English Grade 7 Lesson Plan 10
Locating and Interpreting Information in Procedural Texts
Key Idea
Locating and Interpreting Information in Procedural Texts
Most Essential Learning Competencies:
Identify genre, purpose of text (EN7VC-I-d-6) (Q1)
Use appropriate reading strategies to meet one’s purpose (e.g., scanning, skimming, close reading, etc.) (EN7RC-IV-b-10) (Q1)
Cite evidence to support a general statement (EN7RC-IV-g- 10.4) (Q3)
Use phrases, clauses, and sentences appropriately and meaningfully (EN7G-II-a-1)
Component 1: Short review
Time: 7 minutes
Teacher talk: So far this week we have been looking at expository texts that convey information. Procedural texts are another type of texts that conveys information. They provide instructions for doing or making something. They are also called instructional texts.
Examples of procedural texts include:
Recipes
Instruction manuals to help you build or install or use something
Web pages that tell you how to register or apply for something
Instructions for taking medicines
Instructions for doing something like playing a video game
Rules for behavior
Disaster prevention information
What to do if there is an earthquake
Teacher asks students to imagine a text on the internet giving instructions on how to play a video game and asks some questions about it.
Teacher reads out each question and asks students to write their answers on the Worksheet.
Questions:
For an online text giving instructions on how to play a video game:
Q1. What title do you think it will have? Give an example.
Q2. What information do you expect to see at the start of it?
Q3. What information do you expect to see in the rest of it?
Teacher asks students to volunteer answers and reasons and gives feedback, suggesting examples where needed. Be prepared for a variety of answers.
Suggested answers:
Q1. Possible example titles: How to play Game X; Game X Guide…
Q2. A description of the game.
Q3. The rules of the game; special features of the game; Tips and Tricks.
Component 2: Purpose of the lesson
Time: 3 minutes
In this lesson, we are going to look at a short procedural text. We are going to see how it works so that when you read a text that you have not seen before you will know:
whether it is a procedural (or instructional) text,
how it works – its parts or structure – how it starts and then how the rest of it is organized, and
where its most important information is located.
Procedural texts usually have a structure of 3 major components:
1. A heading or title that describes the purpose of the instructions, ss
2. Things needed to perform the task (i.e. materials or ingredients) , and
3. Steps in the order that they need to be done to achieve the outcome (i.e. the method).
[Teacher Notes: Emphasize that the lesson will help them know what to look out for or what are the important bits when they have to read procedural texts that they’ve never read before – such as in a test or examination.]
Component 3: Lesson Language Practice
Time: 5 minutes
This text is called ‘Steps in cooking Adobo, a Filipino native dish’. It is a recipe. A recipe is an example of a procedural text. A recipe gives instructions for making something. Here are some key words and phrases from the text are important. Let’s say each word together.
Vocabulary
ingredients (the foods or substances that are combined to make a particular dish)
method (steps in the order that they need to be done to make the dish)
Adobo – a Filipino native dish with pork or chicken
sauté – to fry in a pan
vinegar – an ingredient in cooking; made up of water, acetic acid and flavorings
salt and pepper to taste – add as much salt and pepper as you like
a cup – a measure in cooking of 240-250 ml.
Now let us go over what each word or phrase means.
Teacher writes each word or phrase on the board and asks the class to volunteer answers and writes each definition on the board. Students write each definition on their worksheets.
Component 4: Lesson Activity
Time: 25 minutes
Component 4A Reading text [5 minutes]
Steps in cooking Adobo, a Filipino native dish By Erjel Tabonares
Ingredients:
1. 1 whole chicken cut into pieces
2. 1/2 cup soy sauce
3. 1/4 cup vinegar
4. chopped onion and garlic
5. cooking oil
6. bay leaves
7. salt and pepper to taste
Steps
Step 1: Put cooking oil in a pan. After few seconds, sauté the chopped onion and garlic until golden brown.
Step 2: Add the cut chicken into the pan.
Step 3: Add a 1/2 cup of soy sauce, a 1/4 cup of vinegar, bay leaf, salt and pepper to taste.
Step 4: After a few minutes, add a little amount of water.
Step 5: Bring to boil, then reduce heat to medium-low.
Step 6: Cook for 35-40 minutes until chicken is cooked through.
Teacher reads the text, drawing attention to the words listed in Lesson Component 3.
Component 4B Questions [10 minutes]
Teacher reads out each question and asks students to write their answers on the Worksheet.
Questions:
Q1. Does the opening section of this text match what is supposed to go in a procedural text? Give evidence for your answer.
Q2. Normally in a recipe the ingredients are arranged in the order in which they appear in the steps. Rearrange the ingredients in that way.
Q3. One of the features of a procedural text is the sentence structure in the Steps section. Are the sentences statements, questions, or commands? All the sentencess start the same way – underline the first word in each dot point - what do you notice about them?
Teacher samples answers from students to each question and provides feedback.
Suggested answers:
Q1. Yes, there is a title that describes the purpose of the text.
Q2. Ingredients in sequence:
cooking oil
chopped onion and garlic
1 whole chicken cut into pieces
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup vinegar
bay leaf
salt and pepper to taste.
Q3. The sentences are all commands and start with a verb.
Component 4C Questions [10 minutes]
Teacher reads out each question and asks students to write their answers on the Worksheet.
Questions:
Q4. What does it mean to say that Adobo is a Filipino native dish?
Q5. List 3 ingredients that are liquids.
Q6. Imagine Erjel Tabonares is demonstrating his recipe for Adobo on a cooking show on TV. With a partner, write a short script for what he would say for the first part of his presentation.
Teacher samples answers from students to each question and provides feedback.
Suggested answers:
Q4. It is a dish that originated in the Philippines and is very popular.
Q5. Soy sauce, vinegar, cooking oil.
Q6. Be prepared for a variety of answers here – the main thing is that students change the language and sentence structures to fit the different context.
[Teacher Notes: Feel free to skip Question 5 and focus on Questions 4 and 6 if you are running short of time.]
Component 5: Lesson Conclusion
Time: 5 minutes
Teacher displays the questions:
Q1. The focus of the lesson was on learning about how information is organized in a procedural (or instructional) text. How has the lesson helped you to understand this?
Q2. Which questions were easy to answer? Why?
Q3. What strategies did you use to answer the harder questions?
[Teacher Notes: It would be worthwhile to do this by getting students to write on the Worksheet, so you have some feedback on the effectiveness of the lesson and how they feel about their learning experience.
If pressed for time, you may want to do this section as a class discussion].
Segue to the next lesson: “We will return to giving you more practice with texts that provide information and extending it to other types of texts in future lessons.”
REMINDER: Collect student worksheets to review and analyze students’ learning; focus on answers to Question 6 for quality and clarity of writing and understanding of the content.