ONCE UPON A TIME IN BAPPEDA MEETING ROOM, AMBON

Venue: Bappeda Meeting Room, Pemprov. Ambon

Date: 22 may 2015

Lesson: NEW IDEAS (Sharing Ideas: Each Group has a project; then they share it to other groups so as to see how feasible the project is. In the end, the students must decide whose project is the most feasible one.) 

VIDEO 1

One of the students read a passage of unit 10 (New Ideas) of Business Result Book

Video 2

Another student read the continuing passage while the teacher listened and corrected her reading

Video 3

00:00—00:20  Suddenly, there was an announcement announcing that all students must attend a ceremonial meeting in an auditory room (Floor 7) in the same building. But the students insisted on staying and studying. What a good class!

00:20—00:02   The teacher opened continued his teaching while one of the students in the end of the table was busy eating her lunch.

02:00—03:45 The students do an exercise 2 of page 60 (Business Result Book/Intermediate Class)

03:45—finished  The teacher discussed the answers with the students. Furthermore, the teacher bridged the lesson with “the project” that the students should create

The students were groupped into two groups (each consisted of 3 students). Each group would then compose 3 ideas (each would be presented by a member of the groups). The ideas are new ideas (hopefully) that would be discussed to see which of which was the most feasible one based on 3 standards: Time, Space, and Budget.

Having finished with the group discussion (in 20 minutes) they produced the following New Ideas:

1. Building underwater tunnel to connect people from Ambon city to Kota Jawa via Ambon Bay
2. Off shore gas station for boats and ships on Ambon Bay
3. Floating Restaurant in Amahusu, near Tirta Kencana Restaurant
4. Fish chips market to make more income for traditional fishermen
5. Building an artificial waterfall
6. Sidewalks for pedestrians and joggers from Baguala Bay and all along Ambon Bay.

Video 4

00:00—12:25 The camera shut down, the battery was low. So we continued the recording using a cellphone camera. The discussion went on ......

Each member of the group (say Group A) would present an idea as many as three times to a different member of the other group (say Group B). The members of group B would also present their ideas. The idea sharing would take 20 minutes (each member had 10 minutes to explain his/her ideas). The whole discussion would take 60 minutes.

Video 5

Get back to video recorder while it was recharging……

00:00—00:08 Still discussing

08:00—changing partners

21:33—26:00 The teacher ask the students to discuss and decide which project is the most feasible one to build. The most feasible idea will have to overcome 3 limitations as follows:

TIME: sometimes the idea doesn’t belong to this time. If the technology isn’t supportive yet, an idea could not come into a reality. We don’t have the facilities to support the idea. We don’t have people who could carry out the idea.

SPACE: Do we have an empty space for the idea? Do we need a large space so large that it makes the idea impossible to realize?

BUDGET: Many times it becomes the key factor. No money, no dream will come true. Budget will become easy if there are some investors who would to invest their money into the projects. Is there any project which is the most interesting one to the investors?

One student added another limitation. He said it was GOVERNMENT POLICY. 

Government policy: Is it easy to get the permission from the government to make the project?

One group presented their decision: the other group is listening and asking questions. The teacher is also asking questions. The second group did the same. The presentation and discussion took 30 minutes. 

STORY TELLING CONTEST (THE CHAMPIONS)

Recorded by Mr. Idwar Ruslan

This contest was held three years ago in our beloved campus LBPP-LIA Martadinata, Bandung. The contest was for Elementary Class students and here you are the following winners of the contest: 

The Winner

The Runner Up

The Third Winner

Call My Bluff / Two Truths and A Lie (Games for ESL)

taken from: https://www.gooverseas.com/blog/10-best-games-esl-teachers

Call My Bluff is a fun game which is perfect at the start of term as a 'getting to know you' kind of game. It is also a brilliant ice breaker between students if you teach classes who do not know one another -- and especially essential if you are teaching a small class size.

The game is excellent for practicing speaking skills, though make sure you save a time for after the game to comment on any mistakes students may have made during the game. (I generally like to reserve this for after the game, so you don't disrupt their fluency by correcting them as they speak).

With older groups you can have some real fun and you might be surprised what you'll learn about some of your students when playing this particular EFL game.

• Why use it? Ice-breaker; Speaking skills
• Who it's best for: Appropriate for all levels and ages but best with older groups

How to play:

• Write 3 statements about yourself on the board, two of which should be lies and one which should be true.
• Allow your students to ask you questions about each statement and then guess which one is the truth. You might want to practice your poker face before starting this game!
• If they guess correctly then they win.
• Extension: Give students time to write their own two truths and one lie.
• Pair them up and have them play again, this time with their list, with their new partner. If you want to really extend the game and give students even more time to practice their speaking/listening skills, rotate partners every five minutes.
• Bring the whole class back together and have students announce one new thing they learned about another student as a recap.

HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH USING GAMES

Here you are ....... some tips from us when you're tired of teaching and having no mood to think too much and plan the teaching method you're to use in the class. The games will do and sometimes work wonders in classes .... just give it a try then!

1. English Speaking Enhancer (Introduce more about yourself)

2. Call My Bluff / Two Truths and A Lie (Games for ESL)

ENGLISH SPEAKING ENHANCER (Introduce more about yourself)

CLICK THE PICTURE TO GET THE COPY OF YOUR OWN

This is a very popular game similar to other games like “snakes and ladders”—only without “snakes” and “ladders”. This is a fun game if you know how to carry this out in your classes. You can play this almost in any level you teach; and anywhere as well.

This game works wonder when you use it in your new class and your students are new students. This game—when played correctly--will unite the class and bring them together closer which is very conducive and favorable for the next classroom activity—especially when your classes are conversation class. A conversation class is a good class when all students feel at home and have a sense of togetherness.

ENGLISH SPEAKING ENHANCER GAME

Mission: to find a friend who shares more similarities than differences (i.e close friend)

How to play:

Ø  If there are 12 students, you can put the students into two groups of sixes.

Ø  The groups are to write a table comprising names of their friend in the group (see the picture below)

NO.	NAMES	SIMILARITIES	DIFFERENCES	TOTAL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Ø  One of the students throws a dice. If number 5 comes out, then the student has to move the pin five boxes from START.

Ø  Read the words on the box (e.g. MY MUSIC); and then the student has to mention his favorite music; let say, he says : “MY FAVORITE MUSIC IS R n B”

Ø  The rest of the students must silently or secretly decide whether they share exactly the same favorite music. If YES, so they must write a check mark (√) in the column of SIMILARITIES. Meanwhile, if other students have a different favorite music, he or she must write a check mark (√) in column DIFFERENCES.

Ø  Next, each of the students gives a question in relation to the TOPIC (here the topic is MY MUSIC—R n B). Possible questions:

a.     Who is your favorite R n B singer?

b.     What is your favorite song?

c.     Is there another kind of music that you like?

d.     Why do you like that kind of music?

e.     Etc.

Ø  To each of the answers given, the rest of the students also write a check mark (√) whether in a SIMILIARITIES column or DIFFERENCES column.

Ø  Give the dice to the next player when everybody has finished asking questions.

Ø  Throw the dice from the last position. If the student gets a “four”, then the student must move four boxes from the last position. Do the same procedure like the one described earlier.

STUDENTS ARE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN THIS GAME

The Final Round

Say, that one of the students named Boris has this result on his table. Based on his table, the student who shares similarities is Usep (look the graph below)

            My name: Boris

NO.	NAMES	SIMILARITIES	DIFFERENCES	TOTAL
1.	Hani	√√	√√√√√ √√	-          5
2.	Jojo	√√√	√√√√√ √√√√√ √	-          8
3.	Usep	√√√√√ √√√√√ √	√√	9
4.	Benji		√	-          1
5.	Abdul	√√√√√	√√√√	1

So then he concludes that USEP is his CLOSE FRIEND to-be, since he shares the most similarities to Boris.

If Usep also has the same conclusion that is he concludes that BORIS shares the most similiarities with him, so it means that they have chosen each other: THEY THE TRUEST FRIEND. 

HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH CONVERSATION

Here are simple tips for you when in need of teaching English Conversastion: (Just Click the Link)

1. BUYING & SELLING

2. Once Upon a Time in Bappeda meeting room, Ambon

3. English Speaking Enhancer (Introduce more about yourself)

4. Children who told a simple story about themselves

"BUYING & SELLING" : Survival English Activity

ENGLISH CONVERSATION FOR “BUYING AND SELLING “

by Apep Wahyudin

“Buying and Selling” is a very common classroom activity in a conversation class. “Buying and Selling” is a part of “English for Survival” lessons. It is such a very important lesson that it is always taught in English courses. It has an equal importance with “Please, introduce yourself” lesson or “Introduce your friends to other” lesson or “Can you show me the way to ….?” lesson.

This lesson helps the students cope with a real life situation in which they are to face with the real buying and selling activity while they are abroad. This skill will certainly become a life skill for them—the skill to survive in another country where they have to use English.

Knowing how important it is, I decided myself to give this skill when coming to lesson 4 of Business Result Book for Pre-Intermediate students. The students who were introduced to this lesson were Staffs and echelons of Maluku Provincial Government.

Writing a brochure

The activity was designed for 4 hours divided into two sessions. The first session was “writing a shopping brochure”. The time allotted was 2 hours. They were group into groups of threes. We were lucky enough to have 15 students at that time, meaning that they could be grouped into five groups with an equal number of members in each group. They had to write a  shopping brochure which contains:

Ø  Name of company, or shop/store, or stand

Ø  A new product on the cover page (we name it “new launch product”); it has a complete detail information on the product like e.g. the name of the product, the price, the specifications, etc.

Ø  4 other products (we name them “ready stock product”) with simple description like the name of the product, the price, and a little information about each of the products.

Ø  The products may just be imaginary ones

The brochures may also be brochures of tour packages 

Shopping Brochures made by the students 

This activity will last in 1 hour. Every student should contribute his/her creativity to make the brochure like a real one. Teachers are supposed to provide paper and colorful markers to make the brochure colorful and beautiful.

The brochures they make may not merely be shopping brochures; they may also make brochures of tour packages (in this case, some students acting as tour agents and the rest acting as tourists who need information on tour packages). You can also ask your students to make brochures of courses or school; brochures of houses (some acting as housing complex agents and some acting as those people who need to buy a house), etc.

Selling the new products

Teachers are to give the students useful language for buying and selling activities but remember not to expose them too much with unnecessary expressions drill before the real conversation activity since they are not beginners; rather they are pre-intermediate students who have already some words and expressions they had learned much earlier before.

The students were asked to sit in a formation as it is described here:

Procedures:

Ø  They are to sit in their group first. Three students are given different roles. One of them will act as a sales representative/salesperson who is responsible to stay in his/her stand to introduce and sell their “new products”

Ø  Two of them will act as customers who will visit each stand and ask for information on “new products” offered in each stand

Ø  The “Salesperson (SPG)” will welcome the customers; invite them to sit and read the “shopping brochures” (they have made in session one). The salespersons are to tell and describe each product and ask if the customers interested in buying any of them

Ø  The salespersons are to “link and match” the products with the “needs” of the customers. They have to ask “What’s your hobby?” or “What do you do for a living?” to each customer. Then they have to link and match the products with the customers’ hobbies and jobs (The teacher should distribute papers containing “Jobs” to the students earlier. Each of the students then have their own “job” to tell the salesperson)

Ø  Do this activity in 12 minutes or so

Ø  Every 12 minute, the teacher will have to clap his/her hands to signal that the customers will have to move to another stand to follow the same activity. Do this until all customers have visited all STANDS

Ø  In the end, the whole groups are to choose the best of the best: The best salesperson and the best customers. The salesperson and the customers in each group may have to decide to choose the best salesperson and customers from other groups.

For example, take a look at the picture below:

OTHER STAFFS OF LBPP-LIA BANDUNG .... HERE WE GO ....