Speaking Session

Activity 1
  Look at the pictures below carefully. Then answer the questions follow orally!
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1.      What do you think about the pictures above?

2.      Are you afraid when you see the animals above? Give your reason!

3.      Do you think that the animals above are dangerous?

Well guys, now we will learn about Sea Mammals.

what are sea mammals?

Sea mammals are a diverse group of 120 species of mammal that are primarily ocean-dwelling or depend on the ocean for food. They include whales, dolphins, and porpoises, manatees, dugong, true seals, eared seals, walrus and the polar bear, while not fully aquatic, is also usually considered a marine mammal because it lives on sea ice for most or all of the year.
Marine mammals evolved from land dwelling ancestors and share several adaptive features for life at sea such as generally large size, hydrodynamic body shapes, modified appendages and various thermoregulatory adaptations. Whales are the largest mammals ever. Different species are, however, adapted to marine life to varying degrees. Despite the fact that marine mammals are highly recognizable charismatic megafauna, many populations are vulnerable or endangered due to a history of commercial use for blubber, meat, ivory and fur. Most species are currently in protection from commercial use.

Here I 'll give you a video about whale. listen and watch the video then after you watched, retell the information that you got in this video it in front of the class.





Activity 2

Now, I provide the audio about expressing asking and giving opinion, listen to this carefully.

Let’s learn about expression below. Have you ever give opinions to your friends? Yeah, we will learn more about expression for asking and giving opinions.

a. Asking for opinions:

- Do you think that….?

- What do you think about….?

- What is your view…?

- How do you see the situation..?

b. Giving opinions:

- I think….

- In my opinion….

- I feel that….

- As far as I’m concerned…

- In my view…

- I tend to think that…

- I don’t think…

- I don’t think so.

Activity 3

Learn the dialogue below. Then act out the dialogue with your friend. There are some italic words that show expression asking and giving opinion.

Situation: Reno and his cousin are walking to go home. While walking, Reno is talking about the show that they watched with his cousin, Dino.

Reno: It was a wonderful show that I never seen before. Isn’t it?

Dino: Yes, it was. I’m happy too.

Reno: Do you think that dolphin is a smart sea mammal?

Dino: yes, I think dolphin is one of sea mammals that have higher intelligence than the other sea mammals.

Reno: Yes, you’re right. But I think seals also have intelligence as high as dolphin. We could see in that show 

seals could count the number from 1 until 20. And it also could count the basic summation.

Dino: hmmmm….. Yes, I think so. Hang on, you kissed by the dolphin, right?

Reno: yes. It was surprising thing for me because it was for me to close to the dolphin.

Dino: How do you feel after the dolphin kiss you?

Reno: yeah, I feel it’s so ridiculous. And it’s also an interesting experience for me. Hahahahahaha

Dino: how lucky you are!

Let’s speak English!

Well guys, you’ve learnt about the sea mammals and also expression of asking and giving opinion. Now, let’s make a dialogue with your partner by choosing the one situation below.

1. You think that diving is one of the ways to see the life of fish in the sea. But you still hesitate to do it so you ask opinion to your brother about your doubt.

2. You and your close friend like to visit SeaWorld. Express your favorite activity to your friend while in SeaWorld by asking her opinion.

3. You watched the news on television about the exploitation of sea mammals just for economic purposes. Is it good thing or not? Talking to your friend next to you about the news.

after you have done, perform it in front of the class.

Good Luck!

Well class, that's all of speaking session. Thank you... :)

Website design for teaching speaking

Sometimes students have difficulty in learning English. They always ask question to themselves “what is the best way to learn English?” there is only one answer of this question, practice! Practice and practice! Yeah, the more you speak English, the easier it becomes. The more you read in English and listen to English, the easier it gets. Here, I suggest you to visit this website http://www.eslpartyland.com about teaching and learning speaking.

This website is to provide resources, lessons, and ideas on teaching speaking. There are printable materials for classroom use, lessons, resources, and ideas. It also has a discussion forum and links to other web sites about teaching.

Lessons

• Find Your Partner: Telephone Skills - A fun activity for pairing students, includes directions. (You could use this activity to pair students for the role-plays below.)
• Role-plays: Telephone Skills - A set of role-play cards with directions.
• Randall's CyberListening Lab - An Internet worksheet for high-beginner through advanced level students. Print, review tasks and vocabulary with your class, then go to the computer lab for some CyberListening practice

Oral Presentations

Oral presentations are a great way for students to practice their English skills. The extra pressure of knowing they're going to be in front of the classroom provides students with some great extrinsic motivation for staying on task. There are some steps of oral presentation:

·         Presentation Basics - This classroom handout discusses the basic structure of an oral presentation. (Ideally, you should prepare a presentation yourself to give as a model. Then elicit the structure of an oral presentation from the class before reviewing the handout.)

• Oral Presentations: Do's & Don'ts - This classroom handout provides advice on giving presentations.
• Oral Presentations: Peer Evaluation Form - This is a peer evaluation form for students to use while their classmates are presenting.
• Oral Presentations: Teacher Evaluation - You can use this form as students give their presentations. Because the peer evaluation form has a lot of feedback on presentation skills, this one focuses on grammar.

Report Text

REPORT TEXT

Definition of Report text
Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a result of systematic observation and analysis

Generic Structure of Report text
1. General classification: Stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal, public place, plant, etc which will be discussed in general
2. Description: Describing the thing which will be discussed in detail; part per part , customs or deed for living creature and usage for materials

Language Feature of Report text
• Introducing group or general aspect
• Using conditional logical connection; when, so, etc
• Using simple present tense

In short, report text describes the way of certain things and frequently refer to phenomenon of nature, animal and scientific object. Mostly, report is written after getting careful observation. This scientific and technical sense makes clearer difference from descriptive text. The way of descriptive text in showing thing is based on the objective fact of the thing. It describe the specific thing simply as the thing is.

A. Pre-Listening

Do you have an asthma?

What do you know about asthma?
Do you know what causes asthma?

Look at the pictures below

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Match the sentences below based on the pictures above.

1. It is a medical device which mainly used in the treatment of asthma.

2. The organs in the chest which people and some animals breathe.

3. Physical activity that you do to make your body healthy.

4. A person whose job is to treat people who are ill or injured.

5. A small paper tube filled with some pieces of tobacco.

 

Well, in this section, we will learn more about asthma in form of report text.

B. Whilst Listening

Listen to this audio carefully

After you listen to the audio, take this following quiz.

Whilst Listening » make test

Post istening

Try to match the synonym of the strange words below and make the sentences with the synonym of these words.

 

No.	Words	synonym
1.	Wheeze	a.       snot
2.	Swell	b.      swish
3.	Symptom	c.       little
4.	Mild	d.      sigh
5.	Mucus	e.      tendency

Please answer the exercise above in form of word text with the format: name, your presence number, your class, and the last is your answers. And then send your answer sheet to my e-mail phoniietika@yahoo.com

GOOD LUCK (^_^)

Let's learn more about the Report text.
 Transcript

Asthma

Does your chest regularly feel tight? Do you find it difficult to breathe after light exercise? Do you sometimes make a wheezing sound when you breathe? If so, you might be asthmatic. If you have breathing problems please consult a doctor, but even if you do have asthma - don’t worry, you are not alone.

What is asthma?

Asthma is a condition that affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide and more than 5 million people in the UK are asthmatic, about one in thirteen people. It is a lung disease that affects your airways the tubes that carry air to and from your lungs. It causes the muscles in these tubes to contract, the tubes themselves to swell and also causes sticky mucus to be produced. All of these factors can make it very difficult for a sufferer to breathe properly.

Shortness of breath, especially after exercise, coughing, or difficulty breathing while sleeping, are all common symptoms. These can be described as mild asthma attacks; however, they can usually be controlled by medication. A severe asthma attack, on the other hand, where a sufferer finds it very difficult to breathe, may require hospital treatment. How badly you are affected by these symptoms depends on what type of asthma you have; from mild to chronic; and how well you are able to control the disorder.

What causes it?

Asthma is not contagious, although it’s still not known precisely what causes it. People can be born with it; develop it in childhood, or at any age. If you have asthma, it’s likely that someone else in your family had it, as the illness is known to run in families. There is also some evidence that environmental factors, such as diet, housing conditions or smoking during pregnancy, can cause asthma.

Having the condition doesn’t necessarily mean you will suffer badly from the symptoms. Mild or moderate asthma can be easily controlled through medication or lifestyle changes. Additionally, all attacks need a trigger, and if these triggers can be identified and avoided, the likelihood of an attack decreases. Triggers can include: pollution, smoking, dust, animal hair, stress, pollen, exercise, and cold air. These triggers are personal to each individual sufferer, so if you have asthma, make sure you know what is causing your attacks, you can then better avoid these triggers.


Well, that's all the listening section, hopefully it will help you to improve your English especially your listening skill.
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