Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan

 School                 :   -

 Subject                :   English

 Class/Semester    :   VII/1

 Standard competence    :    Understand the functional meaning of written simple texts and short essays related to the descriptive form of the immediate environment

 Basic competence   :     Reveal the meaning and rhetorical steps in a short simple essay by using a variety of written language accurately, fluently and thankful to interact with the immediate environment in the form of descriptive text

 Indicator           : 1. Combining words into sentences                                     

  2. Fill the hiatus sentence                                     

                            3. Write simple sentences                                     

                            4. Combine the sentences into paragraphs (descriptive text)

 Type of Teks      :   Descriptive

 Theme                 :   People

 Skill                    :   Reading

 Time alocation    :   2 X 45 menit.

1.     A. Learning Objectives.

 At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

a. Understanding the meaning of textual descriptive text.

b. Identify the type of text and text sections.

c. Find synonyms and antonyms of words in the text.

d. Finding the main idea of the text.

e. Find information in detail.

f. Finding the information is implied.

g. Make a summary.

2. Learning Materials

Most people of  Nepal are farmers. They live in stone or timber houses with thatched or slab rooting. They grow rice, which are their main crop, maize, barley, potatoes, and vegetables. Sheep are their main source of meat. Cows are keep to produce milk. Donkeys, mules, and douse are used to carry goods. Nepal is an isolated country so hardly any modernizing has occurred. They have few facilities and mainly live on their intensive subsistence agriculture (Taken from Written Genres in Secondary School by Hardy and Karwein, 1990). 

·        Vocabulary

o   Nouns                                  

1.     Nepal

2.     Timber

3.     Cows

4.     Farmers

5.     Sheep

6.     Vegetables

7.     Donkeys

8.     Potatoes

9.     Stone

10.   People

o   Adjective

1.     Modern

2.     Hardly

3.     Intensive

o   Verbs

1.     Grow

2.     Produce
3.     Are

4.     Keep

5.     Occurred

6.     Used

2.     Methods: Building the Context, Modeling and Deconstructing Text, Joint Construction, Independent Construction

3.     The steps ofd activity

a.     Pre activity (Building the Context) (15 minutes)

1.                 The teacher show these pictures to the students.

1.                 The teacher ask some questions to the students about the pictures.

 

a.     Main activity (Modeling and Deconstructing Text) (20 Menit)

1.     The teacher show and give this sample of descriptive text.

Most people of  Nepal are farmers. They live in stone or timber houses with thatched or slab rooting. They grow rice, which are their main crop, maize, barley, potatoes, and vegetables. Sheep are their main source of meat. Cows are keep to produce milk. Donkeys, mules, and douse are used to carry goods. Nepal is an isolated country so hardly any modernizing has occurred. They have few facilities and mainly live on their intensive subsistence agriculture (Taken from Written Genres in Secondary School by Hardy and Karwein, 1990). 

2.     The teacher reads the text aloud as a model.

3.      The teacher explains the shapes and sections descriptive text.

4.      The teacher explains the structure of the descriptive text.

A.   The structure

1.       Identification

      Most people of  Nepal are farmers.

2.       Description

      They live in stone or timber houses with thatched or slab rooting. They grow rice, which are their main crop, maize, barley, potatoes, and vegetables. Sheep are their main source of meat. Cows are keep to produce milk. Donkeys, mules, and douse are used to carry goods. Nepal is an isolated country so hardly any modernizing has occurred. They have few facilities and mainly live on their intensive subsistence agriculture.

B.   The Purpose

1.     To describe current activities or events.

2.     To describe activities in the pictures.

C.   The language features

A.     Specific participants

B.      The use of simple present

5.  The teacher tell the sample of  “simple present tense” in the text.

6. The teacher explains difficult words by using various techniques (existing sense of the word in the text).

·        Vocabulary

o   Nouns                                   

1.     Nepal

2.     Timber

3.     Cows

4.     Farmers

5.     Sheep

6.     Vegetables

7.     Donkeys

8.     Potatoes

9.     Stone

10. People

o   Adjective

1.     Modern

2.     Hardly

3.     Intensive

o   Verbs

1.     Grow

2.     Produce

3.     Are

4.     Keep

5.     Occurred

6.     Used

True or False

1.     Most people of Nepal are farmers.

2.     The people of Nepal live in Timber.

3.     Sheep are not their main source of meat.

4.     Nepal is a modern country.

Short answer.

1.     What is the text about?

2.     Where they live?

3.     What is their main crop?

4.     What is Nepal?

C.   Joint Construction (30 Menit)

1.  The teacher ask the students to work in pair to indentify descriptive text.

2.  Students are given a text (handout 2).

Indonesia holds the 4th position in the world in terms of its population. It has got a very diverse population. Indonesian People belong to various religious groups. Indonesian People has got rich art and culture that are intertwined with their age-old tradition and religion. Cultural values brought by Portuguese and Dutch colonizers are added to this. Their culture is not only based on folklore as some of them are derived from the court culture. The dance dramas are primarily based on Hindu mythology. The craft works are mainly made up of wood, clay, metal, stone etc. A lot of designs are done on clothes with gold and silver threads. Intricate designs are visible on cotton and silk cloths. Indonesian People's lives are mainly guided by the ethics of mutual assistance.

3.  Siswa dalam grup yang terdiri dari 3 orang diminta;

                        i.          Identify the text (Identify the identification sentence).

                     ii.   Summary the text (true false exercises).

                      iii.   Finding the main idea and detail information (short answer).

1. Underline the identification sentence/ write down the identification sentence

2. Underline the description sentence/ write down the description sentence

True or False.

1.     Indonesia holds the 3^rd position in population in the world.

2.     Indonesia people belong to various religious groups.

3.     The craft works are mainly made up of wood, clay, metal, stone.

4.     The dance dramas are primarily based on Islam mythology.

5.     Intricate designs are visible on cotton and silk cloths.

Short answer.

1.     What is the text about?

2.     What is the mainly guided for Indonesian people in live?

D. Closing activity (Independent construction activities) (25 Menit)

1.            The teacher repeated the way of making descriptive text.

2.            The teacher asks the students to work independently written quiz.

Many people in China are farmers. Many grow rice. China grows more food than any other country. The Chinese also grow tea and soy beans. Many Chinese shop every day in open air markets to get the freshest foods for their family's dinner. Many Chinese people ride bicycles. The streets of China are crowded with bicycles. There are few cars outside the major cities in China.

Chinese people think it is very important to be polite and kind to others. The family is very important to the Chinese. Children listen and obey their parents and older people are loved and respected. Many people still practice the old ways of doing things in China. Some new ways are beginning to find their way into Chinese society, too. China is a country that is becoming more and more important to the nations of the world.  The Chinese people believe the air is most densely charged with vital energy called chi at daybreak, and for thousands around the island the day starts with dawn exercises in parks. Individuals or groups gather to jog, dance, practice the gentle slow-motion of tai chichuan or the vigorous gymnastics of kung-ku.

EXERCISE

1. Underline the identification sentence/ write down the identification sentence.

2. Underline the description sentence/ write down the description sentence.

TRUE OR FALSE

1.     Most people in China are worker.

2.     There are many grow rice.

3.     The Chinese only grow tea and beans.

4.     Many Chinese people ride bycicle.

5.     Chinese people are kind and polite.

6.     Some people still practise the old ways of doing things.

7.     The gentle slow-motion is tai chichuan.

Short answer

1.     What is the text about?

2.     What is the main occupation is china?

3.     Why many Chinese shop every day in open air markets?

4.     Where the place that are crowded with bicycles?

5.     What the children do to respect their parents?

5. Sources

1.     Text

2.     The pictures which related to the topic

3.     Relevant books

6. Scoring

a.     Teqnique              : produce written expression

b.     Bentuk                 : written question

c.      Instrument :

d.     Score rubric

1.     Total score

I.                   2 x 5    = 10

II.                1 x 10  = 10

III.             1 x 10  = 10

  Jumlah = 30

2.     Students score = the result of score

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