Speaking Section | How to Pay A Compliment

Hello, my lovely students !

Welcome back to this page again. I am glad that we have done the previous skill which was Listening Section. Now, I hereby give you some material about speaking section. We are going to talk about HOW TO GIVE A COMPLIMENT.

• What do you think about when you see the picture below ?
  

State your opinion :

• Does she look beautiful? What will you say if you meet her?
• Does she dress nicely? What will you say if you see that she dresses nicely?
• Have you ever pay a compliment to your friends?
  

Here is a short explanation if you would like to pay a compliment to your friends.




That is what we call complementing or appraising. Let's go to the next step, here is a dialogue that happened in a Birthday party. Read the dialogue and pay attention to the bold expression and the situation below.



Act the dialogue above with your partner.

After doing the conversation above, I also put the video of how to give compliment to our friend. Watch carefully and enjoy the video below.

If you have watched the video, you might find some difficulties about the dialogue. Thus, I put the script to make it easily to understand.

Man : Good morning!

Woman : Morning!

Man : By the way, I just wanted to say well done on clinching that deal!

Woman : Oh, thanks. It wasn’t too difficult.

Man : You’re being modest! You did really well.

Woman : Thank you.

Man : You’re a great manager, you know.

Woman : Do you think so?

Man : Oh yeah.

Woman : I appreciate that.

(pause)

Man : Have you cut your hair?

Woman : Oh yes, I did actually. Thanks for noticing!

Man : Where did you get it done?

Woman : Oh, just that place on the high street.

Man : They did a great job and it looks great with the outfit.

Woman : Do you think so?

Man : Oh yeah. Very … fashionable.

Woman : Oh, it’s just an old thing.

Man : Well, you’ve got a great sense of style.

Woman : Thank you, you too.

Man : Thank you.

(pause)

Man : Nice perfume, too. Is that Dream?

Woman : Well, yes it is, actually.

Man : You wear it well.

Woman : I’m flattered.

Man : My pleasure.

Woman : Listen, do you want something?

Man : No. I’m just being polite, you know.

Woman : Hmmm.

That is a short script of the dialogue. Next is that, I'll give you some useful expression which mostly used in complementing someone.



Here, I also give the audio file to support on how complementing people. You just simply click the play button.


Now, we go to the last step of this Speaking Skill.

I. Completion Dialogue.
Fill in the blank this dialogue with the suitable expressions.

1. A : This cake is very delicious. What __________ (1)!
B : ____(2). My mom taught me.


2. A : I saw you on the catwalk last night. You _____ (3)!
B : _____?(4) I have did the rehearsal for two weeks.

3. A : _______ (5) you are wearing!
B : Well, I just got it. It was pretty cheap.

4. A : I love your watch. It _____(6) your hand!
B : Thanks. A friend of mine brought it to me from Oregon.

5. A : You ___________(7) hair. Where did you cut it?
B : ____?(8) Just that place on the high street.

II. Make your own dialogue.
Choose one of the situation below and make the dialogue.

1. Your best friend got 10 on his English test. What will you say ?
2. Your mom made a very delicious cake for supper. What will be the dialogue?
3. You see that your friend dressed nicely on her birthday. What will you say to her?

Write down your answer by

giving comment on this page.
State
- Name
- Student's Number
- Your Answer

Good luck, my dearest students!

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A review of Speaking Lesson Website

Today, I am going to review on Speaking Lesson Website. You can click to this website Speaking Lesson Website.

Here is the url http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/

This blog entitled Learn English from British council. This website provides the reader some material for teaching English. For example for teaching listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary. This websites also gives the reader some dun activities and games. There are also some project for business and work project.

Learn English online with the help of this free website from the British Council with games, stories, listening activities and grammar exercises. You can search for your favourites, or have a look at the site map to find out where everything is.

You will find lots of new listening activities and video content in Listen & Watch. This blog also have a new Grammar section and new IELTS exam practice materials. This website are currently moving content over to Business & Work section from their sister site LearnEnglish Professionals.

From this website, the teacher can give some examples of conversations by using the video provided there. It has some interesting video and tutorial for some conversation. By browsing this website, the students can have more excersises dealing with conversation, besides that the students can have some fun by playing some games dealing with English.

There are many categories provided in this website. This websites helps a lot the teacher, since the conversation and dialogue are clear enough. This website is very interesting for children, beginner, even a college students.

I highly recommend this website since the audio and video are originally from native speakers. This blog is also friendly user.

Here, I give you the screen shoot of the website.

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Listening Activity - Hortatory Exposition

Hello, my dearest students :)

Firstly, I'd like to say thank you to all of you who have opened this website. Since I've told you that you'll have assignment to do. In this page you will find 3 steps of learning process. There are pre-listening, whilst listening, and post-listening. Now, let's take a look at part 1.

• PART 1 PRE-LISTENING

Let's have some warming up. Does anyone know what Hortatory Exposition is ?
Well, here is the explanation:


That's short explanation about hortatory exposition.

• PART 2 WHILST LISTENING

Now, Let's go to the listening section. Here, I've put a listening audio in a form of mp3 entitled Smoking is A Bad Habit. You can listen to it directly by clicking the play button.



For those who'd like to download the audio, simply you can click this link,
smoking is a bad habit.mp3

• PART 3 POST LISTENING

Now, if you have listened to the audio, pay attention to some important words below:

♥ Cigarette

A small paper tube filled with cut pieces of tobacco, which people smoke.

♥ Smoking

When someone smokes a cigarette, pipe, etc., or when someone regularly does this.

♥ Lung Cancer

A serious disease in lung that is caused when cells in the body grow in a way that is uncontrolled and not normal, killing normal cells and often causing death.

♥ Stroke

A sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, which can cause a loss of the ability to move particular parts of the body.


Okay, I believe that all of you have understood about the listening material. So, here is some exercises to check your understanding.

Simply just click this link.

LISTENING TEST-HORTATORY EXPOSITION



Please write down:

1. Full Name
2. Do the exercise
   

The due date for this assignment is : 27 March 2011 @ 10.00 am.
Those who are late, I consider they don't submit the assignments.

After doing the Quiz, do not worry about your score because your data and score have been directly reported to my email. Remember, you only have one chance to do the quiz.



Please feel free if you have any question, leave a comment.
Good Luck :)

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