A Detailed Lesson Plan in English – Grade 8

I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson 100% of the students with 75% level of proficiency shall be able to :
a. Identify the appropriate meaning of Idiomatic Expressions.
b. Familiarize with commonly used idiomatic expressions.
c. Use idiomatic expressions correctly.
d. Identify the correct idioms in sentences given using context clues.

II. Subject Matter:

Topic: Idiomatic Expressions
References: Teacher’s Manual
Materials: Handouts,
Values: Cooperation, self-confidence, collaboration, honesty.

III. Procedure:
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

a. Preliminaries
i. prayer
ii. greeting the class Good Morning/Afternoon Sir.
iii. Checking of Attendance
iv. Recall

Before we proceed to our discussion, let (A volunteer answers.) Sir, we tackled one the
us firstly have a short recall about what we had story, The Two Brothers, an Egyptian Folktale.
last meeting. What did we discuss yesterday?
(Teacher will call a volunteer.)

b. Unlocking of Difficulties:
Do you know any idioms(sawikain) in
A few students will share what they know to the
Filipino?
class.
The teacher discusses that idioms are
peculiar to a specific language.

c. Motivation:
The teacher will divide the class into 4
groups. Each group will have to act out
an idiom without speaking. If the group
can give the correct answer within 1
minute the group gets a point.

All ears, Ants in your pants, Axe to grind, Heart of

gold, jump the gun, money talks, make waves,
rock the boat, piece of cake, eagle eyes, fifth
wheel, elephant in the room, cold feet, monkey
business, can of worms.

d. Discussion:
English idiom or idiomatic expressions are Greek
in origin. The word idiom means “a
private citizen, something belonging to a private
citizen, personal,” and, by extension, something
individual and peculiar. Idiomatic Expressions,
then, conform to no laws or principles describing
their formation. They may also violate grammar
or logic or both and still be acceptable because
the phrase is familiar, deep-rooted, widely used,
and easily understandable- for the native born.
“How do you do?” is, for example, an accepted
idiom, although an exact answer would be
absurd.

There are many idiomatic expressions in our

language. One is that several words are
combined which lose their literal meaning and
express something very remotely suggested such
as ; birds of a feather, blacklist, lay up, toe the
line, make out, bed of roses, dark horse, heavy
hand, open house, read between the lines, no ax
to grind, hard row to hoe.

A second statement about idioms is that parts of

the human body have suggested many of
them: burn one’s fingers, all thumbs, fly in the
face of, stand on one’s own feet, keep body and
soul together, keep one’s eyes open, step on
someone’s toes, rub elbows with, get one’s back
up, keep one’s chin up.

A third generalization is that hundreds of

idiomatic phrases contain adverbs or prepositions
with other parts of speech. Here are some
examples: walk off, walk over, walk-up; run
down, run in run off, run out; get nowhere, get
through, get off.
IV. Evaluation:

Choose the appropriate word to complete the meaning of the idiom. Write ocean, music,
rags, cold and pie in the blanks provided.

1. All these promises the politicians make are just ____ in the sky.
2. The small amount of money donated is just a drop in the _____ compared to the
large sum of money needed.
3. He has been successful in life. He went from ____ to riches.
4. They had a dispute yesterday. That‘s why she gave him a ___ shoulder.
5. I had to face the ____ all by myself, although I was not the only responsible for the
problem.

V. Assignment:
Read a story and identify the idioms in the short story.