Lesson Plan in English 3

Q2 Week 8: Lesson 17 - Day 1

I. Objectives
 Note specific details from the story read
 Get the general sense of the story

II. Contents
Topic: Literature: “The Enormous Carrot”
References: English 3 Teacher’s Guide, English 3 Learner’s Materials, Internet sources
Materials: power point presentation, LCD Projector and Screen, sheets of Manila
paper, colored marker or crayons, charts, pictures, Copy of the story “The Enormous
Carrots”, Task card

III. Procedure
A. Preliminary Activities
1. A Text A Day
a. Reading of the text
Ruth was crying. She just came from school. Her dress was dirty and
her shoes were wet.
“Why are you crying?” Mother asked.
“I could not find my money. I dropped it when I jumped over the
canal. Maybe the water carried it away,” Ruth said.

b. Comprehension Questions:
1. Who was crying?
A. Ruth B. Mother C. Father
2. Why was crying?
A. Her dress was dirty. B. She lost her money. C. Her shoes were wet.
3. Where did she come from?
A. from the park B. from school C. from the church
4. What does the story tell?
A. Why Ruth was sick. B. Why Ruth was late C. Why Ruth was crying
5. Which is true about Ruth?
A. She came from the market. C. She came from the river.
B. She came from school.

2. Drill
A. Let us read the following words.
Close chose dose those pose
Home dome tone zone alone
Mole stole broke hope choke

B. Give a 10-item Spelling test on the words read.

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 2. Review
On your Show-Me boards, write D for declarative, IN for interrogative, IM for
imperative, and E for exclamatory for each sentence.
1. Who will go with you to the party?
2. Hooray! We won.
3. May I go to the washroom?
4. Come with me to the mall.
5. Our school is big.
6. My mother will cook spaghetti.
7. Ouch! My stomach hurts!
8. Are you in Grade Three?
9. I will dance in the contest.
10. The painting is indeed wonderful!

B. Developmental Activities
1. ACTIVITY
Pre-Reading
a. Unlocking of Difficulties/Vocabulary Development
 enormous
 Show a real stone and a rock.
 Let them describe each one’s size. Ask them which one is bigger or
smaller.
 Say: Here is a rock. This is an enormous rock? What can you say
about this rock? What is another word for enormous? (Bigger than
usual, huge gigantic)
 Show a picture of a cottage and a mansion. Let them describe each
one’s size and ask which is enormous.

 Through actions, let students show what enormous means.

 pulled and pulled

Show a picture or video clip of children playing

tug of war.
Let them tell how the game is played.

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  Could not believe her eyes (through pictures, action)
 Show a picture of a woman who saw a treasure. Let the pupils pay
attention to the reaction of the woman.
 Say: The woman could not believe her eyes about what she saw.
What do you think the woman felt?
 Give a situation and let the pupils act out the phrase “could not
believe her eyes”

b. Motivation
 Show a picture of a carrot.
 Let them describe what they know about carrots using the table
below.
COLOR SIZE USE WHERE IT GROWS

c. Motivation Question
 Why is it called an enormous carrot?
 What will the hen do with the carrot?

During Reading
a. Listen as I read the story “The enormous carrot”. Read the story aloud.
b. After reading a page or several pages, ask questions to enable the pupils to
interact with the text.
c. Refer the pupils to LM Activity 176A for the copy of the text. Note the questions to
ask after reading about the indicated sentences.

THE ENORMOUS CARROT

Once upon a time there was a hen who wanted to grow carrots. So, she
planted some carrot seeds on her garden.
Ask: What do you think happened to the carrot seed?
The carrot seed grew and grew.
One day the hen went out to check her carrots. She could not believe
her eyes. There was an enormous carrot!
Ask: What do you think will the hen do with the enormous carrot?

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 The hen pulled and pulled it again. But she could not pull
up the enormous carrot.
Ask: What do you think will the hen do next?
So, she went to the dog. “Help me pull up that enormous
carrot,” she said.
“I will help you,” said the dog.
Ask: Do you think the hen and the dog will be able to
pull up the enormous carrot?
The hen and the dog pulled and pulled it together. But
they still could not pull it up.
Ask: What do you think will the hen do next?
So, the hen went to the cat. “Help us pull up that that
enormous carrot” she said.
“I will help you,” said the cat.
Ask: Do you think they will be able to pull up the
enormous carrot?
All three of them pulled and pulled it together but the
carrot wouldn’t still come out of the ground.
Ask: Who else do you think will help them pull up the
carrot?
So the hen went to the mouse. “Help us pull up that
enormous carrot,” she said.
“I will help you” said the mouse.
Ask: Do you think the four animals will be able to pull
up the enormous carrot?
The hen, dog, cat, and mouse pulled and pulled it
together. Up came the enormous carrot!
Ask: What do you think will the animals do next?
That evening, they cooked the enormous carrot and ate it
all together.

2. ANALYSIS
Discussion Questions
Let students answer the Motive questions asked earlier.
 Why is it called an enormous carrot?

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  What will the hen do with the carrot?
 How is cooperation shown in our story?
 Where or when else can you show cooperation?
Say: I’ll ask some questions, and then I’ll call the groups to present their answers to the set of
questions directed to them.
Group 1
 What is the story about?
 What are the characters in the story?
Group 2
 What did the hen plant one day?
 What happened to the carrot seeds?
 Why couldn’t the hen believe what she saw?
 Who helped the hen pull up the enormous carrot?
Group 3
 Why couldn’t hen pull the carrot by herself?
 Who helped the hen first? Second? Third?
 What did the animals do after they have pull up the enormous carrot?
Group 4
 If the dog, cat, and mouse did not help the hen, what do you think would
happen?
 What could be done so the hen could succeed in getting the carrot by
herself even without the help of the other animals?
 What trait did the animals in the story show?
 If you were the dog, cat, and the mouse would you help the hen why?
 If you were the hen, how would you thank the three animals who helped
you?

3. APPLICATION
GROUP ACTIVITY
Make four groups and each group do a specific task.
Group A.
Draw the animals in the story.
Group B.
The hen asked help from other animals to pull up the enormous
carrot. Role play the scene when the four animals helped together to pull out the
enormous carrot.

Group C.
Here are some pictures of the events in the story. Arrange them as
they happened in the story by numbering them from 1-5.

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 Group D
Hen wants to thank her friends for helping her pull up the enormous carrot.
Suppose you are the hen, prepare a thank you card for your friends.

IV. ASSESSMENT
In a whole sheet of paper, write a 3-5 sentenced-paragraph that tells what the story,
“The Enormous Character”, is about and the lesson you learned from it.

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