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I- Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
Use (verbals) infinitives and infinitive phrases in a sentence.
Evaluate the message of the song.
Heartily sing the song.
B. Developmental Activities
1. Presentation
*The teacher will present the lyrics of the song entitled The Impossible Dream
by Frank Sinatra and let the students sing it with musical accompaniment.
To dream the impossible dream This is my quest, to follow that star
To fight the unbeatable foe No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
To bear with unbearable sorrow To be willing to give when there’s no more to give
To run where the brave dare not go To be willing to die so that honor and justice may live
*The teacher will ask the following questions:
1. What
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know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest
2. How do you understand
To be better far than you are the song based
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heart will lie peaceful and calm when I’m laid
3. Would
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my rest How?
To reach the unreachable star And the world will be better for this
2. Activity
* The teacher will present the following sentences and let the students identify what
the underlined words are called.
1. To plant trees is one its advocacies.
2. I don’t want you to go.
3. She likes to eat bananas.
4. To laugh is the best medicine for me.
5. They hope to accomplish it in five years.
3. Analysis
*The teacher asks the following questions:
1. What is the subject in the first sentence?
2. What is the subject in the second sentence?
3. What is the subject in the third sentence? How about in the Fourth and fifth
sentence?
4. How do the underlined words in each sentence used? Or how do they function?
5. What do you call those words that are being underlined?
4. Abstraction
*The teacher discusses the following and gives more examples:
Infinitives are the preposition “to” plus the base form of the verb.
The infinitive form of “learn” is “to learn”.
You can also use an infinitive as the subject, the complement, or the object
of the sentence.
*The teacher will present the lines from the play Romeo and Juliet and let the
students underline the infinitives.
5. Application
*The teacher will instruct the students to look for a partner and ask each other the
following questions using infinitives.
1. What do you hope to accomplish in five years?
2. What are you willing to sacrifice for your family?
3. As a youth leader, what are you willing to do?
6. Generalization
What is an infinitive?
How do you construct an infinitive and infinitive phrases?
How infinitives function in a sentence?
IV- Evaluation
Complete the following sentences using the infinitive as the object.
1. Elsa wants _________________.
2. She loves ____________________.
3. Everybody likes _________________.
4. The teacher reminds us __________.
5. The priests request the townspeople_________________.
V- Assignment
Compose a poem about love using infinite phrases. Write it in a piece of bond paper
and recite it next meeting.
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