LESSON PLAN FOR GRADE 7

By: Jessa Bille Barabat

I.LESSON OBJECTIVES
At the end of 60-minute session, the students will be able to:
1. Distinguish rising and falling intonation in sentences:
2. Relate the importance of rising and falling intonation in daily conversation: and
3. Perform a dialogue using rising and falling intonation.

II. SUB JECT MATTER

Topic: Intonation
Competencies: listening and speaking
Time Frame: 1 hour
Materials: audio material, visual aid, activity sheets, marker
References: www.wikepedia.com, www.learn-english-today.com
Strategies: 4 As Discussion
Interactive Instruction
Audio-Lingual Method

III. LEARNING PROCEDURES

A. Preliminaries
1. Prayer and Greetings
2. Checking of Attendance
3. Submission of Assignments

B. Review Question
1. What was our last lesson about?

C. Lesson Proper
Activity
1. The teacher will play the audio material.
2. The teacher will provide the script of the dialogue to the students.
3. The students will read the script along with the tape using the same stress and
intonation as the speaker.
4. The students can repeat this exercise until this exercise until their voice sounds similar
to the voice on the recording.
5. Below is the script of the recording.
 Danny: Have you heard the news? Mark won the Spelling Quiz Bee Contest!
Pamela: No, I havent. What did he receive as a prize?
Danny: Mark got $500 in cash!
Pamela: Really? Thats wonderful!
Danny: Not only that. He will tour to Boracay for a week with his family.
Pamela: Thats great! I will tell Mark to bring me white sand for my aquarium.
Danny: As for me, seashells will do.
Pamela: Look Danny, Mark is coming!

Analysis
1. Who are the speakers in the conversation/
2. Who won the Spelling Quiz Bee Contest?
3. What are the things that Pamela and Danny would like Mark to bring them from
Boracay?
4. How can intonation intensify the feeling or the emotion in the conversation?
5. How can intonation convey the meaning or the message in the dialogue?

Abstraction

Intonation describes how the voice rises and falls in speech. Intonation is about how we
say things, rather than what we say, the way the voice rises and falls when speaking.
Intonation is variation of spoken pitch that is not used to distinguish words; instead it is
used for a range of functions such as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the
speaker, signaling the difference between statements and questions, and between
different types of questions, focusing attention on important elements of the spoken
message and also helping to regulate conversational interaction.

There are two basic patterns of intonation in English: rising and falling intonation
Falling Intonation is the most common intonation pattern in English. It is commonly
found in statements, commands, information questions. It describes how the voice falls
on the stresses syllable of a phrase or group of words.
Example: What time does the film finish?
Wheres the nearest post-office?

Rising Intonation invites the speaker to continue talking. It is normally used with yes/no
questions, and question tags that are real questions. It describes how the voice rises at
the end of a sentence.
Example: I hear the Health center is expanding. So, is that the new doctor?
Are you thirsty?

Application
1. The teacher will provide some sentences in rising and falling intonation.
2. The teacher will speak first the proper intonation and then the students will follow.
3. The teacher will repeat the sentences until the proper pronunciation will be achieved
by the students.
4. The ff. sentences to be uttered are listed below.

Who is our new classmate?

Who is our substitute teacher?
Weve must met already, havent we?
Do you like your new teacher?
Have you finishes already?
Why are you crying?
What country do you came from?
The view is beautiful, isnt it?
 Why she did not go to the principal office?
May I borrow your dictionary?

IV. EVALUATION
1. In a pair, the students will perform a conversation using falling and rising intonation.
2. The teacher will provide the script of the conversation.
3. The script of the dialogue is listed below.

Lisa: Hey Steven! How are you?

Steven: Im fine Lisa. Uhm, did you eat your lunch already?
Lisa: No, I didnt eat yet. How about you?
Steven: Me too. I didnt eat yet. Uhm, maybe we will take our lunch first. Will you join me in the
canteen?
Lisa: Sure, why not? Bye the way, Sam said that you won the speech contest. How does it feel?
Steven: Well, I was surprised! I didnt expect to get the first prize.
Lisa: Well, thats great! Uhm, can we go now to the canteen?
Steven: Sure, lets go!

V. ASSIGNMENT
1. The class will be divided into five groups.
2. The student will present a dialogue using the varied intonation.
3. Each group will be tasked to record or note down some examples of conversation using
rising and falling intonation either from real life or from film or television dialogues.
4. The students will perform the dialogue, copying the intonation of the speakers, next
meeting.

Criteria:
Diction/ Clarity of voice - 10 pts.
Pronunciation - 15 pts.
Facial expressions/ body gestures - 10 pts.
25 pts.