Monday, January 30th, 2023
English Class
Speaking skill
Definition
- Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information. Speaking is a complex cognitive and linguistic skill, it involves words and sounds.
More things that include speaking
Cultural Issues: class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, dialect
Performance: articulation, projection, pronunciation
Meaning: connotation, denotation, grammar
Sociality, Relationship, Affect: formal, informal, slang, turn-taking
Sound Elements: how volume, pitch, pace, and nature of sound complement/ contradict/ replace words
Speaking is a production skill that involves listening skill. Without listening, speaking is not possible and the relationship between these two skills is corresponding.
Functions of Speaking:
Interaction
There are a lot of functions of speaking in human lives every day. However, these functions can be divided into three main categories.
Transaction
Performance
1. Speaking as Interaction
The role of speaking as interaction is mostly of a social conversation. It reflects the roles and the relationships of the speaker in a social setting.
Speaking as Transaction
The role of speaking as transaction is to make someone understood the message that we want to give to him/her. The focus of this type of speaking is giving and receiving information and obtaining goods/services.
VS
Speaking as Performance
VS
The role of speaking as performance is to transmit information before an audience. It generally incorporates public speaking. It focuses on form, accuracy, organization, and sequencing, etc. of speaking.
Would you rather be poor and happy or rich and unhappy?
Would you rather have a missing finger or an extra toe?
Would you rather eat your favorite meal for every meal for the rest of your life or never be able to eat your favorite meal again?
Would you rather speak all languages fluently or be able to speak to animals?
Would you rather find your soulmate or find a billion dollars (and never find your soulmate)?
Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
Riddles
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Gloves
Everyone has it and no one can lose it, what is it?
shadow
I have wings and able to fly, I’m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I?
Airplane
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
The echo
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Heroine
I am your uncle´s brother,
but I am not your uncle.
Who am I?
I'm your father
What is at the end of a rainbow?
What letter of the alphabet is an insect?
Where can you find cities, towns, shops and streets, but no people?
What is your biggest fear?
If you could choose to do anything for a day, what would it be?
What Did You Think that Was Cool when your were a kid Then, When You Were a teenager realize tha it Isn’t Cool ?
What Guilty Pleasure Makes You Feel Alive?
First Daily Activity
Look and learn 5 tongue twisters and say them in the next class.
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
English Class
Speaking skill
Definition
More things that include speaking
Cultural Issues: class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, dialect Performance: articulation, projection, pronunciation
Meaning: connotation, denotation, grammar Sociality, Relationship, Affect: formal, informal, slang, turn-taking
Sound Elements: how volume, pitch, pace, and nature of sound complement/ contradict/ replace words
Speaking is a production skill that involves listening skill. Without listening, speaking is not possible and the relationship between these two skills is corresponding.
Functions of Speaking:
Interaction
There are a lot of functions of speaking in human lives every day. However, these functions can be divided into three main categories.
Transaction
Performance
1. Speaking as Interaction
The role of speaking as interaction is mostly of a social conversation. It reflects the roles and the relationships of the speaker in a social setting.
Speaking as Transaction
The role of speaking as transaction is to make someone understood the message that we want to give to him/her. The focus of this type of speaking is giving and receiving information and obtaining goods/services.
VS
Speaking as Performance
VS
The role of speaking as performance is to transmit information before an audience. It generally incorporates public speaking. It focuses on form, accuracy, organization, and sequencing, etc. of speaking.
Would you rather be poor and happy or rich and unhappy?
Would you rather have a missing finger or an extra toe?
Would you rather eat your favorite meal for every meal for the rest of your life or never be able to eat your favorite meal again?
Would you rather speak all languages fluently or be able to speak to animals?
Would you rather find your soulmate or find a billion dollars (and never find your soulmate)?
Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
Riddles
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Gloves
Everyone has it and no one can lose it, what is it?
shadow
I have wings and able to fly, I’m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I?
Airplane
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
The echo
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Heroine
I am your uncle´s brother, but I am not your uncle. Who am I?
I'm your father
What is at the end of a rainbow?
What letter of the alphabet is an insect?
Where can you find cities, towns, shops and streets, but no people?
What is your biggest fear?
If you could choose to do anything for a day, what would it be?
What Did You Think that Was Cool when your were a kid Then, When You Were a teenager realize tha it Isn’t Cool ?
What Guilty Pleasure Makes You Feel Alive?
First Daily Activity
Look and learn 5 tongue twisters and say them in the next class.