LESSON PLAN

in
ENGLISH IV

I. OBJECTIVES
• Identify prepositional phrases used in sentence correctly.
• Use prepositional phrases in sentences

II. SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic : Using Prepositional Phrases

B. References : PELC 12 Speaking
English For You and Me 4
Language, Pages 173 – 175
C. Materials : pictures and charts
D. Value Focus : Helpfulness

III. PROCEDURE
A. Preparatory Activities
1. Review

Invite the pupils to play a game called “Who made the Most?”
a. Divide the class into five groups.
b. For three minutes, list as many prepositions as they can
c. The group that can give the most number of prepositions is the
winner.

2. Motivation
Show a picture of a farm.

Ask:
• What is this place children?
• What do you see in the farm?
• What do you do on the farm?

Encourage the children to share the experiences.

 3. Unlocking of Difficulties
(Ask pupils to pick cut- out flowers from a Make-Believe
garden. Read the words in the flowers then match each with it’s
meaning written on a chart).

______locker______ - a small closet

______hallway______ - a way to go through a building

______hallway______ - thin, flat piece of wood fastened to a wall

B. Developmental Activities
1. Presentation
Listen to the study that I will read.
Read the whole story. Then I call on a volunteer to read the story aloud

I stay at my uncle’s farm every summer. I wake up early every

morning to gather ducks eggs. Before the sun goes up, my cousin Celso
and I drive the goats to the grassy hill to graze. There is plenty of grass
to eat so the goats are full within an hour. By this time Uncle Pastor is
busy among his vegetable plants. Celso and I help him pull the weeds or
cultivate the soil until lunch time which is around twelve noon. After
lunch, I lean against the trunk of a huge acacia tree and take a nap for
about half hour.

2. Discussion and Analysis

1. Have the pupils answer these questions. Write the answer on
the board and underline the preposition.
 a. Where is the story taking place? (in the farm)
b. When did the boys drive the goats to the graze? (before
the sun goes up)
c. In how many hours that the goats full? (within an hour)
d. Where does Uncle Pastor work most of the time? (among
the vegetable plants)
e. When is lunch time? (around twelve noon)
f. What do the boys do when the sun gets hot? (lean against
a tree)
g. What may be a good thing to do after lunch?
h. If you were Celso, will you also enjoy working on a farm?
i. Will you also help your Uncle? How?

2. Say: Let’s go back to your answers to the questions. What do

you call the underlined words? (preposition)
3. What part of the speech do the prepositions end? (noun or
pronoun)
4. What do you call the group of words that begin with the
preposition and end with a noun or pronoun? (prepositional
phrase)

Group Activity
1. Group the pupils into five.
2. Give each group five minutes to review and use these
prepositional phrase in sentences. The group who is able to
use correctly all the phrases in sentences wins.

• at the health center

• during summer
• to my house
• in to the deep hole
• under the tree

3. Generalization

Ask pupils this question and guide them to elicit the answer.

What is a prepositional phrase?

A prepositional phrase is group of words that begins with a
preposition and ends with a noun or a pronoun.

C. Post Activities
 1. Application
Directions: Read the paragraph carefully. Choose the correct
prepositional phrase that fits each sentence. Underline your answer.

A. Heidi went (in the bookstore, inside the bookstore). She

noticed boys and girls (about a big box, around a big box) of books.
They were looking through (the pages, from the pages) of some
books there. Heidi saw that the books were (about pre-historic
animals, around pre-historic animals). She took one book and
browsed (from page to page, in the pages). She found out that they
were very different (than our books, from our books) she already
had.

B. Use the following prepositional phrases in sentence

1. among the boys

2. in a year
3. from the forest
4. under the mango tree
5. to the city

2. Enrichment Activity

Divide the class into learning teams. Each learning team will
be given a picture. Encourage the teams to talk about the pictures
using prepositions/prepositional phrases. Guide them in doing this.
Have each team present their sentences in paragraphs.

Sample pictures: pupils in the library

men in the store
boys on the tree
farmers on the farm
doctors in the hospital

3. Values Integration

Ask:
Have you ever experienced helping others? What did you do?
How did you feel?
Did you expecting anything in return?

IV. Evaluation
 Directions: Read the sentences and use the correct prepositional
phrases. Circle your answer.

1. Cutting down trees (in the forest, to the forest) is prohibited.

2. Cross the street (at the pedestrian lanes, to the pedestrian lanes).
3. That lady waiting (to the shed, under the shed) is my mother.
4. Pupils are not allowed to stay (too late, at late) in the school.
5. Chen sits (among the two boys, between the two boys).

INDEX OF MASTERY

Target: 4 out of 5 - 2 / 10 = 20%

4 - 6 / 10 = 60%
3–2
2–0 PL = 80%
1–0

V. ASSIGNMENT
Make a paragraph using the following prepositional phrases.

• from the village

• in the sky
• across the river
• at seven o’clock
• under the bridge