Lesson Plan in Elementary English VI

(Second Grading)
Date: ________
Lesson 27
I. Objectives:

Give the main idea of a selection listened to.

Identify the nouns in the selection read.
Write the main idea of a selection listened to.

Values:
Earth - Friendliness
II. Subject Matter:
Identify the Main Idea
References: PELC 4, p. 23
Dynamic Series in English 6, pp. 163-164
Growing in English (Reading) pp. 91-92
Materials:

Chart, cassette tape

III. Learning Activities

A. Preparatory Activities
1. Pronunciation Drill
The consonant Sound
Keyword THOUGH
this
weather
theirs
wither
those
another
though
brother

feather
northern
gathering
bothersome

2. Review
What are the elements of the story?
How do you recognize the setting, main character, climax and ending of a story?
3. Motivation
Guessing Name
Choose five pupils. Instruct them to think of some actions (e.g. playing, talking) and act them out
in front of the class. The other pupils will then guess the action shown.
Ask: Do you think it is easy to communicate without language? Do you think language is important?

Why?
B. Presentation
1. Have the pupils listen carefully to the selection as the teacher reads it aloud.
Do you realize how important language is? Without language you would have to talk to
one another by means of signs. If you had a headache and you wanted to tell your mother about
it; you would have to use signs, such as pointing to your head or eyes.
By means of language, you can tell one another what you feel and what you think. You
can share your experiences with others. You become more truly a part of humanity.
Language is a wonderful gift. It opens your mind and leads into a magic world of
dreams and fancies. By means of words, you see the rainfall in slanting silver lines, you look a
far and see misty mountain tops of early morning; you thrill to the burning colors of a dazzling
sunset.
Look upon language, therefore with respect. Learn to use it correctly. Try your best to
gain mastery of words because words lead to knowledge and power.
2. Comprehensive Check up
What is the selection all about?
Do you realize how important language is?
Why is it important?
How should we look upon knowledge?
How should we use language?
3. Reading of the selection by the pupils.
4. Discussion
a. Have the pupils identify and mention the nouns used in the selection. Have them explain why they
are called nouns?
b. What is the main idea of the first paragraph? What is the main idea of the third paragraph? What is
the main idea of the whole paragraph? What are the details that support the main idea?
5. Fixing Skills
Listen to the paragraph. Choose the sentence that states the main idea.
1. Books are important to man. You got a lot of information from them. They tell stories of all sortsfrom sad to funny, to exciting, to scary. Some books tell true stories and facts. Other are fictional.
Books can be our best friend.
a. Books are important to man.
b. Books are fun.
c. Books are our best friend.
2. Plants are useful to both man and animals. They are source of food for the two. They provide shelter
for some animals. They are used to make clothes for man. Most importantly, plants provide the
oxygen that we need in order to live.
a. Plants are useful to man and animals.
b. Plants are need by living things.

c. Plants provide oxygen to man.

3. Man can leave without food for several days but not without water. Water is very essential to man,
animals and other living things. Without water, nothing will survive on earth. Water is now getting
scarce. We should start conserving it.
a. We should conserve water.
b. We need water.
c. Water is essential to living things.
4. They are different kind of trees. Some are ornamentals and others are fruit-bearing. Ornamental trees
make our surrounding lovely and pleasant. Their main function is to beautify our environment. The
calachuchi tree and the fire tree are good examples. Fruit bearing trees, on the other hand, are those
that produce fruit for our consumption. The mango tree and the coconut tree are some of them.
a. Some trees are ornamentals.
b. They are different kind of trees.
c. Trees beautify our surroundings.
5. Plants cannot move, but their seeds can move from one place to another. Some seeds are blown by the
wind while others are carried by water from the rain. Some seeds even stick to the fur of animals or on
peoples clothes. That is how they move from one place to another. Whenever seeds fall on fertile
ground, they grow into new plants and propagate.
a. How seeds grow.
b. How seeds multiply.
c. How seeds travel.
6. Generalization
How do you identify or tell the main idea of a selection?
7. Application
Guided Exercises
Have pupils listen over a recorded reading of a paragraph and choose the sentence that gives the
main idea.
1. One Sunday, shortly after receiving the learners permit. I drove my parents to church. After a
long, rough ride, we our destination. I stopped at the front doors to drop my mother off, and when
she got out of the car, she said Thank you.
Anytime, I replied.
As my mother slam the door shut, I heard her call out, I wasnt speaking to you. I was talking to
God.
a. The mother was angry with the son.
b. The mother has been in prayers all along for fears that the son who is just leaning to drive might
not make It to the destination.
c. The mother was grateful.
2. I love to work with wood and decided to carve a rocking horse were shaped, my intension became
clear to my next door neighbor. You must be about to have a grandchild, he called over me.
Our first I replied beaming.
I have six, he went on, After the first three youll buy something plastic at a discount store.
a. Being a grandfather is expensive.

b. The excitement about having grandchildren wears off as more and more of them come along.
c. The grandparent does not love the other grandchildren as much as the first ones.
3. I had just started a job, and money was tight. Nonetheless, I could not resist buying a bottle of
favorite perfume. Mother instantly recognized the expensive box and asked, Nancy, why are you
spending all that money on perfume?
When I wear beautiful, I feel beautiful, I explained.
Mother answered thoughtfully, Its too bad they dont make perfume called Responsible or on
Time.
a. Mother wants Nancy to save her money for more important things.
b. Nancy is irresponsible and always late.
c. Mother has no money to buy expensive perfume herself.
4. I never eat food with additives or preservatives, boasted a health fanatic. And I never touch
anything thats been sprayed or fed chemical grain.
Wow, thats wonderful, her friend marveled. How do you feel?
Hungry, she moaned.
a. Additives or preservatives are bad for the health.
b. The health fanatic is proud and boastful.
c. One will go hungry if he considers that all foods are practically sprayed with additives or
preservatives.
5. A Japanese dignitary was visiting the factory where I was consulting Physician in the first-aid
room. Just before he arrived a tour guide explained to us the importance of a low bow as a sign of
respect. So when the dignitary entered the room and bowed, I bowed lower. He smiled, bent again
and pointed to the floor. I bowed ever lower, whereupon he smiled and bowed and pointed
downward again. Wondering what I was doing wrong, I stooped as low my back would allow.
The tour guide whispered, You can stop now. He wants you to check his stubbed toe.
a. Bowing among Japanese is a sign of respect.
b. The physician also tried to be respectful by bowing.
c. The messages or signals both were sending did not conform to the real one.
Independent Exercises
Divide the class into 5 groups. ask each to choose a leader. The pupils will listen as the teacher
reads the selection. Then, have them answer the questions that follow and be able to report it to the
class.
A meteor is solid matter that falls from space. It is made of iron and stone. A million
meteors enter our earths atmosphere every hour. Some meteor ate very large, and other is small
as a speck of dust. All meteors burn as they come through the atmosphere, most of them burn
up completely. Sometimes, a meteor can be seen as a bright trail or light in the sky. The light is
caused by the friction made when the meteors come through the air around the earth.
Meteors are sometimes called shooting stars or falling star because they look like stars
that are falling from the sky. Not all meteors actually reach the earths surface before burning
up. The ones that do are called meteorites.
1. What is the main idea of the paragraph?
a. Meteor is a solid matter from space.
b. Meteor is also called shooting star.
c. Meteor is also called meteorites.

d. Meteor is very large.

2. What is true about the paragraph?
a. All meteors burn as they come through the atmosphere.
b. Some meteors burn as they come through the atmosphere.
c. All meteors burn up completely.
d. All meteors are very large.
3. Meteors are sometimes called shooting star because _________.
a. They have bright trail of light.
b. They are falling from the space
c. They look like stars.
d. They reach the earths surface.
4. Those meteors that can reach the earths surface is called ________.
a. Small meteors
b. Falling meteors
c. Earths meteors
d. Meteorites
5. Meteors are made up of ________.
a. iron and fire
b. iron and stone
c. stone and fire
d. fire
IV. Evaluation
Listen to the following selections. Then, write the main idea of each on your paper.
1. Serious things can happen when an area is deforested. The topsoil can be eroded-washed or blown away
because, no roots hold it firmly in place. In some deforested areas, weather patterns can change because no
trees absorb and store water and recycle the moisture. Then severe drought can occur. Prolonged drought
can turn a place into a dessert, a phenomenon called desertification.
a. Drought can turn a place into a dessert.
b. Weather pattern changed in deforested areas.
c. Deforestation can have serious effects.
2. Pesticides are the chemicals used in farming, gardening and indoors to combat pest. Unfortunately, more
pesticides are harmful not only to pests but to the soil and to the farmers or gardeners who use them. They
are harmful to the people who eat contaminated foods as well. Pesticides may also leak into the earth and
poison the underground water. Thus, they may kill wildlife and possibly trigger the spread of pesticidesresistant strains of bugs and weeds.
a. Pesticides are harmful
b. Pesticides may leak into the earth and poison the underground water.
c. Pesticides may kill wildlife.
3.
Besides food, clothing, shelter, and medicines, another essential in life laughter. Since life is full of
problems and difficulties, we cannot do without laughter. It enables us to see the brighter side of things. It
lightens our daily burdens. It attracts sunshine and happiness in our lives.
a. We need sunshine and happiness in our lives.
b. Laughter makes the world brighter.
c. Laughter is an essential as our basic needs.
4.
All men are equal before God and in the eyes of the law. There are no whites, blacks, browns, nor
yellows. There are neither rich nor poor. There are no privileged few or exploited majority, but all men
deserve to be treated equally.

a. Men belong to different races.

b. All men are equal.
c. Majority should always win.
5.

When unsure of the source of your water supply it is best to boil your drinking water. If your water
supply is drawn from a water pump or well, see to it that your water containers are properly covered to
prevent dust and other materials from getting into them. You can also purify your water by allowing
suspended particles to separate them from the water.
a. Make your water safe to drink and use.
b. Drinking water should come from clean source.
c. Water from underground is unsafe to drink.

V. Assignment
Choose a selection from your book and write its main idea.

Date: _________
Lesson 28
I. Objectives
Give details that support the big idea.
Give the main idea of a selection listened to.
Write the details that support the big ideas.
Values:
Humility
II. Subject Matter
Giving Details
References:

PELC D.2-2
BESR 6, pp. 39-42

Materials:

pictures, chart

III. Preliminary Activities

A. Preparatory Activities
1. Listen to the paragraph to be read by the teacher and pick out the letter of the main idea.
a. Fire can be a bad enemy. It can burn our house and pieced of furniture. It can kill our pets and other
animals. It can burn our beautiful garden and lawn.
1. Fire can be an enemy and cause a lot of harm.
2. Fire is helpful but harmful.
3. fire can be burn our houses and pets.
2. Review

Unlocking of Difficulties
Pick out the letter that means the same as the underlined word in the sentence.
1. A boastful person wants to be always on lead.
a. shy
b. friendly
c. proud
d. intelligent
2. The rough surface of the jackfruit is hard to handle.
a. smooth
b. coarse
c. shiny
d. oblong
3. The roasted pig has scorches on its body.
a. patches
b. curls
c. wounds
d. marks
3. Motivation
Have you met proud and boastful person? Do you like to friend them?
4. Raising of Motive Question
Why do you think the shrimp was boastful?
B. Presentation
1. During Listening Activity
Pupils take notes of the segments that justify their opinions/ideas about the title.
The Boastful Shrimp
Once there was a shrimp who thought he was the most handsome shrimp in all worlds. In fact,
he believed that he was more handsome than any other creature on earth.
Just look at my sword, he proudly told the other young shrimps, pointing to the sharp-pointed
protrusion at the end of his nose. Of course, as far as shrimps were concerned,
the end of the nose was the most natural place for a sword to be.
And look at my thick, smooth shield, he would continue, Nothing can pierce this shield.
Like other shrimps, he carried his shield on his head. And he needed to do show off his shield was to hold
his head high.
You are indeed a handsome shrimp, said an old experienced shrimp. But you are just
reaching adulthood and have had no experience of the world. Do not display yourself too much, or else
one of those human might grab you, said the old shrimp, pointing with one of his many legs to a young
man swimming nearby.
Grab me? Who? That soft-skinned two legged creature? scoffed the young shrimp. he does
not even have a proper shell. He has those funny little bits of shell on the end of his fingers and toes,
which do not protect him at all, as far as I can tell. All I need to do is stab him with my sharp sword, and
that will be the end of h. Someday, he and other funny two-legged humans will look at me and admire
me! said the young shrimp.
Well, if you wont listen to my advice, said the old shrimp, you will have to learn
your lesson the hard way.
The young shrimp soon forgot about the old shrimps advice. He continued his habit of looking
for groups of other young shrimps his age, and showing off before them. He would engaged in shrimps
gymnastics, bending his body this way and that, to let them see how strong his muscles were inside his
beautiful glistening white shell, which hardly had any dark spots or lines on them, unlike the other
shrimps around him.

One day, a fishing boat passed by, with fishermen on board looking for a good catch. The
boastful shrimp saw his chance to display his athletic form before them. He swam to the surface of the
water, the fishermen saw him. They cast their net and, in few minutes, the boastful young shrimp was
caught in the net along with other shrimp and fish.
That day, at lunch time, the boastful shrimp was seen on the end of a barbecue stick, his shell
now in beautiful colors of pink, red and brown, with some scorched spots from the hot coals over which
he was roasted.
What a fine, fat shrimp! exclaimed the person around the dining table.
Its the best shrimp Ive tasted! said the person who picked up the barbeque stick and cut up
the shrimp, after putting a little portion in his mouth.
The boastful young shrimp got his wish at last to be admired by the human.

2. Post-listening Activities
a. Answering the motive question.
b. answering guide questions. Finding the paragraphs where the questions are answered.
a. How did the boastful shrimp display his shield?
b. How did he display his strong muscles?
c. How did the fishermen catch him?
3. Generalization
Why do we have to give details? What would you do to be able to give details/
4. Application
A. Guided Activity
Read the paragraph. Identify the details that support the main idea.
1. Ants are interesting insects. They live in colonies. There are three groups of ants, the workers, the
soldiers and the queen. The queen ant is taken cared by the soldiers and the workers. The workers
hunt food for all the ants on the colony.
B. Independent Exercise
Find out which details would support the big idea.
Big Idea:
Technology is science in practice. It is the means by which improvements on existing materials
are undertaken.
a. It provides many comforts and conveniences of modern life.
b. It is dangerous and disadvantageous.
c. Many things were made possible.
IV. Evaluation
Listen to main idea and pick out the details from the list below that would support each big idea.
Main Idea:
One shrimp thought he was the most handsome shrimp in the entire world and refuse to listen to an old
shrimps advice.
a.
b.
c.
d.

The details:
What a fine, fat shrimp!
You are indeed a handsome shrimp but do not display yourself too much.
The boastful shrimp got his wish at last to be admired by human.
The young shrimp would not listen to old shrimps advice.
The fishermen cast their net in a few minutes, caught the boastful shrimp with other shrimp s and fish.
V. Assignment
Read any selection and write its details.

Date: __________
Lesson 29
I. Objectives

Retell a selection listened to.

Give the main idea of a selection listened to.
Give the details that support the big idea.
Write the summary of the story.

Values:
Care for animals
II. Subject Matter:
Retelling a Selection Listened to
References:

PELC 4, p. 23
Dynamic Series in English pp. 116-117,151

Materials:

Chart, strips of cartolina

III. Learning Activities

A. Preparatory Activities
1. Pronunciation Drill
The Schwa Sound
Key word ABOUT
alone
oblige

focus
vapor

hammock
supply

2. Review
How do you identify or tell the main idea of a selection?
3. Unlocking of Difficulties
Select the right antonym of the underline words and write them on the blank provided for.
depressed

pleased

worthless

idleness

feed

________ 1. Real friends are precious gifts of God.

________ 2. Mark Continued to pester Marie about her behavior.
________ 3. The cruel masters let their pet dog Bob to starve to death.
4. Motivation
Do you have animals at home? How do you treat/take care of your pets?
What do you think will happen if they were not given the nourishment their body needs?
B. Presentation
1. Have the pupils listen as the teacher reads the story, The Foolish Farmer and His Carabao.
The Foolish Farmer and His Carabao
In the town of San Diego, there lived Tatang Juan. He was a farmer and he owned a large
farm and a carabao. His carabaos name was Makisig, who helped him with his farm chores.
Everyday, Tatang Juan took time to feed Makisig four bundles of grass and gave him four
buckets of water to drink. makisig grew stronger everyday. But Tatang Juan thought otherwise.
I am wasting too much precious time in cutting grass, carrying water and feeding Makisig.
Perhaps I could teach him not to eat and drink anymore. That will save me from toiling and working
hard on the farm. I dont have to pester my self anymore about Makisig. I will just spend my time
drinking wine in the village with my compadres.
The following day, he began to teach Makisig to fast. Instead of the unusual two bundles of
grass and buckets of water. Tatang Juan gave him one. He decided that he would cut Makisigs
average amount of consumption for the next few days, just until the carabao learns not to eat nor
drink.
Makisig was asking for extre food but Tatang Juan was firm and said, You have to learn not
to eat and drink anymore. So that, you will just work and work on the farm while I rest.
Eventually, Makisig was so weak because of hunger and thirst. He could
not even look up at Tatang Juan. As this, Tatang Juan was ecstatic: Hurrah!
Makisig no longer cares food and water! Good! How wonderful! Hell just work
and work without eating or drinking. Husrrah!
Little did he know that on the next day, Makisig was lying dead, starved to
death by his master, Tatang Juan. Still Tatang Juan managed to say, How stupid
and foolish of that carabao! Why did he die just when he learned not to eat or
2. Comprehension Check-up
Who lived in the town of San Diego?
What did he have in his possession?
What did Tatang Juan do everyday?
How did Tatang Juan carry out his plan of not feeding Makisig?
As a pupil, how do you intend to keep your body and mind active for the whole day school/
3. Discussion
What is the big idea conveyed by the whole selection?
What are the details that support the main idea?
4. Fixing Skills
Have the pupils arrange the following sentences as they happened in the story, The foolish
Farmer and His Carabao. Then have them retell the story.
_______ 1. Makisig asked for an extra food but Tatang Juan didnt bother to give him any.
_______ 2. In the town of San Diego lived a farmer and his carabao.
_______ 3. Tatang Juan taught Makisig not to ear or to drink anymore.

5. Generalization
How do you recognize important or significant details in a selection?
6. Application
A. Guided Exercises
Divide the class into 5 groups. On a sheet of cartolina, have each group write the main idea
conveyed by the selection, The Tyrant Who Became A Just Ruler, and the details that support the
main idea.
B. Independent Exercises
Call on pupils to retell the selection, The Tyrant Who Became A Just Ruler, in front of the
class.
The Tyrant Who Became A Just Ruler
In olden times there lived a king, who was cruel and unjust towards his subjects that he was
always called The Tyrant. So heartless was he that his people used to pray night and day that
they might have a new king. One day, muchch to their surprise, he called his people together
and said to them.
My dear subjects, the days of my life tyranny are over. Henceforth you shall live in
peace and happiness, for I have decided to try to rule henceforth justly and well.
The king kept his word so well that soon he was known throughout the lands as a Just
King. By and by one of his favorites came to him and said.
Your majesty, I beg you to tell me how it was that you had this change of hearth
towards your people?
And the king replied.
As I was galloping through the forest one afternoon, I caught sight of a hound of a
chasing fox. The fox escaped into his hole, but not until he had been bitten by the dog so badly
that he would be lame for life. The hound, returning home, meat a man who threw a stone at
him, which broke his leg. The man had not gone far away when a horse kicked him and broke
his leg. And the horse starting to run fell into a hole and broke his leg. Here I come to my
senses, and resolved to change my rule. For surely, I said to myself, he who doeth evil will
sooner or later be overtaken by evil.
IV. Evaluation:
Provide pupils sentences (written in cartolina strips) from the story, The Tyrant Who Became A Just
Ruler. Have them arrange the sentences/events as they happen in the story to form the summary. Have them
write the summary on their paper.
One day the king called his people and said that the days of his tyranny are over.
In the olden times there lived a cruel and unjust king, that he was always called a tyrant.
The king said that one afternoon while he was galloping through the forest, he witnessed
situations which led him to change his rule.
The king kept his word so well that soon he was known as The Just King.
One of the followers begs the king to tell reason why he had this change of heart.