I. OBJECTIVES
The learner demonstrates understanding of: African literature as a
means of exploring forces that human beings contend with; various
reading styles vis – à-vis purposes of reading; prosodic features that
A. Content Standards serve as carriers of meaning; ways by which information may be
organized, related, and delivered orally; and parallel structures and
cohesive devices in presenting information.
IV. PROCEDURES
A. Reviewing previous 1. Introduction/Presentation
lesson or
presenting new Motivation
lesson
B. Establishing a Asks the student to complete the sentence using these photos.
purpose for the
lesson
The
The girl wants to eat ________ and __________.
She loves ______, ________and _________.
C. Presenting 2. Modelling/Teaching
examples/instances
of the new lesson
Task 1
* T: How does a sentence becomes parallel?
What is parallel structure?
The teacher will tell the students that parallel structure is the repetition of a
chosen grammatical form within a sentence.?
D. Discussing new Good parallel structures improve the clarity of your writing. The usual way to join parallel
concepts and structure is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as “and” or “or.” For example:
practicing new
skills #1 Mary likes hiking, swimming and bicycling.
E. Discussing new
Mary likes to hike, to swim and to ride a bicycle.
concepts and
practicing new Note: You can also use “to” before all the verbs in a sentence or only before the first one.
skills #2
Consider the following sentences:
1. My favorite foods are roast beef, deep-dish apple pie, and linguine with clam sauce.
2. Louise is charming, witty, intelligent, and talented.
3. Jeff likes to swim, ride, and run.
Each series is a perfect parallel construction, composed of equivalent words: noun in the
first example, adjective in the second and verbs in the third.
H. Making
generalizations and 1. How does a sentence becomes parallel?
abstractions about 2. What is the importance of parallel structure in writing?
the lesson
I. Evaluating learning Review the following sentences for errors in parallel structure. Correct the sentence
by rewriting it.
J. Additional activities
for application or
remediation
V. REMARKS