Speech Act

ARELLANO UNIVERSITY
Jose Abad Santos Campus

Basic Education Department – Senior High School
3058 Taft Avenue, Pasay City
S. Y. 2023 - 2024
Lesson Plan in Oral Communication

I. Topic: Speech Act
Core Values: Competence
II. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to:
a. differentiate the types of speech act;
b. identify the social situations in which each speech act is appropriate to use;
c. create a comic strip showing the different types of speech act;
III. References:
• MELC (Oral Communication)

• Syllabus, Course Outline, Curriculum Guide and
• Department of Education, Oral Communication in Context,
IV. Teaching Procedure

a. Classroom Management
b. Checking of Class Attendance
c. Review
d. Learning activities
Activity
The students have to answer the following questions
Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. Consider the phrase: “I now declare Martial Law.” Who among the following can
say this phrase and make martial law actually happen?
a. President of the country
b. My pregnant neighbor
c. A retired veterinarian
d. A famous rock star
2. What do you think does the speaker mean when he/she says, “Can you open the
door?”
a. The speaker wants to know if I have the ability to open the door.
b. The speaker is requesting me to open the door.
c. The speaker does not make sense.
d. The speaker is asking me a question.
3. You and your friend who has a fever enter your room. She shivers and tells you,
“It’s cold in here!” How would you interpret what she said?
a. She feels cold.
b. She wants me to increase the temperature in the room.
c. She does not feel well because of the cold.
d. She is complimenting the temperature in my room.
4. Based on the scenario in item number 3, what would your next action be?
a. I will thank my friend.
b. I will agree with her and say that the room is cold.
c. I will increase the temperature to decrease the coldness.
d. I will ignore my friend.
5. In which of the following statements is the speaker making a commitment?
a. “I checked her Facebook profile yesterday.”
b. “I’m in love and I’m happy.”
c. “I promise to love you for better or for worse.”
d. “I think following my suggestion will get us a high grade.”
Analysis
After the activity, the students will answer the following question.
1. What have you noticed on the different statements on the questions?
2. Do you think is it possible for a simple statement to have different meanings?
3. Give a statement that can provide different meaning.
Abstraction
Concept Note
Speech Act
A speech act is an utterance that a speaker makes to achieve an intended effect. Speech
acts are performed when a person offers an apology, greetings, request, complaint,
invitation, compliment, or refusal. Speech act is an act of communication.
Three types of Speech Act

According to J.L Austin, (1962). A philosopher of language and the developer of the speech
act theory, there are three types of acts in every utterance, given the right circumstances or
context. These are:
• Locutionary
• Illocutionary
• Perlocutionary
Locutionary Act- is the actual act of uttering or saying something. This act happens with the
utterances of a sound, a word or even a phrase as a natural unit of speech. For the utterances
to be a Locutionary act, consider the following:
• It has sense, and most importantly, for communication to take place.

• It has the same meaning to both the speaker and the listener.
Illocutionary Act- is the social function of what is said. In an illocutionary speech act, it is
not just saying something itself but with the act of saying something. This speech act uses
the Illocutionary force of a statement, a confirmation, a denial, a prediction, a promise, a
request, etc.
Perlocutionary act- refers to the consequent effect of what was said. This is based on the
particular context in which the speech act was mentioned. The aim of perlocutionary act is to
change feelings, thoughts, or actions.
Application
The class will be divided into four groups. Each group will answer the question “What are
the different speech acts in our daily lives? Give 3 example each type.” The group will present
their work after the given time.
V. Evaluation
Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. What is an illocutionary act?

a. It is the intention the speaker has when saying or writing something
b. It is both the act and the intention of the speaker when saying or writing.
c. It is the act of saying or writing something in language using literal content of words
d. It is the effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading the illocutionary act
2. Which would be the direct speech act of "I´m hungry."

a. I am cooking.
b. I don’t want to eat.
c. I don´t have money.
d. Can you give me some food?
3. What does this statement imply? "It is an indirect speech act when there is no coincidence
between the type of illocutionary act and the syntactic structure of the message."
a. The effect is visible.
b. The effect is not visible.
c. The intention is expressed in the message.
d. The intention is not explicitly expressed in the message.
4. What type of speech act shows consequence of the words we say?
a. locutionary
b. illocutionary
c. elocutionary
d. perlocutionary
5. It is an utterance considered as an action, particularly with regards to its intention, purpose
or effect. What type of communicative strategy is this?
a. speech
b. speech act
c. speech style
d. speech context
VI. Agreement
DLP 1
Directions: Create a 5-panel comic strip that shows Locutionary, Illocutionary, and
Perlocutionary act. The comic strip will be graded by the following rubrics:
Category 3 2 1
Comic strip contains
Basic elements (title, Comic strip is
all elements in a Comic strip contains
author, five missing some basic
creative, organized all elements.
completed panels) element.
form.
All five panels are Four or fewer panels
All five panels are
complete with an are complete with an
complete in a
Panels/layout appropriate cause- appropriate cause
creative, organized
and-effect and-effect
format.
relationship. relationship.
Strip contains five
completed (colored) Strip contains five Strip contains four or
Illustration drawings in a completed (colored) fewer completed
creative, organized drawings. (colored) drawings.
format.
Grammar/ There are no more There are no more There are four or
mechanics than two errors. than three errors. more errors.
The content of the
The content of the The content of the
comic strip if
Connection to the comic strip if comic strip has no
connected
topic connected directly to connection to the
somewhat to the
the topic. topic at all.
topic.
Prepared by: Reviewed by: Checked by:
Eleah Marie P. Omega Sharmaine T. Alfante Camille R. Zoleta

Subject Teacher Subject Coordinator Academic Coordinator
Noted by:
Dr. Archieval A. Rodriguez

Principal

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ARELLANO UNIVERSITY

Jose Abad Santos Campus

Lesson Plan in Oral Communication

• MELC (Oral Communication)

IV. Teaching Procedure

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

Three types of Speech Act

• It has sense, and most importantly, for communication to take place.

1. What is an illocutionary act?

2. Which would be the direct speech act of "I´m hungry."

Prepared by: Reviewed by: Checked by:

Eleah Marie P. Omega Sharmaine T. Alfante Camille R. Zoleta

Dr. Archieval A. Rodriguez

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