Competency:

Knowledg Define poetry.

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Skills Deduce the meaning of a word from context.
Objectives Attitudes Explain observation regarding young love in written
form.
Values Build a good relationship among their traditional.

Topic: AMBAHAN
Content Reference: Internet
IMs: Copy of pre-assigned text, pictures and questionnaires

Teaching-Learning Activities: A. Preparation

 Preliminary Activities
Prayer
Greetings
Checking of attendance
Motivation:
The teacher will show the class a picture of a man and woman.
And the teacher will ask the class how they feel about courtship.
Questions:
1. At what age should a person have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
2. As a Filipino gentleman, how will you court the woman in the
picture?
3. As a conservative Filipina, what will you say if the man in the
picture courts you?

B. Presentation
A. Checking Prior Knowledge:
1. I asked you about courtship because we will tackle a poem
entitled “Ambahan” which is one of the lyric poems used by the
Mangyans to court a Woman they like. But before we start, how
many of you know what a poem is?

2. So a poem is highly expressive, written in verse, and arranged

with rhyme or meter. There are many kinds of poetry. What kinds
of poetry do you know?

3.We have the narrative, epic, dramatic, elegy and lyric poetry. So
according to our book, the Ambahan is grouped under lyric
poetry. Lyric, do you know or understand this word?

4.This Lyric poetry is meant to be sung. So the poem Ambahan is

a Mangyan poem that men sing to court the woman they like.
They sing until the woman let’s them come into her house.
Reading of Poem
1. Class reads the poem.
2. Teacher explains new words in the poem using context clues
such as antonyms or synonyms.
1. Beyond - It denotes a point that is past a certain point.
Behind those trees you'll find his house.
2. Grasp – A firm grip.
I need to grab and hold on tight to the bars so I won’t fall.
Release him from your embrace.
3. Seize – to take hold or possess
The bank will soon possess this house.
Take hold of the criminal.

C. Performance

Activity: Discussion
“Ambahan”
Hanunuo-Mangyan Poem

Look! The moon so full and bright,

shining in front of the house!
How can you explain to me,
that the rays are soft and cool?

If a man like us he were,

I would hold him by the hand!
Seize the hair to keep him back!
Grasp the clothes to make him stay!

But how could I manage that!

It is the moon in the sky!
The full moon shining so bright,
going down beyond the hills,
disappearing from the plain,
out of sight behind the rocks.

1. (after reading the first stanza) Do you still look up to the sky at
night to see the moon?

2. Differentiate the rays of the sun and moon.

3. Now in this stanza what is being described?

4. That’s right. So let’s go to the next stanza. (after reading) So

in this stanza, who is being compared to the moon?
5. Do you know what figure of speech was used in this
stanza? What human traits were given to the moon?
6. This last stanza is talking about what? Does it talk about the
location of the moon? Can you read the part where it says the
 location of the moon? Is the moon going anywhere else?

Assessment: - The Students will write a short poem about Love.