Department of Education

Region VI- Western Visayas

SDO-Bacolod City

ENGLISH 8

Teacher’s Guide
Topic: Journalistic Writing
(Feature, Sports, and News Articles)

Writer: Mary Honesty L. Peracullo

Illustratiors: Raymond Michael A. Gayatin
and Cherlyn D. Pavilario
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SDO - Bacolod City
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Written by: MARY HONESTY L. PERACULLO

Illustrations by:
RAYMOND MARTIN A. GAYATIN and
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Teacher’s Guide
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 Grade 8 English

I. Objective

Distinguish among types of journalistic writing (feature article, sports, and

news article) (EN8WC-IVc-3.4.2)

II. Subject Matter

A. Topic: Journalistic Writing (Feature, Sports, and News Articles)

B. Value Focus: Pride of being a Bacolodnon, keen and

Open-mindedness, and concern to the community

C. Materials: Copy of the articles, pictures, manila paper, pentel pen,

Venn diagram, graphic organizers

III. Procedure

A. Review: (3 minutes)

Let the learners rearrange the scrambled letters to form a word and let
them write the answer in the box provided.

Journalistic Writing

____ ______ _______ _________

ENSW OPRSST AEEFRTU ADIIELOTR

Answer: News, Sports, Feature, Editorial

Key Points: Mention the following:

1. There are four kinds of Journalistic Writing: news, sports, feature, and
editorial writing.

2. This lesson will only focus on the three: the news, sports, and feature
articles.

B. Motivation: Complete Me! (3 minutes)

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 Make the learners answer the activity by supplying the missing letters to
complete the word. The meaning of the word is given as a guide.

1. A special interest article with details and facts that makes reading
pleasurable.
f_____e a_ _ _ _ _e
2. A new information or a report about something that has happened recently.

n__s

3. A creative nonfiction about a sporting event, athlete, or sports-related

issue.

s____s

4. Activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news

websites or preparing news to be broadcast.

j _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _sm

Answer: 1. feature article 2. news 3. sports 4. journalism

Listen Up!

Ask: “Are you familiar with these words? Today, we are going to discuss
these three articles: the feature article, the news article, and the sports
article.”

The teacher will discuss the three articles found on Chart 2, page 5.

C. Learning Tasks.

Task 1. Guess What! (3 minutes)

Say: “To which journalistic writing does each of the content of the strips
belong? Put the strips under each column in chart 1.”

1. Bold letters printed on a four-meter tarpaulin was hung over the Bacolod
City New Government Center when September 1, 2017 issue of the
Philippine Times hailed Chicken Inasal of Bacolod as the most delicious
delicacy of the country.

2. Jeff Yap grabbed the limelight as he took his buzzer beater three-point
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field goal shot with one second left on the last quarter to carry victory of 14

Bacolod Manug Inasal against Bacolod Piayers in a basketball league

game, 73-72, during the Masskara Festival Month Celebration at the Public
Plaza, Bacolod City on October 19.
 3. Imagine you’re in a lost island for seven days, where nobody is around
and there’s no food to eat. You are very hungry; then suddenly, you see a
big, fat, loud chicken coming out from nowhere. What will you do with it?

Chart 1. Identifying the articles as feature, news, and sports

Sports Article Feature Article News Article

Task 2. Create a Puzzle (3-5 minutes)

Group the class into three. Give each group pieces of puzzles to form.
After completing the puzzle, have a reporter present the details at the back of
it. (Each puzzle contains the definition of feature article, news article, and
sports article as well as their purpose and characteristics).

What have you formed after completing the puzzle? (Chicken Inasal
Picture)

Look at the back part of it. There are writings defining and explaining
the characteristics of the feature article, news article, and sports article.
Report to the class what your group has.

The teacher will prepare three puzzles for each type of journalistic
writing as follows:

Group 1: Puzzle for news article

Group 2: Puzzle for sports article

Group 3: Puzzle for feature writing

Sample Puzzle (Teacher may provide another puzzle)

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Front view: Make this a puzzle

Back part: Write the definition, purpose, and characteristics of the articles.

Refer to Chart 2, page 5.

FEATURE ARTICLE
Definition: It is a special-interest article with details intended to entertain
and likewise to inform, instruct, and advise.
Purpose: To entertain
Characteristics: Deals with any topic; may be light or serious; written in
any form and style; may or may not be timely; based on facts; writer may
use his imagination; uses adjectives, figures of speech, dialogue,
anecdote, local color, and idiomatic expressions; can be written in the first,
second, and third person.

Chart 2. Definition, purpose, and characteristics of Feature, News, and

Sports. (This will be written at the back of the picture of chicken inasal for the
puzzle.)

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 Feature Article News Article Sports Article
Definition:
 is a special-interest  new information or a  is a form of
article with details report about journalism or
that makes for
something that has creative nonfiction in
pleasurable
reading happened recently which a sporting
 instructs, informs,  Is a timely, and event, athlete,
and advises but its factual narration of or sports-related
main objective is to past, present and issue serves as the
entertain future event dominant subject.

Characteristics:
 deals with any  Factual -consists of  Answers five W’s
topic actual persons and and one H (What,
 May be light or events with no Who, Where,When,
serious, depending invented information Why and How)
on its purpose  Balance - gives  Describes the most
 written in any form proper emphasis on thrilling and eventful
and in style, but each fact in relation part of the game
well organized to other facts; gives  Uses more colorful
 May or may not be attention to both words, adjectives,
timely sides in a figures of speech,
 Based on facts, controversial issue local color, and
though sometimes,  Concise -short longer sentences,
the writer uses his enough to contain which are not
imagination to play the most important common to straight
up by detail facts news
 Uses adjectives,  Timely -freshness  Uses special
figures of speech, and immediacy of vocabulary called
dialogue, the event sports lingo.
anecdote, local
color, and idiomatic
expressions
 Can be written in
the first, second,
and third person
Purpose: To entertain To inform To inform

Discussion (10 minutes)

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Ask the following questions:

1. What is feature writing? news article? sports article?

2. What is/are the similarity/ies of Feature and Sports? Feature and

News? Sports and News?

3. What is/are the difference/s of Feature and Sports? Feature and

News? Sports and News?

4. In general, what is/are the similarity/ies among the three articles?

accurate,
objective,
Task 3: Guided Practice. Let the learners accomplish the Venn Diagram.
balance,
Illustration 1. Venn Diagram. Compare and Contrast Feature, Newsconcise,
and Sports
Article timely,
simple

Answer: Feature
Article News Article

deal with
5 W’spersons,
entertains,
places, things,
instructs, And
advises, situations
begins with a
novelty lead,
uses anecdote use based on
facts answer the 5
adjectives,
figures of W’s & one H,
speech, recent event
longer sentences

Sports Article
describes the most thrilling and
eventful part of the game, uses
special vocabulary (sports lingo)

Task 4. Independent Practice (3-5 minute

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 The learners will accomplish chart 2 by identifying the type of journalistic
writing.

(This can be done on 1/2 crosswise piece of paper.)

1. Well, there you are! The easy way of cooking chicken inasal. Another
tip, it is more enjoyable by eating it by hand. Remember, you don’t need a
silver fork to eat good food.

2. City Mayor Evelio “Bing” R. Leonardia commended the Chicken Inasal

Entrepreneurs for maintaining the quality of the chicken inasal produced
and promised to support and promote the inasal business.

3. But BMI’s hero, Yap, shook off the cobwebs and took his buzzer beater
three-point field goal shot that shattered the rival’s hope of bringing home
the bacon, 73-72.

Answer: 1. Feature 2. News 3. Sports

Chart 2. Identifying the journalistic type

Sports Article Feature Article News Article

Give to the learners this template.

Task 5. Independent Practice (3-5 minutes)

The learners will accomplish chart 2 by identifying the type of

journalistic writing.

(This can be done on a 1/2 crosswise.)

Strips:

1. Bacolod Manug Inasal smashed a 15-6 run with less than 3 minutes
left to seal the lead, 36-28 as the buzzer sounded in their whirlwind game.
In the second half, Bacolod Piayers took the lead with their active around
2.theOooooopppss….!
rim and breakingAreankle
youmoves
thinking
leaving
of grilling
the the
opponent
chicken?
gasping for breath
ending with a 46- 52 score.
Speaking of grilled chicken, don’t you know that it is one of the most
famous delicacies in the Philippines? In fact, a well-known actor, a pure
Bacolodnon owned a Chicken Inasal restaurant in Quezon City. Chicken
Inasal as Bacolodnons call it is popularized by Negrenses. Perhaps,
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tourists flood and fly to Bacolod City just to taste the well-known inasal. It is
only a marinade chicken grilled on scourging coals with basting sauce
which made it extra special for the Bacolodnons. Easy right? Sounds like!
However, it is not as easy as that.
3. This was the result of the survey conducted by the said publication
among 60 percent of the population all over the country, wherein, 20
percent each was taken from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

Answer: 1. Sport 2. Feature 3. News

Chart 2. Identifying the journalistic type

Sports Article Feature Article News Article

Provide this template to the learners.

D. Closure: (3 minutes)

Ask the following questions:

1. What is a feature article? News Article? Sports Article?

2. Give the differences among the three journalistic writing.

3. What are the similarities among the three?

4. Why is it important to learn these types of journalistic writing?

5. How can this help you improve yourself and your community?

IV. Evaluation: Read Me! (5-10 minutes)

The learners will read the three articles and identify the kind of journalistic
writing each of the article presents.
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 Article 1. Answer: News Writing Article

Bacolod’s Chicken Inasal: Number 1 in the Philippines

by: Mary Honesty L. Peracullo

2016 MOST DELICIOUS DELICACY IN THE PHILIPPINES!

Bold letters printed on a four-meter tarpaulin was posted at the

entrance of Bacolod City New Government Center when September 1,
2017 issue of the Philippine Times hailed Chicken Inasal of Bacolod as the
most delicious delicacy of the country.

This was the result of the survey conducted by the said publication
among 60Bacolod
percent Manug
of the Inasal
population all overBacolod
dominates the country, wherein, 20
Piayers
percent each was taken from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
by: Mary Honesty L. Peracullo
City Mayor Evelio “Bing” R. Leonardia commended the Chicken Inasal
Entrepreneurs for maintaining the quality of the chicken inasal produced.
He promised to support
Jeff Yap grabbed theand promote
limelight as the
he inasal business.
took his buzzer beater three-point
field“We
goalare
shotvery
with glad
one second
to knowleftthat
on our
the last
veryquarter to carry
own inasal is victory for
the most
Bacolod delicacy
delicious Manug Inasal
amongagainst Bacolod
all delicacies, Piayers
hence, in a you
I assure basketball
as mayor, league
that
game, 73-72, during the Masskara Festival Month Celebration at the
Bacolod City will continue to promote and support inasal business, as well Public
Plaza,
as, Bacolod
other City on October
local delicacies.” 19. Leonardia.
said Mayor
Bacolod Manug Inasal smashed a 15-6 run with less than 3 minutes
left to seal the lead, 36-28 as the buzzer sounded in their whirlwind game.

In the second half, Bacolod Piayers took the lead with their active
around the rim and breaking ankle moves leaving the opponent gasping for
breath ending with a 46- 52 score.

Fans of Bacolod Inasal were losing hope but became euphoric as star
player Jeff Yap got his momentum and fired three successive bull’s eye
three-pointer shot to turn the score upside down, 60-58.

John Mark Labaniego, switched on the adrenalin of his camp by

carrying BP on that crucial moment and tying the game at 70-all with 10
seconds left.

Reggie Penosa fished out a foul from beleaguered James Cane with
seven seconds left and hardened BP lead, 70-72.
Article 2. Answer: Sports Writing Article
But BMI’s hero, Yap, shook off the cobwebs and took his buzzer beater
three-point field goal shot that shattered the rival’s hope of bringing home
the bacon, 73-72.

“We had a hard time playing with them because they are greatPage 11 of 14
players
too. But have put our hearts to win this game,” said Yap, the star of the
game.
 Simple Ways to Enjoy Life with Heavenly Food

by: Mary Honesty L. Peracullo

Imagine you’re in a lost island for seven days, where nobody is around
and no food to eat. You are very hungry; then suddenly, you see a big, fat,
loud chicken coming out from nowhere. What will you do with it?

Oooooopppss….! Are you thinking of grilling the chicken?

Speaking of grilled chicken, don’t you know that it is one of the most
famous delicacies in the Philippines? In fact, a well-known actor, a pure
Negrense, owns a Chicken Inasal restaurant in Quezon City. Chicken
Inasal, as Bacolodnons call it, is popularized by Negrenses. Perhaps,
tourists flood and fly to Bacolod City just to taste the well-known inasal. It is
only a marinade chicken grilled on scourging coals with basting sauce
which made it extra special for the Bacolodnons. Easy right? Sounds like!
However, it is not as easy as that.

Do you want to know how to cook it? Would you like your inasal to be
of lower cholesterol and less burnt? Well, here’s a tip: Before diving into
grilling the heaven-tasting inasal, make sure to remove the chicken skin.

Excited? Be obedient to follow the procedure and achieve your

ultimate goal--- the heaven-tasting, mouth-watering chicken inasal. Let me
share to you the Panlasang Pinoy recipe on how to cook it.

First, in a freezer bag or large bowl, mix the chicken, lemongrass, salt,
ground black pepper, ginger, garlic, brown sugar, vinegar, and lemon or
calamansi juice. Second, stir or shake the mixture until every ingredient is
thoroughly mixed. Marinade for one to three hours (if served immediately),
or overnight for the chicken to absorb well the ingredients. Third, in a bowl,
combine Article 3. Answer:
margarine, Feature
annatto Writing Article
oil (Achiote Oil or Atsuete Oil), salt, and lemon
or calamansi juice then stir. Set aside. Fourth, grill the chicken while
basting generous amount of the margarine mixture. Fifth, transfer the
grilled chicken to a serving plate. And, finally, serve with sinamak combined
with soy sauce. Share and enjoy!
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Well, there you are-- the easy way of cooking chicken inasal! Another
tip, it is more enjoyable when eaten with bare hands. Remember, you don’t
need a silver fork to eat good food.
V. Enrichment: (3 minutes)

Let the learners read each sentence and identify the kind of Journalistic
Writing it suggests.

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1. Onyok Velasco stamped astounding counter left hook to his foe at the end
of the bell

2. BACOLOD CITY-2016 MOST LIVABLE CITY in the country! Bold letters

printed on a three-meter long tarpaulin was hung over the main door of
Bacolod City New Government Center as the Manila Times 2016 issue the 20
most livable city in the Philippines and Bacolod hails as the top.

3. When the song ended, Joel Torre stood petrified in the midst of a
thunderous ovation. In his heart, he knew he had finally arrived.

4. Bacolod’s world-famous Chicken Inasal relieves and brings tourists up in a

cloud nine as they taste it after a long and tiring travel from far places they
have been.

5. Jeff Chan scored 22 points and James Yap scored 20 that boosted the
Bacolod Express to commanding leads in the breakaway second quarter.

Answer: 1. Sports 2. News 3. Feature 4. Feature 5. Sports

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