity and rigid discipline can successfully cultivate
these habits in his pupils.
Besides a teacher always remain young. He may grow old in age, but
not in spite. Perpetual contact with budding youths keeps him happy and
cheerful. There are moments when domestic worries weigh heavily on his
mind, but the delightful company of innocent children makes him overcome
his transient moods of despair.

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Text No. 3: Paraphrase me!

Antarctica is the source of cold on the planet just as the sun is the
main source of heat wherein it exerts great control to climate said by
Jacques Cousteau. Antarctica’s cold water is flowing north to mix with warm
water from tropics and the upwelling help in cooling surface water and the
atmosphere.

Let Us Remember
How was everything so far? I believe you already have an idea of
what you are learning. Now let us answer the questions below.

Test I: Match the correct endings to make a definition. Write the letter of the correct
answer.
_______1. To paraphrase means …
_______2. To summarize means …
_______3. To précis means …

a. … to express someone else’s ideas in your own words.

b. … to express only the most important points of someone else’ words.
c. … to express brief summary of a concise, complete, united, and coherent
ideas.

Test II: Look at the following extracts from reading texts. Match them to the
paraphrased sentences. Write the letter of the correct answer.

_____4. Keeping your house cool or warm, driving cars and making things
in factories all pollute the atmosphere.
_____5. This affects the world weather and makes it difficult for animals to
find food and fresh water.
_____6. Humans take away animal’s homes and their food by farming,
when they cut down trees for wood, and when they look for oil.

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 a. When the weather changes, animals can’t find water and food easily.
b. pollution comes from cars, factories, heating and air conditioning.
c. cutting down trees and looking for oil damages animal’s home and takes
away their food.

Test III: Decide if the following statements about writing good summaries are true
or false.
_____7. A summary should be short.
_____8. You should use your own words to express the ideas in the text.
_____9. You need to include all the information in the text.

Let Us Assess
Oops! We are not done yet. At this time, let us try a longer
selection. Read the passage and complete the graphic organizer
below by summarizing, making a précis, and paraphrasing the text. Are you
ready? Good luck!

Lessons One Can Learn About Life of a Dog

There are so many lessons one can learn about life from a dog.
Imagine this scenario: it is raining heavily outside and you need to leave for
someone's house. The dog is up and eager, to go with you. You tell it to stay
home. As you leave, you see it squeezing out through the gap in the
doorway. You scold it and order it back home. Then at every turn you make,
you suddenly see it following you sheepishly at a distance. It follows at the
risk of being reprimanded for the sore reason of being somewhere nearby.
How else can we experience so selfless an instance of love and faithfulness?
We can learn a lifelong lesson from this sincere warm display of perpetual
companionship.
Observe the eating habits of your dog. It does not eat, except when
hungry. It does not drink, unless it is thirsty. It does not gorge itself. It stops
eating when it has had enough.
A dog also sets a perfect example of adaptability. If it is moved to a
strange place, it is able to adapt itself to that place and to its thousand
peculiarities without a murmur of complaint. It is able to learn and adapt to
a new family's ways and customs. It is quick and ready to please. Man,
being accustomed to comfort and wealth will be lost if suddenly stripped of
all he is accustomed to.

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 A dog also teaches us a thing or two about, unselfish love. When a dog
knows death is approaching, it tries, with its last vestige of strength, to
crawl away elsewhere to die, in order to burden its owners no more.
A dog does things with all vigor. However, when there is nothing to do,
it lies down and rests. It does not waste its strength and energy needlessly.
Many working people are burning the candles at both ends. Many suffer
nervous breakdowns due to stress. Perhaps, they should learn to rest like a
dog does. A dog above all is truly man's best friend.
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PARAPHRASE

PRECIS
SUMMARY

Lessons One Can

Learn About Life
of a Dog

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 Let Us Enhance
Now, let us try writing. Just follow what the instruction says.
Again, don’t worry because what is important is for you to practice
what you have learned. If you keep on practicing, you will eventually be good
at writing! Now go and try!

Proverb Example: If someone throws stones at you, throw back bread.

(Kung pukulin ka ng bato, tinapay ang iganti mo.)

1. Think of a Filipino proverb and paraphrase it.

Filipino Proverb: ____________________________________________________

2. Write some information about one of the following topics, use the format
below.
1. Your school 4. Your favorite clothes
2. Your best friend 5. Your teacher
3. Your Family 6. Your favorite food

Topic: My …_______________________

_____________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________.

This is a picture of my ______________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.

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 SUMMARIZE

The information above is all about

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________.

Well done! You have just summarized the information.

Let Us Reflect

It looks like you are through with this module! Congratulations for
actively engaging in the different activities prepared for you.

Reading is not merely reading the text. Paraphrasing, making a précis,

and summarizing are strategies that will help you (reader) to understand
what you are reading and to communicate information to others as you
expound and shorten points using your own words. These strategies also
improve your memory and evaluate what you are reading and even your own
understanding. That is why learning and practicing these strategies are very
essential and highly needed for academic and personal growth. If you find it
difficult now, just keep on practicing and keep on reading because it will
take time for you to master it. What is important is that you are slowly
learning and willing to improve yourself.

Good luck on your application of these strategies in your daily

communication!

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Let Us Practice!
A. Answers may vary
B. Questions:
1. Summary is omission of unnecessary details and shortening ideas that focuses on the core
and important points of the longer text. A précis is a concise sentence that gives the
essence of a passage. Paraphrase is retelling a story in your own words in a passage that is
about the same length as the original.
2. A summary is telling the main idea while précis is telling every detail.
3. Both need extended effort in reading. Summary restates the author’s main ideas. Précis
includes only the essential points, statements or facts from the text. In a paraphrase, you
state in your own words the argument or point of a text.
4. It helps you to extract necessary information and developing your ability to read
comprehensively.
Let Us Study
1. 'Health' is a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.
2. It is a resource of everyday life and a positive concept emphasizing physical capabilities.
3. Staying healthy is vital for proper growth and development of mind and body as we need
to focus and fully participate in the activities on the field.
4. People will definitely easily get sick or worse die because of unhealthy state and society will
lose its capability to sustain and to prosper.
5. Answers may vary.
Let Us Try!
1. Summary
2. Précis
3. Paraphrase
Answer Key
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Let Us Remember
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. C
7. TRUE
8. TRUE
9. FALSE
Let Us Practice More
(POSSIBLE ANSWERS)
Answers may vary
1. Penicillin was discovered in the early 1940s. Alexander Fleming had returned from a
trip and found mold growing on a petri dish. Its effects on the disease led to it being
used as a clinical drug.
2. Teaching is the noblest profession. A teacher himself/herself leading a simple, pure
and disciplined life can mould the character of the young children and make them
neat and good mannered citizens. Besides he remains every young forgetting his own
domestic worries in the constant company of the young.
3. According to Jacques Cousteau, she said that Antarctica is the main source of cold to
the planet wherein the sun is also the source of heat. The importance of the Antarctic
waters flows north at the same time cool atmosphere and oceans.
 References

Zone Books, Lancet Publication (2009, March 7). Retrieved from

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/fulltext

Atom (2016). Summary Writing. Retrieved from http://summary-

writing.blogspot.com/

Department of Education, English-Grade 7, Learner’s Material, First Edition

(2017), pages 171,172,189.

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