E-Class Activities and Lesson Plan

Subject                                 : English

Grade                                   : 12 Senior High School

Topic                                     : Debate and Argumentative Essay

Standard Competence  : Speaking and Writing

Basic Competence           : - Stating arguments through debate exhibition

  - Stating arguments through paragraph

Time Allocation                 : 90 minutes

Objectives                          : -students are able to deliver their arguments through debate orally

                                                  -students are able to write argumentative paragraph

Introduction

Hey the next future leaders,

In this nice occasion, let us reflect what is actully happening in the status quo right now, what is the newest issue which affects our nation globally. Ya, we are now in the globalization era which modernization has already changed the world and our country even got affected. Globalization tends to the westernization, which is well known as the modern countries come from like USA, Russia, France, etc. The most fundamental thing which affects Indonesia due to this westernization is language changing. Indonesia consists of many ethnics. Alot of local language there. The teenagers are now more fond of speaking English rather than using their own local language. Javanesse people now even can not speak javanesse meanwhile they speak English fluently. This is the real phenomenon which happens due to the westernization.

So, in the below activity you will be asked to show off your arguments about wether or not indonesian students learn English in the school.

Activity

After you read the Introduction above, you will then do the activities below.

1.       The class will be devided into four groups

2.       Two groups will be debating team which will be positive team and negative team. One group will consist of three students, so there will be six students who will be in debate team.

3.       The two debate teams will debate about “THBT English Breaks Local Language and Should be Banned in Indonesian Education”

4.       The positive team will support the motion given by the teacher with some reasons and providing evidences.

5.       The negative team will disagree with the motion and attack the positive team with also some logical reasons and evidences.

6.       The first speaker of the positive team will open the debate by delivering his/her supporting argument towards the motion, and after that the first speaker of the negative team will come after the first speaker of positive team finish his/her speech, and so on and so on.

Here is the role of speaker

 

                                                                                                                                                                                 

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7.       Each speaker will be given 5 minutes to deliver their arguments

8.       The rest of two groups will be the listener of the debate exhibition

9.       These two groups will take a note of the arguments stated by each debate speaker

10.   After debate finished, these two groups will make or write argumentative essay based on the arguments coming from debate.

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