A Detailed Lesson Plan in English 7

I. OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

 Identify the figures of speech that show comparison (Simile, Metaphor, and
Personification). : EN7V-II-c-10.1.2
II. SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic: Figures of speech (Simile, Metaphor, and Personification).

B. Reference: ADM Self Learning module English 7- Q2

CG: EN7V-II-c-10.1.2

C. Materials: laptop, power point presentation, Manila paper, pent elpen. Pictures, visual aids.

D. Values: Cooperation.

III- PROCEDURE

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY PUPILS’ ACTIVITY

A. Preliminary Activities

1. Prayer

 Everybody, Let us pray please bow our  (The students will remains silent and
heads and keep silent pray)

https://youtu.be/g1oB_k-ezmo

2. Greeting

 Good morning, class! How’s your day  Good morning Teacher! We are fine.
class?

 Good to hear that. Please take your sits  Thank you teacher.
properly.

3. Checking attendance

 May I know who are the absent for  Teacher, no one is absent today
today?
  Very good class! Because no one absent
today. Please, can you give me five  (Students clapping their hands)
claps?

4. Class room rules

 Okay class please read our classroom

rules.

a. Raise your hand to ask a question. a. Raise your hand to ask a question.
b. Listen carefully when others speaking. b. Listen carefully when others speaking.
c. Be polite. Say “please” and “thank you” c. Be polite. Say “please” and “thank you”
d. Keep hands and feet to yourself. d. Keep hands and feet to yourself.
e. Do your best and work hard e. Do your best and work hard

 Good job class!

5. Review

 Before we start our new lesson let us

have short review for what discuss
yesterday.

 Class! Do you still remember?  Our lesson yesterday is about prepositional

phrase.

 Again, what is a prepositional

 A prepositional phrase is a group of words
phrase, class? that begins with a preposition and ends
with a noun or a pronoun which is the
object of preposition.

 Very good.
 I have here sentences. What you’re
going to do is to underline the
prepositional phrases.
(Teacher will used manila paper for this
activities)

 The girl in the red costume won first

place.

 What is the prepositional phrases in

the sentence? Please ____ (call one  The girl in the red costume won first
of the student) underline the place.
prepositional phrases.

 Very good! next sentence.

 We walked up the stairs.

 Who want to answer number 2?

 Yes____(call one of the student)  We walked up the stairs

 The stranger disappeared through the

woods.

 Yes ____(call one of the student)

please answer number 3  The stranger disappeared through the
woods.

 My dad climbed over the hill.

 Yes ____(call one of the student)  My dad climbed over the hill.
please answer number 4

 I looked under my bed.

 And lastly, who want to answer number

 I looked under my bed.
5? Yes____(call one of the student)

 Good job class! I know you have

understand our lesson yesterday.

6. Unlocking of Difficulties:
 I have different words here inside
the tree. You’re going to take the
words that are inside the tree then
you paste them into the correct

Lambs

Dawn
Rills Tears

Huge Meadows Beasts

Willful

Clue Radiant

sentence.

1. A young sheep. 1. A young sheep. Lambs

2. The beginning of day; the first light 2. The beginning of day; the first light in
in the east. Dawn
 3. Wanting or taking one’s own way. the east.
3. Wanting or taking one’s own way.
4. An animal except man, especially a Willful
four- footed animal. 4. An animal except man, especially a
5. A tiny stream; a little brook. four- footed animal. Beasts
5. A tiny stream; a little brook.
6. Low grassy land by the bank of the Rills
stream. 6. Low grassy land by the bank of the
7. Extremely large. stream. Meadows
8. Shining; bright; beaming. 7. Extremely large. Huge
9. A drop of salty water coming from 8. Shining; bright; beaming. Radiant
the eyes. 9. A drop of salty water coming from the
10. Sign or hint. eyes. Tears
10. Sign or hint. Clue

7. Motivation

 Okay class you want a game?

 Yes teacher
 Now I have here prepared a game.
The jumbled letters. So you are
going to arrange the letters
according to form word. I need
three students to answer the
activities.
(teacher will used different cut of letters
then arrange the student using paste it)

MISIEL
SIMILE
ERSOPNICAFIIONT
PERSONIFICATION
TAMEPRHO
METAPHOR
 Good job class! Please read the
word form?
 Simile, personification and metaphor
 Very good, Class! Now have you
looked up the sky this morning?
 Yes teacher
 What did you see?

 Clouds, birds, sun etc.

 I have here a picture. Look at the
picture class!
  That is a cloud

 What can you see in the picture?

 Very good! What can you say about  The cloud is white, soft and
the picture? How would you beautiful.
describe a cloud?

 I have here a poem entitled,

“Clouds”.

 After reading the poem, be able to

answer this question.

 “To what are clouds being compared  Yes teacher

to in the poem”?

 Did you understand class?

B. Developmental Activities:
1. Presentation:
“ CLOUDS” “ CLOUDS”

Clouds all like silver lambs (Student

Cloudsraised
all liketheir hands)
silver lambs
On
 low green
Okay classhills,
who want to read the On low green hills,
Feeding
poem for us?meadows
on blue Feeding on blue meadows
Watered by rills. Watered by rills.
Clouds are like snowy dawn Clouds are like snowy dawn
Playing with winds;
 Yes____ (call one of the student) Playing with winds;
Clouds are small,
please read the willful
poem clues
louder. Clouds are small, willful clues
With playful minds.  Listen
With playfulattentively.
minds.
 While your classmate is reading the  Understand what is being read.
poem, what will you do?
 Do not talk with your seatmates
Clouds are huge butterflies Clouds are huge butterflies
Radiant with rays; Radiant with rays;
Clouds are beasts of the wilds Clouds are beasts of the wilds
On stormy days. On stormy days.
 God
Clouds job
are class!
the skyListen
giantscarefully. Clouds are the sky giants
Their tears are rain Their tears are rain
Dropping on leafy plants Dropping on leafy plants
Down the plain. Down the plain.
 Class! To what are clouds being  Clouds are compared to silver lambs,
compared to in the poem? Yes ___
snowy dawn, small, willful clues, beasts
(call one of student)
of the wilds, huge butterflies, sky giants.

 Very good!

 To a silver lamb
 In the first two lines of the poem,
what are clouds being compared to?
Yes ___ (call one of student)
 Yes teacher

 Good job! Have you seen a lamb,

class?  It’s fur or skin covering is white in color.

 How does it look like? What

characteristics of a clouds make
them silver lambs?
 Their colors are both white.
 Give the similarities of the clouds
and the lamb.

 Very good. Clouds are being

compared to a silver lamb because
of its white color
 To a huge butterfly.
  Now, to what are clouds being
compared to in the 9th line of the
poem?

 That’s great! Why is cloud being  They are both colorful and give life and
beauty to our dull nature.
compared to a huge butterfly? What
common characteristics of a cloud is
also present to a butterfly?

2. Discussing of the lesson

 Our topic is about comparison of figures of
speech.
 Good job! Now class according to
our activities and poem what do you
think our topic for today?

 Very good! Our topic is about

theidentifying the figures of speech
that show comparison (Simile,
 Yes teacher.
Metaphor, and Personification).

 A figure of speech is a word or phrase

 Are you familiar figure of speech?
that’s used to be expressive (figurative)
rather than literal
 Now, what does means? Yes ____
(called on of the students)

 That’s good! The purpose of

figure of speech is an expression used
to make a greater effect on your reader
or listener. It includes making
comparisons, contrasts, associations,
exaggerations and constructions. It also
gives a much clearer picture of what
you are trying to convey.

 A simile is a comparison of two persons or

 Now, let’s discuss the comparison of things which are unlike in most respects
the simile, metaphor and
personification.
 What is simile? Yes ____ (called on of
the students)
 Very good! A simile is a word that
compares words in a sentence. You can
usually tell if a simile is present in a
sentence when you see the words as or
like.

 Let’s study the example of simile.

 Don ate his salad like a vacuum

cleaner.

 You can see that the underlined

words in the sentences above are
compared to each other.

Don - vacuum cleaner

 The word like is bolded to show that

a simile occurs in this sentence.

 Next here another example:

The thunder was as loud as fireworks

 Can you underlined the words in the

sentences are compared to each other.
Yes ____ (called on of the students)
The thunder was as loud as fireworks
(teacher will used visual for this
example)

 Very good! Thunder and fireworks are

compared to each other.

 Now you are bolded using pentel pen

the word that show simile occurs in the
sentence. Yes ____ (called on of the
students) The thunder was as loud as fireworks

 Good job! The as is bolded to show

that a simile occurs in this sentence.

 Now let’s talk about the metaphor.

 Class! Both similes and metaphors are

forms of comparison that compare
words in a sentence.
  They can be used to make your
sentences more interesting.

 Now, how are similes and metaphors

different?

 If the simile used as and like in a

sentence to compared it. The metaphor
compares words in a sentence;
however, instead of saying that one
thing is like something else, a metaphor
actually makes one thing become
something
Very different by renaming it.

 Class! What is metaphor? Yes ____

(called on of the students)

 A metaphor is an implied comparison

 Correct! A metaphor is comparison between two persons or things which are
between two persons or things which unlike in most respects
are unlike in most respects.

 A metaphor can sometimes use words

like is, are, or was (and other words) to
signal that a metaphor is present. It
does never uses the words like or as to
compare.

Here are the example of metaphor.

The smoke was cotton balls billowing from

the chimney.

 In the sentence what word have

underlined?

 Very good! You can see in these  Smoke , cotton balls

examples that the first underlined word
is actually renamed by the second
underlined word.

 What word have bolded?

 Very good! The word was is to show

that the second underlined word is
something else.  was
 Here are the Next example

You are my hero.

 What word is being compared?

Underlined the words? Yes ____
(called on of the students)

 Very good! What word is used to You are my hero.

show metaphor? Bolded it.

 Good job! Next example.

You are my hero.
Her voice is music to his
ears

 What word is being compared?

Underlined the words? Yes ____
(called on of the students)

 Correct! What word is used to show Her voice is music to his

metaphor? Bolded it. ears

 Very good! The word “is” used to Her voice is music to his
show comparison. ears

 Now let’s talk about the

personification?

 Can you give me idea about

personification?
Yes ____ (called on of the students)

 Very good! Personification is the act

 of giving non-living things human
characteristics. It is also a figure of  Personification is the transfer of human
speech in which an idea or thing is given characteristics to inanimate objects or
human attributes and/or feelings or is abstract qualities
spoken of as if it were human

 It’s can be movements, emotion and

senses.

For example.

The tree is dancing in the wind.

 So we know the trees don’t have

human qualities of dancing. That’s
means the tree is moving in the
wind.

 Another example;

The sun smiled over the ocean.

 We know that the sun is cannot be

really smiled. For the better
understand the weather is warm
and bright.

 Class! For your better

understanding our lesson, Let’s
answer this.

 I will group you into two group.

Every group have different activities.
 (the teacher will count 1 and 2 the
students)

Group 1

Below are sentences that contain similes

and metaphors. Underline the two words in
each sentence that are being compared.
1. The cat’s fur was a blanket of warmth.
2. The lamp was a beacon of sunshine.
3. The fireworks were a lantern in the sky. Group 1
4. John slept like a log.
Below are sentences that contain similes and
5. Mary was as sweet as pie. metaphors. Underline the two words in each
6. George is lightning as he runs the race. sentence that are being compared.
7. Gwen sings like an expert. 1. The cat’s fur was a blanket of warmth.
8. Mark’s voice is velvet. 2. The lamp was a beacon of sunshine.
9. Cindy is a fish when she swims. 3. The fireworks were a lantern in the sky.
10. Tom is like a computer when he does 4. John slept like a log.
his math. 5. Mary was as sweet as pie.
6. George is lightning as he runs the race.
Group 2 7. Gwen sings like an expert.
8. Mark’s voice is velvet.
9. Cindy is a fish when she swims.
10. Tom is like a computer when he does his
math.

Group 2

Simile Metaphor Personification

  Good job class!

C. Generalization

 Now, Let us a recap if you have

understand what we have discussed
earlier.

 So now I have here different sentences.

You are going to paste the sentence
according the meaning of figure of
speech.

Simile Metaphor Personification

Group 1

Direction: If a metaphor is present, write a simile to

take its place. If a simile is present, write a
metaphor to take its place. It is fine to slightly
modify your sentences in your answers.

1. Mike is a chef when he’s in the kitchen.

2. Barbara is as hungry as a horse.

3. The car was a jet when it passed by us.

4. Kenny played the violin like an expert.

 Good job class! Now let’s proceed to
our group activities.
 5. The music was as soothing as rain.
D. Application

 Now class I will group you into two

group again. 6. The grass is a green carpet for the golfers.
 Every group have different activities.

_____________________________________

7. The inside of the car was a refrigerator.

Group 1
___________________________________
Direction: If a metaphor is present, write a
simile to take its place. If a simile is present, 8. Beth became the dance as the music played.
write a metaphor to take its place. It is fine to
slightly modify your sentences in your answers.
9. His stomach was a bottomless pit.

1. Mike is a chef when he’s in the kitchen.

10. Marie slept like a log.

2. Barbara is as hungry as a horse.

3. The car was a jet when it passed by us. Group 2

Direction: Write a sentence that shows

4. Kenny played the violin like an expert. personification for each item listed below.

1. lightning

5. The music was as soothing as rain. _______________________

_______________________

2. Car

6. The grass is a green carpet for the golfers.

______________________
______________________
_____________________________________

7. The inside of the car was a refrigerator. 3. Stars

___________________________________ __________________
____________________
8. Beth became the dance as the music played.

4. Wind
 9. His stomach was a bottomless pit.
___________________
________________

10. Marie slept like a log.

Group 2

Direction: Write a sentence that shows

personification for each item listed below.

1. lightning

_______________________
_______________________

2. Car

______________________
______________________

3. Stars

__________________
____________________

4. Wind

___________________
_____________________

 Okay class! Our activities is done. Every

group pass your work in front.

IV- EVALUATION

Direction: Write on each line whether the sentence contains a simile, metaphor, or personification.

1. _______________ He is like a rocket on his bike.

2. _______________ The fire roared to life.

3. _______________ The leaves fell like rain.

4. _______________ The glasses danced on the shelf during the earthquake.

5. _______________ The clock is the keeper of time.

6. _______________ The water called invitingly to the hot children.

7. _______________ The rusty door hinge screamed every time the door opened.

8. _______________ The wind was like a piercing arrow.

9. _______________ The stage was the canvas upon which the play was painted.

10. _______________ The train screamed down the tracks.

V- ASSIGNMENT

For your assignment, write short story with simile, metaphor and personification in paragraph. Write in
your notebook.