A LITTLE INCIDENTBY: LU HSUN

Grammar Review

The teacher (has, have) heard a program. (Each, Either) student in the club is requested to donate a notebook. (These, This) was mentioned in the conference meeting.

Idiom•keep something at bay-v. keep something away.

Tagalog trans: ilayo angisang bagay

Vocabulary Building Activities• unmarred /un-mared/ verb

- not ruined

- Tagalog translation: hindi sira

- Syn: fix, conditioned

- Ant: damaged, destroy

• inherit /in-her-et/ verb

- to receive (money, property, etc.) from someone when that person dies.

- Tagalog trans: manahin

- Syn: receive, possess

•perfunctory- /per-fen(k)-te-re/ adjective

- Used to describe something that is done without energy or enthusiasm because of habit.

Tagalog translation: walang interest, hindiinteresado

Syn: routine, disinterested

Ant: concerned, interested

Sentence: I kept my inherited money at bay because I want it to remain unmarredand I think, I want to live a perfunctory life.

Idiom

keep something at bay- v. keep something away.

VBA

•unmarred /un-mared/ verb

- Not ruined

• inherit /in-her-et/ verb

- To receive (money, property, etc.) from someone.

•perfunctory- /per-fen(k)-te-re/ adjective

- Used to describe something that is done without energy or enthusiasm because of habit

“Have you ever seen or experienced a vehicular accident? What happened?”

1. Analyze the types of point of view

2. Exhibit helpfulness to other people.

Objectives:

A Little Incident

By: Lu Hsun

Page. 23

Lu HsunIs the pseudonym of Chou Shu-jen, writer of satiric short stories of social criticisms. He attained success in 1918 when his short story “The Diary of A Madman ” was published in the journal that initiated the intellectual revolution in China.

“Why is the narrator filled with shame each time he remembers

the incident?”

Story Map•Title

•Author

•Characters

•Settings : When? Where?

•Theme

•Plot (Cite 3 main events)

•Moral

Sharing Insights

1. What incident happened to the narrator on his way to work?

2. Whom would you blame for the incident?

3. Between the rickshaw-puller and the passenger, whose behavior would like to emulate? Why?

4. What message does the story give?

Points of View

- refers to the perspective from which the story is told.

Points of View• First Person- the main character is telling the story .It

uses “I” and we.

Ex. I was surprised as , looking ahead, I suddenly noticed a police station.

• Second Person- used in instructional writing. It uses “you.”

Ex. Sometimes you cannot clearly discern between anger and frustration.

• Third Person- . It uses he, she, it, they or a name.

Ex. Mr. Stewart is a principled man. He acts by the book and never lets you deceive him easily.

Function of Point of View

•It portray the personal emotions or the character’s feelings about an experience or situation. Writers use point of view to express effectively what they want to convey to their readers.

Fixing Skills:

Answer ‘Exercise’ page 25- 26 in your

notebook.

Formative AssessmentDirections: Read the following paragraphs and determine the point of view by writing the letter of the correct answer.

1. When Jane and Elizabeth

were alone, the former, who

had been cautious in her

praises of Mr. Bingley before,

expressed to her sister how

very much she admired him.

a. 1st b. 2nd c.3rd

2. I gazed and gazed but little

thought,

What wealth the show to me had

brought.

3. You are not the kind of guy who

would be at the place like this at

this time of the morning.

a. 1st b. 2nd c.3rd

4. He is just a young

man ought to be.

5. You are such a

disgrace in this family.a. 1st b. 2nd c.3rd

Formative

Assessment

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