SPEAKING: CONGRATULATING SOMEONE

LESSON OVERVIEW

Lessoon name: Congratulating someone

Skill focus: Speaking

Teacher name: Rizki Fitriyani

Organisation/school name: Pradipta Junior High School

Target students: 14-15, intermediate level

Material used in class: Mask, role cards

LESSON OBBJECTIVES

1. By the end of this lesson students will be able to:

• Use simple questions using wh- words to elicit answers.

• Use appreciation words like: Good job! Keep it up! Excellent!

• Know how to interview.

• Improve English speaking skill.

LESSON PLAN

1. Instructions for teaching the lesson

Stage 1

• Introduce the lesson using a video in youtube.

• Encoutrage students to come up with model interview questions.

Stage 2

• Make pairs: A and B

• A acts as interviewer and B plays a reporter

• Ask questions based on model questions in Stage 1

Stage 3

• Make groups of three

• Prepare role cards

• Change roles after each interaction

2. Stages and timings:

Stage 1 (5 mins): Lead-in

The teacher says:

You must have won medals in a competition, maybe in a games, music or drama. Did your friends congratulate you? What did they say? (Congratulations! I’m proud of you! etc.)

Imagine you are reporters from the Vogue Tribune. I am Jeno. I got the first rank in my country on the graduation exam.

How will you congratulate me? What questions will you ask to Jeno?

Probable questions:

• How do you feel now?

• Who would you like to thank?

• What are you hopes for next?

Stage 2 (10 mins): Taking the interview

Tell the students to form pairs (A and B). A will play the role of Jeno and B will be a reporter. The reporter will ask questions about Jeno’s feelings and Jeno will answer. Tell participants to recall the questions they asked the teacher. The next time, A becomes the reporter and B plays Jeno. Monitor and help.

Stage 3 (30 mins): Practice

Divide the students into groups of three. Name participants in each group A, B and C. A will be Jeno while B and C will be Naren and Jenar, friends of Jeno. They come to Jeno and enquire about the interview taken. Tell them to prepare role cards on the questions they are going to ask to Jeno. When A plays the role of Jeno, B and C play the role of his friends. When it is over, B plays the role of Jeno and A and C play his friends. The process continues until the last member plays the role of Jeno. Give them 10 mins to prepare the role cards.

Possible questions:

• How did the interview go?

• Where did you do the interview?

• What did they ask?

Homework: ask learners to bring some paper cuttings of face-to-face interviews published in a newspaper or magazine.