La Salle College Victorias

Senior High School

Learning Plan

Louem G. Garceniego
1st Quarter
1- Week Learning Plan (Week 1)
MW Classes
TTh Classes

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:

1. Discuss the history of the English language;

2. Realize the importance of the history of English language as an integral
part of our daily lives; and
3. Enrich oneself with the trends in the English Language as a tool to build
vocabulary.
II. Subject Matter

A. Topic: Introduction to Academic Texts: A History of the

English Language
B. Materials: Powerpoint Presentation, A video: The History of
English in Ten Minutes
C. Reference: https://www.englishclub.com/history-of-english/
The Adventure of English by Melvin Bragg
(Sceptre, 2003)

D. LGP Integration:
III. Procedure

Prayer
Presentation of Objectives

A. Introduction

1. Motivation

The students will watch an 11 minute video wherein the history of the English language is
tackled. The video provides a chapter by chapter view of each time the English Language has
transformed throughout the course of history, and what changes it will still undergo as it still
passes through the 21st Century.
2. Process Questions

What started the growth of English Language to its current forms and styles?
What are the contributions made by each Western nation / Denomination with regard to
the evolution of the English language?
What are the potential changes that the English Language would still undergo?

B. Interaction

1. Strategies: Discussion, Oral Participation

Activity
(1) Students will be asked to research on the history of the English Language. The class will
pinpoint and discuss the different influences that the English Language had undergone
throughout the century, and cite the contributions that history has added for its continuing
development.
(2) Using their researched material, they will be asked questions.
(3) Answers will be processed through graded oral participation.

C. Integration

1. Activity

Oral Participation
The students will share their ideas, based on the video of the History of the English
Language they have watched and listened to.

2. Generalization

The students will impart their findings on the changes and development of the English
Language, and its continuing contribution to the professional and academic fields.

3. Process Questions

After the discussion of the History of the English Language, what is the importance of the
English Language, in accordance with:

Their life, as a student

Their future professional careers, as working-class citizens
Their relationships with peers in school

IV. Evaluation

A 20 item written quiz on the History of the English Language, and the different
contributions each time period has made to what it is today.
V. Purposeful Assignment

Students will research on words/phrases which are presently English, but each have
different origins. They shall research on where that word/phrase originated who or what led
that word to be created or formed in the first place, definition of such word, and its modern-day
usage. They will be the ones providing the word they are going to research.