ENGLISH IV

Date: ____________

I. OBJECTIVE:

 Sequence events in the story listened to through groups of sentences

Values: Helpfulness

II. SUBJECT MATTER:

Sequencing Events of the Story Listened to through groups of sentences

References: Everyday English (Reading IV), pp. 45-47; Dynamic series in English IV p. 65; p. 87
Materials: pictures

Story: The Lion and the Mouse

III. LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

A. Preliminary Activities:
1. Review:
What stories have you heard when you were in Grade ill? Tell about each story in two or
three sentences.

2. Motivation:
( Show a picture of a lion and a mouse). Look at the picture. Tell something about it.
Based on the picture, what would you like to know about the story?

3. Unlocking of Difficulties:
a. The dog gnawed the new basket.
b. I can swallow big santol seeds.
c. I enjoy reading feable stories.

B. Presentation:
1. Reading of the story by the class readers while the class listens.
2. Comprehension Check-up
a. Why was the lion caught in a trap?
b. How did the mouse help the lion?
c. Why did the lion get angry with the mouse?

4. Infusion of Value:
How did the mouse help his friend? The mouse gnawed the rope of the trap. What did the
mouse prove? The mouse proved that he is a great friend.
 5. Development of the Lesson:
Number the following sentences in their correct order.
______ a. Please, forgive me this time and I shall never forget it.
______ b. Pardon O King!
______ c. Who knows that I may be able to do you good turn one these days?
______ d. The hunters wanted to carry him alive to the king.
______ e. The they went in search of a wagon to carry him m.
______ f. Was I not right?

6. Generalization:
How are sequencing of events done? Sequencing of events is done by arranging the
events/happenings in their true/correct order. What kind of sentences did we arrange? What
punctuation mark is used in declarative sentence, interrogative sentence, and etc.

7. Retell the story

8. Practice Experiences:
a. Guided:
Listen. 111 read the story, then arrange the events in the true order.
a. They did not find the hidden wealth, but they ~ad find crops of grapes.
b. He wanted them to become good farmers.
c. His sons thought that their father had buried a treasure in the vineyard.
d. A certain farmer had several sons.
e. Boys, I am about to leave you, I have hidden my wealth in the vineyard.

b. Independent:
Listen to the dialogue. Arrange the events in the correct order.
a. Will you be free on saturday?
b. That's easy.
c. I wanted to but I just can't bike yet.
d. My father gave me a bicycle for my birthday.
e. Why didn't you ride it to school today?

IV. EVALUATION:
Listen as I read the' selection, then sequence the jumbled events as they happened in the story.
Write the sentences correctly.
a. Scientists tell us that salt in seawater comes from the salt in it.
b. Fresh water from the rivers and lakes does not taste salty.
c. Millions of years ago, the seas and the oceans were not salty.
d. Because there is very little salt in it.
e. Flowing water carry salt from the land to the seas and oceans.

V. ASSIGNMENT:
Write three to four sentences that tell about "The Lion and the Mouse". Write them in Paragraph
form.