Worksheet No.

3: Text Navigation
Direction: Based on the poem, I Am Proud to be a Filipino, answer the questions
below. Type your answers within the gray areas. Save your answers in the folder you
created.
Name: Year & Section:
1. What can say about the islands in this poem?
2. Who is the speaker of the poem? Describe him?What is meant by the phrase paly
breed?
3. What are the Filipinos doing for a living, according to the poem? Do you agree?
Support your answer.
4. Who had been our conquerors? What is meant by the line:
While in my bones sleep quietly as a bride
Vanquished desires of conquerors who dreamt of empires,
Gold, trade and spice
5. What is the ideal which our heroes fought and died for?
6. According to the poem, what is the cure for the ills of man? Do you agree with it?
Support your answer.
7. Explain the following expressions.
a. blood as rich as milk
b. My house is my land
c. My love and loyalty are as fish to the sea
8. What is the message of the poem?
9. How can you show your pride for being a Filipino?