Learning Competency: Determine the Relevance and the Truthfulness of Ideas
Presented in the Material Viewed
PART I: TRUE OR FALSE (15 points)
Write T if the statement is true and F if it is false. Refer to Determining Themes and Details of Materials
Viewed for your answers.
(Isulat ang T kung ang sinabi ay true at F naman kung ito ay false. Tingnan ang Determining Themes and
Details Materials Viewed para sa iyong mga sagot.)
1. Text is a cover term for instances of language use arranged in logical order
and coded according to established conventions to perform a function in some
context (Halliday & Hasan, 1989).
2. Symbol refers to the written, spoken, visual, and gestural forms of language
that people live with every day.
3. Text cannot be a music video script, TV commercial script, or movie script.
4. Theme shapes the selection and organization of elements -plot, setting,
characterization, and conflict - to constitute the whole process, from script writing to
video production.
5. Theme guides the production team in turning the script into videos or
multimedia.
6. Identifying the theme and checking the relevance of its supporting details
are skills a visually literate person should enhance and get better at.
7. Text can be as simple as smileys
8. Text isn't produced and consumed for personal and social benefits.
9. People don't access, evaluate, and use text like images and visual media for
their personal needs.
10. Text disseminated in the public sphere cannot have both positive and
negative social effects.
11. The theme is sometimes called storyline, topic, main idea or unifying
concept.
12. Text can be as relaxing as the song you listen to while in your bedroom.
13. Text cannot be as illusionary as the portrait of Mona Lisa.
14. The nature of text consumption or production varies depending on your
needs and it changes according to the roles you play.
15. It is not easy to recognize the theme of what you are watching because it is
usually implied.​