Minggu, 27 Maret 2011

REVIEW OF THE SPEAKING LESSON WEBSITE

URL of the Speaking Lesson Website: http://www.eslgold.com/speaking.html

The website provides the English Learning Materials. There are some menu on this website, they are:
SPEAKING, LISTENING, READING, WRITING, GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, BUSINESS, PRONUNCIATION, TOEFL/TOEIC, and IDIOMS.

We can decide what we would like to study here (which skill would we like to learn or improve). If we want to study speaking, we can choose SPEAKING menu. After that, determine the level. There are some levels here: Low beginning, High Beginning, Low Intermediate, High Intermediate, and Advanced.

The teacher can enrich the English materials by downloading the materials from this website, because the materials in this website are complete enough and quite understandable by the students. Each levels of language learner are provided here. Not only that, the teacher can ask the students to visit this website by themselves. But of course, he/ she must explain the steps how to visit this website.

The students can study English and also improve their skill. They can read the speaking material, see and listen the conversation here, because there some examples of expressions that can be used in conversations, for example:
Greetings, Asking about present activities, Asking and telling about recent events, Bringing up a serious topic, etc. Not only the expressions, but the audio is provided here. The students can download and listen to the audio, to improve their speaking skill.

This website is good for improving the language skills (in English), because it does not only provide Speaking skill, but also the other three skills. It also provides each levels of ability, so that we can study English in the appropriate level of ability.
Therefore, I recommend both the teacher and the students to visit this website in order to improve the (English) language skill, and to make the learning process more innovative.

Kamis, 24 Maret 2011

Listening - Narrative Text

Hello students....welcome to my blog...

There are some assignments to do:

1. Look at the picture first on ACTIVITY 1.

2. Do the ACTIVITY 2.

3. Answer the questions in ACTIVITY 3.

4. After you have finished answer the questions, do the FURTHER ACTIVITY to improve your Listening Skill


GOOD LUCK!



ACTIVITY 1

LOOKING PICTURE (Pre-Listening)


Look at the picture.
What do you think about the picture?




PICTURE A



PICTURE B






ACTIVITY 2 (Whilst-Listening)


This is the listening section. Play this audio and Listen carefully!



After listening the audio above, now, answer the questions below!
Write down your name on the "Enter Your Name" space, then klik the  "Start" button. 







ACTIVITY 3


FILL IN THE BLANK


There are five audios and questions below. Play each audio, and answer the question for each audio correctly!

Audio no.1


Write down your name on the "Enter Your Name" space, then klik the  "Start" button.





Audio no.2


Write down your name on the "Enter Your Name" space, then klik the  "Start" button.





Audio no.3

Write down your name on the "Enter Your Name" space, then klik the  "Start" button.






Audio no.4


Write down your name on the "Enter Your Name" space, then klik the  "Start" button.





Audio no.5

Write down your name on the "Enter Your Name" space, then klik the  "Start" button.






After finishing the assignments, there is FURTHER ACTIVITY to improve your listening skill.


FURTHER ACTIVITY (Post-Listening)


OK Dear, in order to improve your listening skill in Narrative text, there is an audio here. Play and listen it carefully.

And while you are listening, try to transcribe the text.

Write it down on your paper, and we will discuss it in the classroom in the next meeting.

Thank you.......

Good luck...

Minggu, 20 Maret 2011

The Narrative Text

Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story that past tense. The purpose of the text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.
The generic structure of Narrative text :
1.    Orientation : It sets the scene and introduce the participants (it answers the question : who, when, what, and where).
2.    Complication : tells the problems of the story and how the main characters solve them.
3.    Resolution : the crisis is revolved, for better or worse.
4.    Re-orientation : the ending of the story.
5.    Evaluation : the stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral message of the story
Linguistic features :
1. Use active verbs.
2. Use past tense.
3. Use conjunction.
4. The first person (I or We) or the third person (He, She, or They).
5. Use specific nouns.
6. Use adjective and adverbs
Kind of Narrative text :
1. Legend : Sangkuriang, Malin Kundang, etc.
2. Fable : Mousedeer and crocodile.
3. Fairy tale : Cinderella, Snow white, Pinocchio, etc.
4. Science fiction