GRADE 7 ENGLISH

LESSON 7
Features of Expository Texts
 MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING
COMPETENCIES
• Use appropriate reading strategies to meet one’s
purpose (e.g., Scanning, skimming, close reading, etc.)
(EN7RC-IV-b-10)
• Use appropriate reading strategies for various text
types (EN7RC-IV-b-10)
• Summarize key information from a text (EN6OL-IVj-
3.6)
• Cite evidence to support a general statement
(EN7RC-IV-g- 10.4)
• React to what is asserted or expressed in a text
(EN7RC-IIIe-2.1.7)
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Look at these headings taken from

textbooks and decide whether they
are Expository or Explanation text
types – write your answers on the
Worksheet:

1. How Does Rain Happen?

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Rain is liquid precipitation: water falling from the

sky. Raindrops fall to Earth
when clouds become saturated, or filled, with water
droplets. Millions of water droplets bump into each other
as they gather in a cloud. When a small water droplet
bumps into a bigger one, it condenses, or combines, with
the larger one. As this continues to happen, the droplet
gets heavier and heavier. When the water droplet becomes
too heavy to continue floating around in the cloud, it falls
to the ground.
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Human life depends on rain. Rain is the source

of freshwater for many cultures where rivers, lakes,
or aquifers are not easily accessible. Rain makes
modern life possible by providing water
for agriculture, industry, hygiene, and electrical
energy. Governments, groups, and individuals
collect rain for personal and public use.
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2. Tornadoes, Cyclones and
Hurricanes
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Centuries ago, European explorers learned the

indigenous word hurakan, signifying evil
spirits and weather gods, to describe the
storms that battered their ships in the
Caribbean. Today, "hurricane" is one of three
names for giant, spiraling tropical storms with
winds of at least 119 kilometers (74 miles) an
hour.
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Called hurricanes when they develop over the North

Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific,
these rotating storms are known as cyclones when they
form over the South Pacific and Indian Ocean,
and typhoons when they develop in the Northwest Pacific.
Hurricanes begin as tropical disturbances in warm ocean
waters with surface temperatures of at least 26.5 degrees
Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit). Those low-pressure
systems are fed by energy from warm seas.
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Inside thunderclouds, warm, humid air

rises, while cool air falls--along with rain or
hail. These conditions can cause spinning
air currents inside the cloud. Although the
spinning currents start out horizontal, they
can turn vertical and drop down from the
cloud--becoming a tornado.
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3. Japan
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Japan was settled about 35,000 years

ago by Paleolithic people from the Asian
mainland. At the end of the last Ice Age,
about 10,000 years ago, a culture called
the Jomon developed. Jomon hunter-
gatherers fashioned fur clothing, wooden
houses, and elaborate clay vessels.
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Japan is the eleventh most populous country in
the world, as well as one of the most densely
populated. About three-fourths of the country's
terrain is mountainous, concentrating its highly
urbanized population on narrow coastal plains. Japan
is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight
traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most
populous metropolitan area in the world. Japan has the
world's highest life expectancy, though it is
experiencing a population decline.
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Japan has been inhabited since

the Upper Paleolithic period (30,000
BC). Between the 4th and 9th
centuries, the kingdoms of Japan
became unified under an
emperor and the imperial court based
in Heian-kyō.
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4. Why the Dinosaurs
Became Extinct
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Palaeontological deductions from the fossil remnants of extinct

dinosaurs tell us much about their classification into species as
well as about their physiological and behavioural
characteristics. Geological evidence indicates that dinosaurs
became extinct at the boundary between the Cretaceous and
Paleogene eras, about 66 million years ago, at a time when there
was worldwide environmental change resulting from the impact
of a large celestial object with the Earth and/or from vast
volcanic eruptions.
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However, apart from the presumption that climate change and

interference with food supply contributed to their extinction, no
biological mechanism has been suggested to explain why such a
diverse range of terrestrial vertebrates ceased to exist. One of
perhaps several contributing mechanisms comes by
extrapolating from the physiology of the avian descendants of
dinosaurs. This raises the possibility that cholecalciferol (vitamin
D3) deficiency of developing embryos in dinosaur eggs could
have caused their death before hatching, thus extinguishing the
entire family of dinosaurs through failure to reproduce.
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Although the debate between the gradualists and

the catastrophists appears to be still unresolved, both
groups of paleontologists do agree that the dating of
dinosaur fossils ended in the era of the Chicxulub
impact event. Even if the diversity of dinosaur species
had been in decline, the gradualists do acknowledge
that the worldwide environmental changes caused by
that impact could have led to their final extinction.
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Clearly the effect of the asteroid or comet collision would have been devastating to all
life forms in a wide geographical region around the impact site. The proposed environmental
changes that would have occurred worldwide include a period of dim sunlight because of solar
radiation absorption by ejected particles and aerosols in the atmosphere and stratosphere.
Consequently, there would have been a short-term temperature drop which, together with
diminished sunlight, would have inhibited or killed photosynthetic plants. However, perhaps a more
significant effect, as far as the dinosaurs were concerned, was a consequence of the geological site
of impact. The Chicxulub site contains vast amounts of limestone (CaCO 3), anhydrite (CaSO4) and
gypsum (CaSO4.2H2O) as well as hydrocarbons. A result of the asteroid impact would have been the
ejection into the stratosphere of particulate carbon soot, CO 2 and sulfate aerosols. This would have
had a marked cooling effect on the climate from the absorption of much solar radiation. Because
such geological sites that are rich in sulfur and carbon deposits are not plentiful, it has been
suggested that if the asteroid impact had occurred in most other regions of the world, the
probability of mass extinctions would have been much less.
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Q2.With a partner, work

out 3 types of information
you would expect to find in
a text called ‘Tornadoes,
Cyclones and Hurricanes’
In this lesson, it will help the
learners know what to look
out for or what are the
important bits when they have
to read expository or
information texts that they’ve
never read before – such as
in a test or examination.
LANGUAGE PRACTICE

Here are some key words from the

text that you may not know or
remember. Let’s say each word
together
 COMPONENT 3: LANGUAGE PRACTICE
Below are words that are important in the narrative we
will read. Let’s practice these words.
a technique (such as the combining of sound, video, and
Multimedia text) for expressing ideas (as in communication,
entertainment, or art) in which several media are employed

Integrated to form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified

whole.

Animation cartoons

“the ability of a computer, program or other

content to respond to the actions of the person
Interactivity who is using it
 COMPONENT 3: LANGUAGE PRACTICE
Below are words that are important in the narrative we
will read. Let’s practice these words.
another term for multimedia, usually involving links
Hypermedia between sites and functions on the internet

a visual rather than a verbal presentation of

Infographics information

an event on the internet where people can join in

Webinar using their computer
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CONTEXT CLUES: Determine the meaning of the unfamiliar
word/phrase based on its context in the sentence.

multimedia

Athena, who has studied multimedia in

London is a great expert in computers.
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CONTEXT CLUES: Determine the meaning of the unfamiliar
word/phrase based on its context in the sentence.

She integrated
integrated
multimedia to
her presentation.
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CONTEXT CLUES: Determine the meaning of the unfamiliar
word/phrase based on its context in the sentence.

The firm specializes in

Animation
3D computer graphics
and animation.
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CONTEXT CLUES: Determine the meaning of the unfamiliar
word/phrase based on its context in the sentence.

Interactivity
Robots are specifically designed for
interactions with humans, and
often interactivity is the primary
purpose.
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CONTEXT CLUES: Determine the meaning of the unfamiliar
word/phrase based on its context in the sentence.

Hypermedia

It's time for hypermedia to

move to talking pictures.
 COMPONENT 3: LANGUAGE PRACTICE
CONTEXT CLUES: Determine the meaning of the unfamiliar
word/phrase based on its context in the sentence.

Infographics

A new infographic has been created to

make physical activity recommendations
more accessible.
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CONTEXT CLUES: Determine the meaning of the unfamiliar
word/phrase based on its context in the sentence.

Webinar

The webinar is available in

online video format here.
 COMPONENT 4: LESSON ACTIVITY
Component 4A: Reading the
Text

Multimedia

Multimedia is a form of communication that

combines different content forms integrated together.
Whenever text, audio, still images, animation, video,
and interactivity are combined together, the result is
multimedia.
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Component 4A: Reading the
Text

Other terms that are sometimes used for multimedia include

hypermedia or rich media. An example of multimedia is a web
page with animation. Multimedia can be also an interactive
media such as video games and CDROMS. Slides for
example are multimedia as they combine text, images,
sometimes video and other types.
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Component 4A: Reading the
Text
Below is a list of various multimedia formats used in education.
• Text and Graphics – PowerPoint, diagrams, infographics, slideshow
presentation
• Audio – Podcast
• Video – screen capture, lecture capture, talking head, animation,
glass screen
• Others – webinar and online meeting, blogs, interactive content.
There are other multimedia formats used in business, entertainments,
recreation, and the likes. Multimedia plays an important role in our society.
It enables us to keep up with the times.
[Philippines Department of Education (nd). Multimedia. English 7 Q3 Week 1 (p.3).]
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Component 4B: Questions

Q1.What goes in the opening paragraph of an Information

Report?
Q2.Give each paragraph a heading that indicates which aspect of
multimedia they are about. Match each heading to the components of
Expository texts/Information Reports that we talked about at the start of the
lesson.
Q3.How does the author show that multimedia ‘enables us to
keep up with the times’?
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Component 4C: Questions

Q4. Define multimedia in your own words.

Q5. List the things in the first 2 paragraphs that are examples of
multimedia when used together.
Q6. Imagine that your job was to design an advertisement for
multimedia that would show its benefits to society. You have to
write the script for a webpage or TV advertisement. a. How would
you change the heading? b. How would you change the first
paragraph? c. How would you change the last sentence? d. What
visuals would you add?
 LESSON CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION

Q1.The focus of the lesson was on learning about how

information is presented in an Expository text like an
Information Report. How has the lesson helped you to
understand this?

Q2.Which questions were easy to answer? Why?

Q3.What strategies did you use to answer the harder

questions?
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