Practical Teaching for Four Skills

{on CLT-based}

Jakarta, June 30, 2013

Objectives After training the participants are able to:

1. Recognice some existing stategies to teaching.

2. Implement some practical ways of teaching.

3. Find other strategies which support the

teaching practice.

4. Be creative in elaborating the materials to

easily teaching.

5. Fit the teaching strategies on the suitable

materials.

General Descriptions

These teaching would be based on the

CLT.

They comprise; Listening, Speaking,

Reading and Writing

The four skills are integrated (not

separable) and could be done in one

meeting.

Task-based

Some Ideas for Teaching Listening

Dictoglos (preparation-

dictation-reconstruction-

analysis and correction)

Some listening game:

- Simon says: students

should respond the

direction which uses

“Simon says....”

Objective: Check student

comprehension

- Telephone Number:

student write the phone

number which is read by

teacher

- Clock Face, Which picture,

True or False, Following

direction, which way?, gues

who, which weekend, name

and product (reading label),

- Spot the word, list the item,

jigsaw listening, cloze

listening, spot the

difference, dictation, word

focus dictation

Practical Activities of Teaching Speaking

1. Debate and discussion

- Arranging discussion group

- Using the discussion guide

- Project proposal

- Speech

2. Drama Activities

- Choosing the role

- Guided role play

- Free role play

- Free role play from text

3. Gap Information

- Cartoon sequence

- Which face

- Who’s who

- Dscribe and draw

- lost of memory

- Jumbled pictures

- shared information

Some Idea for Teaching Reading THE KEYS

Choise: student will read the target language text differently from the mother one

Objective: Fit the text to the while reading or follow-up

Strategies: Scanning(enciclopedia, statistical text) and Skimming (historical text, story, report) Exstensive (Give student unproblematic text)

Number: Choose various otentic material.

Silence: Make silent reading as a habit.

Speech: Make student prior to the fast reading

Context: Avoid the translative explanation on reading.

The six skills of reading

Predictive skill (lead in activities)

Gaining Informations (scanning)

Gaining general descriptions (Skimming, yes/ no question)

Gaining detailed informations (scanning and skimming, “wh question”)

Recognizing function and pattern of text (“for example” indicates some example, “in other words” indicates some other concept stated in other ways.

Getting meanings (cloze procedure)

Practical Activities in Reading Scanning

- find new words for old

- locate grammar feature

- find a specified advertisement

- compare details

- check dates

- shopping list

- newspaper headlines

Skimming

- find and compare events

- select a title

- create a title

Intensive

- match noun and verb

- split sentences

- make summaries

- fill the gaps

- take sides

- select summary

- compare versions

- identify facts

- mathing

Extensive

- keep records

- wall charts

- make summaries

- indicate the difficullty

Some Ideas for Teaching Writing

The function of writing: action,

information, fun

Three main activities in writing:

controled-writing, guided writing, and free

writing

Practical Activities in Writing Controled-Writing

- jigsaw sentences

- gapped passage

- pure cloze passages

- multiple choise cloze passages

- fine and copy

- dictation

-sentece combining

- reducing

- sending SMS

Guided Writing

- picture description

- picture sequence essay

- formal practice

- making summary

- making connections

- note writing

- replying letter

- replying to advertisement

- half dialog

Free Writing

Teaching practice for NC’s book N

O

Sub-

lesson

Skill

Target

Teaching Procedure Activities

1 Vocabulary

Building

Listening

Speaking

1. Introduction to the theme

2. Asking to the student the general correlation

to the students idea, habit

3. Teachers ask student about the picture (who,

what, why, how)

4. Student can identify the target words/

expression and jot down.

5. Student can paraphrase the speech which

uttered by the speaker.

1. Teachers ask student about the pictures

2. Students listen to the tape.

3. Students write the words/ expressions

4. Students drill the target words

2 Substitution

Drill

Speaking 1. Teacher read the words/ expressions in

comprehensible pronunciation

2. Students listen to.

3. Students drills the expression one by one or

in vice versa

4. Teachers give feedback on the way of reading.

5. Students are given the task to memorizing the

expression.

1. Teachers read the words/ expression

2. Students repeat after the teacher chorally.

3. Students read one by one

4. Students memorize

5. Student guess the students question with

closed book

3 Dialog

Model

Speaking 1. Teachers address students attention to the

relate topic.

2. Teachers play the cassette or CD, students

listen to.

3. Students take apart in a guided role play.

1. Students reread the dialog

2. Teacher divide the class into some group

3. Students take apart in role play (individually or

chorely)

4. Teachers can ask students about the dialog

(what, why, how, when, where, etc)

4 Dialog

Practice

Speaking

Writing

1. Give student time to do the blank space on it.

2. Simply make a role play on each dialog

practice.

1. Students fill the blank

2. Students take apart in role-play

3. Teachers check students work

NO Sub-lesson Skill Target Teaching Procedure Activities

5 Language

Focus

Grammar 1. Make some implementable

examples of the language focus.

2. Try to describe the rule/pattern in

the communicative approach

1. Teachers explain inductively or deductively the

subject

2. Encourage students to see the pattern

3. Give students good rules

4. Teachers give a model usage in a real

communication

5. Understanding involves example, explanation,

practice

6. Teacher can construct games related to the

grammar.

6 Exercise Writing 1. Elaborate the exercise with

communicative

2. Give feedback to each exercise

3. Make sure that the students have

tried to practice

1. Students can do the exercise as homework

2. Teacher should give feedback

7 Reading Reading 1. Discus the theme of the reading.

2. Make general questions based on

the theme.

3. Explore the students’ idea on the

theme.

1. Teachers ask some question in general related

to the title of reading

2. Students identify the difficult word/ main idea

3. Students answer the question firmly

8 On Your Own Writing

Speaking

1. The teacher can comprehensively

elaborate student’s habit, activity,

idea related to the directions.

1. Students do the direction as practical as

possible.

2. Students practice what they have written

9 Listening

Comprehensio

n

Listening 1. Do listening at the end of the

lesson.

2. Try to make them as homework in

order to be usual to listening.

1. It must be better as home work

2. Teacher give feedback and score

Describing picture, telling story, writing

How was your holiday?

Find the story

The Magic Dress

Intensive Reading Matching and Jumbled Text

I visited a village Reading, Writing

Ideas for Writing

Picture for Composition

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Azies F and AC. Alwasilah, Pengajaran

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Thomas, S. Picture Promt Adjective. Delta

Publishing, 1997