Experience
(A personal recount)
Pre-Activity
Warming up:
Read the comic strip and practice the conversation with your friend.
Ask students:
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What is it tell about?
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Have you ever been done the
same?
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What other activities that can
you do in the weekend?
Tell the students that today they are
going to discuss about “experience”.
Main
Activities
Reading Activity
Read the following text. Then, answer the
following question.
I think my first memories
began when I started school at about five years old. I lived in a suburb of
Sydney. I had a happy childhood. I remember playing in a big garden. I fell
from a big tree and broke my hand. I remember I had a naughty friend named
Giant-O, because he was fat. He liked hitting and pulling my head. It was so
pathetic. One day, I hit him over the head with my bag. His parents were very
angry with me. But I didn’t feel sorry at all at that time. Nevertheless, since
then Giant-O has become my good friend. It was such an unforgettable childhood.
(Adapted from: Kernel Three)
Comprehension
Question
Find
out:
a.
TRUE or FALSE (are these
statement true or false?)
1. (___) When she was a child she
fell from a tree and broke her head.
2. (___) She was living outside
Sydney when she was a child.
3. (___) The teacher was very
angry with the boy because he hit her.
b.
Find the words or phrases in
the text as defined below.
1. What we remember
2. Part of a town or city not
near the center.
3. The time when you were a
child.
c.
Answer the following question.
1. What happen when she fell from
the tree?
2. How did she hit him over the
head?
3. What did her friend used to
do?
4. When did she start school?
Vocabulary and
Pronunciation Building
Listen and Repeat.
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Cannery /kænεrI/
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Orchard /’э:t∫εd/
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Quay /ki:/
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Apiary /eIpiεrI/
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Hatchery /hæt∫εrI/
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Resort /ri’zэ:t /
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Bakery /’beIkεrI/
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Dockyard /dþkjα:d/
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Vineyard /’vInjεd/
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Cemetery /’semεtri/
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Fill in the blanks with the above word.
1. The ______ is where you can
see goods being loaded and unloaded from ships.
2. Our teacher is taking us to
the _____ where eggs are hatched artificially.
3. The farmers grow grapes in a
_____.
4. It is interesting to see how
food is canned in a _____.
5. An _____ is the place where
bees are kept.
6. Sally is taking sick leave.
She is staying in a _____ for her recovery.
7. A _____ sells bread, cakes,
cookies and pastries.
8. A place where people grow
apples or orange is called an ______.
9. The ship is being repaired in
the ______.
10. Dead bodies are buried in a
______.
Grammar
Exercises
Try this! Complete this text using the
appropriate pronouns.
Kiran Hasto was born in Mojogedang on April 1st ,
1930. (1) ___ was educated at State Senior High School 37, Mojogedang and
continued (2) ___ study at the Diponegoro University, Semarang. (3) ___ left
the university in 1952 with a second class honors degree in chemistry. Toward
the end of that year (4) ___ applied for a job and obtained a post as a junior
research chemist in a large pharmaceutical firm. In 1954, (5) ___ met his
future wife, Aniswati, at a seminar and in 1955 (6) ___ got married. (7) ___
now live in Bogor suburb and have two children.
Writing Activity
Have you ever
blushed because of something embarrassing?
Share your most embarrassing moment in your
life by writing down in a paragraph.
Speaking
Activity
Work in pairs. Complete these
conversations with the expression of “remember/forget”. Practice the
conversation with your friends in front of the class.
1.
In a classroom
Teacher :
Good morning, everybody!
Students :
__________________
Teacher :
Do you bring your dictionaries with you today?
Student 1 :
I’m sorry sir, _______________________
Teacher :
And you? ____________________ it, either?
Student 2 :
I do, sir. I bring mine. __________________ what you told us last week.
2.
It was Sunday morning, Wati
got dressed and had breakfast quickly. She was ready to leave for school. Her
mother was a little puzzled.
Mother :
Hey…hey… are you going to school?
Wati :
Yes, Mom. I overslept. I’m in hurry.
Mother :
________________________
Wati :
Oh, my goodness. I thought it’s a school day.
Post-Activity
Dictation
Game
Instruction :
1.
Select a dialogue or
short story from the lesson
2.
Have each student
work with a partner
3.
One student reads
the dialogue or short story
4.
The other student
writes it down
5.
The first team to
finish it correctly wins.
Notes :
Writers should not
look at the text. Readers can look at what writers are writing.
Text
Slobber
On The Train
One day, I was on
the train on my way home from my grandmother’s place. I had spent the day there
and I was very tired. I tried to stay awaked, but didn’t succeed. After
sometime, my eyelids started to feel very heavy. Before I knew it, I was
slobbering. Startled, I awoke to find two beautiful girls who were sitting in
front of me giggling and watchingme. I was mortified!
