Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan

I. Objective:
Use structures of modification [EN10G-IIId-31]

II. Subject Matter:

A. Topic: Structures of Modification (Adjectives and Adverb)
B. References: Celebrating Diversity through World Literature
English Learner's Material pp 359-360
C. Materials: Visual aids, chalk, chalkboard, activity sheets

III. Procedure:
Priming activity
A. Prayer
B. Drill: Spelling Bee
C. Review

Development of the Lesson

A. Activity
1,2,3 ACTion! Direction: Selected students will act in the words
below and his/her other classmates will guess the words.
1. Freezing
2. Shocked
3. Bitter
4. Misteriously
5. Simply
B. Analysis
a. What do you call those words?
b. What is an adjective?
c. What is an adverb?
d. What is modification?
C. Abstraction
 Discuss further the different structures of modification focusing on
adjective and adverb.

D. Application:
In a group of 3. Construct sentences using adjectives and adverb as
a head. Adjectives, adverb and its function will be given in each
group.

IV. Evaluation:

Let the students answer Task 8 Digging the Words of Modification

(Activity sheets will be provided)

V. Assignment: In a short bond paper write down what you did during
christmas vacation. Use structures of modification.

Prepared by:
SHIELA MAE P. MENDOZA
Adjective as Head
Adjective that habitually modify noun or verb also become the Head of structure of
modification.
Qualifier as Adjective Modifier
The word that is mostly used as modifier of Adjective is Qualifier such as very, rather, pretty,
etc.
E.g. She is very pretty
The sound was loud enough
Adverb as Adjective Modifier
Adverb that can modify the adjective is adverb that is ended by {-ly}
E.g. The widely famous (singer)
If adjective comes after the linking verb, adverb does not modify the adjective anymore. The
function is as the modifier of the structure of complementation.
E.g. The house seems clean everywhere
Noun as Adjective Modifier
In some special expression, noun can modify the adjective.
E.g. Stone cold (coffee)
Sea green (cloth)
Verb as Adjective Modifier
Adjective can be modified by the verb in present participle form (-ing) that usually precedes
the adjective, or by to-infinitive that follows adjective
E.g. freezing cold hard to say
boiling hot good to see
Adjective as Adjective Modifier
For special expression, adjective can modify the other adjective
E.g. Icy cold dark blue deathly pale
Prepositional Phrases as Adjective Modifier
The position of the prepositional phrases as adjective modifier is after the adjective
E.g. easy on the eyes good for nothing stronger than ever
Adverb as Head
There are four class words that can modify the adverb
Qualifiers as Adverb Modifier
E.g. very easily rather slowly happily enough
Adverbs as Adverb Modifier
E.g. far away sometimes below
Noun as Adverb Modifier
E.g. a meter away some way up
Prepositional Phrases as Adverb Modifier
E.g. away for a week behind in his work outside in the cold
Function Word as Head
Functional word can form a structure of modification by using qualifier as modifier.
E.g. very much more (easily)
Head
Rather too (strong)
Head

Not quite (well)