English: Quarter 3 - Module 6: Infer The Speaker's Tone, Mood, and Purpose
English: Quarter 3 - Module 6: Infer The Speaker's Tone, Mood, and Purpose
English: Quarter 3 - Module 6: Infer The Speaker's Tone, Mood, and Purpose
English
Quarter 3 – Module 6:
Infer the Speaker’s Tone, Mood, and
Purpose
What I Need to Know
Welcome, to this module of English 4! This was designed to help you infer the speaker’s
tone, mood, and purpose it has platforms with a series of fun activities that will guide you
properly to learn more with the lesson. The module is selfinstructional and allows you to
learn in your own space and step. So, relax and enjoy!
2. use formal and informal English when appropriate to task and situation.
What I Know
Infer the general mood, tone, and purpose of the situations. Write the correct letter.
1. If you can’t be a sun be a star.
a. worry b. encouraging c. inspiring
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Lesson
Infer the Speaker’s Tone, mood
6 and Purpose
What’s In
In your past lesson, you have learned on how to use appropriate graphic organizers in text read.
Let’s have a review!
Read the following short paragraph and fill out the details using Venn Diagram.
Butterflies and Bees
Butterflies and bees have many things in common. They are both insects that live all over the world.
Another similarity is that they both have 4 wings. Their wings are different though butterflies have
brightly colored wings, and a bee’s wings are transparent. Bees live in large groups called colonies.
Butterflies do not. They often travel by themselves. Butterflies and bees are also similar because they
both feed off nectar and pollen from flowers. When it comes to collecting nectar butterflies are calmly in
getting it, while the bees are exhilarated. https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/4011087140097170/
• calmly
• exhilarated
The words above are examples of tone and mood. Tone refers to the poet’s attitude towards the subject of
the poem. Moods is the overall emotion or feeling expressed in the poem or story.
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What’s New
Let’s read the poem.
“Be The Best of Whatever You Are” by:
Douglas Malloch
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley – but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a
bush if you can’t be a tree.
https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/be-the-best-of-whatever-you-are-by-douglas-malloch
Question:
1. What is the tone and mood of the poem?
2. What do you think is the poet’s purpose in writing the poem? I. What is tone and mood?
Tone – refers to the poet’s attitude towards the subject or topic of the poem or story.
Mood – is the overall emotion or feeling expressed in the poem or story.
http://thelightofliterature.blogspot.com/2010/10/road-not-taken.html
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The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
1. The word that best describes the tone of this poem is__________.
What is It
Tone refers to the poet’s attitude towards the subject or topic of the poem.
Let’s explain:
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“This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams
http://slacker760.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-fall-of-house-of-usher.html
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung
oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing along, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of
country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy
House of Usher…I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster
by the dwelling…[with] vacant and eye-like windows.
https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-tone-fall-house-usher-304840
What’s More
A. Infer the speaker’s tone, mood, or purpose. Choose from the box below.
confused fear
instruct sad worry
1. Seeing you crying is very painful to me.
2. You always remember to strive to achieve dreams.
3. Dark place on my way.
4. I don’t know if I will go to school or not.
5. It’s noon but I haven’t cooked yet.
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What I Have Learned
Write a short essay about what you learned in this lesson.
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What I Can Do
I. Infer the speaker’s tone, mood, and purpose.
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Assessment
1. It was the first football game for the Gators. The coach asked if everyone was ready. The
players jumped and replied, “Yes!” In what tone did the Gators’s reply?
a. calm b. serious c. happy d. enthusiastic
2. The blue jay is jumping on the tree singing and dancing happily. What is the blue jay’s
tone while singing?
a. joyful b. dreamy c. confused d. hurt
3. The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her first down on it-hard. It flew off the nightstand and
bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.
a. eerie b. sarcastic c. passionate d. humorous
4. Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly! Which
tone is represented in the following passage?
a. calm b. annoyed c. scary d. excited
5. If the author has no emotion regarding the story he is telling; his tone can be described as.
a. playful b. objective c. ironic d. mysterious
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Additional Activities
1. What is the tone of the following text? “I will not!” she shouted. “I will not be left at the
mercy of our enemies while you slink away!”
a. pleased b. angry c. happy d. suspicious
2. She hesitated, listening for sounds of the creature. The forest seemed empty, but she could
sense something else out there. Something watching and waiting. What is the mood for the
passage?
a. romantic b. depressing c. joyful d. suspenseful
3. Which word accurately describes the son’s tone in the following dialogue? Father: We are
going to Disney World!
Son: Yehey!
a. irritated b. annoyed c. uninterested d. excited
4. She delicately placed the cooing baby on a soft, freshly cleaned blanket.
a. calm b. annoyed c. scary d. excited
5. A hurricane threatened, the wind’s blast caused angry fifteen-foot waves to crash over the
small houses near the shore.
a. calm b. annoyed c. scary d. excited
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Answer Key
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References
Pages. 60-61
https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/be-the-best-of-whatever-you-are-bydouglas-
malloch https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/4011087140097170/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92zsaCWoWC0
https://literarydevices.net/mood/
http://www1.lpssonline.com/uploads/3gTeachingToneandMood.pdf
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45288/the-garden-of-proserpine
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-tone-in-a-story.html
https://literarydevices.net/mood/
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-This-Is-Just-To-Say-byWilliam-Carlos-
Williams
https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-tone-fall-house-usher-304840
https://interestingliterature.com/2016/11/a-short-analysis-of-christina-rossettisa-birthday/
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