Holy Angel University

School of Education

A Detailed Lesson
Plan in “PERSUASIVE SPEECH”

Prepared by:
Sarmiento, Dessa Mae C.
BSEd English
 LESSON PLAN FOR GRADE 8

ENGLISH

I. OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the students shall be able to:

a) Define persuasion.

b) Present a role play, commercial advertisement using persuasion.

c) Appreciate the lesson by actively participating on the group and

individual activities.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

a) Topic: Persuasion / Persuasive Speech

b) Materials: Task Cards, Laptop, Speaker

c) Reference:
Serrano, Josephine. Better English for Philippine High Schools.
Phoenix Publishing House, Inc., 2004

d) Time Frame: 2 hours

III: Procedures:

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

A. Preliminaries

i. Prayer
Bea, please lead the prayer. (Student comes in front and leads the
prayer.) Almighty God, we glorify you for
giving us the Angelite Charism. We thank
you for the gift of your Son, Jesus Christ,

Good morning class! Kindly pick up the
pieces of paper under your chairs and
keep them first inside your bags.
ii. Checking of Attendance
Class monitor, are there any absentees?
iii. Review
Angelo, can you now give us a recap of
the previous lesson?
Very well said Angelo!
B. Pre-Learning Activities
i. Motivation
Class, before we start with our new lesson, (Students will watch the video.)
I will have you watch a short video.
(teacher will play a short video)
Class, what can you say about the video?
Why do you think the speaker in the video
stated many reasons why students should
have access to iPads or computers?
who is the Way, Truth and Life. We bless
you for the continuous guidance of the
Holy Spirit. Grant us, we pray, courage
and strength that we may give perpetual
praise to you in whatever we do. We ask
this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Oh, Holy Guardian Angels guide us and
protect us! Laus Deo Semper!
(Students will do what the teacher says.
Ma’am we’re glad to say that there are no
absentees for today!
Ma’am, last meeting, we discussed the
Singaporean Literature and the short
narrative poem entitled The Old Man, His
Son and Their Old Bike which reminded us
that we do not need to please others, and
if we’ll try to please ourselves we will fail.
Mam the girl is trying to convince Mr.
Williams.
Mam because of the fast changing
technology that we are facing, we should
get used to those kinds of gadgets.
Now, what can you say about the manner Ma’am she is trying to convince the person
of speaking of the speaker? What is she she is talking to.
trying to do?

Very well said!

Precisely, she is trying to convince Mr.

Williams to consider her request.

( PRE-LEARNING ACTIVITY)

Let’s proceed. We are about to have an

activity now which I called JIGSAW
READING. The class will be group into
three.
I will call a representative from each
group to get their task card. Each group
YES MAM!
will be given a copy of the part of the
passage and each group will read aloud
their assigned part. Is the instruction
clear?

ii. Analysis

After the activity, ask the following

questions:
Ma’am the daughter wants to convince her
What did you understand on the mom so that she can go on their field trip.
passage?
Yes Mam. Ma’am I won’t stop giving her
Have you tried asking your parents important reasons why they should buy me
about something before? the thing I like or allow me to go whether
How did you do it? with my friends or cousins.

Does anyone know the word for trying Mam! Persuasion!

to convince someone to change his or
her mind?
Exactly, PERSUASION it is the act or fact
of persuading someone or of being
persuaded to do or believe something.

iii. Discussion

The teacher will be using power point

presentation in giving the lesson. Students will be participating in reading
some slides in the presentation.

iv. Application (15-20mins)

Same grouping for this time’s activity.

The teacher will again, call a
representative from each group and let
them pick one from the task cards.

Each group will be given 10 minutes to

prepare and 5 minutes to present.

C. POST LEARNING ACTIVITY

TASK CARD #1: COMMERCIAL AD
1) Think of a product that you will
endorse. Students will have their brainstorming.
2) Prepare your short script which
includes the reasons why the
audiences will support your product.
3) Everyone must have a role in
making the commercial
advertisement.
4) Enjoy!

TASK CARD #2: ROLE PLAYING

1) From the short passage,
role play the benefits you will Students will have their brainstorming.
get if your parents will allow
you to join the field trip.
2) Everyone must have a role in the
role playing.
3.) Enjoy!
 TASK CARD #3: SONG WRITING
1) From the short
passage, write a song on
Students will have their brainstorming.
how you would feel if
your parents will allow
you to join the field trip.
2) Everyone must sing the song in
front.
3) Enjoy!

D. Generalization:

Now that you understand what Persuasion

and Persuasive Speech is, what can you
say or what is your opinion about lesson?

I realized that in our every day living we

What can we learn from today’s lesson?
Do you think it is important to use
Persuasive Speech in convincing others?
Why or why not?
encounter persuading or convincing
people. Like for example the radio
announcer telling us why we should keep
listening to his radio station.
I learned that it is important to plan a
specific speech specially if it is convincing
other people

Yes Mam, I think it is important. For I

Very good! I think you all listened to what believe by persuading other people, you
we have discussed today. may help, motivate, influence them. And
sometimes it also helps you get what you
want as an individual.

IV. Evaluation:

Write 5-8 sentences on how you can persuade the teacher

that your group performed the best performance today! Write
it in a paragraph form.
 Criteria :

CATEGORY 5 4 3 2 1 Score

Relevance All the points One of the Two of the Three of the Four of more
are
relevant points is points are points are of the points

irrelevant irrelevant irrelevant are irrelevant

Mechanics No mistakes in One or two Three or four Five or six Seven or more

grammar mistakes in mistakes in mistakes in mistakes in

grammar grammar grammar grammar

Group All members One or two Three to four Four to five Six or more

Cooperation of the group members of the members of the members of members of the

participated in group did not group did not the group did group did not

the planning participate in participate in the not participate participate in

and the planning planning and in the the planning

performance and performance planning and and

performance performance performance