Lesson Plan
in English for Academic and Professional Purposes
June 24 – 28, 2019/ 8:30 am to 9:30 am – Grade 11 Socrates
June 24 – 28, 2019/ 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm – Grade 11 Aristotle
I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
1. determine the location of main idea;
2. identify strategies in locating thesis statement and topic sentences;
3. apply strategies in identifying the central information of a text; and
4. write the identified main ideas in your own words.
II. Subject Matter:
Topic: LOCATING MAIN IDEAS
III. Learning Resources:
Reference: Module
Teacher’s Guide: pp. 7-10
Learner’s Materials: pp 17-22
Materials: Powerpoint Presentation, Laptop, LCD TV
IV. Procedure
A. Before the Lesson:
1. Preliminary Activities
Prayer
Greetings
Checking of Attendance
Classroom Management
2. Review of the previous lesson
3. Motivation
 The students will be asked to write a paragraph about their idea of love.
 Then exchange works with your seatmate. Read your seatmate’s work and then underline
the sentence which encapsulates your seatmate’s idea of love.
 Afterwards, return the paper to your seatmate and have him/her confirm whether you
correctly underlined his/her main idea.
B. During the lesson:
1. Activity
 Let the student do the “Self-Audit” Activity.
 Let the students check their own works to evaluate their level of Proficiency.
2. Analysis
 Let the students read the academic texts example with the underlined thesis statements
and topic sentences.
 Let them understand and analyze how to locate the main idea or thesis statements and
the topic sentences of the academic texts given.
3. Abstract
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The thesis statement presents or describes the point of an essay. In an academic text, the
thesis statement is usually presented in the abstract or executive summary or found at
the last part of the introduction. It is written in a declarative sentence.
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The following strategies are also useful in helping you locate the thesis statement of a
text.
1. Read the title of the text and make inferences on its purpose.
2. If the text has no abstract or executive summary, read the first few paragraphs as
the thesis statement is usually located there.
3. In other cases, you may also check the conclusion where authors sum up and
review their main points.
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The topic sentence presents or describes the point of the paragraph; in other words, it is
the main idea of a paragraph. It can be located in the beginning, middle, or last part of a
paragraph.
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Strategies in Locating the Topic Sentence
1. Read the first sentence of the paragraph very carefully because most authors
state their topic sentence in the beginning of the paragraph.
2. Browse the sentences in the paragraph to identify what they describe. The
sentence that best describes the topic of the paragraph is the topic sentence.
3. Find the concept or idea being tackled, which in colloquial term in the “big
word” in the paragraph. The sentence that defines the big word is usually the
topic sentence.
4. Application
 Individually, read each of the given texts and locate the main idea by
underlining it. Then, rewrite the main idea in your own words.
C. After the lesson:
1. Evaluation
Do the Checking for Understanding Activity found on page 22.
2. Assignment
Reinforcement Activity
Write a magazine article about locating the thesis statement and topic
sentences in a text. Make sure at least one text as an example.
Lay out your article creatively following the basic format below:
 1.5 Spacing
 1” margin on all sides
 Font size (for the content): 12
V. Remarks
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VI. Reflection
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Prepared by:
JEAN S. MARTOS
Teacher I
Checked by:
DIONISIO B. SIGLOS
Principal II