LESSON 1

ENGLISH 9
JUNIOR HIGH DEPARTMENT
MCA MANILA
Classroom Rules
◦ Enter the class on time.
◦ Unmute ONLY when you are asked to speak.
◦ Avoid using foul or offensive words.
◦ Refrain from eating during synchronous meetings.
◦ Disable the video ONLY when you have to use the comfort room,
and enable it immediately after you return.
Grading System

Written Work 30%

Performance Task 50%
Quarterly Assessment 20%

Written Work - from Reading Playlist

Culminating Task - Advocacy Campaign
Quarterly Assessment - Exam

A Read – Must!
(all selections from this column
must be READ)
Seven Ages of Man (Module)
Annabel Lee (Module)
The Whistle (Module or Book)
Note: A total of 5 Written Works.
WW: Reading Playlist
Combo RIY!
(Choose ONE from the available
options)
Beowulf’s Fight (Module) & Story Read any story of your CHOICE. It
Teller (Book) can even be a book!
Beyond the Bayou (Module) &
Inspiring Mom (Book)
Performance Task Scenario

You are a peer facilitator who is assigned to help other students

with their problems. As a peer facilitator, you are expected to give
support and guidance to students who need help. One of the
problems being faced by your peers involves cyber bullying. You
are to give a short yet inspiring talk to your peers. How are you
going to do it?
Differentiated Tasks:

a. Vlog sharing the life testimonies of people who successfully overcome

bullying
b. Podcast sharing your personal sentiment on bullying
c. Video clip sharing your personal experience on bullying

Your talk must be encouraging, clearly presents your message and free
of any unnecessary mannerisms.
Learning Objective:
◦ I can express permission, obligation, and prohibition
using modals.
Modal
◦ a kind of auxiliary verb
◦ they are used to express functions such as:
- permission, obligation and prohibition
1. To request or give permission for an action
to take place
1. To request or give permission for an action
to take place
Examples:
May I come in?
You can borrow my book.

*May is used for asking permission in a more formal

way than can.
ii. To express obligation or duty
 ii.To express obligation or duty

Examples:
All students must wear their school IDs.
The witness ought to tell the truth.
You should listen to your parents’ advice.

*Both must and ought to do not have a past form. They can only be used
in the present or in the future.
iii. To make a prohibition
 iii. To make a prohibition
Examples:
You should not stay up late.
You cannot borrow my laptop tonight.
She must not see this letter.

◦ The word “not” is used to make negative statements implying

prohibition.
Assignment

◦ Read “Seven Ages of Man” p.16 (Module)

◦ Answer Poem Comprehension on page 17