SPEAKING SECTION

Hello guys!

After getting over with the listening section, now, it’s time to speak! How about the speaking website I told you before? Have you visit it and tried to speak to native speaker of English? It’s owesome right? Now, it’s your time to speak up in this speaking section!

Well guys, before we start our activity, I’ll give you the model of the expression of asking and giving opinion that you’ll use in this speaking section.

Asking and giving opinion

Asking for opinion
• What do you think of …?
• What are your views?
• What is your opinion?
• Is it right what I’ve done?
• What about …?
• How about …?

Giving opinion
• I’m convinced that ….
• I reckon ….
• I consider that ....
• According to the expert, I ….
• In my opinion, .…
• I think ….

Giving a strong opinion

· I’m absolutely convinced that…

· I’m sure that…

· I strongly believe that…

· I have no doubt that…

ACTTIVITY 1

The speaking material is still about review text. First of all, look at the pictures below!

Then, answer the following questions orally!

1. 1.  What do you think about those pictures?

1. 2.  Do you ever see those picture before? Where?

1. 3. Do you ever heard about “Avatar”? Explain!

1. 4. Please tell all of your opinions about those picture!

ACTIVITY 2       

Ok guys, now, watch the video I provide below.

Or you can download the video HERE.

Next, please retell the ”Avatar” movie review orally!

ACTIVITY 3

How’s the activity champ? Is it fun? Don’t worry because I still have another activity for you.

Now, listen to another video about “Avatar” movie review!

Or you can download the video HERE!

Then, I want you to practice the following dialogue about the opinion on "Avatar" movie with your friend!

Harry : Hi Bel, what do you think about the movie we saw last weekend?

Bella  : Oh, do you mean “Avatar”? It was really owesome!

Harry : I think so! I think it’s James Cameron’s best movie.

Bella  : What do you like most from the movie?

Harry : In my opinion, the groundbreaking 3D was mindblowing.

Bella  : Yeah. I have no doubht that the movie was breathtaking in it's technology.

After that, please make a dialogue about asking and giving opinion about “Avatar” movie review with your partner and practice it in front of the class next week!

Ok champ, do you have understood about the expression of asking and giving opinion? Now, I'll give you the exercise about asking and giving opinion. Just click HERE 

Well, do you enjoy this speaking section? I hope so! Then, don't be afraid to speak English wherever and whenever you are! Enjoy speaking!

Speaking Website Review

Hi love, meet again! :)

In this occasion, I’ll tell you about the website about speaking I found. The name of the website is ‘Speak English Today’. This website gives us opportunity to speak up. Talking to someone in English will be easy and fun. You can speak English with people from all over the world. You don’t have to go to tourism place and find some native speakers to practice anymore. All you have to do is prepare your computer and follow some steps:

1. Join Skype and install it in your computer.

2. Connect your headset to your computer.

3. Register for the program.

4. Log in to the system.

5. Choose a partner and now you ready to start talking in English.

What an easy way, huh? This is a good website for both the teacher and student to practice speaking. However, not all the programs are free. Some programs are free, but some programs require payment. If you want to talk to native speakers, then you have to pay. If you want the free one, you just can join student-to-student program. In this program, you can talk to any students online for free. Anyhow, the students are non native speakers. But after all, this is a good website to learn speaking. Just visit the web and start to talk!

Follow this URL:
http://www.speak-english-today.com/

Enjoy speaking! ;-)

Listening Section

Howdy champ?

After giving the introduction of review text, next, I’ll invite you to do the listening activity. The listening material is still about the review text. It’s so easy. Just follow the steps I provide!

PRE LISTENING ACTIVITY

Before we start our listening section, look at the pictures below!

Do you familiar with these pictures? Ok, now, please answer the following questions:
1. What do you think about those pictures?
2. Do you ever see those pictures before?
3. What do you know about "Twilight"?
4. Do you ever read the novel or watch the movie?

WHILST LISTENING ACTIVITY

Well Champ, after doing the pre listening activity,  it's the time for listening section! First of all, you must listen to the audio carefully.

Listening to "Twilight" Book Review

Or just  Download Here

Here, I give you the glossary of the listening material: “Twilight” Book Review.

The Glossary of “Twilight” Book Review

Agitated                      : anxious( gelisah,terganggu)

Attracted                     : If you are attracted by or to someone, you like them, often finding them sexually interesting (tertarik)

Curious                       : interested in learning about people or things around you (penasaran)

Siblings                       : a brother or sister (saudara)

Lusts                          : to want something very much (sangat ingin)

Irresistible                   : impossible to refuse, oppose or avoid because too pleasant, attractive or strong (sangat menarik)

Patriarch                     : the male leader of a family (kepala keluarga)

Sworn (swear)            : to state or promise that you are telling the truth or that you will do   something or behave in a particular way

Renounce                    : to say formally or publicly that you no longer own, support, believe in or have a connection with something (meninggalkan)

Prey                            : an animal that is hunted and killed for food by another animal (mangsa)

Entwined                     : closely connected or unable to be separated (dekat, tidak terpisahkan)

Preserve                      : to keep something as it is, especially in order to prevent it from decaying or being damaged or destroyed; to conserve (melindungi)

Rogue                          : behaving in ways that are not expected or not normal, often in a destructive way (bangsat, jahat)

Tracker                        : a person who is able to find animals or people by following the marks they leave on the ground as they move over it (pemburu)

Fixate                          : unable to stop thinking about something (tergoda)

Then,, answer the questions below.

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POST LISTENING ACTIVITY

Howdy guys? How's the listening section? Do you enjoy it? :)
Now, I'll give you more exercises.

A.    Match the words below with the appropriate meaning!

1. Patriarch                  a. to want something very much

2. Prey                         b. a person who is able to find animals or people by following the marks they leave on the ground as they move over it

3. Fixate                       c. the male leader of a family
4. Lusts                        d. unable to stop thinking about something
5. Tracker                     e. an animal that is hunted and killed for food by another animal

B.   Find the synonym of the words below!

1. Tracker                       a. Desire
2. Lust                            b. Conserve
3. Agitated                      c. Hunter
4. Preserve                     d. Promise
5. Swear                         e. Anxious

C. Try to transcribe the listening material: “Twilight” book review! Then, check the transcript here.

However, it's not the end of the listening section. You must have a lot of practises to make your listening skill better.And you also have to remember many vocabularies, so that you will be more familiar with English. Ok, happy practising! :D

Introduction of Review Text

Hi world!

This is my first blog (finally I have a blog, :D ). In this blog, I’ll discuss all about the review text. Do you know what review text is? Btw, do you ever give a comment about movie you watched or book you read? Yeah, that is review.

A review is a critical evaluation of a text, event, object, or phenomenon. If you want to write a review text, you should consider the generic structure and lexicogrammatical features of that text. Check these out!

Social purpose: to critique an art work or event for a public audience. Such work of art include movies, TV shows, books, plays, operas, recordings, exhibitions, concerts and ballets.

Generic structure:

• Orientation: places the work in its general and particular context, often by comparing it with others of its kind or through analogue with a non-art object or event.

• Interpretative recount: summarises the plot and/or provides an account of how the reviewed rendition of the work came into being; is optional, but if present, often recursive

• Evaluation: provides an evaluation of the work and/or its performance or production; is usually recursive

•  Evaluative summation: provides a kind of punchline which sums up the reviewer’s opinion of the art event as a whole; is optional

Lexicogrammatical features:

• Focus on particular participants

•  Direct expression of opinions through use of attitudinal ephitets in nominal groups, qualitative attributes and affective mental processes

• Use of elaborating and extending clause and group complexes to package the information

• Use of metaphorical language, e.g. the wit was there, dexterously ping-ponged, to and fro.

Ok guys, for make it clear, I’ll give you example of the text!

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

By J.K. Rowling

Reviewed by Emily Kremer

Orientation

The book takes place in modern times, in England. The main character is Harry Potter. Harry Potter is a wizard. He goes to a school for witches and wizards, called Hogwarts.

Interpretative recount

It is Harry’s second year at Hogwarts and he and his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley are having a great time learning magic. There is a new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart who all the witches are crazy about! Professor Lockhart keeps nagging Harry, because the professor thinks that Harry tries to get attention to be famous! While all the witches at school love the new professor, all of the wizards think he is a big joke!

After a month of school at Hogwarts, strange attacks begin to happen. First, the caretaker’s cat, Mrs. Norris, has been found, not dead, but petrified! Not only was Filch’s cat attacked, but some of the Muggle-born students at Hogwarts have been found petrified, also. Naturally, all of the students are frightened at this, but they become even more scared when the next victim to be found petrified is the Griffindor ghost, Nearly Headless Nick!

Evaluation

What kind of monster is powerful enough to kill someone who is already dead? Who will be the next victim of the monster at Hogwarts? Will the victims ever be revived? To find out you must read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! I have to say that the story was bright, fast-paced, intriguing, and ultimately satisfying.

Evaluative Summation

I like this book because it kept me wanting to read next page, and the next, and so on. The book is definitely a page-turner! I recommend this book to nine years old ans over.

Taken from http://nome.nosd.schoolaccess.net

Reference:

Gerot, L. and Wignell, P. 1995. Making Sense of Functional Grammar. NSW: Antipodean Educational Enterprises.