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Exercise 3 Copy the cards on page 149, fold them, and put them into a jar. Each
card says the person, the number, the unit, and the operation. In partners, the learners have to compete with other groups and each
pair has 5 minutes to do the game. In turn, one of the pairs takes one of the papers in the jar and directly
makes a story problem based on the information written on the paper. The other listens to the story problem said by hisher partner and then
answers it. The pair who can say more correct answers is the winner.
After the game is finished, ask them to say the meaning of the vocabularies written on the box.
Snapshot Ask the learners to answer the questions and share their answers to the class.
What situation is ilustrated in the picture? What are they doing? Have you ever experienced this situation? If yes, what do you usually do to overcome
the students? What will you say? Invite them to have discussion in class; highlight interesting answers or experience to make the
discussion livelier.
Conversation After the learners share their experience in the snapshot, ask them to read the conversation. Then,
when finished, ask the learners whether they have difficult words or not.
Focus... Focus... Focus... A.
Classroom Language Expressions -
Ask the learners to mention some language expressions in the conversation for handling distractionsinterruptions and to share their experience when they handle
distractionsinterruptions.
- Give a brief explanation about how to handle distractionsinterruptions.
Invite learners to ask some questions if any. -
Ask the learners to do the exercises. Exercise 1
Give the learners time ± 5 - 10 minutes to read the situation and to complete the dialogue with the language expression they have
discussed or with any other appropriate response. Then, ask your students to share their answers.
Exercise 2 Ask the learners to discuss the situation with their partners and
decide on they want to perform. They can use the suggested expressions if they want to. When they are ready, ask them to perform
for the class and discuss their performance together.
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B. Adding Money getting change problem
- Discuss “Adding Money Getting Change Problem” with the learners and explain
how to make questions related to adding money and getting change problems. -
Ask the learners to do the exercises. Exercise 1
Ask the learners to make story problems of getting change by using the information in the exercise.
Exercise 2 Ask the learners to make two groups, group A and group B. Both
groups face each other. You then give a card of information see appendix on page 150 to a group, for example group A.
One of the group A’s members reads the question in the card loudly. Then, in 30 seconds, group B has to answer it and then changes some
information the money and the units in the sentence said by group A. If group B can answer and make the question with new information
correctly, it is group A’s turn to answer the group B’s questions and then make a question again by changing some information.
If one of the two groups fails to answer the other’s group question and to make a question again by changing the information, the group will
lost in this round. The new round will be started with another card of a new question.
e.g.
Card 1 :Wawan has Rp. 60,000.00. He buys a book for Rp. 24,500.00 and a map for Rp. 21,000.00. How much change does he
receive? The question is maybe changed as follows:
group B
: answer the previous question first Wawan has Rp. 30,000.00. He buys a correction pen for Rp. 7,000.00
and a file box for Rp. 19,000.00. How much change does he receive? group A
: answer the previous question first Wawan has Rp. 75,000.00. He buys a magazine for Rp. 49,000.00 and
a novel for Rp. 29,000.00. How much change does he receive? After the game is finished, ask them to say the meaning of the vocabularies written on
the box.
REVIEW Exercise A
Ask the learners to put the conversations in a correct order Exercise B
Ask the learners to complete the dialogues using they have learned before. Exercise C
Ask the learners to do the exercise. Exercise D
Ask the learners to make a group of three and to discuss the situation with their partners. Use to the suggested expression they’ve already learned. When they are
ready, ask them to perform for the class 7 – 10 minutes and discuss their performance.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Ask the learners to check what they have done in this unit by giving their opinion to the statements
and the uncomplete sentences.
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UNIT 5 Anybody Knows the Answer?
Snapshot Ask the learners to answer the questions and share their answers to the class.
When will you get bills? Do you like to collect the bills? Look at the change in the bill above. If you were the buyer, would you get the change
like the bill says? If no, how much change would you probably get?
What does the cashier probably do with the change? Invite them to have discussion in class; highlight interesting answers or experience to make the
discussion livelier.
Conversation After the learners share their experience in the snapshot, ask them to read the conversation. Then,
when finished, ask the learners whether they have difficult words or not.
Focus... Focus... Focus... A.
Classroom Language Expressions -
Ask the learners to mention some language expressions in the conversation for calling on students and to share their experience when they call students in class.
- Give a brief explanation about how to call on students.
Invite learners to ask some questions if any. -
Ask the learners to do the exercises. Exercise 1
Give the learners time ± 5 - 10 minutes to read the situation and to complete the dialogue with the language expression they have
discussed or with any other appropriate response. Then, ask your students to share their answers.
Exercise 2 Ask the learners to discuss the situation with their partners and
decide on they want to perform. They can use the suggested expressions if they want to. When they are ready, ask them to perform
for the class and discuss their performance together.
B. Rounding
- Discuss “rounding” with the learners and explain how to make questions related to
rounding. -
Ask the learners to do the exercises. Exercise 1
Ask the learners to make questions about ronding and to ask their classmates to answer their questions.
Exercise 2 Ask the learners to make story problems of addition and subtraction by
using the information in the exercise. Exercise 3
Ask the learners to find a partner. Then, give the pairs a piece of papers; student A and student B see appendix on page 151. Tell
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