Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
DISTRICT I-A
ANTIPOLO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

LESSON INFORMATION
Date: July 5, 2023 Subject: English 7

Grade Level: 7 Time: 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

I. OBJECTIVE/S/COMPETENCIES
Objectives:
 Identify what are imperatives.
 Distinguish positive and negative imperative sentences.
Competencies:
 Give and follow instructions and directions. (EN7RC-IV-b10.1)
 Use imperatives when giving instructions. (EN7G-IV-b-4)

II. CONTENT
A. Topic: Imperatives
References: DEPED Curriculum Guide
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zx1DvZ2o58&t=315s
Retrieved from: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/imperative-sentence-guide
Retrieved from: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/imperative-sentences/
B. Time Allotment: 30 minutes
C. Instructional Materials: Laptop, Visual Aids, Speakers

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Response

III. PROCEDURE

PRELIMINARIES

Opening Prayer
Teacher will ask the students to stand for the Students will stand and pray.
opening prayer.

“Let us all stand and ask for the guidance of Our

Lord God for this day.”

Teacher will lead the prayer.

“In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.” “Amen”

Checking of Attendance
Teacher will check the attendance by row and the
students in the aisle will tell the name of absentees
in respective row.

“Okay, let me ask the students in the aisle to tell the “None.”
name of absentees in each row for checking of
attendance today.” Row 1, are there “Ma’am, none.” ……………………………
absentees?................................

Greeting
Teacher will greet the class. Students will greet the teacher.
“Good afternoon, Grade 7” “Good morning Ma’am Ruby.”

The teacher will proceed to the activity part.

 A. ACTIVITY
Task: Guess our Destination- Guess it to Win it!
Learners will guess the destination by giving letters
which exist in the name of the place/destination.
Learners who can guess a correct letter will be
asked to give and follow their own instructions
based on their names and birth months. A ticket
will be given to students who can give and follow
their own instructions. The teacher provided the
table below for this activity.

“Class, I am going to a trip and I want to give Students will listen to the teacher.
some of you the tickets for you to come and join me
to my destination. You will be able to come with me
if you can guess a letter that is on the name of the
place/destination. Right after you give a correct
letter, you will do your own instructions which will
depend on your name and birth month. I will show
you the table for this.
Students will look on the screen to see the table.
Teacher will flash the table for the name and birth
month. “Okay, ma’am”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Here is the table, you need to look for the first “Ready, ma’am”
letter of your name for the action you need to do
and your birth month for the number of times you
need to do it. Are you ready to guess and join the
trip?”

“Great. Before we start, kindly get a piece of paper Students will get a piece of paper and write their names
it can be scratch paper, write your name and your and birth month on it.
birth month on it.

“Let us start with, Amy. Tell me your guess.” “Letter J, ma’am.”

“Good guess. We have letter J on the name of our “Clap for letter A, birth month April- 4 times. Clap 4
destination. Give and follow your own times.”
instructions.” (Student will do the instructions.)

Students will raise their hands to guess the destination.

“Ma’am Bulacan!”
“Bulacan, ma’am.”

“Great. You guess it right our destination is

Bulacan.”
Teacher will give a trivia about Bulacan.

• Belongs to Central Luzon Region

• Hometown of the Filipino poet of the
Tagalog language, Francisco “Balagtas”
Baltazar
• He is known for “Ibong Adarna and
Florante at Laura”

B. ANALYSIS
Teacher will start to ask the students about the
activity done.

LOTS
1. What are these words used in the activity? “Actions, ma’am.” “Verbs, ma’am.”
2.What makes them related to each other? “They give instructions, ma’am.”
3.Can you give me other examples of words giving “Stop.” “Keep.” “Quiet.” …….
instructions?
HOTS
1.Where do you think we can use these words
often?
2.In our daily lives, what do you think is the
importance of giving instructions?
“School.” “Ma’am, at home.” “Library.”
“It is important ma’am because it will guide us.”
“Ma’am, it is important because we will know what to
do.”

C. ABSTRACTION
Teacher will present and discuss the topic further.

Imperative Sentence
- order/command - advice
- request - warning
- instruction/direction
Imperative Verbs
-verbs in base form
Examples:
- Follow - Put
- Keep - Wash

Imperative sentence is directive, automatically the

one who is spoken to is the doer of the action. No
need to write the subject before the imperative verb.
The function of imperatives is to let someone to
make an action.

Examples:

Follow the safety protocols.

Keep a distance of at least 1 meter.
Put your facemask on.
Wash your hands properly.

2 Types of Imperatives

Teacher will ask the students.

Always bring alcohol with you.

Prepare your important documents.
Don’t touch the things in public places.
Don’t forget to disinfect your things.

“Can you tell me what are positive and negative “The first 2 sentences are positive imperatives,
imperatives in these sentences?” ma’am.”
“The last 2 sentences ma’am are negative imperatives
ma’am.”

“Correct. Good job.”

Positive Imperatives:
Always bring alcohol with you.
Prepare your important documents.

Negative Imperatives:
Don’t touch the things in public places.
Don’t forget to disinfect your things.

Remember: Negative Imperatives comes with the

word NOT.

Imperative verbs can come after other words.

Always
Kindly
Please
 D. APPLICATION

Group Activity: Give me a sign!

The learners will be divided into 4 groups. Each

group will be given a card with a signage or picture
which will be used to give both positive and
negative imperative sentence from it.

Group 1:
“Wear your facemask.” “Wear facemask.”

Group 2:
“Don’t shake hands.”

Group 3:
“Wash your hands.” “Always wash your hands.”

Group 4: “Don’t touch your face.” “Don’t touch your nose.”

E. ASSESSMENT / EVALUATION

ICT Integration: The learners will listen to a song

with lyrics on screen. After listening to the audio.
The teacher will give a quiz for the learners.

Quiz: Imperatives
Based on the audio/video presented, identify if it is
positive or negative imperative. Write P for positive
imperative and N for negative imperative. Put your
answers in the space provided before each item.
______1. Get you game on.
______2. Don’t wake me up.
______3. Go play.
______4. Make this dream the best I ever known.
______5. Don’t ever let me go.
______6. Don’t stop believin’.
______7. Get the show on.
______8. Come on.

F. AGREEMENT
Read and study in advance the Prepositions.