Lesson plan in English 8
Duration: 1 hour
I. Objectives
A. Performance Standard
B. Content Standard
C. Learning Competencies/Objectives
II. Content
 Freedom by Rabindranath Tagore
 Context Clues
III. Learning Resources
A. References:
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B. Other Resources:
IV. Procedures
Teacher’s Activity
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Good day class!
Kindly stand for the prayer
Please be seated
I am going to check your attendance, and if I call
your name, just say “Present”.
A. Learning activity
1. Review
 What did we talked about last meeting?
 What are the positions of topic sentence?
2. Unlocking of Difficulties
Find the meaning of the underlined words on
column A on column B.
1. Philippines is my motherland because it is where I
was born.
2. Mina has the heavy burden of working very hard
to be able to send money to her family.
3. The beckoning light invites me to come closer.
4. A shackle or chain, makes the dog uncomfortable.
5. This long trip made him slumber several hours.
6. When there is anarchy, there is no orderliness.
7. The apple trees yielded on abundant harvest.
8. Ever since the new manager has taken the helm of
the company, the sales have increased.
9. The table is made of rigid plastic so it is stiff and
unbending.
10. Mimicry, which is the activity or art the copying
the behaviour of another species, is an interesting
happening in the forest.
B. Motivation
Task 1. 4pics, 1 word
The techer will present 4 pictures on the board and the
students will guess what the pictures are about. (Answer:
Student’s Activity
“Good day, Ma’am Nunez “
( a student will lead the prayer)
“Topic sentence”
“at the beginning, middle and end”
a. to produce
b. sleep or rest
c. inviting, attracting or waving
d. the activity or art of copying
e. the country where you were born and raise
f. control
g. duty on responsibility
h. a state of disorderliness
i. chain or restraint
FREEDOM)
The teacher will ask the students:
1. What is freedom for you?
2. What do you think of the freedom in our country?
3. Why is freedom important?
C. Presentation
The teacher will introduce the poem entitled
“freedom”. Before the class listens to the audio
presentation, the teacher will give information about the
author of the poem (Rabindranath Tagore). After that, the
students will listen to the audio presentation while reading
the context of the poem on the board.
D. Discussion
A. Post – Reading Activity
Task 2. Q and A
The teacher will ask these questions to the
students:
1. What does the author want to happen to the
motherland?
2. How do you think the author feels as he wrote the
poem?
3. What do you think happened in India that made
the author wrote this poem?
4. The speaker said something about a “puppet’s
world”, what do you think does this mean?
5. Talking about the Philippines’ history, what similar
experience did our country have with India?
E. Continuation of the Discussion
The teacher will go back to the words that the
students studied. The students will read the words
(Students answer may vary)
“ Our Filipino ancestor does not have freedom because of
the invasion of three countries.”
(Students answer may vary)
(The students read the poem silently)