5031 Gen. T.

de Leon Karuhatan, Valenzuela city

Lesson Plan in Teaching Speaking

“Rising and Falling Intonation”

I. OBJECTIVE:
 Identify rising and falling intonation in the given sentences
 Deliver the given lines with proper intonation
 Show importance in using the rising and falling intonation

II. SUBJECT MATTER:

Delivering the given lines with proper intonation
Topic: Rising Intonation and Falling Intonation
References: https://www.scribd.com/document/421547409/Dlp-Intonation#download
Materials: PowerPoint Presentation

III. PROCEDURE/ LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
A. Preliminary Activities
1. Daily Routine
a. Prayer
“Class, let us pray” “Amen.”

a. Greetings
“Good morning class.” “Good morning Ma’am.”

b. Classroom Management

c. Checking of Attendance
______, who is absent today?”

“That’s a great news class. No one “No one is absent today, Ma’am.”
will miss our lesson today.”

2. Review
“Okay class, did you still remember
our topic yesterday?”

“What was our topic yesterday?” “Yes, Ma’am.”

“Yes, ____.” (The students will raise their hands)

“Nice answer. What is ____?” “Our topic yesterday was all about_____.”

“Yes, _______.” (The students will raise their hands)

“That’s right.
 “Very good. It seems that you are
ready for our next topic so let us
now proceed.”

3. Motivation
“Okay class. Who among you have a (The student who have a telephone on their home
telephone at home?” will raise their hands)

“Okay. Now class, I have here a

telephone. Do you know what the (The students will raise their hands)
function of a telephone is?”
“The function of the telephone is make a
“Yes, ______.” conversation to someone we want to talk to.”

“That’s right. We use telephone to

talk to someone we want to talk to
about something important.
Therefore, I have here a dialogue. I
want you to make a conversation
using this dialogue. Who wants to be (The students will raise their hands)
Juliuz?”

“Okay _____, come here in front”

(The students will raise their hands)
“Who wants to be Karren?”

“Yes ______, come here in front.”

(The two students will perform the conversation.)
“You may now start.”

“Thank you ____ and _____. Give

them five claps for having a good
conversation.”

B. Developmental Activities
1. Presentation of the Lesson
“Now class, what do you notice to
the activity that ____and ____did?” (The students will raise their hands)

“Yes, ______.” “Ma’am, they perform the conversation with

correct pronunciation.”

“Nice observation. What else?”
“Very good. Another one?”
“Ma’am, they perform the activity with
appropriate emotion.”
“Ma’am, sometimes they are raising their voice
and sometimes they are so calm in saying every
word.”

“Very good observation. Do you

have any idea of what do we call to
the rising and lowering of voice?” “None, Ma’am.”

“Since that you don’t know what do

we call to the rising and lowering of
voice, we will tackle it now today.”
2. Discussion of the Lesson
“Rising and lowering the voice are
common to a person when speaking
and this is what we called
Intonation. And for more (The students will raise their hands)
understanding, will you please read
the definition on the board.” “Intonation means the rising and lowering of the
voice when speaking.”
“Yes, _______.”

“Thank you. A while ago you said

that sometimes your classmate was
raising their voice and sometimes,
they are calm when they are
speaking. Do you have any idea of (The students will raise their hands)
what do we call to the rising of
voice?”

“Yes, _____.” “Ma’am highering of voice.”

“Nice try. Another one?” (The students will raise their hands)

“Yes, _______.” “Ma’am, rising intonation.”

“Good answer. Another one?” (The students will raise their hands)

“Yes, ________.” “Ma’am rising intonation.”

“Very good. When we are raising

our voice, we called it Rising
Intonation. For more understanding,
will you please read the meaning on
the board?” “Rising Intonation means the pitch of the voice
rises over time.”

“In rising intonation the voice is

rises and stays high at the end of the
sentence. When you hear rising
intonation, it indicates that the
speaker is waiting for a reply just
like in this example. Will you
please read?” “Have you heard the news?”

“What do you notice to the sentence

when you read it?” “Ma’am when I read it, my voice was raised at the
end of the sentence.”

“That’s right. Will you find another

sentence with rising intonation?” “Mark won the Poetry Contest!”
“Very good. What else?” “He got $1000 in cash!”

“Excellent. Another one?” “Really? That’s wonderful!”

“Nice answer. What else?” “That’s great!”

“Very good. For the last one,

_______.” “Look Danny, Mark is coming!”

“Based on the sentence, where do

you usually found rising
intonation?” (The students will raise their hands)
“Yes, ______.” “Ma’am I think when we are asking question.”

“What specific type of question?” (The students will raise their hands)

“Yes, ________.” “Ma’am when the question is answerable by yes

or no.”

“That’s right. What else?” (The students will raise their hands)

“Yes, _______.” “In the situation where someone is expressing

doubt or surprise.”

“Very good. Always remember

class that the rising intonation will
hear if the voice is rising and if it
indicates surprise or expressing
doubt. Are we clear?” “Yes, Ma’am.”

“Okay. Now, when the voice is

lowering, what do you call to that?” (The students will raise their hands)

“Yes, _____.” “Ma’am, lowering intonation.”

“Nice try. Another one?” (The students will raise their hands)

“Yes, _____.” “Ma’am, falling intonation.”

“Very good. When the voice is in

the normal tone that is what we
called falling intonation. For more “Falling Intonation means that the pitch falls
understanding, will you please read with time.”
the definition on the board?”

“Thank you. Like what I have said

earlier, falling intonation can heard
if the word pronounced in a normal
voice. Falling intonation indicates
calmness and lack of strong feeling.
For example, will you please read?” “What did he receive as a prize?”

“What do you notice on the way “Ma’am when I read the sentence, I am just calm
you read the sentence?” and I just want to know what prize he got.”

“That’s right. Will you find another *Student will give another dialogue example*
example in this dialogue?”

“Very good. Another one.” *Student will give another dialogue example*

“Nice answer.”

“Remember class, Intonation is the

rising and lowering of the voice
when speaking. Rising Intonation
when the voice is rising but when it
became calm and in normal voice, it
called Falling Intonation. Do you “Yes, Ma’am.”
understand?”
3. Generalization
“Okay. Let us now test your “Intonation is the rising and lowering of voice
understanding about our topic. when speak.”
What is the Intonation?”

“Rising Intonation means the pitch of the voice

“Very good. What is Rising is rising.”
Intonation?”

“Excellent. Where we could found

the rising intonation?” “We can found the rising intonation in the yes or
no questions and in the situations when someone
“Yes, ______” is expressing doubt or surprise.”

(The students will raise their hands)

“Very good answer. How about the
falling intonation?” “Falling Intonation means that the pitch falls
with time.”
“Yes, _______.”

(The students will raise their hands)

“Very good. What did falling
intonation indicates?” “Falling Intonation indicates calmness and normal
voice when speak.”
“Yes, _______.”

“Excellent. Now that you are

mastered our topic, let us proceed to
our activity.”

Valuing Integration
“But before that, I have a question
to you. Did you experience talking “Yes, Ma’am.”
to an elder in person or even in
telephone?”

“What do you feel?” “Ma’am, I need to be calmer and lower my

voice.”

“That’s right. What if you

encounter an elder which is so “Ma’am, I think I need to have a calm voice even
annoying and you need to talk to if he/she is so annoying.”
him/her?”

“Very good. What if they shout to “Ma’am, I will not talk while he/she speaking
you even if you do not do anything because it shows disrespect and I know that we
wrong?” can solve the problem if I will wait until he/she
done talking.”

“Ma’am we show respect to the one who is older

“Very good. Based on your answer, to us.”
what values did you show?”

“That’s right. Why do we need to
respect them?”
“Very nice answer. What else?”
“Because they are older to us.”
“Because they know what is best for us even if
sometimes they are annoying. And also they are
the one who teach us to respect elders.”

“Excellent. We need to respect

elders because they know what is
best for us. They already know how
world runs. Moreover, they are just
annoying because like what we said
they are elders. They want to do
something but they could not do it “Yes, Ma’am.”
because they are weak and difficult
to do it. Do you understand?”

“Very good.”

4. Application
Read these sentences carefully then
identify the intonation used by
checking the appropriate column.
Number 1 is done for you.

“Yes, Ma’am.”

IV. EVALUATION:

Determine if the sentence is Rising Intonation or Falling Intonation. Write RI if the sentence
is in Rising Intonation and FI if the sentence is Falling Intonation.

1. Am I beautiful?
2. She is beautiful.
3. Do you make those lanterns by yourself?
4. Please give me some money.
5. Go there and ask for forgiveness!
6. Let us make a good day.
7. Where did you come from?
8. We love to listen to our elder’s words of wisdom.
9. Do you follow your mother’s advice?
10. Follow your elder’s advice.

V. ASSIGNMENT:
Search the meaning of Context Clues.

Prepared By: Judy Ann Paga

BSED-IV