Speaking Material - Making a phone call

Activity.1

Have you ever phoned someone by using dial-phone?
What is your most interesting experience when you phone someone?

Now watch this video and give comments.



What expression you can found in that video?

How's the video, is it quite funny?

Now let's try to answer the question below to check your understanding,
Good Luck...

Making a phone call » Online test maker

How's your score? Is it good?

Activity 2
Now, try to practice this conversation with your friend.

Johny : Hallo, Good morning. this is John speaking, is Gilbert there?

Gilbert : Yes, I am. Whats up Johny?

Johny : I want to ask you something. Do you know about Roro Jonggrang folklore?

Gilbert : Yes of course. Thats a famous story from Indonesia.


Johny : I want to know about it, are you free today?

Gilbert : Yeah I am free, come to my house and I will tell the story.

Johny : Okay, I'll be there after lunch. Thank you Gilbert.

Gilbert : You are welcome.

 
Activity 3

Now make your own conversation on phone, after that practice it in front of the classroom for next week. See yaa...

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Cambridge Dictionary Online

Cambridge Dictionary Online

       Cambridge Online Dictionary is a famous dictionary based on internet made by Cambridge University. Just like another digital dictionary its provides brief explanation, phonetic transcription (US and UK), pronounciation of the word (US and UK) but it gives more excessis.

The strength of this website :

* It is absolutely free for a well-known amd the most popolar online dictionary.
* Has pronounciation of words.
* Has many vocabularies.
* It is very easy.
* Paperless.
* You always get the latest version of it.
* You don’t need large memory space.
* Includes idioms, american english, phrasal words, and translation to many language. The weaknesses of this website :

* We need to online

* If we use low internet speed, it is difficult to play the pronounciation.

    Cambridge Online Dictionary can be used for teaching as a interesting method for students’ speaking learning process. They don’t need to bring extra big and extra heavy dictionary and they don’t need to install it on their PC. By provide them native speaker’s pronounciation students can try to imitate them. It also  builds students’ curiousity of english that can improve their vocabulary. If you find something you like, you can now share it with your friends via facebook or twitter. Just click on the relevant icon to spread the word.

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Narrative text - Roro Jonggrang

Roro Jonggrang

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful Javanese princess whose name was Roro Jongrang. Roro Jongrang whose beauty very famous in the land was the daughter of Prabu Baka, an evil King.

One day, a handsome young man with super natural power, named Bandung Bondowoso from Pengging, defeated and killed Prabu Baka in a war. On seeing Princess Roro Jongrang’s beauty, Bandung Bondowoso felling in love and wanted to marry her.

Meanwhile, Princess Roro Jongrang, felt sad due to the death of her father. She did not want to marry Bandung because he had killed her father. But she was also afraid of Bandung. So to refuse politely, she made a condition. "I will marry you after you build a well near my kingdom, Jalatunda will be the name of that well." Bandung agreed and started to build the well. But Jonggrang sent her soldiers to kill Bandung and buried him on that well.

But those soldiers were nothing to Bandung's power. He was very angry when he knew Jonggrang's plan to kill him. Bandung came to Jonggrang's palace to make a deal with her but Jonggrang tricked him with her beauty. She said “I am promise, I will marry you. But you have to build one thousand temple in one night as a wedding gift” requested Roro Jongrang. Bandung agreed with this condition.

Helped by the Gennie, Bandung Bondowoso started building the temples. Approaching midnight, the work was nearly done. Roro Jongrang knew and thought, “What shall I do? Bandung is smarter than me. I will lose against Bandung”

Suddenly she got an idea. She up all the women in the place and ordered them to make the noisy sound of grinding rice so that roosters would think it had already dawn.

Bandung Bondowoso got frustrated because he failed to complete the thousand temple. “The princess has decided me!’ following his anger, he cursed Roro Jongrang, “You have cheated me. Now, The thousandth temple is you!”

At once, the princess turned into a statue.

Knowing this, Bandung Bondowoso regretted this and he went away into a far land. From them, people called the temple Prambanan Temple and the princess statue, Roro Jongrang Statue.

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