Speaking Session

Activity 1
  Look at the pictures below carefully. Then answer the questions follow orally!
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3. 

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... :)