TEACHER’S GUIDE IN ENGLISH GRADE 5

QUARTER 3
WEEK 5 (Day 1)

I. Learning Objective
Infer the speaker’s tone, mood and purpose.
Observe politeness at all times
Show tactfulness when communicating with others

II. Subject Matter

A. Topic : “Antonio’s Story”
- Mood of speaker

B. References : EN5LC - IIIe

Curriculum Guide p.73
Lesson Guides in Elementary English 5 pp. 18 – 20
English Expressways 5 (Reading) p. 137

C. Materials : strips of cartolina where different moods are written, manila paper, pentel
pen

III. Procedure
A. Setting the stage
1. Ask : Do you know someone who is blind?
How do you feel for him/her?
Would you like to have a blind friend? Why?
2. Unlocking of Difficulties
Present the following sentences. Let the pupils give the meaning of the
underlined words through context clues.
a. There was a heavy traffic and the cars were honking so loud.
b. Handle brittle objects carefully because they break easily.
c. When polvoron crumbles it becomes powdery in form.

At the end of the lesson, the pupils will be able to infer the mood of the
speaker.

B. Explaining the students what to do

1. Tell the pupils that they are going to listen to the story of Antonio who is blind.
2. Read “Antonio’s Story” to the pupils. (Refer to LGEE 5 pp. 18 - 19)

Antonio’s Story

I have a friend who lives in another world. Her name is Francisca. The world she lives in is full of
light. So she tells me when we meet every Saturday afternoon.
Every Saturday afternoon, my mama takes my hand and we leave the house. We walk a long way-
past other houses where people are talking, past one street where there are cars honking. At last, when we
hear the sounds of children playing and mothers talking to other mothers, I know we are at the park.
Every Saturday afternoon, here, in this place of happy voices, I meet Francisca who always shouts
in her happy voice, “Hello, Antonio! Let’s go! Let’s go!”
And so, Francisca runs to Mama and says hello and takes my hand. Her fingers are small but they
are strong.
She takes my hand and we walk. As we walk, she talks and tells me everything she sees along the
way:
 “Now we are walking near the tree I told you about. “Let’s call it our mango tree. It is tall-taller than
you and me and your mama and my papa even if we all stand on each other’s shoulders. Its leaves are
shaped like knives. Here feel one. You know it is dry because it is brittle and crumbles easily.
“The tree’s body or the trunk is big, thick and rough. Here touch it! This is the tree that makes
wonderful mangoes, all sweet and smooth and golden.”
I smile because I know what a mango tastes like.
Francisca laughs and says, “The way a mango makes your tongue feel is the way light makes me
feel.”
Sometimes, when Francisca tells me such things, I feel so sad because I cannot see. My eyes feel
nothing except my tears.
But Francisca sees and she sees my hot tears sliding down my cheeks. She holds me tight with her
strong fingers and says, “Don’t cry. My eyes are big enough for the two of us.”
And she leads my fingers to her eyes and says:
“Look Antonio:
Red is the color of the sky that when the day
and the night meet.
Blue is the color of the sea where the cold
fishes play.
Yellow is the color of the sun that makes
your cheeks burn, that dries your tears, the same
color as the mango that makes your lips sticky
and your tongue happy.
Green is the color of the leaves that whisper
when the wind blows.
And the wind that makes us laugh, that
moves our hair, that makes our clothes fly, not
even I can see.
See?”
And I laugh to hear funny colors, and soon I forget that I am blind and that she lives in another
world.
This is my friend Francisca who is more important to me than having my own eyes.

3. Comprehension check up
Ask the pupils the following questions:
a. Who is Antonio’s friend? (Francisca)
b. Is she blind like Antonio? (No)
c. When do they meet? (every Saturday afternoon)
d. Where do they meet? (at the park)
4. Let the pupils give words or group of words used in the selection that describe
mood or feelings.

C. Modeling for students

1. Let the pupils identify the mood of the person presented in each situation.
a. Francisca always shouts in her happy voice. (joyful)
b. She said, “Hello, Antonio! Let’s go!” (excitement, eagerness)
c. My eyes feel nothing except my tears. (sadness)
Ask the pupils the following questions:
- What helped us in guessing Antonio’s and Francisca’s mood?
(through their actions and what they say)
- How can we tell the mood of a person or a character in a story?
(through his/her actions and utterances/statements)

2. Encourage the pupils to give their own sentence with a situation presenting
different mood and tone of a person.

D. Guided practice
Divide pupils into 4 groups. Distribute to each group the strips of cartolina with a
mood written on each strip. (Have a list of suggested moods: happy, sad, afraid,
disappointment, surprise).
Tell each group member to get a strip of cartolina without showing what was
written on it to the group members. Tell each member to act out or make facial
expressions to describe the mood written on his/her strip of cartolina while the rest of
the group members guess what that mood is. Each member will take his/her turn.

E. Independent practice
Identify the mood of the person presented in each situation that I will read to you.
1. Tina saw the thin ragged beggar and gave him her last peso. (pity or
compassion)
2. Clara groped in the dark. She touched something slimy and hairy. She
shrieked and could not move. (frighten or fear)
3. Ana felt like walking on air and that everybody loved her as she went up the
stage to receive her trophy from the judges. (joyful or elated)
4. Tony was going to the city for the first time. He couldn’t sit tight. He pointed at
the new things he saw. (excited)
5. Aling Pinang looked at her colorful garden. Her plants were all flowering and it
was a sight to see. (happy or joyful)

F. Closure/Assessment
What have you learned from today’s lesson?

G. Evaluation
Infer the general mood of the situations that I will read to you. Choose your
answer from the words written on the board.

anger sadness disappointment

worryfear

1. “It breaks my heart to see very ill,” said Auring to her sick daughter.
2. Mang Pedro raised a wooden stick and shouted at the two boys to get out of his
garden.
3. Yoly’s brother was playing with other children in the park. After a while she could not
see him anymore. She tried to look for him everywhere but she could not find him.
4. Lightning flashed followed by a terrible thunder. Sara closed her eyes and covered her
ears as she sat on the chair.
5. Ramon has been on top of his class since Grade One. Now, mother was expecting
another gold medal. Awarding came but Ramon was not called.