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ENGLISH EDUCATION C 2014

LESSON PLAN
1. AIM: TO EXPLOIT SHORT STORY FOR READING, SPEAKING, LISTENING AND
WRITING.
2. LANGUAGE FOCUS
- Fluency: Reading, Speaking, Listening and Writing.
- Teamwork, discussing, creative thinking.
3. LEVEL : INTERMEDIATE ADVANCE (Depending on the story type)
4. TIME : 1,5 hours
5. PREPARATION
- Prepare a short movie as a tool to introduce the material.
- Prepare the script or a text of the movie. Show the text with the generic
structure.
- Prepare another Narrative text (short story) and cut the story into some
parts. It is recommended to cut the paragraph based on the generic
structure (Abstract, Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution,
Coda).
- Prepare pictures related to the events or plots of the story. Prepare also
some pictures are not related to the story.

6. PROCEDURE
- Start the class by asking the students to watch the short movie. Make sure
that they understand the plot of the movie. Check students understanding
about the movie by asking them to give their comment about the movie.
The teacher can ask more questions using question for their knowledge
and comprehension. (1st activity)
- By using the students knowledge and comprehension about the story
they have watched, teacher can lead the students into the introduction of
the material that is about Narrative text. Teacher explain about the types
of narrative text which is short story, novel, etc. After that teacher shows
a text to the students. The text is based on the movie they have watched
but it is presented in written. The teacher then explains more about the
characteristics narrative text. Start about the generic structure to the
language signal of narrative like past tense, etc. Make sure the students
understand every parts or structures of narrative text by showing those
parts in the text presentation. To check the students understanding, show
some parts of different story and let the students name the structure of
those parts of text and let them arrange those parts into a fixed text. If
they did, it means they are ready for the next activity. (2 nd activity)
- Divide students into 6 groups and lead them to sit based on their group.
Give the student a strip of paragraph and ask them to read it. The
students can use dictionary if they found new or unfamiliar words. Give
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them 5 minutes to discuss the paragraph and draw their understanding.

(3rd activity)

- Break the groups and form new group. One group consisted of six
students that are come from each old group. Let them discuss about what
they have from the former activity. Ask the students to arrange each of
their parts into the complete and fixed story. Do not forget to decide the
generic structure of the story. (4th activity)
- The teacher then chooses one student from all groups randomly to
present what their group had done about the story. The student must
retell the complete story using the pictures that the teacher provided. The
students must choose six sequences of pictures to support his/her story
telling related to the story and ignore the pictures which are different to
the plot of the story. (5th activity)
- After all group have presented the story, the teacher give each group the
picture that are not related to the plot of the story and ask the students to
write the story individually and predict the story will be if those
unsupported pictures really happen to the story. (6 th activity)

7. RESOURCES
-MOVIE CLIP cari di google

-THE STORY BASED ON THE MOVIE

-TEXT MY MOTHERS DIARY

ABSTRACT

This is a story about how my parents married, which I found out when I
read my mothers diary after her death.

ORIENTATION

My mother came from a tiny village where rules were very strict for
women and arranged marriages were common. When she was quite
young, my mothers parents had promised her to a man from a well-off
family. This particularly pleased my mothers parents who were not
wealthy.

My mother left school early and during the year before she was due to
be married, she worked as a seamstress in her parents tailoring
business. She spent her time working, or in the home under the watchful
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COMPLICATION

One day, my mother went into the town to deliver a customers clothing.
When she knocked on the door of the house, the owners son opened the
door. My mother and he were instantly attracted to each other and had
some time at the door conversation. Before she left, they agreed to meet
again, and soon my mother was delivering order to this customer on a
weekly basis. Very quickly my mother knew she was in love.

My mother was too afraid to tell her parents that she had fallen in love
with someone else as not only was she promised to someone else, but
also they would punish her severely for meeting a man unchaperoned.
Eventually, she and the young man had to make a decision as the
EVALUATION

My mother was in a terrible position, either run away with the man that
she love and never see her own family again, or marry a man she did
not love but have a safe, comfortable life.

RESOLUTION

Finally, my mother could not stand the indecision any longer, and
decided to submit to her parents wishes. On 1 st July, she went one more
time to see the young man and told him that she could not break her
parents s and bring disgrace on her family by running away. On 1 st
August, my mother submitted to the arranged marriage. Her true love
was heartbroken and soon left the town, never to return. My mother had
a safe, comfortable life, but wrote that she often woke at night in tears,
CODA

After I read this story, it explained to me the secret tears that my mother
cried every year in 1st July.
-PICTURE
tggu mr. Munir gambarkan

8. References
Wajnryb, Ruth. 2003. Stories, Narrative Activities for Language Classroom.
United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.