IMPLEMENTATION OF LESSON PLAN

SUBJECT : ENGLISH LESSON

TOPIC : FINITE VERBS

CLASS/SEMESTER : X /2

TIME : 3 x 45 minutes

Standard Competency : To master the meaning of short functional text and monolog in form of simple
narrative, descriptive, and news item that have contextual in habitual activities to
access knowledge.
Basic Competency : To respond the meaning within simple monolog text that uses the variety of
writing accurately, fluently, and used in habitual activities to access knowledge in
reading text; narrative, descriptive, and news item.
Indicators : 1. Students are able to know the definition of finite verb.
2. Students are able to know the form of finite verbs.
3. Students are able to identify finite verbs in reading text.
I. Teaching Material : Finite Verbs
II. Source of Material : English for Better Life Grade X, Finite Verbs from Wikipedia
III. Supporting Media :
- Computer
- OHP / LCD
- Microphone
IV. Class Preparation :
- Checking present list
- Checking facilities
- Preparation language laboratory
V. Types and Tools of Evaluation:
- Pencil and paper test
- Written
- Performance test
VI. Learning experience/Steps of teaching:

Time Instruction Method/Activity Student Activity

5’ INTRODUCTION/PRE TEACHING
1. Greeting
30’ 2. Teacher explains the objectives of 2 Students listen to what the teacher
learning and teaching asks them what to do.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
3. Teacher gives examples of finite 3 Students notice the example
verbs in a short text. given.
4. Teacher explains the functions and
4 Students listen to teacher’s
kinds of finite verbs.
explanation carefully and may ask
to the teacher about noun phrases.
5. Teacher gives another example on
5 Students try to find which ones are
the whiteboard, and students identify
10’ the finite verbs.
the finite verbs together.
6 . Teacher gives the students a reading 6 Students analyze and identify the
text and asks them to identify and noun phrase and circle the finite
circle the finite verbs in the reading verbs in the text.
text.
 FINITE VERB

A finite verb is a verb that is inflected for person and for tense according to the rules and categories of the
languages in which it occurs. Finite verbs can form independent clauses, which can stand by their own as complete
sentences.

Every grammatically correct sentence or clause must contain a finite verb; sentence fragments not containing finite
verbs are described as phrases.

Some interjections can play the same role. Even in English, a sentence like Thanks for your help! has an
interjection where it could have a subject and a finite verb form (compare I appreciate your help!).

In English, as in most related languages, only verbs in certain moods are finite. These include:

 the indicative mood (expressing a state of affairs); e.g., "The bulldozer demolished the restaurant," "The
leaves were yellow and stiff."
 the imperative mood (giving a command).
 the subjunctive mood (expressing something that might or might not be the state of affairs, depending on
some other part of the sentence); nearly extinct in English.

A verb is a word that expresses an occurrence, act, or mode of being. Finite verbs, sometimes called main verbs,
are limited by time (see tense), person, and number.

The finite verbs are highlighted in the following sentences :

- The bear caught a salmon in the stream.

- Who ate the pie?
- Stop!

A nonfinite verb form - such as a participle, infinitive, or gerund - is not limited by by time (see tense),
person, and number.

Verb forms that are not finite include :

 the infinitive
 participles (e.g., "The broken window...", "The wheezing gentleman...")
 gerunds and gerundives

In linguistics, a non-finite verb (or a verbal) is a verb form that is not limited by a subject; and more generally, it is
not fully inflected by categories that are marked inflectionally in language, such as tense, aspect, mood, number,
gender, and person. As a result, a non-finite verb cannot generally serve as the main verb in an independent
clause; rather, it heads a non-finite clause.

By some accounts, a non-finite verb acts simultaneously as a verb and as another part of speech; it can take
adverbs and certain kinds of verb arguments, producing a verbal phrase (i.e., non-finite clause), and this phrase
then plays a different role — usually noun, adjective, or adverb — in a greater clause. This is the reason for the
term verbal; non-finite verbs have traditionally been classified as verbal nouns, verbal adjectives, or verbal adverbs.

English has three kinds of verbals: participles, which function as adjectives; gerunds, which function as nouns; and
infinitives, which have noun-like, adjective-like, and adverb-like functions. Each of these is also used in various
common constructs; for example, the past participle is used in forming the perfect aspect (to have done).

Other kinds of verbals, such as supines and gerundives, exist in other languages.

Example:

The finite verbs are the underlined words.

The Crow and the Fox

One day a crow finds a tasty piece of cheese. She picks it up, flaps her wings, and flies to a high
branch of a tree to eat it. ……………………………………………………………………

Date : 21th of march 2008