ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND
PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES
GROUP 3
GROUP 3 MEMBERS
• Carpizo, Lyca
• Daquiz, Rosemarie
• Garcera, Shamaliah Jane
• Guevarra, Ansley Cate
• Guevarra, Geneva Ann
• Macaslin, Morelia
• Mallari, Danica
• Pineda, Laika
• Venzon, Sherilyn
PRE-TEST
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TRUE OR FALSE
1. Kilocalorie is a unit of energy.
2. The modern comic book came as a giveaway
premium to promote sale of products.
3. Competition is necessary among team
members.
4. The use of premium is an effective sales tool.
5. The Latin verb of competition means “to seek
together”
UNDERSTANDING
CALORIES
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WHAT IS A CALORIE
♦ Calories are also known as
KILOCALORIE.
♦ It is a unit of measurement
that can be applied to any
substance possessing
energy.
♦ Calories describe the potential energy in food
to maintain bodily functions, grow or repair
tissue, and perform mechanical work such as
exercise.
♦ FOOD CALORIES may take the form of fat,
carbohydrates, or proteins.
♦ Once consumed, enzymes act through
metabolic processes and break them into
their perspective categories of fatty acids,
glucose, and amino acids.
♦ These molecules travel through blood stream
to specific cells where they are absorbed.
DID YOU KNOW
♦ The number of calories burned
during an exercise depends on
various factors including body
weight and the type of
exercise.
♦ Gaining or losing weight is a
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WRIGLEY’S CHEWING
GUM
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INTRODUCTION
♦ William Wrigley Jr. sells soap in
Chicago with his Father.
♦ The soap was not popular with
merchants.
♦ Wrigley convinced his father to raise
the price to ten cents and to give
away cheap umbrellas as a premium.
♦ Wrigley created his own company and sells
soap as a wholesaler, giving baking soda as
a premium and using a cook book to
promote each deal.
♦ Over time, the baking soda and cookbook
became popular than the soap.
♦ Wrigley decided to give chewing gum as a
premium.
♦ Wrigley realized that the demand for
premium was stronger than the demand for
the original product.
♦ He created the Wm. Wrigley Jr.
Company to produce and sell
chewing gum.
♦ He started out with two brands of
gum, Vassar and Lotta gums and
soon introduced Juicy Fruit and
Spearmint.
♦ Juicy Fruit and Spearmint are two of
Wrigley’s main brand to this day.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF
COMICS
DID YOU KNOW
♦ The period from the late 1930s to the
middle 1940s is known as the golden
age of comics.
♦ The modern comic book came in the
early 1930s in the US as a giveaway
premium to promote the sale of the
whole range of household products.
The Famous Funnies
comic book that was
started in 1934 was
marked as the first
occasion that a
serialized book of
comics was
attempted.
DID YOU KNOW
♦ Superman was introduced in Action
Comics in 1938, while Batman was
introduced a year later.
♦ On the year 1945, approximately 160
different comic books were being
published in the US each month, and
90% of US children were said to read
comic books on a regular basis.
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COMPETITION AND
COOPERATION
DID YOU KNOW
♦ Early research into competition and
cooperation defined each of them in
terms of the distribution of rewards
related to each other.
♦ COMPETITION was defined as a
situation in which rewards are
distributed unequally on the basis of
performance on the basis of
performance.
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♦ While COOPERATION was defined as a
situation in which rewards are
distributed equally on the basis of
mutual interactive behavior among
individuals.
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DID YOU KNOW
♦ Researchers found definitions of
competition and cooperation based
upon rewards depict them.
♦ Cooperation is viewed as integral
component of competition.
♦ Cooperation is necessary among
team members in order to win the
competition.
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DID YOU KNOW
♦ The word competition is derived from
a Latin verb which means “ to seek
together”.
♦ The word competition supports the
understanding that cooperation,
rather than evoking a characteristic
at the opposite extreme of human
nature from competition, is in reality
a necessary factor in competition.
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SHORT QUIZ
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MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
1. Superman was introduced in Action
Games in 1938.
2. In current understanding, competition is
viewed as opposite of cooperation.
3. Calorie is also known as kilocalorie.
4. Wrigley started out with four brands of
gum and soon introduced Juicy Fruit
and Spearmint.
5. Comic books are printed in bright colors
to attract the attention of potential
customers.
Thank
you for
listening!
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