LEARNING PLAN IN GRADE 8- ENGLISH

January 22, 2020

Wednesday

I. GENERAL STANDARDS.

A. Content Standard:
The learner demonstrates understanding of: South and West Asian
literature as an expression of philosophical and religious beliefs;
information flow in various text types; reality, fantasy, and opinion in
listening and viewing materials; word decoding strategies; and use of
information sources, active/passive constructions, direct/reported
speech, perfect tenses, and logical connectors in journalistic writing.

B. Performance Standard:
The learner transfers learning by composing a variety of journalistic
texts, the contents of which may be used in composing and delivering
a memorized oral speech featuring use of properly acknowledged
information sources, grammatical signals for opinion-making,
persuasion, and emphasis, and appropriate prosodic features, stance,
and behavior.

C. Learning Competency
EN8G-IVe-3:
Use past and past perfect tenses in journalistic writing.
D. Specific Learning Objectives
1. Distinguish between regular and irregular verbs in the past simple.
2. Share own values and understanding to a certain
phenomenon.
II. TEXT:
A. Topic: Regular and Irregular Verbs
B. References:
1. K to 12 Curriculum Guide (May, 2016) p. 31
2. http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/pastsimple/menu.php
3. http://www.omancollege.edu.om/UploadFacultyDocuments
III. LEARNING TASKS

A. Daily Activities
1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of Attendance
4. Cleanliness of the classroom

B. Approach
Inquiry Based Approach
Reflective Approach

Preliminary Activities

Task 1: Guess the title of the song lyrics presented below.

a. Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

But the very next day you gave it away
b. But now that you came into my life
I feel complete
c. How did you know
I needed someone like you in my life
d. But now you’re somebody that I used to know.
e. I knew you were trouble when you walked in. Shame on you

Underline the past tense in each sentences.

Analysis:

1. How did you know which sentences were in the past tense?
2. What words did you see that told you the sentence was past tense?
3. What letters were used to make the verb past tense?
4. What words in the sentence are regular verbs? irregular verbs?

TASK 2

Complete the table by writing the past tense and past participle form of the
verb.

Infinitive/Base form Past Tense Past Participle

1. walk
2. jump
3. paint
4. work
5. shock
 Infinitive/Base form Past Tense Past Participle
1. enhance
2. bake
3. share
4. dance
5. behave

Infinitive/Base form Past Tense Past Participle

1. plan
2. admit
3. commit
4. stop
5. kidnap

Is there a substantial change in the spelling?

How did you form the past tense and past participle form of the verbs in table
1? Table 2? Table 3?
Based on the activities above, what is a regular verb? What are the rules to
follow?

TASK 3

Complete the table by writing the past tense and past participle form of the
verb.

Infinitive/Base form Past Tense Past Participle

1. begin
2. give
3. forget
4. see
5. take

Infinitive/Base form Past Tense Past Participle

1. cut
2. bet
3. put
4. cost
5. set
Is there a substantial change in the spelling?
How did you form the past tense and past participle form of the verbs in table
1? Table 2?
Based on the activities above, what is an irregular verb?

APPLICATION

Task 4. Board work! Complete the table below.

Base form Past Tense Past Participle

1. win
2. take
3. shake
4. drive
5. break
6. die
7. speak
8. choose
9. eat
10. make

Task 5. Fill in the blanks with the past simple form of the verb in parentheses.

1. A mosquito ___________ (bite) me!

2. Grandpa ___________ (catch) eight fish on our fishing trip.
3. When Whitney stepped in the gum, her flip-flop ___________ (stick) to it.
4. They ___________ (wake) up at 4:30 a.m. to catch their 7:00 flight.
5. We ___________ (fly) from New York to Atlanta for the conference last
month.
6. My stomach ___________ (feel) strange for hours after I ate that old
bread.
7. Stephanie ___________ (give) her sister a CD for her birthday.
8. Ben and Matt ___________ (make) a movie about a really smart janitor
at Harvard.
9. The dog ___________ (dig) a hole in the yard.
10. I stepped in the hole and ___________ (break) my ankle.
Task 6. Fill in the blanks with the past participle of the verb in parentheses.

1. Have you ___________ (see) my keys? I can’t find them anywhere.

2. I have never ___________ (be) to New Orleans.
3. We hadn’t ___________ (grow) tomatoes before last summer.
4. Has she ___________ (hold) hands with her new boyfriend yet?
5. Our team hasn’t ___________ (lose) a game yet this season.
6. Have you ever ___________ (meet) a celebrity?
7. Has he ___________ (sell) his car yet?
8. They haven’t ___________ (speak) in years.
9. He hadn’t ___________ (throw) a baseball in ages, but he still
remembered how.
10. Have you ___________ (find) your keys yet?

ASSESSMENT . Put the verbs into the correct form (simple past).

1. Last year I (spend) ____________ my holiday in Ireland.

2. It (be) _____________ great.
3. I (travel) ___________ around by car with two friends and
we (visit) ____________ lots of interesting places.
4. In the evenings we usually (go) ____________ to a pub.
5. One night, we even (learn) ___________ some Irish dances.
6. We (be) _____________ very lucky with the weather.
7. It (not/rain) ______________ a lot.
8. We (visit) ___________ my grandmother last week.
9. But we (see) ____________ some beautiful rainbows
10. Where (spend/you) _____________ your last holiday?

Prepared by:

CAMILLE I. MENDOZA
Subject Teacher

Checked by:

LOIDA M. DESERVA
Key Teacher, English Department