This lesson plan aims to teach students how to express feelings and emotions implicitly through analogies using the song "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens. The lesson begins with playing the song and asking students to reflect on their relationships with their parents. It then discusses how analogies can be used to indirectly compare two things, using examples like "Time is like a river". Students are asked to think of analogies that relate to the message of the song. Finally, they must work in groups to generate analogies for other topics and individually analyze another song of their choice.

1. A Lesson Plan in English using Suggestopedia
I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, students are expected to:
1. familiarize themselves with the lyrics of the song,
2. express feelings indirectly using analogy; and
3. reflect on their relationships with their own parents.
II. Subject Matter
A. Topic: Expressing Feelings and Emotions Implicitly through an Analogy
Reference : English Expressways, p. 166
Author: Eugenia Gordon, RemediosNery, Virginia Bermudez
B. Materials : Media Player Powerpoint Presentation
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III. Procedure
A. Preliminary Activity
1. Motivation
Try to close your eyes. Think of the name of the adjectives to describe your father.
Does he care? Is he proud? Did he defend you? Is he sensitive? Can you count the times he
uttered I love you?
Reflect on these things as you listen attentively to the song that I will play. (Now
playing: Father and Son by Cat Stevens)
2. Motive Question
Is the song familiar to you? What is the title? Generally, what does it speak about father and
son?

2. B. Lesson Proper
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
Class, describe what you feel while listening
to the song.
Okay, you felt sad.
Oftentimes feeling and attitudes toward an
idea or person are expressed explicitly or
directly, using language. But we know that
these things can also be expressed through
other means. What do you call this?
You got it right. Well, we have another way,
though, of expressing feelings and attitudes
implicitly; and we call it an analogy.
Please look at this example:
Time is like a river, constantly changing yet
always the same.
Examine the structure of this. First, what
particular subject does it talk about?
Exactly. Then tell me, what two things are
being compared? Is the comparison literal or
figurative?
That is so correct. Class, when you have a
literal comparison, you can see how there is
a visible, almost technical similarity. On the
other hand, a figurative comparison focuses
on the less obvious, and the stresses
imaginative aspects of objects.
Going back to the example, let us take out
the phrase, constantly changing yet always
the same. So what’s left is Time is like a river.
When we do that, it is no longer an analogy.
It will be simile, right?
Obviously, an analogy is a type of figurative
language. But how we distinguish an
analogy?
You are absolutely right. In the example,
there shows the logical relationship between
time and change.
Although analogies can be expressed in
I felt sad while listening because I was
thinking of the times my father is still alive.
We call it as implicit expression.
The statement talks something about time.
Time and river are being compared, and the
comparison is figurative.
Like simile, an analogy uses the word like;
and just like metaphor, it compares two
things indirectly. The only difference is that
an analogy presents not two things but two
sets of circumstances.

3. statements, they are always paraphrased as
equations. Below are some examples:
1. Love is food for the soul, but jealousy is
poison.
Equation—Analogy
Love= food for the soul
2. Life is a disease.
Equation—Analogy
Life=disease
C. Skill Development
Think of analogies that speak about the message of the song, Father and Son by Cat
Stevens.
IV. Evaluation
In small groups, think of as many analogies as you can for each of the following items:
1. friend 3. old age 4. woman
2. youth 4. man
V. Assignment
Pick a song of your own choice and make analogies that speak about its message. Do
this on a piece of paper.
Prepared by:
Katrin B. Lutao
BSEd 2-N1