Supported by: Government of Indonesia (GoI) and Islamic Development Bank (idb)

Video cassettes / CDs 
Many different activities can be administered using video cassettes / CDs: 
• Play a video cassette or a CD for about 5 minutes without any sound. Let your students watch it. 
Ask your students to write possible dialogues in it.
• Play a cassette and pause in any appropriate times. Ask students the following question, “What is 
he/she doing?” “What are they doing?” to facilitate them produce sentences in Present 
Continuous Tense.
• Similar to above, ask your students different questions, “What will he/she/they do?” “What will 
happen?” “What’s he/she going to do?” This is to help them predict what will happen by 
employing Future tenses.  
• Similar to above, different questions can be asked, such as, “What did she/he/they do?” “What 
has happened?” “Where has she/he been/done/watched?” This is to promote students’ ability in 
producing sentences in past simple and present perfect.  

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Below is an example of a simple lesson plan on asking and giving information in the context of 
shopping using authentic materials. 
 
Activities 
Materials 
Aims 
5’ 
Lead in 
- T elicits ss about products and 
prices. 
A picture of a 
mall / shop, sale 
fliers 
- To focus to the topic. 
- To diagnose ss’ ability in 
asking and giving info related 
to products and prices. 
5’ 
 T write down different ways of 
asking questions and giving 
information on WB 
 To underlines different ways 
of asking questions and giving 
information on products and 
prices. 
3’ 
Drills
 T drills ss on how to ask and give 
information about products and 
prices using different techniques 
Flash cards on 
products and 
prices 
 To form students’ ability and 
habit in asking and giving info 
on product and prices 
10’ 
Role play 
 Assign ss to be buyers and sellers. 
 Ask them to ask products and 
prices. 
 Ask them to reverse their roles 
after 5 minutes 
Sale fliers 
 To give opportunities for ss to 
practice asking questions and 
giving information on products 
and prices 
2’ 
Feedback and conclusion 
 To strengthen the ss’ 
understanding on how ask 
questions and give information 
on products and prices. 
 
Authentic materials can be very useful resources for students’ learning. Authentic materials are often 
inexpensive but are of great support for students. To get maximum benefits of the authentic materials, 
teachers need to select appropriate materials for the students and design suitable classroom activities to 
better facilitate students in their learning in the classrooms.

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