JMJ Marist Brothers

NOTRE DAME OF DADIANGAS UNIVERSITY

General Santos City
LESSON PLAN

Date/s: January 24-28, 2010

I. SUBJECT: ENGLISH 2

II. TOPIC/S: NOUN CLAUSE (Function as Subject and Object)

III. TIME DURATION: 1 HR.

IV. OBJECTIVES:

1. To identify noun clauses and the words that introduce them.

2. To classify how noun clauses are used in the sentences.
3. To change the nouns or noun phrases with noun clauses.

V. MATERIALS:

Overhead projector

Transparency

Handout of the story

VI. REFERENCES:

1. Villanueva, Perla M. et. al. (2002) English Skills For College

Freshmen 3rd Ed.

2. Fernando, Jovita N. et.al (2005) New Perspective In English Plus

3. Tan, Arsenia B. (2001) Introduction To Literature 4th Ed.

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VII. TEACHING PROCEDURES WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND QUESTIONS

TO BE ASKED:

A. Motivation

Before reading the essay “ Forgive: A Decision of The Heart” by

Marilyn Gustin, motivation questions will be asked:
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1. How do you define forgiveness?

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 2. Is it hard for you to forgive? Why is hard sometimes to forgive
someone who has offended you?

B. Reading of the essay by the students

C. Discussion of the essay

C.1 Vocabulary - Unlock the meaning of the words

• Pilgrim - someone who journeys in foreign lands [believer,

journeyer]

• Sabotage - a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in

which equipment is damaged [undermine, derail]

• Profound- of the greatest intensity [reflective, intense]

• Theologian - Someone who is learned in theology or who

speculates about theology [theologist, scholar]

• Resentment - feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

[bitterness, anger]

C.2 Comprehension Questions:

1. What are the principal effects of anger and hatred on us if we

nurture these disastrous emotions in our beings, physically
and morally speaking?

2. What benefits do we derived from the act of forgiveness, as a

healing power to eradicate anger and hatred?

D. Presentation of the Lesson Noun Clause – Let the class read

the sentences and identify the subordinate clause.
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1. Both the Mass and the New Testament say that Jesus Christ
lived. *(DO)

2. We need to forgive whoever has hurt us. *(Object of the Verbals)

3. What we do to others will be done to us as well. *(S)

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4. I still love those that hate me. *(Appositive to object)

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 5. We who know the truth need to follow the truth. *(Appositive to
subject)

Like phrases, subordinate clauses can perform the function of the various
parts of speech such as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. A subordinate clause
which functions as a noun is called a noun clause and can serve as a:

• Subject
• Direct Object
• Indirect Object
• Predicate Nominative
• Object of a Preposition
• Object of the Verbals
• Object Complement
• Appositive to a Subject or Object
E. Drill by Dyad. Let the Students identify the noun clause
markers from the examples above and name the function of the
noun clause in the sentence.

1. That he was angry was obvious to us all. (S)

2. Fifteen hundred dollars is what we wanted to raise for the
project. (PreNom)
3. The students finally remembered who she was. (DO)
4. Mr. Dietz gives whoever talks an hour. (IO)
5. We listened to whatever he said. (OP)

List of noun clause markers:

that what who whoever whatever whether whichwhere

when
how why if how much how many how long how far how
often whose

F. Evaluation
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F. 1 Replace the nouns or noun phrase with suitable Noun Clause

1.No one knows the time of his coming.

2. I heard of his success.
3. We will never know the reason for his failure.
4. The law will punish the guilty.
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5.He expected to get a prize.

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 Answer:
1. No one knows when he will come.
2. I heard that he had succeeded.
3. We will never know why he failed.
4. The law will punish whosoever is guilty.
5. He expected that he would get a prize.

(Supplemental Activity)

Complete the following with your own words. Use noun clauses.
1- I feel that ----
2- I wonder if -----
3- You are lucky that -----
4- It is a fact that ------
5- I doubt that --------
6- I am worried that ------
7- I don't know when ------
8- I don't know if -------
9- I regret that -------
10- I am amazed that -------

G. Assignment

Write a short paragraph of about 125 words about the reason

you chose to forgive someone who has wronged you.

Use three different noun clauses as object of three sentences.

Begin each clause with one of what, why, who, or that.

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