Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region III – Central Luzon
Schools Division Of Tarlac Province
SAN JULIAN - STA. MARIA HIGH SCHOOL
Moncada, Tarlac

DAILY LESSON PLAN

School SAN JULIAN – STA. MARIA HIGH SCHOOL Grade/Section GRADE 8

Teacher HAZEL GRACE G. BARROZO Subject ENGLISH
Date/ Time September 16-20, 2019 Quarter Second Quarter
I. Objectives
A. Content Standard The learner demonstrates understanding of: East Asian literature as an art form inspired and
influenced by nature; relationship of visual, sensory, and verbal signals in both literary and
expository texts; strategies in listening to long descriptive and narrative texts; value of literal
and figurative language; and appropriate grammatical signals or expressions suitable to
patterns of idea development.
B. Performance Standard The learner transfers learning by composing and delivering a brief and creative entertainment
speech featuring a variety of effective paragraphs, appropriate grammatical signals or
expressions in topic development, and appropriate prosodic features, stance, and behavior.
C. Learning Competency EN8V-IIf-10.1.4: Identify figures of speech that show emphasis (hyperbole and litotes)
D. Enabling Objectives Identify figures of speech that show emphasis (hyperbole and litotes)
II. Content Litotes and Hyperbole
III. Learning Resources www.slideshare.net
IV. Procedures
A. Before The Lesson Read the dialogues below:
Kaye: Look at my drawing. What can you say?
John: You’re drawing is not too bad.
Kaye: That’s not a useless comment.
John: Do you want me to say that you’re drawing is the best in the whole wide
world?
Kaye: You are not the funniest person I have ever met.
John: Fine, yours is not an ordinary art.
Kaye: That was the most wonderful comment I have ever heard in my entire
existence.
Questions:
1. What can you notice about the highlighted statements?
2. What can you notice about the underlined statements?
3. What do these words mean? Do they express literal or figurative meaning?

Facilitate class discussion.

B. During the Lesson Ask students prior knowledge on types of texts and types of listening strategies by using
graphs or any information maps.
(Facilitate class discussion)
C. Lesson Proper Litotes Hyperbole
1. He is not the cleverest person I have ever met. 1. I am so hungry that I could eat a truck of
2. She is not unlike her mother. cake.
3. Ken Adams is not an ordinary man 2. I am extremely happy that I can jump to
4. A million dollars is not a little amount. the sky.
5. You are not doing badly at all. 3. I am so tired that I can sleep for days.
4. It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing
jackets.
5. This car goes faster than the speed of
light.
Discussion:
1. What do the sentences using litotes mean?
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Schools Division Of Tarlac Province
SAN JULIAN - STA. MARIA HIGH SCHOOL
Moncada, Tarlac

2. What do the sentences using hyperbole mean?

3. Which one uses exaggeration or overstatement?
4. Which one used negative words to express the positive meaning or understatement?
5. Differentiate litotes and hyperbole.
a. Hyperbole is a figure of speech which uses exaggeration or extravagant statement.
b. Litotes involves an understatement where the affirmative/positive meaning is
expressed by negating its opposite. a phrase that uses negative terms to express a
positive statement.
D. After The Lesson Activity A: Don’t understatement me!
Direction: Explain the meaning of the following litotes statements.
1. They do not seem the happiest couple around.
2. The ice cream was not too bad.
3. New York is not an ordinary city.
4. Your comments on politics are not useless.
5. You are not as young as you used to be.
Activity B: That was exaggerated!
Directions: Explain the meaning of the following hyperbole statements.
1. It is so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk.
2. His stomach is a bottomless pit.
3. It will only take me two seconds to get there.
4. Her smile was a mile wide.
5. Let’s be best friends forever.
Activity C. Figuratively Speaking…
Directions: Express the following statements using litotes and hyperbole.
1. You are beautiful. ( ans. You are not ugly. / You are the most beautiful person in the
universe.)
2. It is very hot outside. ( It is not cold outside. / It is scorching hot outside, I could fry an
egg on the sidewalk.)
3. The test in English is very easy. (The test in English is not the hardest test I have
ever took./ The test in English took me one second to answer.)
4. This is a special day. (This is not an ordinary day./ This is the best day ever.)
5. Her paintings are good. ( Her painting are not bad at all./ Her paintings are the best
in the whole wide world.)

Directions: Identify if the statement uses litotes or hyperbole.

1. Your apartment is not unclean.
2. He’s not the friendliest person.
3. It wasn’t a terrible trip.
4. She’s not unkind.
5. They aren’t unhappy with the presentation.
V. Assignment
VI. Remarks
VII. Reflection
Prepared by: Checked:
Hazel Grace G. Barrozo Melba M. Cangco
Teacher I Head Teacher I

Noted:
Mely A. Bulusan
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Department of Education
Region III – Central Luzon
Schools Division Of Tarlac Province
SAN JULIAN - STA. MARIA HIGH SCHOOL
Moncada, Tarlac

Principal II