Lesson Plan in Elementary English VI

(Second Grading)

Date: ________

Lesson 27

I. Objectives:

 Give the main idea of a selection listened to.

 Identify the nouns in the selection read.
 Write the main idea of a selection listened to.
II. Subject Matter:

Identify the Main Idea

References: PELC 4, p. 23
Dynamic Series in English 6, pp. 163-164

Materials: Chart, cassette tape

III. procedure
A. Review
What are the elements of the story?

How do you recognize the setting, main character, climax and ending of a story?

B. Motivation
Guessing Name
Choose five pupils. Instruct them to think of some actions (e.g. playing, talking) and act them out
in front of the class. The other pupils will then guess the action shown.

Ask: Do you think it is easy to communicate without language? Do you think language is important?
Why?

c. Presentation of the lesson

1. Have the pupils listen carefully to the selection as the teacher reads it aloud.

Do you realize how important language is? Without language you would have to talk to
one another by means of signs. If you had a headache and you wanted to tell your mother about
it; you would have to use signs, such as pointing to your head or eyes.
By means of language, you can tell one another what you feel and what you think. You
can share your experiences with others. You become more truly a part of humanity.
Language is a wonderful gift. It opens your mind and leads into a magic world of
dreams and fancies. By means of words, you see the rainfall in slanting silver lines, you look a
far and see misty mountain tops of early morning; you thrill to the burning colors of a dazzling
sunset.
Look upon language, therefore with respect. Learn to use it correctly. Try your best to
gain mastery of words because words lead to knowledge and power.
D. development of the lesson
Listen to the paragraph. Choose the sentence that states the main idea.

1. Books are important to man. You got a lot of information from them. They tell stories of all sorts-
from sad to funny, to exciting, to scary. Some books tell true stories and facts. Other are fictional.
Books can be our best friend.
a. Books are important to man.
b. Books are fun.
c. Books are our best friend.

2. Plants are useful to both man and animals. They are source of food for the two. They provide shelter
for some animals. They are used to make clothes for man. Most importantly, plants provide the
oxygen that we need in order to live.
a. Plants are useful to man and animals.
b. Plants are need by living things.
c. Plants provide oxygen to man.

3. Man can leave without food for several days but not without water. Water is very essential to man,
animals and other living things. Without water, nothing will survive on earth. Water is now getting
scarce. We should start conserving it.
a. We should conserve water.
b. We need water.
c. Water is essential to living things.

E. Generalization
How do you identify or tell the main idea of a selection?

F. Application
Guided Exercises
Have pupils listen over a recorded reading of a paragraph and choose the sentence that gives the
main idea.

1. One Sunday, shortly after receiving the learner’s permit. I drove my parents to church. After a
long, rough ride, we our destination. I stopped at the front doors to drop my mother off, and when
she got out of the car, she said “Thank you.”
“Anytime,” I replied.
As my mother slam the door shut, I heard her call out, “I wasn’t speaking to you. I was talking to
God.”
a. The mother was angry with the son.
b. The mother has been in prayers all along for fears that the son who is just leaning to drive might
not make It to the destination.
 c. The mother was grateful.

2. I love to work with wood and decided to carve a rocking horse were shaped, my intension became
clear to my next door neighbor. “You must be about to have a grandchild,” he called over me.
“Our first’” I replied beaming.
“I have six,” he went on, “After the first three you’ll buy something plastic at a discount store.
a. Being a grandfather is expensive.
b. The excitement about having grandchildren wears off as more and more of them come along.
c. The grandparent does not love the other grandchildren as much as the first ones.

3. I had just started a job, and money was tight. Nonetheless, I could not resist buying a bottle of
favorite perfume. Mother instantly recognized the expensive box and asked, “Nancy, why are you
spending all that money on perfume?”
“When I wear beautiful, I feel beautiful,” I explained.
Mother answered thoughtfully, “It’s too bad they don’t make perfume called “Responsible or on
Time.”
a. Mother wants Nancy to save her money for more important things.
b. Nancy is irresponsible and always late.
c. Mother has no money to buy expensive perfume herself

IV. Evaluation

Listen to the following selections. Then, write the main idea of each on your paper.
1. Serious things can happen when an area is deforested. The topsoil can be eroded-washed or blown away
because, no roots hold it firmly in place. In some deforested areas, weather patterns can change because no
trees absorb and store water and recycle the moisture. Then severe drought can occur. Prolonged drought
can turn a place into a dessert, a phenomenon called desertification.
a. Drought can turn a place into a dessert.
b. Weather pattern changed in deforested areas.
c. Deforestation can have serious effects.
2. Pesticides are the chemicals used in farming, gardening and indoors to combat pest. Unfortunately, more
pesticides are harmful not only to pests but to the soil and to the farmer’s or gardener’s who use them. They
are harmful to the people who eat contaminated foods as well. Pesticides may also leak into the earth and
poison the underground water. Thus, they may kill wildlife and possibly trigger the spread of pesticides-
resistant strains of bugs and weeds.
a. Pesticides are harmful
b. Pesticides may leak into the earth and poison the underground water.
c. Pesticides may kill wildlife.
3. Besides food, clothing, shelter, and medicines, another essential in life laughter. Since life is full of
problems and difficulties, we cannot do without laughter. It enables us to see the brighter side of things. It
lightens our daily burdens. It attracts sunshine and happiness in our lives.
a. We need sunshine and happiness in our lives.
b. Laughter makes the world brighter.
c. Laughter is an essential as our basic needs.

V. Assignment
Choose a selection from your book and write its main idea.