Teaching
Speaking Skills Using Computer
Students: Centre for Foundation studies
Programme: BENL
Date :11th March 2013
Day : Monday
Time: 2- 3.30 pm
Venue: English Lab CFS
General and specific objective(s) of lesson:
General objective:
1) To expose the students to the speech by the
native speakers of English.
2) To familiarize the students to speak in English
in front of the audiences.
3) To enhance the students’ confident level when
delivering speech in English.
Specific objective:
1) To be able to pronounce certain words and
sentences used in the video like native speakers.
2) To be able to imitate the intonation used by
George Galloway in the video for persuasive speech skills when delivering
speech.
3) To be able to persuade audiences by delivering a
short speech in English.
4) To be able to deduce the main issues discussed in
the video and critically relate the issues from Islamic point of view.
5) To examine students’ level of pronunciation with
native speaker of English using speech synthesizer software.
Evaluations:
1) Teacher
will examine their intonation and persuasive skill by looking at their speech
and the way they deliver their speech (the rubric is prepared).
2) Teacher
will examine whether the issues deduced by the students are relevant to the
video.
3) Students’
pronunciation will be evaluated using speech synthesizer software (NativeAccent).
Previous knowledge:
The students have been introduced to the elements of
public speaking including the intonation and the preparation before the public
speaking.
Materials & Teaching Aids:
A short video and speech synthesizer software.
Procedure:
There will be a short induction for 15 minutes about
the lesson of the day and activities for the remaining of the class time.
Number
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Activities
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Time
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Teaching
Aids
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Teacher’s
Role.
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1
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Induction
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3-
5 minutes
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-
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Teacher
briefs the students about the subject and activities that they are going to
do for today’s lesson. Teacher will also explain about the objective of
today’s lesson and recall some knowledge of previous classes that will be
useful and beneficial to be applied in today’s lesson.
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2.
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Watching
Video
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13
minutes
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Video
on George Galloway’s interview with Sky News.
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1)
Brief the students generally on what the video is
all about. The teacher asks the students to focus on the issues discussed in
the video.
2)
Teacher shows the video to the students
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3.
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Replay the
video
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7-10 minutes
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1) The video
will be played again and this time students need to take out important points
from the video.
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4.
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Group
discussion
|
5
minutes
|
-
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1) Teacher asks students to discuss in group
about the issues and each student has to come out with a short speech.
2)
Teacher reminds them to insert Islamic point of view in their speeches.
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5.
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Presentation
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2
minutes each (1x 20 students)
=40
minutes
|
-
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1)
Students need to present their speech in
front of the audiences (one student-one elaborated point).
2)
Students must relate their issues to Islamic point of view.
5)
Other students need to take note presenters’ mistakes in terms of
pronunciation and SVA and try to improve themselves in their speeches.
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6.
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Speech
synthesizing
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2 minutes
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Computers
(each student will occupy a computer in the lab)
ESpeak; Speech
Synthesizer software.
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3) Students
need to read aloud the sentences stated o the speech recognition.
4) They will
see the result of their native-likeness at the end of their presentation.
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7.
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Homework
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2 minutes
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Teacher asks
students to visit http://www.eslfast.com/robot/ for speaking
practice. Teacher will monitor their speaking progress by the next
presentation.
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8.
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Conclusion
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5
minutes
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-
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Teacher
will reflect on today’s lesson and recap what has been learned by asking
students a few general questions on today’s lesson.
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