PREDICTING ACTIVATING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE

59 UNIT 1 Procedure Food Things around Us Basic Competences Reading: To respond meaning and rhetorical steps in simple essay accurately, fluently, and acceptably in daily life contexts and to access knowledge in the form of procedure text. Writing: To express meaning and rhetorical steps in simple essay accurately, fluently, and acceptably in daily life context and to access knowledge in the form of procedure text. Indicators: At the end of the lesson, the students are able to: a. Identify the theme of the lesson b. Predict the topic of the lesson c. Analyze the procedure text d. Read the text with the correct pronunciation e. Answer the questions based on the text f. Identify procedure text in their daily lives g. Produce a short procedure text h. Evaluate a procedure text

1. CONTEXT OF LEARNING

The teaching strategy: Activating Background Knowledge • Ask your students to look a picture public telephone. • Ask the steudents to answer some questions about it Where they can find it? How to use it? Etc. • Ask them to guess the topic of the lesson.

2. EXPERIENCE

a. The 1 st teaching strategy: Guided Reading • Choose one student in random to read the text for the whole class 60 • While your student is reading the text, correct hisher wrong pronunciation

b. The 2

nd teaching strategy: Checking Comprehension • After reading the text, ask the students to answer the comprehension questions. • The answers: 1. The maid normally cooks in the Johnson family. 2. Bill learns the cooking skill from his grandmother. 3. The main ingredients are eggs, cooking oil, tomatoes, salt and pepper. 4. Bill has to cook breakfast because the maid took emergency leave. 5. We should heat 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in a pan before we pour egg mixture to the frying pan. 6. a 9 b. X c. 9 d. 9 e. X

3. REFLECTION

The teaching strategy: Discussion • Ask the students to make a group of 5 students. Then, discuss about some questions. • After finishing the discussion, you can ask some representatives of the groups to present their result of discussion.

4. ACTION

The teaching strategy: Writing Ask your students to work individually for making a short procedure text with the topic their family’s favorite food.