1. A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH 3
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Answer who, what, when, where, why, how questions.
2. Identify the action words.
II. SUBJECT MATTER:
From Grass Huts to Clay Houses
“The Story of Houses” – a story
REFERENCE: Building English Skills 3: Book 2 Pages 156-160
MATERIAL: Flash Cards, cut outs, pictures or drawing of houses.
KBI: Speak/ answer clearly and cheerfully.
III. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Actvity Pupils’ Activity
1. Good morning class!
Everybody Stand up. Greet
your classmates.
Lets sing the song “If all of the
Raindrops”
2. How do you answer the
questions given?
What else?
3. Check up of Assignment.
Group Leaders kindly collect the
assignment notebooks.
4. Reading the DOLCH words
using flashcards.
5. Spelling:Pretest
1.cave-The first house that
people lived in was a cave.
2. Framework – They used
wood as a framework of a grass
hut.
3. Soft – cotton is very soft.
4. Cliff – People before dig and
carve at the side of the cliff.
5. Gift – Mother gave me a gift
last Christmas.
Good morning Miss Zamoras.
Good morning classmates.
Pupils sing the song.
Answer clearly and cheerfully.
Answer in a complete sentence.
Group leaders collect the
assignment notebooks.
Pupils read the DOLCH Words in
the flashcards.

2. Exchange papers with your
seatmates.
Who got 5? 4? 3? 2? 1?
Copy the correct spelling and
study them.
6. Pronunciation Drill
Look at the chart and listen.
/v/ /f/
Lived family after
Cave framework soft
Carve found roof
Everywhere fire cliff
Weaving forests rafter
Covered few gift
Repeat after me.
Teacher ask pupils to read by
group, then by individual.
B. 1. Motivation
Do you want to play?
Okay, listen as I give you the
instructions on how to play.
(Teacher distributes four envelopes
with cut outs inside.)
Assemble the cut outs into a whole
figure, for 5 minutes only.
Ready go!
(Teacher waits for 5 minutes.)
Stop! Who was the first to finish?
Very good!
What figure did you assemble?
How about group 4
Group 1?
Group 2
Which of the four houses do you
like to live? Why?
2. Unlocking of Difficulties
This morning, we are going to read
“ The Story of Houses” but before
we will read let us first understand
the following words and phrases.
Side of a cliff – is often
Pupils listen.
Pupils follow.
Yes, ma’am.
Pupils follow.
Group 3
It’s a house.
It’s a house.
It’s a house.
It’s a house.

3. Made of hard rock that has to be
hammered and chiseled out to make a
hole or dugout.
Ladder – stairs
Permanent – not moved from one
place to another.
Who can use the words in a sentence?
Very good!
Okey I have here the words and its
meaning now who can match the
words to its meaning?
Read this word.
Put side of a cliff to its corresponding
meaning.
Ladder –
Permanent –
Read again the words.
3. Raising of Motive Question
Look at the different pictures of
houses.
(Teacher shows pictures of houses)
What do people need
So start your questions with why.
4. What will you follow
When reading silently?
What else?
5. Recall of motive question:
Again what we are going to find out in
a story?
C. PRESENTATION
6. Guided silent reading
(Teacher let the pupils read the first
two paragraphs of page 156)
Comprehension question
1. What was the first houses that
people lived in?
2. What else?
3. What is a dugout?
4. What do they use to get in and
Pupils use the words in the
sentence.
Pupil: side of a cliff
Pupil: match the word.
Pupil: read the words.
Pupil: people need houses.
Pupil: why do people need houses?
Pupil: Read with your eyes and not
with your lips.
Pupil: Understand what you read.
Pupil: Why do people need houses?
Pupil read a paragraph or two.
Pupil: The first house that people
lived in was a cave.
Pupil: They lived in a dugout.
Pupil: Dugout is a room that is dig
and carve at the side of a cliff.
Pupil: The use ladder.
Pupil: read the 3 paragraphs.

4. out of the dugout?
Okey read paragraph 3,4 & 5 on page
157.
Why did people learned to plant?
(Ask more questions)
Read the last 2 paragraphs
(Teacher shows the pictures)
Look at these pictures, which pictures
here is grass house or mud house?
A tent?
(Ask more questions)
7. Answering of Motive Question
Why do people need houses?
Very nice answer?
What else?
Very good! Another reason?
D. APPLICATION
1. What kind of houses are mentioned
in the story?
2. What did the early people use for
building houses?
3. What do people use in building now
a days?
Lets go back to the different
paragraphs.
Pick out the action words found in each
paragraphs.
What form of the action word is dig?
Put? Carve?
How about used? Pulled? Lived?
Pupil: They learned to plants so that
if they had plants, they would have
food.
Pupil: read the 2 paragraphs
Pupil: point the houses.
Pupil: People need houses to
protect them from hot and cold
weather.
Pupil: To protect them from wild
animals.
Pupil: People need houses so that
they could eat, sleep and study well.
Pupil: grass house, mudhouse,
cave, tent
Pupil: mud, clay, grass, wood,
animal skin.
Pupil: cement, wood, hollow blocks,
steel, stones.
Spread lived
Pupil: Dig used
Carve pulled
Put hung
Pupil: Simple form of an action
word.

5. Hung?
Use the words in the sentence.
Pupil: Past form of an action word
Pupil: Use the words in the
sentence.
IV. EVALUATION
A. Read the paragraphs silently and answer the questions that follow.
Aling Nora is a sampaguita vendor. She grows sampaguita in her garden. She picks the
flowers every morning. She makes them into garlands. She sells the garlands infront of
the church.
1. Who is the sampaguita vendor?
2. Where does she do with the sampaguita?
3. What does she grow with the flowers?
4. Why did she picks flowers in the morning?
5. Where does she sell the garlands?
B. Underline the correct action word.
1. Aling Nora (pick, picks, picked) flowers every morning.
2. She (make, makes, made) them into garlands.
3. She (sold, sell, sells) them infront of church.
4. Women (like, likes, liked) sampaguita garlands.
5. So they (buy, buys, bought) them all.
V. ASSIGNMENT
For your assignment
Answer Exercises B, C, D, & E of your book Building English Skills book 2 pages 159 –
162.