A Lesson Plan in English for Grade 7

By Kate Angela Cuevas

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to perform the
following tasks with 75% accuracy:

1. Define what an adjective is.

2. Appreciate the essence of the poem, Photograph.
3. Construct a poem using adjectives correctly.
4. Identify the correct adjectives to be used in a given sentence.
5. Manifest cooperation through group activities.

II. Subject Matter

a. Topic:
Adjectives
b. Reference:
Photograph by Katy Barber
http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-
rules/adjectives/adjectives/
c. Materials:
Manila paper, pictures, box
d. Value Integration:
Cooperation, Love for Parents

III. Teaching Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
A. Preliminaries
1. Prayer
2. Checking of attendance
3. Review
(Previous lessons were the other parts of speech.)

B. Motivation
Present a picture in front of the class:

Class, what can you say about the picture?

Motive Question: Your insights are quite good. Let’s

us have another insight about this picture by reading
the poem Photograph by Katy Barber.

C. Presentation
(Students will read the poem.)

Photograph 1969 by Katy Barber

This is my mother
lifting her hair long
like a low whistle
off her neck
These are her fingers
caught in the tangles
of brown and gold caught in
silver earrings
This is my father
reaching through the lens
to touch the edge
of a new family
to touch her opening belly
under her full dress

This is existing
before I exist

This is me growing up
against their lives
him watching for a sharp
 breath from her looking out
onto the border of birth
this is bumping us into three

Questions:
1. Who is the speaker in the poem?
2. What is he/she talking about?
3. Do you think the parents love their child?
4. Do you think the child loves her parents? Why?
Why not?

Very good answers class. Now let us proceed to our

topic for today.

D. Discussion
Today we will discuss another part of speech which is
the adjective.

Adjectives are words that describes or modify nouns

or pronouns.
For example:
Pretty, big, loud, happy
They make your writing and speaking much more
specific, and a whole lot more interesting.

Can you give me examples of adjectives that you

know? Very good.

(Present to the class a picture. Have students

described it and then, let them use their adjectives in
a sentence.)

Do you now understand adjectives? Good.

E. Application
Now that you all know what an adjective is, let us
apply what you’ve learned. Inside the box I’m holding
are photographs. I will give each one of you a picture
and you will write a two-stanza poem about it. You
are given 10 minutes to do it. Do you understand?

F. Generalization
(I will ask a student to generalize what they’ve learned
for today.)

IV. Evaluation
Identify the correct adjectives to be used in a given sentence. Choose the
letter of the correct answer.
 1. They live in a _____house. I feel jealous every time I look at it.

A. Deep
B. Beautiful
C. Ugly

2. Today is a _____ day. That’s why Lisa is wearing a sleeveless shirt.

a. Cold
b. Icy
c. Hot

3. This soup is so _____ it’s not edible.

a. Sweet
b. Spicy
c. Sour

4. She wore a/an _____ dress at the party. Everybody was laughing.

a. Iconic
b. Simple
c. Ugly

5. He writes _______letters. I can’t stand it!

a. Meaningless
b. Meaningful
c. Formal

V. Assignment
(Ask students to read about the Order of Adjectives at the school library and
write what they’ve researched in a ½ sheet of paper.)