A SEMI-DETAILED LESSON PLAN

IN
ENGLISH VI

Objective:

Use possible causes and effects to news stories heard.

Subject Matter:

A. Topic: Giving Possible Causes and Effects to News Stories Heard

B. Reference: BEC-PELC 6 p. 24 Growing in English Reading p. 186
C. Materials: Recorded news broadcast, charts, newspapers
D. Concepts: The relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the
other or others is called a cause and effect.
E. Value: Righteousness
F. Methodology: Inductive Method and 4As

Procedure:

A. Preliminary Activities:

 Greeting
 Prayer
 Classroom Management
 Checking of Attendance

Learning Activities:

A. Preparatory Activities:

1. Drill: Match each cause and its effect.

A B
1. When the generator is turned a. A car stops
on. b. The building is dark
2. If we strike a match c. electricity flows out of it
3. because the air is not moving d. the friction produces some heat
4. because the lights are off e. there is no wind
5. because brakes are applied
 2. Review: How can you distinguish cause from given effect?

3. Motivation: What news report did you hear this morning?

B. Presentation:

1. Listening to the taped news report.

2. Comprehension Check-up:

1. What is one the major components that factors into inclusive economic
growth?
2. What is the name of the province indicated in the report?
3. Based on the records of the Pampanga Provincial Public Employment
Service Office, how many percent of Pampanga’s working-age adults are
employed?
4. Why does the PPPESO believe that the percentage of the employment is
still expected to grow even more higher?
5. What is the name of the hopeful job-seeker who was interviewed in the
report?

2. Valuing:

As a future job applicant, how important would it be for you that there will
be no need for you to go to big cities situated in Manila to find a job?

4. Discussion/Analysis:
Studying the sentence taken from the news broadcast:

The creation of jobs away from the mega-cities.

Which is the cause/effect?

5. Generalization:
How can you give a possible cause to a given effect?

6. Practice Exercises:

Work by pairs. (Think-pair-share) Pupil A will write a cause from the recorded
news story, then pupil B will write the possible effect.
Evaluation:

Listen to the recorded news broadcast then fill up the table below.

Cause Effect

Assignment: Listen to news stories on the television. Then list down five possible
effects to a given cause and vice versa.