Teacher Applicant: Uriel G.

Maglines

Semi-detailed Lesson Plan for Demonstration Teaching

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
a. define Hyperbole; and
b. identify the hyperbole used in the sentence.
II. Content
a. Lesson: Figures of Speech: Hyperbole
b. Reference/s: http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/writinghyperbole.php
and
http://study.com/academy/lesson/figure-ofspeechdefinition-types-examples.html
pieces

c. Materials: Sentences using hyperbole, a poem showing hyperbole,

of cartolina and worksheets for a short quiz and etc.

III. Procedure
A. Activities
Motivation
The teacher:
presents a poem entitled As I Walked One
Evening by W.H Auden which shows expressions
of hyperbole and asks the students to read the poem
together.
gives follow-up questions:
1. What can you say with the poem?
2. What do you think are the emotions
conveyed
by the poem?
3. What do you think is the message of the
poem?
Activity
The teacher:

1
asks the students to get a 2

sheet of paper and

instructs them to write the lines that caught their

attention.
calls some of the students to write an example of
these lines to the board and asks them why did
he/she chose it.
B. Analysis
The teacher:
reads again the lines from poem that the students
have written on the board.
presents five (5) sentences showing expressions of
hyperbole and asks the students to read them aloud.
gives follow-up questions:
1. What have you observed in the sentence?
2. Do you think the sentences seem so odd or
exaggerated?
3. If these sentences are exaggerated, then how
would we call them?
Asks a student to give his/her own definition of
what a hyperbole is.
C. Abstraction
The teacher:
posts a cartolina containing the definition of
hyperbole and its key points.
shares additional inputs for the topic.
D. Application
The teacher:
asks the students to construct one (1) sentence with
expressions of hyperbole.
IV. Evaluation
The teacher:
distributes photocopies of the short quiz on hyperbole.

Instructions: Choose the letter with the correct word that makes the
following sentences a hyperbole. Write the letter of the
answer on the space before the number.

best

V. Assignment
1. Define the following:
a. Paradox
b. Irony
2. Give at least five (5) examples and use them in a sentence.

Materials/Texts used during the Demonstration Teaching

The Poem
As I Walked One Evening by W.H Auden
Ill love you, dear, Ill love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
Ill love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry.

The Short Quiz

Instructions: Choose the letter with the correct word that makes the following
hyperbole. Write the letter of the best answer on the space before the number.

sentences

_____ 1. He was a boy who was fast as a _____.

c. Turtle

a. Normal child

b. Jet

_____ 2. "Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the _____.
a. House

b. Barn c. World

_____ 3. You could have knocked me over with a ____. a. Feather

_____ 4. These books in your bag weigh a ____.
_____ 5. She is as big as an _______.

b. Push c. By tripping me

a. Bunch of ounces

a. Elephant

b. Chair

b. Pound

c. Ton

c. Actor

_____ 6. I'm so hungry, I could eat a _______ right now.

a. Triple cheeseburger

b. Horse

_____ 7. He is older than the _______.

c. Whole bag of chips

a. Rest of the family

b. Hills

c. Grandpa

_____ 8. I'm really busy, I am doing like _________ things at the same time.
a. Twenty

b. Ten Million

c. Ninety

_____ 9. You snore louder than ________.

mom

a. My wife

b. A freight train

c. My

_____ 10. My backpack weighs ________.

pounds

a. A ton

b. 70 pounds

c. 100