POTRERO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

English Department

Date: October 12, 2018

Time: 6:50 – 7:40 AM and 9:40 – 10:30

A. CONTENT STANDARD
The learner demonstrates understanding of how world literature and other text types serve as vehicles of
expressing and resolving conflicts among individuals or groups; also, how to use strategies in critical reading, listening and
viewing and affirmation and negation markers to deliver impromptu and extemporaneous speeches.
B. PERFORMANCE STANDARD
The learner proficiently delivers an argumentative speech emphasizing how to resolve conflicts among individuals
or groups.
C. LEARNING COMPETENCIES/OBJECTIVES
1. Observe correct grammar in making definitions
2. Follow conventional structure in making definition
D. REFERENCES
Celebrating Diversity through World Literature
pp. 281 – 284
F. PROCEDURES
- Daily Routine
Prayer
Classroom Management
- Activity
Pre – Test
Write YES if the statement is a sample definition and NO if not
1. Economics is a science concerned with the process or system by which goods and services are produced,
sold and bought.
2. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
3. Love is like a lively parade.
4. Melancholy is an abnormal state attributed to an excess of black bile and characterized by irascibility or
depression.
5. Climate change is a weather condition.
TRUE OR FALSE
1. The verb used in defining words must be in the present tense.
2. Class or category is one part of the definition pattern.
3. The distinguishing characteristic of a term to be defined does not really matter in the definition statement
itself.
4. Incorrect grammar in a definition statement renders no effect in the definition itself.
5. Defining terms is part and parcel of academic writing and research.

Perking – Up Activity
- The teacher will show two video clips bearing the episodes of Eat Bulaga’s Pinoy Henyo. Instruct
students to pay attention particularly on how the players deductively guessed the term or word.
- Below are the questions to springboard the discussion
a. What is the game about?
b. What are the two words being guessed in the game?
c. How is the game played?
d. Do you see working patterns among the contestants who were assigned to guess the words?
- Analysis
The teacher will emphasize structures in defining a term through exemplifications

DEFINITION is a statement that expresses the essential nature of something (a word, a phrase etc.)

TERM ------- CLASS/CATEGORY -------- DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS

(is, means) (who, which, by, for etc)

Ex. Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into
the gas phase after reaching its boiling point
 CLASS/CATEGORY -------- DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS ------- TERM
(who, which, by, for etc) (is, is called)

Ex. The type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase
after reaching its boiling point is called Evaporation

- Abstraction
The teacher will emphasize structures in defining a term through exemplifications

a. An integer is a whole number.

b. An integer can be positive, negative, or zero.
Answer: An integer is a whole number that can be positive, negative, or zero.
The whole number that can be positive, negative, or zero is called integer.

a. Personification is a figure
b. Personification attributes personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

a. Wellness is state beyond absence of illness

b. Wellness rather aims to optimize well-being

a. Home health nursing is a nursing specialty

b. Home health nursing provides multidimensional home care to patients of all ages by nurses

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Extra for Expert

a. Teenage pregnancy is also known as adolescent pregnancy

b. Teenage pregnancy is a pregnancy in a female under the age of 20.
Answer: Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in a female under the
age of 20

a. Gender equality is a state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender
b. Gender equality is equality between men and women.

- Application
- The teacher will direct students’ attention on the video clip.
- Instruct students to watch attentively the video and take down notes. They have to get any
terminologies to define using the structure provided.

(Process students’ answers)

Group with four members

Using the pictures below, construct definition of whatever is represented.

A. The person is treating sick people

B. He is a doctor
C. A doctor is a person who treats sick people.
or A doctor is a person whose job is to treat sick people.

A. This place is where products or services are bought and sold.

B. It is a market
 C. A market is a place where products or services are bought and sold.

Post – Test
Write YES if the statement is a sample definition and NO if not
1. Love is like a lively parade
2. Economics is a science concerned with the process or system by which goods and services are produced,
sold and bought.
3. Climate change is a weather condition.
4. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
5. Melancholy is an abnormal state attributed to an excess of black bile and characterized by irascibility or
depression.
TRUE OR FALSE
6. The distinguishing characteristic of a term to be defined does not really matter in the definition statement
itself.
7. Defining terms is part and parcel of academic writing and research.
8. The verb used in defining words must be in the present tense.
9. Class or category is one part of the definition pattern.
10. Incorrect grammar in a definition statement renders no effect in the definition itself.

PREPARED BY:

Fernan S. Cagara
Grade 10 - Teacher