Learning Area: ENLGISH 8

Teacher: MANILYN ELUMBARING MAQUILING

Time and Section: G-8 MARS 8-9am, G-8 JUPITER 9-10am, G-8 SSTC 10-11am, AND G-8 MOON 3-4pm
Competency: Distinguish between and among verbal, situational, and dramatic types of irony and give
examples of each EN8V-IIa-24.1:
Skill: Distinguish
Content: verbal, situational, and dramatic types of irony

Learning Episode I:
A. Motivation
1. Today, we will learn on how to distinguish between and among verbal, situational and dramatic
types of irony and give examples of each
2. It is important to know how to distinguish verbal, situational and dramatic types of irony because it
will help us understand particular points/ideas from the speaker, help us explain what the
author/speaker is trying to say and specifically, shed light on the themes and purposes of the story
itself.
3. At the end of the lesson, you will distinguish between and among verbal, situational and dramatic
types of irony based on the given text.

B. Probe and Respond

1. Review /Drill
Teacher says: I have here a text on the board. Let us read the text.
A man looked out of the window to see the storm intensify. He turned to his friend and said, “What a
wonderful weather we’re having!”
Teacher asks: Does the man really mean that the weather is wonderful?
Expected answer: No, teacher.
Teacher says: Alright! The man is saying the opposite of what he really means. This text uses a literary device
called IRONY.
Last quarter, we discussed irony as one of the literary devices. What is Irony again?

Expected Answer:
IRONY is a literary device in which words are used to express a contradiction between appearance and reality.

2. Pre-requisite skill
Teacher says: In irony, reality is usually the opposite of what it seems.
In literature, there are three types of irony namely VERBAL, SITUATIONAL and DRAMATIC IRONY.

Three Types of Irony

1. Verbal Irony – is when a speaker or writer says one thing but actually means the opposite.

(Students read the definition.)

Teacher says: For example, when your mom walks into your filthy bedroom and says, “I see you have cleaned
your room!”

Teacher asks: What makes the example ironic?

Expected answer: When the mother praised the filthy room by saying that it is clean.

Teacher asks: What makes it a verbal irony?

Expected answer: Because the word “clean” is used to describe the “filthy” room instead of using the word
“dirty”.

Teacher explains:
To find verbal irony, ask yourself, what is really being said? If what the person actually says is not exactly what
the person really means you likely have the verbal irony.

Now, let us know the second type of irony.

2. Situational Irony – is when the outcome of a situation is inconsistent with what we expect would logically
or normally occur. It is the reverse of what we expect will be or happen.
(Students read the definition.)
Teacher says: An example of situational irony would be if a thief’s house was broken into at the same time he
was robbing someone’s house.

Teacher asks: What makes the example ironic?

Expected answer: A thief’s house being robbed by another thief makes it ironic.

Teacher asks: What makes it a situational irony?

Expected answer: It is a situational irony because we all know that a thief’s work is to break into people’s
houses and yet, the thief himself becomes a victim of another thief. The situation of the thief is the reverse of
what we expected to happen.

Teacher explains:
To find the situational irony, ask yourself what were you expecting would happen or what did you expect it to
be? If the situation is something different than what we expect would happen or is the opposite of what
someone would do, then you likely have the situational irony.

3. Dramatic Irony – is when the audience or the reader is aware of something that the character does not
know.

Teacher says: For example, when Romeo believes Juliet is dead, but the audience knows that she has only
been given a potion to sleep.
Teacher asks: What makes the example ironic?

Expected answer: The fact that we, the readers, know that Juliet is still alive and faking her death while the
character Romeo doesn’t know about it and believes the veracity of her death.

Teacher explains:
To identify dramatic irony, ask yourself what did you already know happened or was going to happen?

Learning Episode II: Modelling

(The teacher will model on how to distinguish situations expressing verbal, situational, and dramatic types of
irony.)

Teacher says: For now, I’m going to model how to distinguish between and among verbal, situational and
dramatic types of irony but brace yourself because later you will also give examples of each type.

NOTE TO TEACHER: Read the given situations.

I Do:
A. If you have a phobia of long words, you must tell people that you are
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobic.

Type of Irony: Situational Irony

Explanation:
It is ironic that people have a fear of long words must say such a long word. It seems as if the people who
invented the word did it on purpose.
We Do:
B. I worry about your health. I wish you dead.
Type of Irony: Verbal Irony
You Do:
c. In Shakespeares’ Hamlet, Hamlet stabs through a curtain thinking his traitors, murdering uncle is there, only
to learn that he actually stabbed and killed the father of the woman he loves, and a man for whom he had the
utmost respect and admiration.

Type of Irony: Dramatic Irony

Explanation:
Hamlet expected to stab his uncle, who he hated, and instead ended up stabbing and killing the one person he
trusted and admired.

Game:
D. A fire station burns down.
E. You tell someone to break a leg but you mean for them to have a bad luck.
F. Home alone we know that Kevin has planted traps everywhere but the thieves don’t.
G. How God-fearing you are! ( keep on cursing)

Learning Episode III: Guided Practice

Directions: Choose a partner. Distinguish between and among verbal, situational and dramatic types of irony
the given situations are.

1. A rat infestation at the Department of Sanitation

Type of Irony: _______________________
2. A person tweets about how Twitter is a waste of time and energy
Type of Irony:_______________________
3. Oh, you’re so good in math, you got 10/100.
Type of Irony: _______________________
4. A pickpocket gets his own pocket picked during the “hard day’s work.”
Type of Irony: _______________________
5. As audience members, we watched this entire pickpocket scene unfold. We knew ahead of time that the
pickpocket was going to be upset when he finally discovered his own wallet missing.
Type of Irony: _______________________

NOTE TO THE TEACHER:

Monitor the cooperation of each pair in distinguishing between and among the types of irony.

Learning Episode IV:

Independent Practice
Directions: Read the following situations carefully. Then, distinguish between and among verbal, situational
and dramatic types of irony the given situations are.

1. Student: “Mr. Smith, I think you should allow me to write the test again because you didn’t tell me to
study.”
Teacher: “I will give it all the thought that it deserves.”
Type of Irony:_______________________
Explanation: ________________________

2. A woman, who never graduated from high school cannot read or write very well, develops and runs
tutoring business for university students wishing to get good grades.
Type of Irony: _______________________
Explanation: ________________________
3. In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toy’s speak and move.
Type of Irony: _______________________
Explanation:________________________
4. In Shakespeare’s Oedipus Rex, Oedipus’s journey to find the murderer of his father (who is not his biological
father) and later, he became the murderer himself by killing his real father.

Type of Irony:_______________________
Explanation: _______________________

5. Mark: “Hey Joe, you failed the final

exam.”
Joe : “Oh, great! Just great.”

Type of Irony: _______________________

Explanation: ____________________________

Learning Episode V:
Evaluation
Directions: Read the following situations carefully. Then, distinguish between and among verbal, situational
and dramatic types of irony the given situations are.

B. Give one example of verbal, dramatic and situational irony. (Five points each)