DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH II

I. Objectives:

At the of the lesson, the student should be able to:

A.Identify the figures of speech used in the sentence ( Simile, Metaphor, and
Personification).
B. Construct sentences using different types of figurative language
(Simile, Metaphor, and Personification).
C. Appreciate Mother nature.

II. Subject Matter:

A. Topic: Identifying Figures of Speech ( Simile, Metaphor, and Personification)
B. Materials: Picture of a cloud, charts, flaglets
C. Values: Love for nature

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY PUPILS’ ACTIVITY

A. Preparatory Activities:

Prayer  Good afternoon ma’am.

 ( The pupils will report the absents).
 Good afternoon class.  Yes ma’am.
 Who are absent this afternoon?
 Are you now ready for our lesson
this afternoon?
( The pupils will do the stretching ).
1. Stretching Drill
Lip Stretching – 16 counts
Tongue Stretching – 16 counts
Jaw Stretching – 16 counts
Kiss your palm

2. Review:
 Before we proceed to our lesson
this afternoon, let’s have a short
 A prepositional phrase is a group of
review of your previous lesson,
words that begins with a preposition and
about prepositional phrase. ends with a noun or a pronoun which is
 Again, what is a prepositional the object of preposition.
phrase, class?
 Very good.
 I have here sentences. What
you’re going to do is to underline
the prepositional phrases, and
1. The girl in the red costume won first
draw a circle around each
place.
preposition.
2. I came before you did.
3. The stranger disappeared through the
1. The girl in the red costume won
first place. woods.
2. I came before you did.
4. The boy climbed over the wall.
3. The stranger disappeared
through the woods. 5. People went out during the
intermission.
4. The boy climbed over the wall.

5. People went out during the

intermission.

3. Unlocking of Difficulties:

 I have here a puzzle. You’re

going to fill up the correct
words that will solve the
puzzle. Choose the words from
the box below.
  Lambs
 Dawn
Across:
1. A young sheep.  Wilful
3.The beginning of day; the first light  Beasts
in the east.
4.Wanting or taking one’s own way.  Rills
6.An animal except man, especially a
four- footed animal.
7.A tiny stream; a little brook.
 Meadows

Down:  Huge
2. Low grassy land by the bank of the  Radiant
stream.
5 . Extremely large.  Tears
8. Shining; bright; beaming.  Clue
9. A drop of salty water coming from
the eyes.
10. Sign or hint.

 Yes, ma’am.

4. Motivation:
 Have you looked up the sky this  Clouds, birds,etc.....
morning, class?
 Picture of a cloud.
 What did you see?
 I will show you a picture.  The cloud is white, soft and beautiful.
 What can you see in the picture?
 What can you say about the
picture? How would you describe
a cloud?
 I have here a poem entitled,
“Clouds”.
 5. Motive Question:

 After reading the poem, be

able to answer this question.

 “To what are clouds being

compared to in the poem”?

B. Developmental Activities:
1. Presentation:

 One of your classmate will read

the poem for us.
 While your classmate is
reading the poem, what will
you do?
 Listen attentively.
 Understand what is being read.
 Do not talk with your seatmates.

“ CLOUDS”

Clouds all like silver lambs

On low green hills,
Feeding on blue meadows
Watered by rills.
Clouds are like snowy dawn
Playing with winds;
Clouds are small, willful clues
With playful minds.

Clouds are huge butterflies

Radiant with rays;
Clouds are beasts of the wilds
On stormy days.
Clouds are the sky giants
Their tears are rain
Dropping on leafy plants
Down the plain.
C. Comprehension Check up:
 Clouds are compared to silver lambs,
snowy dawn, small, willful clues,
 To what are clouds being
beasts of the wilds, huge butterflies,
compared to in the poem?
sky giants.
 To a silver lamb.
 In the first two lines of the poem,  Yes, ma’am.
what are clouds being compared
 It’s fur or skin covering is white in
to?
 Have you seen a lamb, class? color.
 How does it look like?
 Their colors are both white.
 What characteristics of a clouds
make them silver lambs?
 Give the similarities of the clouds
and the lamb.
 Very good. Clouds are being
compared to a silver lamb
 To a huge butterfly.
because of its white color.

 To what are clouds being

compared to in the 9th line of the
poem?  They are both colorful and give life
and beauty to our dull nature.
 Why is cloud being compared to
a huge butterfly? What common
characteristics of a cloud is also
present to a butterfly?

 Lambs, dawn, clues, butterflies, beasts

2. Discussion: and giants.
 What are the unlike things
compared to clouds in the  We compare two things.
 We compare two different things.
poem?
 Figures of Speech.
 What did we do just a while ago?
 Very good. What did we
compare?
 What do you call to the
comparison made between two  The comparison between two unlike
unlike things? things.
 Ok. What is again a figure of
speech?
 Alright. A figure of speech is a
group of words that expresses a
comparison between two unlike
objects.
 There are different types of
figurative language.
Study the following lines taken from
the poem.

1. Clouds are like silver lambs.

2. Clouds are like snowy dawn.
3. Clouds are huge butterflies.
4. Clouds are beasts of the wilds.
5. The cloud is feeding on the
meadow.
6. The cloud is playing with the
winds.

 Lamb and a dawn.

 Examine lines 1 and 2.  Yes, ma’am.
 Clouds are being compared to  The word like.
what?
 Are they unlike/ different things?  The word as.
 What word is used to compare
the two things?  Simile
 What other words are used in
making a comparison?
 What do you now call to the  It is the comparison of two unlike
comparison made in these lines? things with the use of like and as.
 What is a simile?
 Very good. Simile is a figure of
speech that expresses a
comparison between two unlike
objects having similar  She sings sweetly like a bird.
characteristics with the use of “  Her skin is as smooth as silk.
like “ or “ as “.
 Who can give me a sentence
using simile?  No, ma’am.
 Examine lines 3 and 4.  Because it is a direct comparison of two
unlike things.
 Did it use the words like and as in  Metaphor.
making a comparison?
 It is a comparison of two unlike things
 Why do you think so? without the use of like or as.

 What do you call to the figures of

speech used in these lines?
 What is a metaphor?
 Very good. Metaphor is a figure
of speech that expresses a
comparison between two unlike
objects having similar  The sun is a ball of fire.
characteristics without the use
of “ like “ or “ as “.
 Anyone who can give me
sentences using metaphor?  No, ma’am.

 Examine lines 5 and 6.  Because they are nonliving things.

 Does the cloud has the capacity  We human beings.
of feeding and playing?
 Why not?  Personification.
 Who do you think is the only
one who can do these things?
 What type of figures of speech is  It gives human characteristics to
used in these lines? animals, objects, and ideas.
 What is a personification?
 Very good. Personification is a
figure of speech that gives  The leaves swayed gently with the
human characteristics to non-
human things like animal, winds.
objects, and ideas.
 Give me now sentences using
personification.

3. Group Activity:
 To better understand our
lesson this afternoon, we will
have a group activity.
 I will divide you into three
groups. Each group will select a  Follow instructions correctly.
leader who will present your  Cooperate and share ideas with the
output. group.
 Do not make unnecessary noise.
 Before we proceed to our  Finish work on time.
 group activity, let us recall the
standards for you to follow
while performing your tasks.
 ( The teacher will explain the
temperature chart in following
the group activity).
 I will only give you ten minutes
to complete your tasks.

Group I
 Use the following words in a
meaningful sentence using
simile as a figure of speech.

1. rainbow
2. flowers
3. star
4. ocean
5. birds

Group II

 Copy the sentences that

expresses metaphor.

1. The English language is like  The dictionary is the bankbook that

a bankbook account of a helps us use the words.
million words.
 The clouds are frisky puppies in the
2. The dictionary is the
sky.
bankbook that helps us use
 The wind is a cat that prowls at night.
the words.
3. The flowers danced happily
with the wind.
4. The clouds are frisky
puppies in the sky.
5. The wind is a cat that
prowls at night.

Group III
 Tell what human characteristics
do these sentences have.  Look
 Whispers
1. The stars look down at the
little Baby in the manger.
 2. The brook whispers softly  Kissed
as it touches the river banks.
 Bow
3. The cool wind gently kissed
the flowers.  Stood
4. The leaves bow down their
heads.
5. The tall trees stood
mightily against the howling
winds.

 (Presentation of the group

output.)
 ( Corresponding clap with the
group).
 Food, shelter and other basic needs.
4. Value Integration:
 What could we get from Mother
 I will not abuse her.
nature?
 I will throw garbage in the proper place.
 As a grade six pupil, how could  I will plant more trees.
you show your love with her?  I will join campaigns that save Mother
nature.

 That’s nice to hear from

you,class.
 About figures of speech.
5. Generalization:  A figure of speech is a group of
 What have you learned this words that expresses a comparison
afternoon,class? between two unlike objects.
 Again, what is a figure of  Simile is a figure of speech that
speech? expresses a comparison between
two unlike objects with the use of “
like “ or “ as “.
 How about its types?  Metaphor is a figure of speech that
expresses a comparison between
two unlike objects without the use
of “ like “ or “ as “.
 Personification is a figure of speech
that gives human characteristics to
non-human things.
  Very good children. It seems that
you really learned from our
discussion this afternoon.

C. Post Activity:
1. Application:
 I will read lines from poems.
You’re going to clap your hands if
the figures of speech mentioned
is a simile; you will stump your
feet if it is a metaphor and
whistle if it is a personification.  Clap
 Are you now ready, children?

 Zooming across the sky,

Like a great bird you fly,
Airplane  Whistle
Silvery white
In the light.
 Little sampaguita
With the wondering eye,
Did a tiny fairy  Stump
Drop you where you lie?

 The sun is an orange dinghy

sailing across a calm sea.
It is a gold coin
dropped down a drain in  Clap
heaven.

 The moon, like a flower

In heaven’s high bower
With silent delight  Stump
Sits and smiles in the night.

 Clouds are angry monsters

With a water hose.
They can make me cold and
 wet
They can plug my nose.

2. Enrichment Activities:
 I have here another sets of lines from
a poem. Identify whether the lines
expressed simile, by raising red
flaglet, metaphor by raising blue
flaglet, and personification by raising  Red flaglet
a yellow flaglet.

 Gentle as a feather
Softer than snow
Quiet as a cat
Comes  Yellow flaglet
The evening breeze.

 The candles screamed with

fury.
Her tears trickled down her
face.
With figure slumped,
She slowly dwindled into
shadows.  Red flaglet
Darkness!

 Clouds are like waves

Rolling into the sky’s blue
 Blue flaglet
cave.

 The turtle is a tidy boy!

When he is tired of play,
 Yellow flaglet
He folds himself carefully
And puts himself away.

 The night was creeping on

the ground!
She crept and did not make a
sound.
IV. Evaluation:
Identify the figures of speech used in the sentences, whether it is simile, metaphor or
personification.

1. The bamboo trees swayed from left to right.

2. Her face is like a garden full of flowers.
3.The rich fields were the farmer’s treasure.
4. The stream was like a silver ribbon over the green plains.
5. The fat comedian is as plump as a pillow.
6. The north wind swings his whistling whip.
7. The traffic jam was a sea of metal.
8. The baby is as meek as a lamb.
9. The sun is a ball of fire.
10. The leaves whisper their secrets to one another.

V. Assignment:
Copy the sentences below. Identify the figures of speech used in the sentence. Write S
for simile, M for metaphor and P for personification.

1. His lips were as white as vinegar when he broke her mom’s favorite vase.
2. The infant’s smile was a ray of sunshine to the whole family.
3. The moon faithfully controls the tide’s ebb and flow.
4. The contestant was a nervous butterfly o n the stage.
5. Her hair shines like twinkling stars in the night.

PREPARED :

JOHN LLOYD P. JUMAO-AS

JOHN VINCENT E. JUBAN
NORHAYA ISHMAEL
KRISTINE LEONY JONGAY
AMBER IPILI

Checked by:
CHRISTIAN JAY FAJARTIN. LPT, MAED
Instructor