LESSON EXEMPLAR
Grade 8-English
Quarter: Fourth
Theme: Changing Perspective
Sub-Theme: Global Communication
Content Standard: Performance Standard:
The learner demonstrates The learner transfers learning by
understanding of: South and West Asian composing a variety of journalistic texts,
literature as an expression of philosophical the contents of which may be used in
and religious beliefs; information flow in
composing and delivering a memorized
various text types; reality, fantasy, and
opinion in listening and viewing materials; oral speech featuring use of properly
word decoding strategies; and use of acknowledged information sources,
information sources, active/passive grammatical signals for opinion-making,
constructions, direct/reported speech, persuasion, and emphasis, and
perfect tenses, and logical connectors in appropriate prosodic features, stance,
journalistic writing. and behavior.
I. LEARNING COMPETENCY
EN8G-IVe-3:
Use past and past perfect tenses in journalistic writing.
Objectives:
1. Distinguish between regular and irregular verbs in the past simple.
2. Use past and past perfect tenses in journalistic writing.
3. Share own values and understanding to a certain phenomenon.
II. LEARNING CONTENT
Lesson: Past Tense
Materials:
1. Audio materials
2. Picture
3. Activity Sheets
References:
1. K to 12 Curriculum Guide (May, 2016) p. 31
2. [Link]
3. [Link]
Grammar%20%20Level%201-
grammar%20review%20past%20simple%20(2).pdf
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III. LEARNING TASKS
Introduction:
We're often told we should put the past behind us, not dwell in the past,
past tense. As they
learn that regular verbs simply need an ed suffix, they jump for joy.
English uses verbs in the simple past tense to refer to actions, situations, or
events that are finished and that happened before now. There are three ways to
form simple past tense in English. One way is what happens with the verb be: it
uses the special forms was and were. Another way is what happens with regular
verbs. (They are called regular because they all add the same ending--ed--or
some variation on it.)
Preliminary Activity: Quote of the day!
Your teacher will share a quote to you and you will give your own
understanding of it.
What does this quote mean to you?
Activity:
Task 1: Sound trip
Your teacher will play a sound clip of each song. You will guess the title of
the song and the singer.
a. But I can't let go of your love that has taught me
To hold on Stay by Daryl Ong
b. I never dreamed
Cause I always thought that dreaming was for kids Till I Met You by Kyla
c. Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away Last Christmas by Taylor Swift
d. But now that you came into my life
I feel complete Your Love by Juris
e. I guess you heard, I guess you know
In time I'd have told you, but I guess I'm too slow You Were There by Regine
Velasquez
f. How did you know
I needed someone like you in my life How Did You Know by Gary
Valenciano
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g. Once I was eleven years old, my daddy told me,
"Go get yourself a wife or you'll be lonely." 7 years by Lukas Graham
Analysis:
Your teacher will let you write the lyrics of the song you listened to on the
board
and will answer the following questions:
1. How did you know which sentences were in the past tense?
2. What words did you see that told you the sentence was past tense?
3. What letters were used to make the verb past tense?
4. What words in the sentence are regular verbs? irregular verbs?
Abstraction:
Task 2: Regular or Irregular?
You will answer the following activity on how verbs formed their past.
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Task 3: Gap Filling
Fill in the blank with the correct simple past form of the verb.
I had a very bad weekend. On Friday night, I ________ (go) downtown to meet my friend
Alex. We ________(want) to go to the movies, but he ________(not come), so I _________ (watch)
the movie alone.
Early on Saturday morning, my Father _________ (call) me and we _________(work) in the yard. I
hate working in the yard. In the afternoon, I ___________(go) shopping with my girlfriend. I
_________ (see) a lot of nice things to buy, but I_________(lose) my wallet and _______(not buy)
nothing.
On Sunday, my sister was sick so I ________(stay) at home and________(care) for her all day. I
really ________ (not have) fun this weekend.
Application:
Final Task: News Making!
Think-Pair-Share: Each student should be paired with another student. Your
teacher may choose whether to assign pairs or let you pick your own partner.
You will compose your own journalistic writing using past form of the verbs. You
can make a report about a recent event in your school or in your community.
JOURNALISTIC WRITING RUBRIC
Criteria 4 3 2 1
Effective Story is in inverted pyramid form Story is organized and most transitions Story lacks strong Story is choppy;
Organization with info in descending order of and connections are clear, but either organization, jumps around organization is
and Flow importance; strongly organized organization is somewhat lacking or the too much or lacks effective unclear; few
(Structure) with clear transitions and logical sense of flow is somewhat abrupt or transitions; not in inverted effective transitions;
connections that create a sense of story is not in inverted pyramid pyramid not in inverted
being tightly woven together pyramid
Clear Focus and Focus of story is clear; nothing Focus is fairly clear but one or two areas Story lacks strong sense of No clear angle; story
Unity (deals with detracts from primary focus; detract from the primary angle unity and focus; several areas is rambling and
content) everything contributes to overall seem to detract from angle awkward
angle
Journalistic Style NO errors in journalistic style Has few (one or two) errors in Has several errors in Has many errors in
(quotes, dates, scores, numbers, journalistic style; or may have non- journalistic style or non- journalistic style
money, percents, time, commas, journalistic paragraph structure journalistic paragraph and/or non-
etc.); short paragraphs; quotes structure journalistic
stand alone paragraph structure
Interesting, Writing is strong and effective with Writing is adequate but not extremely Writing is rather bland; lacks Writing lacks a clear
Effective Writing a clear voice and a variety of compelling or original; may be wordy or a clear voice and/or sense of voice and original
Style sentence structures; piece is tightly voice may be unclear; diction may not originality; is wordy or style
written; utilizes active verbs and be as vivid or sophisticated redundant; or diction &/or
vivid word choice; original writing sentence structure may be
repetitive
Grammar and Story is well edited and virtually Story is spell checked and all names are Story is spell checked and all Names are
Spelling flawless; NO spelling errors; correct; contains few grammatical errors names are correct; contains misspelled; or spell
includes the proper spelling of all several grammatical errors check was not run; or
names contains many
grammatical errors
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Assessment:
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