Detailed Lesson Plan

LEARNING PLAN IN ENGLISH FOR GRADE IV

Teacher: Irene B. Abarca
School Applied For: Looc Central School
Grade Level: Four
Quarter: Second Quarter
Competency Code: EN4V-Ia-31
Time Allotment: 50 minutes
Teaching Dates November 7-11, 2022

I. OBJECTIVES
a. Content Standards Vocabulary Development
Demonstrate understanding that
word meaning changes based on
contex.
b. Performance Standards The learner is able to use
strategies to decode the meaning
of words in context.
c. Learning Competency/Objective
Use context clues to find meaning
of unfamiliar words: definition,
exemplification.

EN4V-Ia-31
II. CONTENT
Context Clues: Definition and Exemplication
III. LEARNING RESOURCES
A. References
1. Teacher’s Guide
2. Learner’s Materials
3. Textbook
4. Additional Materials from Learning Resource (LR) SIM 1 Quarter 2
portal
B. Other Learning Resources
Charts
Materials
IV. PROCEDURES
A. Preliminaries
B. Greetings
Good morning class! Good morning, Ma’am Abarca!
C. Prayer
Before we start, let us pray. Please all rise. ( Learners do as told)
C. Checking of Attendance

B. Lesson Proper
1. Drill / Review / Unlocking Difficulties
Do you always consult a dictionary to look for some
unfamiliar words?
 2. Motivation:
Have you experienced that soe of the words that you are
looking for are not in the dictionary that you have?
3. Presentation/ Discussion:

Clues found in the context.

Context Clues are hints about a word, phrase, sentence, or
paragraph that help readers understand its meaning.
The words that surround a difficult word in a sentence may
give clues to the meaning of the focus word.

Types of Context Clues

I-D-E-A-S
I- Inference
D- Definition
E-Exemplication or Examples
A- Ideas
S- Synonyms

Definition Clues
The meaing of the unfamiliar word is directly defined or
given in the sentence itself.

Some writers used signal words or phrases to help the

readers understand the meaning of the unfamiliar word
or the difficult word.
Signal words such as: are, that is, as, or, is defined as,
means, refers to, and in other words.
They also used punctuations such as:
Comma(,) dashes (-) parentheses ( )

Examples:
1. Its emacination, that is, its skeleton –like
appearance , was frightening to see.
2. The ancient Chinese used the abacus, a device with
movable beads that can be used as a calculator.

Exemplication or Example Clues

T uses examples to help the reader infer the meaning of
the unfamiliar word.
Take note of the signal words used:
for example, such as, like, including, for instance, and
types/kinds.

Example:
1. Celestial bodies, including the sun , moon, and star, have
fascinated man through the centuries.

2. Pictorial creatures, such as flounder, salmon, and trout

live in the coldest pats of the ocean.
Independent Practice:
Activity 1:
Directions: Identify the meaning of each underlined word/
words in the following sentences. Write the correct letter in
your English activity notebook.
1. Stay away from animals like tiger, lion, dog and snake
because they are hazardous animals.
A. kind animals
B. pets at home
C. friendly animals
D. dangerous animals

2. He observed liquids such as water, oil, juices, soft drinks

and vinegar.
A. materials that can easily flow
B. materials that can easily burn
C. materials that can easily float
D. materials that cannot move

3. Examples of quadrilateral include square, rectangle,

trapezoid, parallelogram and rhombus.
A. a polygon with 3 sides
B. a polygon with 4 sides
C. a polygon with 5 sides
D. a polygon with 6 sides

4. The teacher teaches their pupils about compound words

like gate pass, bookmark, ball pen and chalkboard.
A. words that express actions
B. words formed from two or more words
C. words that name person, things and places
D. words that describe persons, animals and places

5. The learners gathered aquatic plants like: waterlily,

seaweed and hyacinth for experimentation.
A. Plants that live in water.
B. Plants that live in land.
C. Plants that can be hang.
D. Plants from the forest.

Activity 2:
Direction: Write the correct letter of your answer that has
the same meaning with the underlined word/ words. Do this
in your English activity notebook.
1. Stringed instruments like the guitar, violin and ukulele
are easy to play. Which is the best meaning of the
underlined words?
A. All musical instruments
B. musical instruments with strings
C. musical instruments made of brass
D. musical instruments which are played by shaking

2. The décor, including the fancy lights, beautiful paintings,

furniture made the house looks beautiful.
A. landscape
B. arrangement
C. appliances
D. design

3. The local people grew many crops like corn, rice, bean,
and watermelon.
A. Products grown for food
B. Products sold in the grocery
C. Products that can be bought in the sari-sari store
D. Products that can be cooked, eaten raw or given to
animals

4. Good sanitation practices includes washing of hands,

boiling of water, wearing clean clothes and taking a bath
every day
A. cleanliness
B. dirtiness
C. uncleanness
D. impurity

5. Soil properties such as color, texture, fertility and ability

to hold water make some soil types better than others for
growing plants.
A. soil composition
B. soil characteristics
C. soil layers and types
D. soil microorganisms and fungi
Evaluation:
Directions: Fill in the blank and write the letter of your
answer in your English activity notebook.
1. Household materials are classified according to their use
like food products, medicine, personal care, cleaning
products and pesticides. Using the clues, household means
________.
A. international
B. home/domestic
C. imported
D. industrial

2. He demonstrated force to his learners like pushing,

pulling, bending, twisting, stretching and squeezing objects.
In this sentence, force means _______ .
A. energy
B. weakness
C. sleepiness
D. tiredness

3. The Earth turns on its own axis also known as rotation.

Using the context clues, the meaning of rotation is _______.
A. move around the sun
B. turn on its own axis
C. travel around the world
D. fly up in the sky
 4. Vegetarian people are those people who like to eat
vegetables.
Vegetarian means _________.
A. People that like to eat vegetable.
B. People that like to eat meat.
C. People that prefer to eat sea foods.
D. People that like to eat both plants and vegetables.

5. An animal or person feeding on food of both plant and

animal is also known as omnivorous.
Based on the context clues, the meaning of omnivorous is
_______.
A. People or animal that prefer to eat chocolates.
B. People or animal that prefer to eat vegetables.
C. People or animal that like to eat meat.
D. An animal or person that prefer to eat both plants and
animals.

Directions: Read the sentence carefully. Write the correct

letter of the word that matches the meaning of the
underlined word/ words Do this on your English activity
notebook.

1. Michelle use to stroll in going to school everyday since

walking is considered as the best exercise.
A. jump B. play C. run D. walk

2. She loves listening stories, singing songs, computing

numbers and mostly, she adores playing ukelele.
A. needs B. loves C. plays D. writes

3. The dates are listed in chronological order, they start at

the beginning and end with the last event.
A. in order B. in any order C. not order D. random order

4. Sioney cleans her face every day as her hygienic hobby.

A. clean B. dry C. rub D. wet

5. Angel waters her ornamental plants like flowering and

non- flowering plants for decorative purposes.
A. branch, stem and twigs
B. flower, leaves and stem
C. uncommon plants
D. decorative plants

Prepared by: Checked by:

IRENE B. ABARCA ROSITA Y. DELA CRUZ
Teacher School Head