Lesson Plan in English 2

I. OBJECTIVES:

a. Group words that share the same meaning.

b. Arrange words based on intensity.

II. Subject Matter:

Topic: Create or expand word clines.
Reference: most essential learning competencies
Material:

III. Learning Process:

A. Preliminary Activities:
1. Review:
2. Motivation:
Rearrange the pictures from simple to complex in their proper order.

asleep

sleepy

nap

B. Discussion
Word clines are a sequence or scale of almost synonymous words or phrases arranged in
terms of strength, degree, intensity, or how strongly they represent an idea.
It is a presentation of words in different levels of intensity. These words have related
meanings but differ in levels. They are usually arranged from the weakest word to the
strongest word.

C. Application

Activity 1
I am Different
Direction: Box the word that does not belong to the cline.

funny
amusing
scary
 gloomy
sad
glad

crawl
hop
jump

hard
easy
difficult

hot
warm
cold

Activity 2
Arrange the set of words with nearly the same meaning according to their degree of
category through word cline.

1. warm, hot, burning

2.beautiful, pretty, lovely
3. tasty, yummy, delicious
4. cool, cold, freezing

D. Generalization.

What is a word cline?

IV. Evaluation

Pick the strongest word of the pair and write it in the blank to complete the sentence.
smart gifted 1. Sheldon is _____________. He knows almost everything.
break destroy 2. The workers need to__________ the building because of the
earthquake.
boiling hot 3. The water in the kettle is _______.
hilarious funny 4. The show is _____________.
huge tall 5. The old tree is _____________.