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English Club - Content of The Representatives

The document discusses English club presentations on commonly mispronounced words, words with similar spellings but different meanings, and information about Filipino author Nick Joaquin. It also provides a short explanation of active and passive voice in sentences.

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English Club - Content of The Representatives

The document discusses English club presentations on commonly mispronounced words, words with similar spellings but different meanings, and information about Filipino author Nick Joaquin. It also provides a short explanation of active and passive voice in sentences.

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“Content of the Representatives”

*1st Week – Common Mispronounced Words (2 informations)

 Learning to speak in English especially us Filipinos is probably one of our biggest


frustrations. Particularly that it’s not our native language.
 Good Day! (State Your Name), a member of English Club and I’m going to share
with you some common English words that we may mispronounce.
 First is “Salmon” = salm·on | \ ˈsa-mən
 (State the Wrong Pronunciation like you’re in doubtful expression or you’re
questioning). Salmon?
 (Then Repeat The Word Again) “Salmon” = salm•on | \ ˈsa-mən
 Yeah, “Salmon” = salm•on | \ ˈsa-mən
 It’s Silent “l”
 It’s not Salmon
 It should be pronounced as “Salmon” = salm•on | \ ˈsa-mən
 Using it in a sentence, say for example “He ordered a fine fillet of salmon”.
 Next and The Last would be “Archive” = ar·chive | \ ˈär-ˌkīv | \ aar·kive
 (State the Wrong Pronunciation like you’re in doubtful expression or you’re
questioning). (The representative will pronounce it as somewhat
Archayv/Archev/Arkev or what). Archive (In many other wrong ways)?
 (Then Repeat The Word Again) “Archive” = ar•chive | \ ˈär-ˌkīv | \ aar•kive
 Absolutely, “Archive” = ar•chive | \ ˈär-ˌkīv | \ aar•kive
 It should be pronounced as “Archive” = ar•chive | \ ˈär-ˌkīv | \ aar•kive
 For instance, “My myday has an archive”.
 Thank you for watching and see you on our next video. (or “Your Words” – What
You’re Comfortable Of)
*2nd Week – Uncommon Words with Similar Spellings but Different Meanings
(2 information)

 In English, there are words that we can seem to have different meanings.
 Similar words and spellings but have different meanings.
 Good Day! (State Your Name), a member of English Club.
 Now, let’s see how these words can spell same but can mean different.
 Let’s clear that confusion!
 L.I.V.E = Live and Live
 Live means place of residence and also;
 Live that means going on at the current time
 Now, we will use these in a sentence.
 I want to live (the first meaning) in Korea.
 I’m going to go live (the second meaning) in a few minutes.
 One more example is O.B.J.E.C.T, that’s object and can be meant as = ob•ject and
object’.
 Ob•ject means a material thing that can be seen and touched.
 And object’ that says something to express one's disapproval of or disagreement with
something.
 Now and then, we will also take these for example.
 At long last, he found the object (the first meaning).
 You're the first to object (the second meaning).
 See? Alright!
 Thank you for watching and see you on our next video. (or “Your Words” – What
You’re Comfortable Of)
*3rd Week [Monday] – 1 Filipino English Author {> Facts > Biography}
(1 information)

 Did you know that there are prominent writers of our country in the specialization
of English?
 Our kababayans that we could take a pride in and raise our flag.
 Good Day! (State Your Name), a member of English Club.
 Speaking of prominent writers of our country, one of it was Nick Joaquín.
 Let’s get to know him even better!
 Nick Joaquin, byname of Nicomedes Márquez Joaquin, was born on May 4, 1917, in
Paco, Manila, Philippines who died on April 29, 2004, in San Juan City.
 Whose parents were Leocadio Joaquin and Salome Marquez.
 He was a Filipino novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and biographer whose works
present the diverse heritage of the Filipino people.
 He was also a well-known historian of the brief Golden Age of Spain in the
Philippines, as a writer of short stories suffused with folk Roman Catholicism.
 Best known for his short stories and novels in the English language, he also wrote
using the pen name Quijano de Manila.
 Joaquin was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for
Literature.
 He has been considered one of the most important Filipino writers, along with José
Rizal and Claro M. Recto. Unlike Rizal and Recto, whose works were written in
Spanish, Joaquin's major works were written in English despite being a native
Spanish speaker.
 He also received various awards such as “Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short
Story”, “Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative
Communication Arts”, and “Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Full-length Play”.
 Among his voluminous works, one of his famous works includes “The Woman
Who Had Two Navels” in 1961 that examines the country's (Philippines) various
heritage.
 As winning the National Artist award for Literature, Nick Joaquín was probably the
most esteemed writer the Philippines has produced.
 Thank you for watching and see you on our next video. (or “Your Words” – What
You’re Comfortable Of)
[Friday] – Short Information about Active and Passive Voice in a
Sentence

 Every sentence has a voice, it can be active or it can be passive.


 Most of us are fond of making sentences in many different ways, in our own freedom
of choice where we can construct in freestyle, but are we aware that they also mean
in English?
 Good Day! (State Your Name), a member of English Club.
 Let’s test and know how active and passive voice are being used in a sentence.
 Active voice in definition means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb.
 Whereas, passive voice means that a subject is a recipient of a verb's action.
 Active voice is in the form of S-V-O where in a sentence, the subject or the doer of
the action is located at the beginning, followed by the verb or an action the word
(subject’s action), and lastly, the object or the receiver of the action.
 However, passive voice is in reverse where we will follow the O-V-S pattern. The
object will come first and the subject will come last.
 For example, (The family enjoyed the newest popular Netflix series.) and (The newest
popular Netflix series was being enjoyed by the family.).
 Now, what is the active and passive voice there?
 Alright! The active voice is the first sentence and the passive voice is the second one.
 How can we say so?
 The first sentence is the active voice since it follows the pattern S-V-O. Let’s always
remember the pattern of active voice. In the sentence, “the family” is the subject,
“enjoyed” there is the action word performed by the subject, and “the newest popular
Netflix series” is the object.
 Now, we can say and affirm that the first sentence is the active voice.
 Next and the last, the second sentence is eventually the passive voice between them.
 As it is in the sentence, the object came first which is “The newest popular Netflix
series”, followed by the verb there which is “enjoyed” before the subject “the family”.
 It seemed to follow the pattern O-V-S which is the pattern of passive voice.
 Here now, we can conclude that the second sentence is the passive voice.
 But before we end our short discussion, you can see and notice that in passive voice,
it usually appears longer than the active voice. In the given example, we can see that
there are added words in the sentence making it “was being enjoyed” and having “by”
before the subject. What’s the reason behind this? In most cases in passive voice, we
usually add and apply linking words to make the whole sentence of its correct
grammar.
 Active and passive voice are very important for a sentence. Active voice can help
ensure clarity by making it clear to the reader who is taking action in the sentence
making it more direct, while passive voice can help avoid unnecessary repetition.
 Thank you for watching and see you on our next video. (or “Your Words” – What
You’re Comfortable Of)

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