Speaking Activities for the Classroom
At Your Graduation Ceremony
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- Graduation Class-Outing
- List of Wedding Presents
- Consumer Products
- More Consumer Products
- Department Stores
- Import/Export
- More Lists
- Pretend That You are Going To Open a Disco
- Chapter Seven : Fables, Tales and Stories
- The Scorpion and the Frog
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At Your Graduation Ceremony Work in student groups of five and plan out every detail of the actions you will do during the full day of the graduation ceremony of one of your members. Try to write down everything you will need to have and do (and with whom) in more or less logical order. Use a pencil and eraser if that will help to keep the list in sequence. The group with the most items should read it out to the class at the end :
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Graduation Class-Outing You and your classmates are going to go on a weekend trip to celebrate your graduation and have a good and memorable time together. Your parents are going to pay, so money is no object, as long as you keep expenses within reasonable limits. The only other limitation is that the trip has to stay within the borders of Thailand. If you could do anything you wanted, what would you do? Sit in a big circle so everyone can contribute. Write down all suggestions.
Surely you have forgotten something. Whatever could it be? 236
List of Wedding Presents In the USA, marriages have become a commercial enterprise, in which couples actually circulate a gift-wish-list to tell the wedding guests what wedding presents to choose to buy. And more than that! The bride and groom often tell you from which department store you should order. Let’s pretend that you are the bride and groom, and you are trying to write a list to let your family and friends know how to best help you get started in life.
House Computer Spoons Land Printer Forks Car Scanner Knives
Money Palm device Corkscrew
Stock Software Pepper grinder
Money Games Cutting board
Oven
Stereo Pillows etc. Refrigerator Towels
Microwave Blankets
Toaster Double bed
Blender Curtains
Pots and pans Vases
Electric stove Lamps
Wok Bedside tables
Vacuum cleaner Coffee table
Dryer Armchairs
Rice cooker Carpet
Water heater Kitchen table
Silver Tea Service Chinaware
Silver cutlery Dinner service
Silver tray Cut glass crystal
Those who defend the gift list practice argue that such a method lets friends know what you actually need and what you do not want. Even more importantly, if everyone orders, consulting the same department store, it helps avoid repetition of gift items, so that you don’t get ten toasters and five microwaves. At then end of the list, write in some more gifts that you wouldn’t mind getting if you were soon to get married to your very special someone. 237
Possible Causes of Pollution Work in-groups of five students. In the list on the left, write down all the causes of pollution you can think of in any order they come into your mind. Then, in the list on the right, try to put the causes into a more or less logical order and then the first group that finishes the task should read it out aloud to the class. What are the five main classifications of environmental pollution?
There will certainly be some words for toxic elements and other pollutants causing environmental and healthy damage that you don’t know in your own language. If this is the case, you may use a dictionary.
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Consumer Products You are thinking of starting a business by opening a retail shop that sells small retail items that people consume or use up or finish and replace relatively quickly. You sit down with your friends to brainstorm and write out a long list so you can then narrow it down to choose a proper range of products that will make a profit for your business.
Matches Hand
cream
Cigarettes Soft drinks
toothpaste
Tissue
Taxable Items Give the names of some retail items that the government charges taxes upon.
Cigarettes Perfume
Remember that this is a speaking class, so read out all your answers to the class. 239
More Consumer Products This is a student-centered task you can give the class if you have to be out of the room for a while and you want to keep the studentsbusy working on a logically-structured, programmed task. Get them to write the following exposition based on the accumulation of details :
From the time we get up in the morning until we are fast asleep in our beds at night, we are all slaves to our consumer needs, using products like :
Toothpaste Toothbrush Mouthwash Towel
Facecloth Facial cleanser Face cream Hand soap Shampoo
Bubble bath Body lotion Hand cream Lipstick Face powder Eye shadow Hairspray Perfume
Coffee
Sugar
Milk
Orange juice Cereal
Eggs
Bacon
Ham
Bread
butter
Hair gel
Write your list in pencil so you can erase items as you alter the logical order. 240
Department Stores Department stores are so-called because they are separated into different product lines in which a lot of items from one category can be found together in one area. Tell some items we might find in each of the divisions that follow :
What other divisions do you find in Department stores? What retail items? 241
Import/Export Go into groups and fill in a list of things that Thailand can export and send abroad. The group that finishes first stands and reads their list for correction.
Or if you have only two groups, one group fills in things that Thailand cannot produce or does not have in sufficient quantity and, therefore, must import.
If you were to start an import/export business what products would you sell? 242
More Lists You are going away for a few days to the seaside over the Songkran holiday. Write a list of the items you need to put in your suitcase so you don’t forget.
You are Going Shoping at the Supermarket Write down a shopping list of the items that you don’t want to forget to buy.
A List of Household Chores for the Maid
You are going to Europe for a week’s holiday. You want to write a list of jobs for the maid to do so that nothing gets forgotten and your gold fish don’t die.
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Pretend That You are Going To Open a Disco Use the form below to help you and your friends in planning to open a disco.
Name
Location Size/seating Hours Music
Drinks Food
Clientele Dress code
Decor
Lighting Security Financing Insurance Liquor License
Fire Inspection Fire Escapes
Parking You should also have some idea of what your guests will order to eat and drink. You shouldn’t have a lot of food items but you need a wide selection of drinks You should probably make some decisions about what types of music to stress.
Alcoholic drinks Soft drinks Food
Music
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Chapter Seven : Fables, Tales and Stories
This chapter contains a series of famous fables, twisted tales and scary stories meant for students to read aloud, sentence-by-sentence, student-by-student, following the teacher’s directions and guidelines, for three main purposes which are as follow :
going around the classroom, asking all the students to read in turn, with the teacher helping with pronunciation. Because they only have to read one sentence, the students will not feel threatened and will thereby gain confidence, especially if this kind of practice continues over a series of stories, over a longer period of time. Because there are not too many words in a sentence, the teacher can isolate the sounds and syllables and stresses that the students have pronounced incorrectly, and the teacher can focus on those sounds. Because most of students will have trouble with these same sounds, get the whole class repeating the correct pronunciation, thereby including everyone at the same time. Because students know that one of their most important weaknesses is in pronunciation, they will be more than willing to play along. This works better when there are a group of students rather than just one; otherwise, that single student will be likely to “burn out” his/her concentration reserves very fast. This task works better when the teacher, first, reads out the sentence, following the rhythm of the language and, then, lets the students repeat after him/her.
difficult vocabulary words in order to enhance their reading comprehension. The TT should keep explaining and explicating the meaning of the words and phrases in the text as they move along, line-by-line, while being careful to keep a balance in teacher/student dialogue, rather than burden the student’s by making them listen to a long, monotonous teacher’s-monologue.
discussion in which all class participants exchange ideas in trying to interpret the meaning of the story and any literary devices and hidden meanings on a second or even third level. Certainly an important aspect of understanding any language involves comprehending the significance of such literary devices as similes, metaphors, personification and symbols. Once the TT has explicated the text, he/she can also, finally, lead a discussion on how the story applies to real people in real life and what the story means to each individual person. If the discussion gets off-topic, never mind, just let them keep talking. If the he most important thing is talking, keep them talking and talking. 245
The Scorpion and the Frog The story you are about to read is a fable, which loosely defined, means an animal story that has an allegorical or symbolic meaning on another on a second level. When we have finished reading the story, we can interpret and explain its meaning.
The story goes like this, once, a long time ago, there was a little, lithe, green frog that lived happily in the middle of a lovely, large lily pond in a world that was entirely free of care and trouble.
One fine day, when the frog happened to be hopping along the shore, he met a scorpion who had stopped on his way at the edge of the lake.
As the frog was a talkative soul, with a friendly heart and an open nature, he began to engage the scorpion in conversation. Indeed, the two passed the whole afternoon in this fashion, each enjoying the attention and the company of the other, in accordance with his own nature.
When dusk was approaching, the scorpion asked the frog if he would take him on his back and swim across the pond so the scorpion could reach the other side.
The frog answered that he would be most happy to accommodate the wishes of his new friend, except for one thing.
The frog admitted candidly, that he was afraid the scorpion would bite him while he was riding on his back and that he could die in the course of doing a good deed.
The scorpion appeared to ponder this thought for a moment, and then he laughed. Why do you laugh,” asked the frog?
And the scorpion answered, “If I bit you while I was riding on your back in the middle of the pond, and I bit you so that you died, then I would sink into the water and I too would die. That wouldn’t make much sense would it?”
Then, it was the frog’s turn to ponder for a moment, and then he said: 246
“Well, all right, if you put it that way, I don’t suppose that I will have too much to worry about.” So he let the scorpion climb on his back, just as the sun was sinking, and the two set out to cross the pond.
The frog swam strongly, and the scorpion sat snugly on his back. Indeed, everything seemed to be going very well, when the scorpion suddenly stung the frog right in the middle of his back.
Screaming out in pain and surprise, the frog turned to the scorpion and said: “What did you do that for?”
And the scorpion looked him coldly in the eye and said: “That’s just the way I am.”
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