I. Objectives
At the end of the one and a half-hour lesson, ninety percent of the students should be able to:
Reference: English Language For Everyday Living I (Marie D. Rodriguez, 2010), pages 98-99
III. Procedure
A. Routinary Activities
1. Greetings
2. Classroom Management
3. Prayer
4. Checking of Attendance
B. Drill
The class will be divided into four groups. Each group will spell their section using their
butts. Their classmates should be able to understand each letter.
C. Review
-What was our topic last meeting?
D. Motivation
The class will be divided into five groups. Each group will be given an activity sheet. Using
the multimedia, the song Fireworks by Katty Perry will be played and each group will fill out the
missing lyrics. The group with the highest score wins.
Fireworks
Katty Perry
E. Lesson Proper
Pay attention to the poem and be ready to answer the questions. (Poem reading using
power point presentation)
WORD ALERT: Defer- postpone. (Mario deferred his wedding with his fiancé.)
Fester- infect with bacteria. (The wound in my knee is festered badly that
I can’t walk properly.)
Sag- sink, subside, or bulge downward underweight or pressure or through
lack of strength. (My bag sags on the water.)
Syrupy- having the consistency or sweetness of syrup. (Joe’s girlfriend
seems syrupy when they are together.)
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
-What are being compared in the first three lines of the poem?
-What are their qualities being compared?
-Are they compared directly? Therefore what figure of speech is used?
-How about in the 4th and 5th lines?
-Does a deferred dream is the same with a rotten meat? How about a syrupy sweet or a heavy
load?If not, what is a deferred dream really?
-Therefore, what does the author want to say?
-Do you have a deferred dream? How does it feel? Is it the same with the author’s ideas?
-What can you infer from the bold sentences below?
-Is the subject I really a horse? If not, what doesthis sentence really mean?
-Is it a Simile or a metaphor? How can you turn it into an indirect comparison?
F. Generalization
G. Application
Group Activity: Each group should have a representative who must answer these questions. Do you
think that we still have to consider other people’s feelings in comparing them to other things? Isn’t
a sign of stupidity? Why or why not?
H. Evaluation:
1. The old stairway groaned with every step we took.
2. I wandered lonely as a cloud.
3. You’re an ant, while I’m a lion
4. The sky misses the sun at night.
5. My heart has turned to stone
6. The squatters need roofs for their heads
7. She was a spring flower
8. Milton! thou shouldn’t be living at this hour.
Assignment: