DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH

I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students must be able to:
a. Identify statements that show cause and effect relationship;
b. Recognize the cause and effect discourse markers; and
c. Perform an activity showing cause and effect relationship in various
conversations.

II. Subject Matter:

Topic: Cause and Effect Relationship
Reference: Communication Skills 1, page 186
Materials: Laptop, projector, visual aids, envelopes, cut-out cartolinas

III. Procedure:

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

a. Preparation:
Let us all stand for a prayer. (one student will lead a prayer)

Good morning, class. Good morning, sir!

Kindly pick-up the pieces of (Students will pick-up the pieces of paper and arrange their
paper and arrange your chairs chairs.)
properly.

So, how was your beautiful It’s awesome sir.

morning?

Good to hear that from you,

class. Now before we will begin, let
us have an agreement. When When someone is talking in front, we should listen
someone is talking in front what will attentively.
you do?

And, what you are going to do if

you want to answer? Raise our hand.

Very good class.

b. Motivation:

Now class, since we have our

agreement, let’s start our discussion. Yes, sir!
By the way class, do you believe in
destiny?

Okay, destiny is not just a sort of

falling-in-love. Destiny comes for
friendship, or somewhat special
purpose. Now, some of you are
destined right now. I want you to
look under your armed-chair, and if
you find it, I want you to read in the Yes sir, we’re so very excited.
class. The arrangement of the
speakers depend on the codes and
someone destined for you will
continue or reply to your statements. (students will look under their armed-chairs)
After reading, both of you will post
on our “Who Got Line Wall”. Are
you ready? WHO-GOT-LINE Wall

Okay, 1. ..2...3... GO! 1. I am inspired to study hard because I always see

you.
2. I’ll do everything for you because I love you.
3. I’ve got sunshine on the cloudy day, since I met
you.
4. Loving you was not good enough, hence I
should exert more effort for you.

Now, based on the activity, I think sir, our topic for today is all about cause and effect
what do you think is our topic relationship.
for today?

c. Presentation:
Objectives:
Very good. Our topic for At the end of the lesson, the students must be
today is all about Cause and able to:
Effect Relationship. a. Identify statements that show cause
But before we will proceed, and effect relationship
let us have our objectives, kindly b. Recognize the cause and effect
read, yes? discourse markers
c. Perform an activity exemplifying
cause and effect relationship in
various conversations.
 Thank you, so those are our
target for this morning.

Going back to the sentences 1. I am inspired to study hard because I always see
posted on the board, who can you.
read and identify the statement
that tells us the cause statement
and underline it. Yes, please.
Good job. How about the 1. I am inspired to study hard because I always see
effect, anyone who could you.
identify the effect in the
statement and encircle it.

Excellent. Good job.

Okay, so, let’s try with

number 4. Anyone who can 4. I’ve got sunshine on the cloudy day,
underline the cause and encircle since I met you.
the effect in the statement. Yes,
please.

d. Discussion:

Yes! That’s great. A big hand

for everybody. Since you Cause statement is the main reason of the statement.
already identified the cause and
effect on the given sentences.
Now, what is a cause?

Yes, that’s it! An excellent

definition.

Cause is a statement that points-

out the reason.

How about the effect, who Effect statement is what happen or the result of the
can give his /her definition what an situation.
Effect, is?

Yes, that’s right.

Effect is the result of the given

situation or cause.

Using the words such as because, if…then…, since.

 What helps you to determine the
cause and effect?

Correct, so what do you call this Signal Words, sir.

words?
That’s right!

Signal words or sentence

markers indicates cause-effect Discourse Markers
relationship. This signal words helps *because *since
you in determining the cause and *for *due to *therefore
effect statements. *if…then… *as a result of *thus
I have here an example of
discourse markers. Kindly read, yes?

Now that you are now aware

of the cause and effect, who can (students’ answers may vary)
give some more examples using
these markers in a sentence.

Job well done class.

e. Application:
Now, let us try to work in a
team. I’ll be grouping you into five
groups, count off please. (students’ will count off 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Okay, choose your leader

and your secretary to write the Task 1. DRAWING
name of the members, and leaders, Draw the given situation. Divide the paper in to two
please come forward. column. First column for the cause and effect for the other
I have here three envelopes, column.
do your task what is being asked.
Kindly pick one envelope. SITUATION: People cut-down trees. After a few months,
heavy rains and storms came. It causes great destruction.

Task 2. JAZZ CHANT

Determine the cause and the effect of falling-in-love.
Present this in Jazz Chant.

Task 3. HUGOT BATTLE

Create a “Hugot Battle” between boys vs. girls. Use
cause-effect in the statements.

Task 3. NEWS REPORTING

Report any incident. Use cause-effect in delivering
the news.
 And here are the criteria for
judging your performances. Kindly CRITERIA 10 7 3
read, yes? Cooperation All members 2-3 members Only the
of the group did not leader works
cooperate. cooperate. for the group
Voice Quality Voice was Student Could not
loud and spoke understand
clear; words clearly but it what was
were easily was difficult being said
understood to due to
understand unclear and
some of the low speech.
script;
Facial Great use of Contained Needed
Expression/ gestures, some facial more facial
Body facial expression, expressions
Language expression gestures & gestures &
and body body movement.
movement. movement.

No, sir!

Any questions? (Students will work on their task.)

Your five minutes will start, now!

(Students will now present their task.)

Okay time is up! Let’s start with

the performance.

f. Generalization:

As a review, what is a cause? A cause is the reason behind of the given situation. And
And effect? effect is the result of the situation.
So, cause and effect gives
the wholesome of the statement.
One without the other would not be
completely express thought.

Did you really understand Yes sir!

now the cause and effect
relationship?

Okay, I want you to get ½

sheet of paper crosswise. And Yes sir!
answer the following.
 IV. Evaluation:
Read the following sentences carefully. Copy the sentences and underline once if
the statement - is a CAUSE, & underline twice if the statement is an EFFECT.
Encircle the discourse markers. (3pts each)

1. It was raining very hard outside, so classes were suspended.

2. If the rain continues, then our garage will fill with water.
3. As a result of winning the race, Ragoy will compete again next.
4. The dog got out since the gate was open.
5. According to the blog, Miss Pia Wurtzbach won the Miss Universe pageant
because she was confidently beautiful with a heart.

Answers:

1. It was raining very hard outside, so classes were suspended.

2. If the rain continues, then our garage will fill with water.
3. As a result of winning the race, Ragoy will compete again next week.
4. The dog got out since the gate was open.
5. According to the blog, Miss Pia Wurtzbach won the Miss Universe because she
was confidently beautiful with a heart.

V. Assignment:

Research at least 5 discourse markers for the cause and effect relationship and use
each discourse markers in a sentence.

Prepared:

DAREY DAYMIEL REYES

Demonstrator