By: Esty Puji Rahayuningtyas
This kind of activity
can be done in all CV levels.
The writer does this activity to
help the students dealing with their obstacles while they are learning English
in Conversation class. There many times we see and we meet bright, smart and
clever students who have good score in English and could act out the dialog
well in the class. But, their skill in doing English task is not followed by
their skill in speaking English in public or in front of people. They give
reason as they are shy and too embarrassed if they make mistakes while they are
speaking English. This condition triggers the writer to create some real time
dialog outside the classroom where the unexpected things can be happened beyond
their imaginations, such as noisy environment, people staring at them and the
sound of traffic.
The purposes of this activity are to make students speak
English in public places, to teach them to be brave and grow some confident to
speak English outside the classroom. The last, the writer hopes that the
students will use their English words and expressions in more spontaneous ways due
to the unexpected things that they may encounter during the act.
The
steps :
1.
Teacher gives some rules and explanation
toward the activity.
a. The
students have already understood the expression learned.
b. The
students are to be told that they will act out their dialog outside the
classroom.
c. The
students cannot bring paper or stationery outside.
d. They
will make a dialog outside according to the places that suit them, such as
canteen, parking lot, bench, in front of the front office or on the stairs.
e. They
have to talk as natural as possible, that is why if the get distracted by noise
from the traffic they will not express their annoyance in Bahasa but they will
use English. They cannot pause their dialog in the mid of conversation if they
forgot or got blanked, they have to keep going like when they speak in real
life by using English still. They have to act the dialog from the beginning
until they are parted.
f. The
teacher gives them around 5-10 minutes to prepare, then she will come to each
group and quietly listen to the dialog. There will be no distraction from and
interaction with the teacher as she only jots down the grammar and vocabulary
mistakes.
2.
Teacher asks the students to find their
place to practice and act out the dialog.
3.
After all been done, the teacher and
students come back to the class and discuss about their dialog, mistakes in
grammar and vocabulary and most of all about their feeling acting out a dialog
with some disturbances from traffic noise, hot temperature outside and people
staring at them. Each student will share their short experience acting out the
dialog outside the class.
4.
Teacher gives feedback to the students.
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