In an English Class

One day, in Solo, Central Java, a beautiful teacher started teaching in a class of 32 students.

The teacher greeted the students and asked them who was absent for the day. Then, she explained that on the day, they would study from a song entitled “The Rhino Song”. She told the students that they would study about how to ask and answer about the number of animals.

The teacher asked the students to pay attention to the first page of unit 11 materials, particularly to Activity 1 of “Tune Up” activities. She asked the students to fill the cloze lyrics using the words provided in the box. The students did the task and they asked her about the Indonesian meaning of some words. The teacher invited them to check their answer by listening to the song entitled “The Rhino Song”. They listened to the song while checking their answer. The teacher, then, invited them to discuss the answer together. After that, the teacher asked them to match the vocabulary list on Activity 3 to the meaning. The students did the task in about two minutes. They discussed the answer with the teacher. She asked the students to state whether statements in Activity 4 are true or false by reading the lyrics.

International English Literature Conference

On November 5th, 2014, I presented my paper in an international seminar entitled "English Literary Studies outside the Circle". I was very enthusiastic since I was actually interested in literary studies. I took literary analysis as the topic of my thesis at the undergraduate degree. In the seminar, I met some extraordinary persons in literature. My heart was in a tremble when I saw some presentations about homosexuality, feminism, and psychological analysis. I did not present something related to literature at that time; I present a teaching-focused paper. Here are my slides. These are integrated (combined with listening, reading, & writing) teaching steps and the focus of them is speaking.