A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH III

DEDUCTIVE METHOD

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, 80% of the students shall have:

a. Identified and described the various types of conflict evident in a story or situation;

b. arrived at the meaning of words through context;

c. explained the significance of conflict in life

II. Subject Matter

Skills: Describing or Identifying Types of Conflict Text: “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield
References: English Expressways III

Innovative Strategies in Communication Arts by Villamin, et. al.

Instructional Aids: visuals, illustrations

Form of Evaluation: Short Quiz

III. Procedure Teacher’s Activity

 Ask: Do you watch drama series on In chorus: Yes ma’am...

television? Have you felt disliking the
characters because of their wrong decisions Shiela: Sometimes I don’t like Mara because
or actions they have done? she let Clara abuse her...

Okay, that is because just like real people,
they are all vulnerable and imperfect. As
persons we have weaknesses and flaws.
And we can only say few of the many
situations that prove that. How about you?
Do you also have the traits of such
characters?
Joshua: I don’t like how Superman wears his
costume ma’am...
Jeselle: Yes ma’am and we’re also
vulnerable. The students try to answer the
puzzle or question on the board, and they
will come up with the word CONFLICT.

Other than our imperfection as a person, Robert: The answer is CONFLICT ma’am.
there’s always this one thing that causes our
problem. And that thing can be found in the
situations below. Do you know what it is?

 • The homeless child stole a toy from his

playmate. Arthur: It means a clash ma‘am, a problem
• Oliver carries thirty sacks of rice to the or a disagreement.
granary to earn P100.
• People hate Noel who shouts and frowns
at every people he met. In chorus: No one ma’am...
• Two friends became lovers and ran away
from their families.
• Lee trains wild elephants for a living.
• Indians die from hunger and sickness.
• The cyclist broke his leg from joining races
his age could not bear.
• Terry doesn’t have a religion.

*Clue: Arrange the underlined letters to find

out what is present in all the situations given.

Very good Robert, now what do you know

about the word conflict? What does it
mean? 

B. Lesson Proper (12 minutes) 

Thank you Arthur, do you think we also
experience these conflicts in real life? Who
among you has never experienced even a
single conflict in his/her life?
Jerci: I think no one has never experienced
a conflict because it’s a proof that we are
truly human.

Amer: I agree with her ma’am, we

Well now, as we consider conflict as a encounter problems because of our
common experience, we can identify them imperfections, shortcomings and
into two types and four kinds. The two kinds weaknesses or vulnerability.
are: internal and external. What is your idea
of an internal conflict? How about external
ones?
Floyd: An internal conflict ma’am I guess is
Definitely Floyd. The internal conflict as the experienced by a person within himself...
name suggests occurs inside the person, his while the external conflict is caused by other
or her problem lies within himself not things outside oneself.
anything else, while the external conflict are
caused by outside forces, things, or persons.

Georgia: Yes ma’am. Man vs. Man....

Under those two types, we have more Frederick: Man vs. Circumstances...
specific types of conflicts. Will you read for John Robin: Man vs. Society...
us the types of conflict Georgia? Frederick?
John Robin?

Thank you. So those are the more specific

identification of conflicts. Do you have
questions so far?

Students ask questions or clarifications.

Now class, we are to read and discuss the Students guesses the words through
story of Miss Brill who is also troubled by a arranging the jumbled letters and through
conflict, let’s try to find out what kind of the context when it is used in a sentence.
conflict she is experiencing in the story Miss
Brill. Before we start, we have some
vocabulary words to learn. We will unlock
their meaning through context clues.
In chorus: Yes ma’am...

Now, we’ll read the episodes of Miss Brill’s

story silently and I will ask you some
questions after each episode okay... Are you
ready? Let’s read the 1st Episode.
SILENT READING OF EPISODE I (3
minutes)
Probable Answers: Asking what’s happening
or the changes in her.
She is listening to other’s conversation and
watch people go to and fro.
She intends to listen because she doesn’t
have anyone to talk to.

Questions: What is Miss Brill asking herself She sees negative things about people,
on the first paragraph? What is she doing criticizing them from small details.
every Sunday? Why do you think she
intends to listen to other people’s
conversation?

SILENT READING OF EPISODE II (3 Yes, her youth, when she was an actress on
minutes) a stage and everybody quite knows her.

Questions: What is her usual perspective in

watching at people? Are they positive or
negative thoughts? Can you cite some of her
positive/negative thoughts?
Is Miss Brill longing for something already
gone? What is it? Or what are those? What
things is she missing?
They’re laughing about Miss Brill’s fur, and
her habitual appearance at the place.
SILENT READING OF EPISODE III (3
She wears her old eiderdown because she
minutes)
misses her life before when she was an
actress on stage,
Questions: What are the two young couple
laughing at about Miss Brill? How did that
conversation affect Miss Brill? Why do you
think Miss Brill wears her old red eiderdown?
Do you think she finds it hard to forget about
her past life?
She has an internal conflict, Man vs. Herself.
POST-READING (7 minutes) I think she should move on to what life
If that is her problem, then what kind of brought her at present, not to dwell on the
conflict does she have? What can you
advice for Miss Brill’s situation?
Do you also compare the life that you had
before and the life that you have now? Is
that healthy? Why?
past because there are lots of things that
she can appreciate even if she’s not on
stage anymore. Yes ma’am. No, it’s not
healthy...

C. Evaluation (15 minutes)

SHORT QUIZ – ¼ sheet of paper Identify
the type(s) of conflict in the following
situations. Choose from external and/or
internal; Man vs. Man, Circumstances, ANSWER KEY:
Society, or Self.
1. Internal; man vs. self
1. The homeless child stole a toy from his 2. External; man vs. circumstances
playmate. 3. Internal and external; man vs. self, man
2. Oliver carries thirty sacks of rice to the vs. man
granary to earn P100. 4. External; man vs. man
3. People hate Noel who shouts and frowns 5. External; man vs. man
at every people he met. 6. External; man vs. circumstances
4. Two friends became lovers and ran away 7. Internal; man vs. self
from their families. 8. Internal; man vs. self 
5. Lee trains wild elephants for a living.
6. Indians die from hunger and sickness.
7. The cyclist broke his leg from joining
races his age could not bear.
8. Terry doesn’t have a religion.

IV. Assignment

1. In a ½ sheet of paper, write a conflict you have experienced in life and tell how you
overcame it.

2. Be ready for your poetry interpretation performance. Reference: Mechanics on Poetry

Interpretation, Effective Speech Communication by Flores et. al., pp.234-236