REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

SURIGAO DEL NORTE STATE UNIVERSITY

Magpayang, Mainit, Surigao del Norte

Content Standard
Performance Standard
Learning Competencies
LESSON PLAN
ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
: The learner demonstrates understanding on types of speech acts.
: The learner should be able to explain the types of speech acts on
communication.
: Oral Communication

I. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, you will have been able to:
 Distinguish speech act and the 3 types of speech act, and recognize that communicate
competence requires understanding of speech acts;
 Demonstrate effective use of communicative strategy in a variety of speech situations;
 Apply learning and thinking skills, life skills, and ICT literacy in understanding the types of
speech acts; and
 Reflect on your learning on the types of speech acts.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic : Types of Speech Act
B. Reference : K-12 Curriculum Guide Oral Communication, DepEd Central Office, First
Edition, 2016
C. Materials : Visual aid, laptop, projector, and other visual materials
D. Values : Patient, understanding, passionate and attentive.
E. Across Learning Area : Types of Speech Act, Oral Communication

III. PROCEDURE
Teacher’s Activities Student’s Activities
1. Prayer
Kindly everyone to please stand for the prayer. Yes, ma’am. Let us pray everyone.
Ms. Cocamas, kindly lead the prayer. Ms. Cocamas started the prayer.

2. Greetings
Good day, everyone! How’s your day? Doing good ma’am.
Are you ready for today’s lesson? Yes, we are ready!

3. Checking of Attendance
Say present if your name is called. Okay ma’am.
Calling out their names.

4. Collecting Assignments
As for your assignment, pass it on front. Okay ma’am.

5. Physical Arrangement
Before we proceed to our proper discussion,
kindly arrange your chairs and pick up some garbage
around you. Yes, ma’am.
6. Review
Let’s have a quick review first about the
yesterday’s topic. Are you ready class?
Can you still remember what was our previous
topic? Yes, ma’am.
Very good! What was that all about? All about communication ma’am.
Excellent memory!

It seems like you really understood our previous

topic. A round of applause for yourselves. Applauding.

7. Motivation
Group yourselves into 4 and Watch the first video
of telephone conversations through this link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpZFJctBUHQ

With your group, discuss your answers to the

following questions.
G-1. What greeting is used by the customer
service agent?
G-2. What form of personal identification is used
by the agent? (doing the activity)
G-3. What pre-closing signals are used by the
agent?
G-4. What closing is used by the agent?

Very good! Have you ever experience this kind of

conversations? To a friend? Parents? Loved ones?
Peers? Yes, we do experience ma’am. All of them actually.

8. Lesson Proper
Based on what have you observed and answered,
do you have any ideas what is the topic about? Yes, ma’am. The topic is all about the types of
speech act.
Exactly! Today’s topic is all about the Types of
Speech Act in Communication.

But first and foremost, kindly read the objectives.
to:
By the end of the lesson, you will have been able
 Distinguish speech act and the 3
types of speech act, and recognize
that communicate competence
requires understanding of speech
acts;
 Demonstrate effective use of
communicative strategy in a variety of
speech situations;
 Apply learning and thinking skills, life
skills, and ICT literacy in
understanding the types of speech
acts; and
 Reflect on your learning on the types
of speech acts.
 Can you tell me about your understanding on types
of speech act? Anyone? Yes, Ms. Cocamas. Speech act is an utterance that a speaker makes to
achieve an intended effect.

Yes, speech act is an utterance that a speaker

makes to achieve an intended effect. Some of the
functions which are carried out using speech acts
are offering an apology, greeting, request, complaint,
invitation, compliment, or refusal. A speech act might
contain just one word or several words of sentences.

Can you give some examples of speech acts? “thanks”

“thank you for always being there for me. I really
appreciate it”

Correct! Thank you. “thanks” and “thank you for

always being there for me. I really appreciate it” both
show appreciation regardless of the length of the
statement.

There are three types of Speech Act. Can you tell

me what are those three types of speech act? Locutionary Act
Illocutionary Act
Perlocutionary Act.

Excellent! Yes. The three types of Speech Act are

Locutionary, Illocutionary, Perlocutionary Act.

But before that, a philosopher of language J.L.

Austin (1962), is the developer of the three types of
speech act theory.

So, the first one is the Locutionary act. What is

Locutionary Act? Ms. Melicor? Lucotionary act is the actual act of uttering.

Yes, Lucotionary act is the actual act of uttering.

For example, “Please do the dishes”.

The second, Illucotionary Act. Ms. Bisnar? Illucotionary act is the social function of what is
said.
Yes. Correct. Illucotionary act is the social function
of what is said. For example, by uttering the word
“please do the dishes”, the speaker requests the
addressee to wash the dishes.

The last one, which is the Perlocutionary Act. Ms.

Cocamas? Perlocutionary Act is the resulting act of what is said.

Correct. Perlocutionary Act is the resulting act of

what is said. This effect is based on the particular
context in which the speech act was mentioned. Why
is that?
Because it would lead to the addressee washing
Excellent! By the word “please do the dishes” would the dishes.
lead to the addressee washing the dishes.

There are also indirect speech acts which occur

when there is no direct connection between the form
of the utterance and the intended meaning. They are
different in force (i. e., intention) from the inferred
speech act.
For example, read the following utterance.
“Can you pass the rice?”
Inferred speech act: “Do you have the ability to
hand over the rice?”
Indirect speech act: “Please pass the rice.”
Thank you. So while the utterance literally asks the
addressee if he or she has the ability to hand a plate
of rice, if actually indirectly requests the addressee to
pass the rice to the speaker.

Austin also introduced the concept of performative

utterances: statements which enables the speaker to
perform something just by stating it. In this manner,
verbs that execute the speech act that they intend to
effect are called what?
Performatives.
Yes, correct. Performatives. So, what is
performatives?
Performatives. A performative utterance said by the
right person under the right circumstances results in
Yes. And take note that a certain conditions have to a change in the world.
be met when making a performative utterance.

For example,
“I pronounce you husband and wife”, when
uttered by an authorized person such as minister
inside the church, pastor, judge will have the actual
effect of binding a couple in marriage. However, if
the same statement is uttered to the same couple in
the same place by someone who is not authorized to
marry them, then there is no effect whatsoever
because a condition was not met.

Am I clear?
Very good. Yes, ma’am.

As a response to Austin’s Speech Act Theory, John

Searle (1976), a professor from the University of
California, Berkeley, classified illocutionary acts into
five distinct categories. What are those five distinct
categories?
1. Assertive
2. Directive
3. Commissive
4. Expressive
Correct! So, the first one is assertive, what is 5. Declaration
assertive? Yes, Mr. Bitor.
Assertive is a type of illocutionary act in which the
speaker expresses belief about the truth of a
Yes. Assertive is a type of illocutionary act in which proportion.
the speaker expresses belief about the truth of a
proportion. Some examples of an assertive act are
suggesting, putting forward, swearing, boasting, and
concluding.
For example, kindly read.
No one makes pancakes than I do.
The next one is Directive. Please read.
A type of illicutionary act in which the speaker tries
to make the addressee perform an action.
Yes. it is a type of illicutionary act in which the
speaker tries to make the addressee perform an
action. Some examples of a directive act are asking,
ordering, requesting, inviting, advising, and begging.

For example, kindly read.

Please, close the door
The third one, commissive. Please read.
A type of illicutionary act which commits the
speaker to doing something in the future.
Good. A type of illicutionary act which commits the
speaker to doing something in the future. Examples
of a commissive act are promising, planning, vowing,
and betting.
For example, please do read.
From now on, I will participate in our group activity.
The fourth one, the expressive act. Kindly read
everyone.
A type of Illicutionary act in which the speaker
expresses his/her feelings or emotional reactions.
Yes. A type of Illicutionary act in which the speaker
expresses his/her feelings or emotional reactions.
Some examples of an expressive act are thanking,
apologizing, welcoming, and deploring.
For example, read the example.
I am so sorry for not helping out in our group
projects and letting you do all the work.
 The last one, Declaration. Kindly read.
A type of illicutionary act which brings a change in
the external situation.
Yes. Simply put, declarations bring into existence or
cause the state of affairs which they refer to. And
some examples of declaration are blessings, firing,
baptizing, bidding, passing a sentence, and
excommunicating.

For example, please read.

You are fired!
By saying that someone is fired, an employer
causes or brings about the person’s unemployment,
thus changing his external situation.

Always keep in mind that speech acts include

concrete life interactions that require the
appropriate use of language within a given culture.
Communicative competence (i.e., the ability to use
linguistic knowledge to effectively communicate with
others) is essential for a speaker to be able to use
and understand speech acts. Idioms and other
nuances in a certain language might be lost or
misunderstood by someone who does not fully grasp
the language yet.

Am I understood?
Yes, ma’am!

Generalizations
Let us recall our topic today if you are really
listening.
1. What are the three types of speech act?
Locutionary Act
Illocutionary Act
Perlocutionary Act.
What is Locutionary Act again?
Very good! How about the Illocutionary Act? Lucotionary act is the actual act of uttering.
Illucotionary act is the social function of what is
said.
Excellent! The last one? Perlocutionary.
Perlocutionary Act is the resulting act of what is
said.
Bravo everyone! I’m glad you all listened to our
discussion.
Now I want you to give me another insight about
the five distinct categories of the Illocutionary acts.
2. What are the five distinct categories of the
illicutionary acts?
What is assertive act again? Ms. Empuesto.
Very good! The second one. Directive. Yes Mr.
Belacho.
That’s right! The third one which is commissive.
Yes, Ms. Salino.
Correct! How about Ms. Pal, what is expressive act
again?
Excellent! You sight some example Ms. Pal which
is good.
The last one is Declaration act. Ms. Caimoy?
A job well done to all of you class! A hand for
yourselves.
Now that you really understood our lesson for
today, let’s have another group activity.
1. Assertive
2. Directive
3. Commissive
4. Expressive
5. Declaration
Assertive act is suggesting, putting forward,
swearing, boasting, and concluding.
Directive act are asking, ordering, requesting,
inviting, advising, and begging.
Commissive act are promising, planning, vowing,
and betting.
Expressive act is thanking, apologizing, welcoming,
and deploring. For example, I am so sorry for not
helping out in our group projects and letting you do
all the work.
Declaration are blessings, firing, baptizing, bidding,
passing a sentence, and excommunicating. Like for
example at work and the boss is mad at me then
said, you are fired!
Applauding.

Application
Work with the same group from the previous
activity. Complete the following table with
information related to Searle’s Classification of
Speech Acts. I will give you 15 minutes to finish
and present your output in front.
Okay ma’am.
Example:
Classification Specific Example
of Speech Act Situation
Assertive Chris bought a “I’m the only
new gadget, one in school
and he shows who has this
it off to his new Iphone
friends. model.”
 Your turn:
Classification Situation Example
of Speech Act
Directive
Commissive
Expressive
Declarantion

EVALUATION
Let’s Reflect.
Reflect on what you have learned after taking up this lesson by completing the chart below in a brief
discussion.
1. What were your thoughts or ideas about speech acts prior to the discussion of this lesson?
I thought…_____________________________________________________________________________.

2. What new or additional ideas did you learn after taking up this lesson?
I learned that....__________________________________________________________________________.

ASSIGNMENT
Watch the second video below. Pay attention to details like greetings, personal identification, and pre-
closing and closing signals. This will be presented next week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2EBB5McJo
Compare the greeting, pre-closing, and closing in video 2 to those in video 1. How are they similar or
different?

Prepared by: Approved by:

SARAH MAE L. LLANO NONA D. SARATORIO
Student-Teacher Instructor