Monday, March 14, 2011

Sample lesson plan-Subject-Verb Agreement


Topic: Subject-Verb Agreement
I.              Objectives:
At the end of the class discussion, students are expected to
a)    Identify the form of the subject and the verb in the sentence
b)    Choose the correct form of the verb to make it agree with the subject.
c)    Familiarize with the rules of subject-verb agreement.
II.            Subject Matter
English II, Subject-Verb Agreement

III.           Materials:

Pictures, Manila paper, Chalk and Board

IV.          Procedure

a)    Prayer and Greetings

b)   Motivation

      The teacher is going to post pictures of a baby and puppies on the left side of the board. On the right side of the board, pictures of a bone and a bottle of milk will be posted. The pictures on the left side (baby and puppies) will be the consumer and the pictures on right side (bone and bottle of milk) will be the consumer’s proper food.
      The students are expected to identify the proper food for the puppies which is the bone and baby which is the milk.

Teacher’s activities                                                                  Students’ responses

·         Do you agree that milk is good for the baby?                        Yes teacher!

·         Very good, do you agree that milk is good
                   for the puppies?      

·         Very good, do you agree that bones                                       Yes Teacher!
                   is good for the dogs?

·         Since the milk is good for the baby                             No, because baby cannot
                  and the puppies, do you think bones                    get the proper nutrition                          also for babies?                                                        by eating bones is good                                                                                                            for puppies not for                                                                                                                      baby.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
·         Precisely, bones doesn’t fit to the needs                   
                  of the baby ,do you agree?                                                 Yes teacher!

·         Therefore there is always an appropriate
food for every creature. Baby drinks milk
while puppies eat the bone for them to grow healthy.

c)    Presentation of the topic
 Like the need of the baby and the puppies of proper food, language particularly the subject and verb must agree with each other. This is for the purpose of clear and better communication. Today we will be discussing about subject-verb agreement and we will be learning some of the rules to make our verb agree with our subjects.

d)   Proper discussion
The subject and verb must agree in number: both must be singular, or both must be plural.
Notice the difference between singular and plural forms in the following examples:

a)    The baby drinks the milk
b)    The babies drink the milk
In order to find out if our subject and verb agree, there is a need to identify the subject of our sentence. In Sample (a), the subject is singular therefore our verb is singular. In sample (b), our subject is plural therefore our verb is plural. Notice the difference in the formation of subject from singular to plural compared to the formation of verb from singular to plural. When we transform our subject into plural we usually add s or es but in verb, adding s makes the verb singular.
v  General Rule of Subject-Verb Agreement
Singular subjects requires singular verb and plural subjects requires plural subjects.
Additional Rules
1.    If subjects are joined by and, they are considered plural.

Example: The quarterback and the coach are having a conference.

2.    If subjects are joined by or or nor, the verb should agree with the closer subject.

Example: Either the baby or the puppies drink milk.

3.    The relative pronouns (who, whom, which, and that) are either singular or plural, depending on the words they refer to.

Example: The sales manager is a good researcher who spends a great amount of time surfing the Web for information.
4.    Indefinite pronouns (someone, somebody, each, either one, everyone, or anyone) are considered singular and need singular verbs although they convey plural meaning.

Example: Anyone who wants to pursue higher education has to pass entrance exams.
5.    A few subjects look plural but are really singular or vice versa.

Example: The news of the discovery is spreading.

6.    Expressions stating amount of time, money, weight, volume are plural in form but take a singular verb as in:
                              Example: Two hundred dollars is a lot of money.

e)    Enrichment
Things to remember in subject- verb agreement
a)   The trick is to know whether the subject is singular or plural.
b)   The next trick is to recognize whether the verb is singular or plural

V.           Evaluation
Direction: Underline the correct verb inside the parenthesis to make the statement                                 correct. Identify the subject and determine whether it is in singular or plural.
      Example: The survey covering seven colleges (reveal, reveals) a growth in                                         enrollment.
                         Subject: the survey       Form: Singular
1.    My sister and brother (lives. live) in Berlin.
2.    Either the man or his friends (knows, know) the answer.
3.    Three weeks (is, are) a long time.
4.    Lisa is one of the students who (has, have) passed with an A.  
5.    Each student and teacher (was, were) aware of the difficulty.
6.     A car and a bike (is, are) my means of transportation.
7.    My aunt or my uncle (is, are) arriving at the airport.
8.    Neither Jenny nor the others (is, are) available.
9.    The serving bowl or the plates (go, goes) on that shelf.
10. Each of the students (read, reads) well.
11. Five years (is, are) the maximum sentence for that offense.
12. Salma is the scientist who (write, writes) he reports.
13. He is one of the men who (do, does) the work.
14. Mathematics (is, are) my favorite subjects.
15. Mumps (is, are) a viral disease.


Friday, March 11, 2011

Pyramus and Thisbe By: Ovid-reflection-reaction


Pyramus and Thisbe
By: Ovid

`           Pyramus was the handsomest youth, and Thisbe the fairest maiden, in all Babylonia, where Semiramis reigned. Their parents occupied adjoining houses; and neighborhood brought the young people together, and acquaintance ripened into love. They would gladly have married, but their parents forbade. One thing however they could not forbid — that love should glow with equal ardor in the bosoms of both. They conversed by signs and glances, and the fire burned more intensely for being covered up. In the wall that parted the two houses there was a crack, caused by some fault in the structure. No one had remarked it before, but the lovers discovered it. What will not love discover! It afforded a passage to the voice; and tender messages used to pass backward and forward through the gap. As they stood, Pyramus on this side, Thisbe on that, their breaths would mingle. “Cruel wall,” they said, “why do you keep two lovers apart? But we will not be ungrateful. We owe you, we confess, the privilege of transmitting loving words to willing ears.” Such words they uttered on different sides of the wall; and when night came and they must say farewell, they pressed their lips upon the wall, she on her side, he on his, as they could come no nearer.
            Next morning, when Aurora had put out the stars, and the sun had melted the frost from the grass, they met at the accustomed spot. Then, after lamenting their hard fate, they agreed that next night, when all was still, they would slip away from watchful eyes, leave their dwellings and walk out into the fields; and to insure a meeting, repair to a well-known edifice, standing without the city’s bounds, called the Tomb of Ninus, and that the one who came first should await the other at the foot of a certain tree. It was a white mulberry tree, and stood near a cool spring. All was agreed on, and they waited impatiently for the sun to go down beneath the waters and night to rise up from them. Then cautiously Thisbe stole forth, unobserved by the family, her head covered with a veil, made her way to the monument and sat down under the tree. As she sat alone in the dim light of the evening she descried a lioness, her jaws reeking with recent slaughter, approaching the fountain to slake her thirst. Thisbe fled at the sight, and sought refuge in the hollow of a rock. As she fled she dropped her veil. The lioness, after drinking at the spring, turned to retreat to the woods, and seeing the veil on the ground, tossed and rent it with her bloody mouth.
            Pyramus, having been delayed, now approached the place of meeting. He saw in the sand the footsteps of the lion, and the color fled from his cheeks at the sight. Presently he found the veil all rent and bloody. “O, hapless girl,” said he, “I have been the cause of thy death! Thou, more worthy of life than I, hast fallen the first victim. I will follow. I am the guilty cause, in tempting thee forth to a place of such peril, and not being myself on the spot to guard thee. Come forth, ye lions, from the rocks, and tear this guilty body with your teeth.” He took up the veil, carried it with him to the appointed tree, and covered it with kisses and with tears. “My blood also shall stain your texture,” said he, and drawing his sword plunged it into his heart. The blood spurted from the wound, and tinged the white mulberries of the tree all red; and sinking into the earth reached the roots, so that the red color mounted through the trunk to the fruit.
            By this time, Thisbe, still trembling with fear, yet wishing not to disappoint her lover, stepped cautiously forth, looking anxiously for the youth, eager to tell him the danger she had escaped. When she came to the spot and saw the changed color of the mulberries she doubted whether it was the same place. While she hesitated she saw the form of one struggling in the agonies of death. She started back, a shudder ran through her frame as a ripple on the face of the still water when a sudden breeze sweeps over it. But as soon as she recognized her lover, she screamed and beat her breast; embracing the lifeless body, pouring tears into its wounds, and imprinting kisses on the cold lips. “O, Pyramus,” she cried, “what has done this? Answer me, Pyramus; it is your own Thisbe that speaks. Hear me, dearest, and lift that drooping head!” At the name of Thisbe, Pyramus opened his eyes, then closed them again. She saw her veil stained with blood and the scabbard empty of its sword. “Thy own hand has slain thee, and for my sake,” she said. “I too can be brave for once, and my love is as strong as thine. I will follow thee in death, for I have been the cause; and death, which alone could part us, shall not prevent my joining thee. And ye, unhappy parents of us both, deny us not our united request. As love and death have joined us, let one tomb contain us. And thou, tree, retain the marks of slaughter. Let thy berries still serve for memorials of our blood.” So saying, she plunged the sword into her breast. Her parents ratified her wish, the gods also ratified it. The two bodies were buried in one sepulchre, and the tree ever after brought forth purple berries, as it does to this day.
Reflection:
 i really cried while reading this story.its so tragic...i had realized that love doesnt always end happily but sometimes it ends sad to serve as lesson for others as well us to make others realize something.I can relate it to Mara Clara...sad also

Apollo and Daphne story-reflection-reaction-and music that fit the story-One-in-a-million-by neyo


Apollo and Daphne
It is a story from ancient Greek mythology, retold by Hellenistic and Roman authors in the form of an amorous vignette;
The curse of Apollo, the god of the sun and music, was brought onto him when he insulted the young Eros (a.k.a. Cupid) for playing with bow and arrows.
Apollo was a great warrior and said to him, "What have you to do with warlike weapons? Leave them for hands worthy of them. Behold the conquest I have won by means of them over the vast serpent that stretched his poisonous body over acres of the plain! Be content with your torch, child, and kindle up your flames, as you call them, where you will, but presume not to meddle with my weapons."
The petulant Eros took two arrows, one of gold and one of lead. The gold one was supposed to incite love, while the lead one was supposed to incite hatred. With the leaden shaft, Eros shot the nymph Daphne and with the golden one, he shot Apollo through the heart. Apollo was seized with love for the maiden, Daphne, and she in turn abhorred him. In fact, she spurned her many potential lovers, preferring instead woodland sports and exploring the woods. Her father, Peneus, demanded that she get married so that she may give him grandchildren. However, she begged her father to let her remain unmarried, like Apollo's sister, Artemis.
He warned her saying, "Your own face will forbid it." By saying this he meant that she was too beautiful to keep all her potential lovers away forever.
Apollo continually followed her, begging her to stay, but the nymph continued her flight. They were evenly matched in the race until Eros intervened and helped Apollo gain upon Daphne.
Seeing that Apollo was bound to catch her, she called upon her father, "Help me, Peneus! Open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger!"
Suddenly, her skin turned into bark, her hair became leaves, and her arms were transformed into branches. She stopped running as her feet became rooted to the ground. Apollo embraced the branches, but even the branches shrank away from him. Since Apollo could no longer take her as his wife, he vowed to tend her as his tree, and promised that her leaves would decorate the heads of leaders as crowns, and that her leaves were also to be depicted on weapons. Apollo also used his powers of eternal youth and immortality to render her ever green. Since then, the leaves of the Bay laurel tree have never known decay
Reflection:
When we love someone it is not really an assurance that they will love as the way we loved them. As a matter of fact they tend to refuse it, runaway from us. Daphne don’t want any suitor ever since. She enjoyed living in freedom. She valued most of her desire of living like Diana. Our decisions in life were influenced by our beliefs and principles. Sometimes we tend to sacrifice love just to fulfill our belief and principle. I find it just to love and to be loved. It is an overwhelming feeling to know that somebody had loved us truly. Love is a gift that everybody can receive. Most of us desired to be loved. But sometimes due to some consequences, our love was rejected. We get hurt and disappointed. Some would retrieve into doing revenge. Some would force other to love them. This is an unjust way of loving. To love somebody is to set them free. Yes, we learn to let go even though it hurts. Sometimes pursuing something which is unnecessary just ends to trouble. Trouble that may end to more tragic situation. We must love with respect to the one we love, to ourselves and to others. Love promotes peace and harmony. But if we use love in the wrong way, then trouble really enters the scenario. Love just come on our way and settle on us. But if it runs away from us, then it’s not ours. Better to be friends than to force a relationship that will not work in the future.


Ne-yo One In A Million
Jet setter
Go getter
Nothing better
Call me Mr. been there done that
Top model chick to your every day hood rat
Less than all but more than a few
But I've never met one like you

Been all over the world
Done a little bit of everything
Little bit of everywhere
With a little bit of everyone
All the girls I've been with
Things I've seen it takes much to impress
But sure enough you go it makes your soul stand up from all the rest

I can be in love
But I just don't know
Baby one thing is for certain
Whatever you do it's working
All the girls don't matter
In your presence can't do what you do
There's a million girls around but I don't see no one but you

Girl you're so one in a million
You are
Baby you're the best I ever had
Best I ever had
And I'm certain that
There ain't nothing better
No there ain't nothing better than this

You're not a regular girl
You don't give a damn about your look
Talking about I can't do it for you
But you can do it for yourself
Even though that ain't so
Baby cause my dough don't know how to end
But that independent thing I'm with it
All we do is win baby

I could be in love
But I just don't know
Baby one thing is for certain
Whatever you do it's working
All the girls don't matter
In your presence can't do what you do
There's a million girls around but I don't see no one but you

Baby you're so one in a million
You are
Baby you're the best I ever had
Best I ever had
And I'm certain that
There ain't nothing better
No there ain't nothing better than this
Girl you're so one in a million
You are
Baby you're the best I ever had
Best I ever had
And I'm certain that
There ain't nothing better
No there ain't nothing better than this

Timing girl
Only one in the world
Just one of a kind
She mine

Ooh all that I can think about is what this thing could be
A future baby
Baby you're one of a kind
That means that you're the only one for me
Only one for me
Baby (girl) you're so one in a million
You are
Baby you're the best I ever had
Best I ever had
And I'm certain that
There ain't nothing better
No there ain't nothing better than this
Girl you're so one in a million
You are
Baby you're the best I ever had
Best I ever had
And I'm certain that
There ain't nothing better
No there ain't nothing better than