FINAL ASSIGNMENT OF TOPICS IN TESOL

LESSON PLAN FOR INTEGRATED SKILL

Raudatul Jannah

01577/2008

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS

STATE UNIVERSITY

2011

LESSON PLAN FOR INTEGRATED SKILL

Level : Senior High School Students in 1st Grade, 1

st Semester

Media : Slide show of pictures and video

Sources : Video:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/06/13/137150606/attention-

geography-fiends-tonight-is-the-bee-for-you

Articles:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43172356/ns/us_news-life/t/texas-boy-

wins-national-geographic-bee/

http://geography.about.com/cs/geographybee/a/geobee.htm

Goal : Students can integrate reading and speaking skills abilities about news

item. In this occasion, there will be news about the National

Geographic Bee quiz. Students need to know and understand about the

news and state their opinion. This will activate their critical thinking.

Warming Up (about 15 minutes)

In this stage, teacher begins to activate students’ background knowledge about

quiz. There are several questions can be given, such as:

1. Have you ever watch quizzes shown in TV?

2. What is the interesting thing you can find there?

3. Do you want to join the quiz show?

Then, teacher introduce about the topic, which is news item by showing the

students a video from NPR (National Public Radio) article entitled Attention,

Geography Fiends! Tonight Is The Bee For You, written by Linda Holmes.

Then, teacher discusses the following questions:

1. What is the quiz about?

2. How can the boy win the quiz?

3. Do you know what things you should prepare for this show?

4. Do you think this quiz can give benefits for you?

Next, they are introduced about the topic, news item text. Then, they are

delivered into the next session.

While-Reading (about 40 minutes)

The teacher gives a text to students. They are asked to read it and after that the

teacher will discuss about the text with students. Try to ensure students that maybe

they will not understand about the text for the first reading, but later they will get

more understanding by discussing the questions and analyze the text. The teacher

then does the following:

a. The teacher asks students to mark the difficult words and the ideas they do

not understand.

b. Make a note in the whiteboard.

Here is the text:

ERIC YANG FROM TEXAS WINS 2009 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BEE

AND $25,000 COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP

Students from Oregon and North Carolina Take Second and Third Place

WASHINGTON (May 20, 2009)—Eric Yang, 13, a seventh-grader at Griffin

Middle School in The Colony, Texas, took top honors at the 2009 National

Geographic Bee held in Washington, D.C., today. He won a $25,000 college

scholarship, lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society and a trip to the

Galápagos Islands with National Geographic Bee moderator and "Jeopardy!" host

Alex Trebek.

Second-place winner and recipient of a $15,000 college scholarship was

Oregon's Arjun Kandaswamy, 14, an eighth-grader at Meadow Park Middle School in

Beaverton. Third place and a $10,000 college scholarship went to North Carolina's

Shantan Krovvidi, 13, a seventh-grader at Ligon Middle School in Raleigh.

The winning question was: Timiş County shares its name with a tributary of

the Danube and is located in the western part of which European country? Answer:

Romania.

Fifty-five state and territory winners took part in the preliminary rounds of the

2009 National Geographic Bee on Tuesday, May 19. The top 10 contestants met in

today's final round. The seven other finalists, who won $500, were Nicholas

Farnsworth of Arizona, Shiva Kangayan of Florida, Siva Gangavarapu of Illinois,

Zaroug Jaleel of Massachusetts, Kenji Golimlim of Michigan, Kennan Sparks of Utah

and Vansh Jain of Wisconsin.

Nearly 5 million students take part in the National Geographic Bee each year.

The Geography Bee winner in each state and territory proceeds to the National

Geographic Bee in Washington D.C. for a two-day competition in May. On the first

day, the 55 state and territory (District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,

the Pacific Territories, and the overseas U.S. Department of Defense schools) winners

are narrowed to a field of ten finalists. The ten finalists compete on day two and the

winner is announced and wins a college scholarship. Do you want to join?

What follows are my tips and techniques to help you prepare for the National

Geographic Bee (formerly called the National Geography Bee but since the National

Geographic Society is the organizer, they decided to change the name).

Start with a world map, globe, and atlas and become very familiar with the

continents, countries, states and provinces, islands, and major physical

features of our planet.

Use Outline Maps of the world and continents to test yourself on this

information. Knowing the relative location of countries, islands, major water

bodies, and major physical features is very important for the Bee. Be sure to

also have a good understanding of where the major lines of latitude and

longitude lie.

Take as many practice quizzes as possible. My site offers an archive of

hundreds of multiple-choice Geography Quizzes that will definitely help.

National Geographic offers a daily GeoBee Quiz online. There are additional

online quizzes in my Test Your Knowledge collection of resources. Be sure to

use an atlas to look up or understand the questions that you've missed.

Prepare flash cards or use some other technique to memorize the capitals of

the countries of the world and the capitals of the fifty United States.

Memorize these Basic Earth Facts, the Highest, Lowest, and Deepest points

around the world, and study other geographic superlatives.

Read the newspaper, news magazines, and subscribe to my free Geography

Newsletter and Geography 101 Email Course to learn about geography and to

stay up-to-date with major news events happening around the world. Some

Bee questions come from the geography of current events and these events are

usually those that occur in the latter portion of the year before the Bee. Look

up any unfamiliar place names you encounter in an atlas.

Knowing principal languages, currencies, religions, and former country names

is definitely a bonus. It's most important at state and national levels. This

information is best obtained from the CIA World Factbook.

Become familiar with the terms and concepts of Physical Geography. If you

can review the glossary and key concepts of physical geography from a

college-level physical geography textbook, do so!

(Adapted and combined from: www.msnbc.msn.com and

http://geography.about.com/cs/geographybee/a/geobee.htm )

The teacher then does the following:

a. The teacher asks students to mark the difficult words and the ideas they do

not understand.

b. Make a note in the whiteboard. Then, teacher explains them by using

context clues, definition, synonyms, etc.

c. Discuss the following questions:

- Why do you think Alex can win the quiz?

- Why do you think someone needs to practice more quizzes?

- Do you think this country need to do the same thing? Why?

- Can you mention some tips by your own if you want to join the same

quiz? ; etc.

d. The teacher explains about the news item text and relate it directly with

the text.

NEWS ITEM

Purpose: to inform readers about events of the day which are considered

newsworthy or important

Dominant Generic Structure:

1. Newsworthy event(s)

2. Background event(s)

3. Sources

Dominant Language Features:

1. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline

2. Using action verbs

3. Using saying verbs

4. Using adverbs : time, place and manner.

e. Doing the following activities:

Activity 1

In group of four, discuss one show or event that you are going to follow. Then, make

the procedures or steps that you are going to do for preparation.

In this activity, after the teacher gives students time for discussion, they need

to write it out in group. Then in random, teacher chooses one or two groups to

presents their essay. Later, this will be discussed together with class, whether they

agree and add another opinion, or they try to against and state their own.

Activity 2

This is individual project. You need to choose one of the following TV shows:

a. Who Wants to be A Millioner?

b. Grand Prix

c. Minute to Win It

Find the sources in the internet, books, articles, etc and determine what the game is

about, and what preparation you need to do for facing the game show. Do it at home

and write a report to be presented next meeting.

Post Activity

The teacher reviews about the text by give a summary of the explanation

before.