Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan

in English 7

I. Objectives (MELC): Make predictions about the text.

At the end of the teaching-learning process, students will be able to:
a. Define prediction ;
b. Predict outcomes of the text.

II. Subject Matter

A. Topic: Make predictions about the text.
B. Reference: English 7 Quarter 3 - Week 6

https://www.teachingenglish.org./ https://youtu.be/AY1ZzGY50i8?
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https://poestories.com/read/blackcat

C. Materials: PowerPoint Presentation, Audio clips, Whiteboard, Index Cards,

D. Strategies:
Group Activity
Discussion/Presentation
Individual Activities

III. Procedure
A. Preliminary Activities (3 mins.)
Prayer and greetings
Checking of attendance
Cleanliness/orderliness
Word of the day

B. Review of the Lesson (10 mins.) Pre-Listening

The teacher will arrange the students in a circle. He/she will prepare a short
sentence or phrase related to “predicting outcome”. The Teacher will whisper it
into the ear of one student to start the chain. This student will then whisper it to
the next student, and so on until the message has traveled around the entire circle.
Each student should listen carefully to the message as it's whispered to them and
pass it on to the next person without altering the message then finally, the last
student in the circle says the message out loud. The class will compare the
message at the end of the chain with the original message you whispered. The
teacher will Discuss any changes or inaccuracies that occurred during the whisper
chain. This highlights the importance of careful listening.
 "Unlocking the future, one prediction at a time."

C. Motivation: Rapid Predictions (Pre- Listening)

The Teacher will provide each student with a small piece of paper or an index card.
He/she will play a short audio clip aloud to the class and Instruct students to quickly jot down
their predictions about what will happen next right after hearing the audio clip or passage.
Collect the predictions, shuffle them, and randomly read some of them aloud to the class.
After that, the class will answer processing questions about the activity.
Chapter 1 of Swan Lake

1. What ideas did you use to predict what will happen next in the audio?
2. Did hearing other students' predictions influence or change your own
initial prediction in any way? If so, how?

D. Lesson Proper: What will happen next? (20 mins.) During-Listening

Directions: The teacher will read” The Black Cat” a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, to
the students. She/He will stop reading at an appropriate point, leaving a significant event
or cliffhanger unresolved. The students will make predictions about what might happen
next, and write them on a blank sheet of paper. After completing their predictions, the
teacher will ask students to pair up and share their predictions with a partner and
encourage them to discuss the reasoning behind their predictions.

https://poestories.com/read/blackcat

Prediction is an activity learners carry out before reading or listening to a text, where
they predict what they are going to hear or read. This gives them a reason to listen or
read, as they confirm or reject their predictions.

Example:

Learners are going to listen to a presentation about a journey through Africa. They
predict what vocabulary they might hear, and also what kind of emotions the speaker
might have felt. They listen to confirm their ideas.

Predicting outcomes as a listening comprehension skill refers to the ability to anticipate

or forecast the likely developments, results, or conclusions in a spoken or auditory
context based on the information provided. It is an essential component of effective
listening comprehension and involves several cognitive processes, including:

Inference: Listeners must draw logical inferences from the information they receive to
predict what might happen next or what the ultimate outcome of a situation or
conversation might be.

Contextual Understanding: Understanding the context of the conversation or spoken

material is crucial for predicting outcomes. This includes considering the background
information, the speaker's intentions, and the overall situation.

Anticipation: Skilled listeners actively engage with the content they are hearing and use
their knowledge and context clues to anticipate what might come next. This could involve
predicting a speaker's response in a dialogue or projecting the resolution of a narrative.

Critical Thinking: Predicting outcomes also involves critical thinking skills, such as
evaluating the likelihood of different scenarios based on the available information and
assessing the validity of the predictions.

Active Engagement: Effective listeners actively engage with the material rather than
passively receiving it. They think ahead, ask questions, and make mental notes about
what they expect to happen.

Prediction is a valuable stage in listening and reading activities in the classroom. It

mirrors L1 skills use, where predictions form an important base for being able to process
language in real-time. Both content and language can be predicted.