English 7_Quarter 4

Teacher: Rochellie G. Hulleza

Teaching Date and Time: Week 2(4meetings) Jan.27-31, 2020
Grade Level: 7
Learning Area: English
Quarter: Fourth
Code: EN7RC-IV-b-10, EN7G-IV-c-5, EN7LC-IV-b-8, EN7VC-IV-b-6.1, EN7RC-IV-b -12.3, ENLT-IV-b-2.2
1: OBJECTIVES:
A. CONTENT STANDARD:
The learner demonstrates understanding of: contemporary Philippine literature as a means of responding
demands of the global village; various extended text types; lexical and contextual cues; appropriate and polite oral
language, stance, and behavior; and use of imperatives, prepositions, verbs, and wh- questions.

B. PERFORMANCE STANDARD:
The learner transfers learning by: explaining the needs to be cooperative and responsible in today’s global
village; using appropriate strategies to comprehend extended text types; using lexical and contextual clues to
understand unfamiliar words and expressions; using imperatives, prepositions, and appropriate and polite oral
language, stance and behavior in various information-sharing formats.

C. LEARNING OUTCOME:

Part II. CONTENT

Unit 4-Lesson 1: Learning about the Changing World in contemporary Literature
Reading Text: The World in Train (An Essay by Francisco Icasiano)
Literary Point: Writer’s tools: Describing with Words
Grammar: Imperatives
Part III. LEARNING RESOURCES
A. References: Work Text Pages: 426-435, 492-496 (English Perspective 7)
B. Materials: English Perspective 7 Work text, video clip of a train, computer with internet connection,
worksheet
Web based: video documentary about train journeys on You Tube
C. Time frame: 4 meetings

Part IV: PROCEDURE

A. Day 1
Preliminary activities
1. Prayer
2. Checking Of Attendance
3. Review of the previous lesson

Literature Study

Prereading Activity/Motivation
Ask students to bring photos of road trips/vacations they have taken in the past. Let them share their fondest
memories of those road trips to the rest of the class.

Ideas and Predictions: Ask students to make predictions about the selection to be read.
When you read the title “The World in a Train,” what ideas and predictions come to mind?
Write down your predictions in the first column about what you think about the selection will be about. Share your
predictions to the rest of the class. Then check later if your predictions were correct.

What you predict ? What it was all about?

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Probe word meanings

look for synonyms and antonyms of these words
Unfamiliar word Synonym Antonym
pretension
indifference
abstraction
sketchy

Prior to reading explain to learners what reflective essay is. Tell them that the selection “ The World in a Train”
is an example of a reflective essay.

During Reading
As the learners read through the selection, Ask them to answer the guide questions in the text.

Post Reading
Check students’ understanding of the essay by answering the comprehension questions. Discuss each question to
the class.
1. What is the theme and mood of this essay?
2. When you travel and you meet other people, are you affected by them? How/In what manner?
3. Why did the writer take notice of the efficient father and his family? Do you agree with his observation?
Why? What is your personal view?
4. Why does the author say, ‘It is strange how human sympathy operates? What does he mean about human
nature in this line?
5. How do you express sympathy for other people?

For practice ask students to write down descriptive words to depict a scene. Pick out colourful phrases or words he
uses successfully to depict each character in the essay. Fill in the chart.
Characters The Writer’s Descriptions
three husky men
efficient father
sleeping man
little child

Assignment 1: Assign students to watch a video documentary about trains and the journeys they take across the
world.
Instruction: Choose a partner and log on to You Tube and search for video documentaries about trains and the
journeys they take across the world. Take note of how the documentaries feature this mode of transportation. Write a
brief summary of the places that can be reached by train travel. What did you find most remarkable in the
documentary about the subject? Would you wish to go on a journey yourself? Why do you say so?

Assignment 3: Assign students to take pictures of familiar places they see every day on their way to school. Tell
them to bring art materials for a collage activity for the next meeting.
Instruction: On your way to school every day, you probably pass route. Write your own reflective essay about what
various sensory details you encounter almost every day on your way to school. Take pictures of these familiar
places. Create a collage of pictures and write reflection about each photo you take.

Day 2
Literature study
Post Reading
Let students recall and bring out their notes on the assigned video documentary about trains. Instruct them to find a
partner and write a brief summary about the documentary viewed. Have them share their notes.

Have students write a reflective essay on what they see, hear, experience on their way to school every day. Then
instruct them to create a collage using the assigned pictures they have taken on their route to school.
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Day 3
Language and Grammar

Write imperative sentences on the board for example “Please take a seat./ Take off your shoes.. “Ask students to
study the sentences. Have them compare how the sentence is used to give command, request or order.

Present and explain the key points about imperatives.

Ask students to enumerate and compose imperative sentences. Check students answer.

Day 4
Language and Grammar
Recall some key points in imperatives. Give grammar practices to the students.
Ask learners to read each line taken from the essay and make inferences about what they think the writer means by
this.
Lines from the essay Your inferences How can you relate to the message
In the coach I found a little world, a
section of the abstraction called
humanity whom we are supposed to
love and live for.
I had previously arranged to divide
the idle hour or between cultivating
me neglected Christianity and
smoothing out the rough edges of
my nature with the aid of grateful
sights…
It is strange how human sympathy
operates. We assume an attitude of
complete indifference to utter
strangers whom we have seen but
not met. We claim that they are the
hardest fall in love within the normal
exercise of Christian charity.

Assignment: Ask students to write reflection about their hometown.

Instruction: Have you ever take the time to appreciate your hometown as you drive or travel along its roads? What
feelings do you have when visiting relatives in your hometown? How would you tell others about the beauty of your
hometown?

V. Evaluation 1
Complete the setting web below with phrases and words that the writer uses to describe the train journey.

SIGHT TIME

On the train

SMELL OR TASTE
TOUCH