ORAL TEST IN GRADE 6

Prompt: The cellphone has fascinated the Filipinos. However, it will be better to look back and recall how this came to be. This selection will tell us so.

Fast and Easy Texting has become a common sight in the country. Everywhere, you see people young and old alike using cellphones to send messages. Because of this, the Philippines is called the texting capital of the world. Cell sites even in far flung areas make this possible. Messages were sent fast and easy. Do you know whom we should thank for this invention? invented the first telephone is one interesting story to read. It is Alexander Graham Bell! How he

No. Of words: 77 QUESTIONS: Literal 1. What is a common sight in the Philippines? Answer: Texting Inferential 2. Why is the Philippines called the texting capital of the world? Possible Answer: Because of the large number of Filipinos texting or using cellphones to send messages. 3. Are cellphones really useful? Why? Why not? Possible Answers: Yes, because they can relay messages even to very far places within seconds. Yes, because they are convenient to use. No, because they are expensive. 4. Can you think of other ways of sending messages to your friends? Possible Answers: By using the telephone By telegraph/telegram By writing By fax machines By e mail for advance countries/localities Valuing 5. Why are cellphones important nowadays? Possible Answers: Because things happen so fast that it is important for people to be updated. Progress is fast if people are kept informed. Sending messages through cellphones is the fastest way of communication these days. 6. What word in the selection tells us the place that makes it possible for cellphones to work? Answer: cell sites

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Fast and Easy Texting has become a common sight in the country. Everywhere, you see people young and old alike using cellphones to send messages. Because of this, the Philippines is called the texting capital of the world. Cell sites even in far flung areas make this possible. Messages were sent fast and easy. Do you know whom we should thank for this invention? It is Alexander Graham Bell! How he invented the first telephone is one interesting story to read.

Fast and Easy Texting has become a common sight in the country. Everywhere, you see people young and old alike using cellphones to send messages. Because of this, the Philippines is called the texting capital of the world. Cell sites even in far flung areas make this possible. Messages were sent fast and easy. Do you know whom we should thank for this invention? It is Alexander Graham Bell! How he invented the first telephone is one interesting story to read.