Webquest Review

Welcome: Speaking Skill
Description: Through this web quest, the students will be able to develop a new topic "Protecting the earth" in unit 5 "Life as we know it", with the purpose to apply an "oral speech" at the end of this task. Note: take a look at the video first.
Grade Level: College / Adult
Curriculum: English / Language Arts
Keywords: oral skill, speech, protecting the earth


Speaking is one of the skill that is difficult for some students. Most of them are too lazy to speak so that they have an expectation like that. In order to avoid their laziness, teacher can do some things like in this webquest.
 Let's review the task:

Our objective    : Design a presentation to create awareness on protecting our planet.

Estimated Time : You will have 10 minutes to expose it.

Tools                 : You  can  use videos, interviews, photographies, PPT files to support

                           your work.

                         : Work in groups of 5 people and choose a leader. 

 By doing this in a group, it can push them to talk in their group.

 

About the process, it has 6 steps that I do agree with all of them. First one is analyzing the audience. Of course we have to know who wants to be the audience, so we can prepare the presentation based on their background knowledge, etc. The next one we have to choose the topic. It is the important one, I agree with it. Besides topic, we have to also know the objective of our presentation. It is a must. Then, we come to the body of the presentation. This is the most important one in the presentation. I do agree with the creator of this webquest that it is the part where you present your idea. Exactly!. The other important things are opening and closing(introduction and conclusion). It must be prepared. Yes! The last one, practicing. Well, like others said, practice makes perfect. The students can practice their presentation in many ways. I do agree with all of this process. That is the other nice way in presenting the material.

 

 

 

Learning Sites

Here are some sites for learning English

http://eslfast.com/  

This site is recommended to English learner. This site includes 3 skills all at ones. The skills are speaking, reading, and also writing. In speaking skills, it has many conversations for each topic. It is useful for all English learners. Actually, this site also can be used for listening skill since before coming to the dialogue; the users will see a recorded of the conversation of the speakers. So, they will know how to pronounce the words. In reading skills, the users will find some examples of a simple paragraph and for the writing skill, the user are required to answer the quiz that are given. They will write the answer on that site. This pretty good site is recommended for junior and senior high school students. This site is free to access for anyone.

http://www.talkenglish.com/

This is also recommended for the learner. This site is for learning speaking. TalkEnglish.com developed the "Click, Listen, and Repeat" functionality. In most of the lessons, you read the sentence, click on the sentence to listen to the sentence, and then you can practice speaking by repeating after the audio file provided by a native English speaker. This proven method strengthens your reading, speaking, and listening all at the same time and makes learning English easy. You will improve your English speaking using this method. It is recommended for junior high school students.

http://www.readingtolearn.com.au/

Reading to Learn is one of the world's most powerful literacy programs. It is designed to enable all learners at all levels of education to read and write successfully, at levels appropriate to their age, grade and area of study.The Reading to Learn program can be accessed as a teacher professional learning program, or by ordering the teacher resource package and training DVDs directly.

http://www.listen-to-english.com/

The podcasts on this site will help the students in improving their English vocabulary and pronunciation and also listening skills. They are quite short (5 or 6 minutes) and delivered in clearly spoken English. Many of them are linked to grammar and vocabulary notes, or to exercises or quizes. It is suitable for senior high school.

My new blog, my new "safety" folder

This blog is something that can make me feel safe in saving some data. Before creating this blog, I used to save my data only on my laptop, or even flash disk. This is a risky thing since I can lost the data someday. In order to avoid that unexpected thing, I create this blog. I hope that it can be my "safety" folder.