Jumat, 12 April 2019

Finally, summary.

HCMC University of Technology and Education in my opinion is a good University in Vietnam, it may be because it is my first visit to Vietnam and just stay in HCMUTE for my teaching practicum. Students of this university are great, they can welcome new people very well with their diversity. While, This University has good management how to handle all exchange students that is giving the best service to what student’s need and accommodation. My teaching practicum here runs really well, with a great team and incredible supervisor who guided me for everything in my teaching practicum. Such an honor for me to learn more about to be a good teacher in this university. What I want for the next time is that, I hope there will be next batch from my home university to have the teaching practicum again in HCMUTE, and I hope they will do so much better than me.

Teaching Practicum starts






First of all, here I have my teaching practicum schedule;
DATE
TEACHING CONTENT
March 11th 2019
ESP : Recruitment, Selection, And Training Of Workers – Unit 8

March 12th 2019
GE3 : Four corners 3 – Unit 10A
March 18th 2019
GE : Four Corners 3 – Unit 10B

            I have three times of teaching, 2 for General English and 1 for ESP. The teaching activity has been shown before this article on a lesson plan. I conducted many activities for every subject, which has been consulted to my own supervisor, Ms. Le Thi Thanh Ha who has already guided me since the first I start the process of my PPL in HCMUTE. Also, she always give me very good and clear feedback on my teaching practicum. Such as;
My supervisor said that, I am confidence enough to teach students, but sometimes I am too thigh and have too serious facial expression which can make students uncomfortable.  I couldn’t give clear instruction for students to do the activity in the class, however it really influences the teaching and learning process.  My supervisor also says that I have loud voice which can be categorized as the strength, and it can be used to attract student’s attention to listen and see teacher explanations. Then, many things that should be improved from my teaching performance is that on how I can give clear instructions for students to do their activity and keep smiling to face students.  Also, the way how to check students understanding should be improved by always practicing to make questions for students to answer. This is really important to know and make sure that all students have understood what is asked by teacher for students to do. Sometimes, providing situations is really important to help students to understand new vocabularies, which in this part a teacher should be master in explaining the situation of each words with easy way. At last, the important thing that should be improved is that how to always elicit answer from students by asking some questions that should be prepared before coming to the class.  

Have a Good Plan


10th of April 2019
Before conducting the teaching practice, the first thing that I do is observation. Observation is activity to observe something to know the situation in that place. In this activity, I observe some teachers and student teacher. Every teacher has their own style in teaching the students. By doing observation, I can know the best way to teach students, (manage the class, using appropriate method, giving feedback, reinforcement, and use appropriate instructional media), know some characteristics of the students, (what they need and what they do not need), and the environment in the class. I can learn so much from this observation. Next is making lesson plan. Lesson plan is very important in teaching. Lesson plan is used as reference to carry out teaching activities to be more focused, run effectively and efficiently. In other words, the lesson plan acts as a scenario for the teaching process. In lesson plan there are several things that very important, such as the objectives of lesson plan, the method that will be used, and the teaching aids. The lesson plan can also help the teacher if the teacher forgets the activities and for students it will make them able to understand all of the lesson. Before I make lesson plan, I have to understand the lesson first and after that try to make the plan for the teaching. From the observation, I can know the students’ characteristic. So that I can choose the best method for students and also use appropriate instructional media. Next is instructional media. This media refers to the power point with the audio. Before teach students, I make the teaching materials and also with the power point. I make the teaching materials as simple as possible and put on ppt. Using power point in teaching will make students easier to understand about the lesson and also easier for the teacher to explain the material. The audio will help students in listening practice. Next is mental. I prepared the mental because this is my first time in teaching English for foreign students. The last is prepared the rewards for the students. This reward will be used as thing to make students more active than before. In other words, will increase their activeness.
Here I try to show you how my lesson plan performance is;


HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION
FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

TEACHING PRACTICUM 2019
GENERAL ENGLISH – ENGLISH 3
LESSON PLAN
UNIT 10: LIVING YOUR LIVE
LESSON B – I’LL GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT
Supervisor:          Ms. Le Thi Thanh Ha
Student teacher: Diah Intan Hani Ananda
                                                                  



-         Class profile: Non-English majored students.
-         Student’s level: Pre - Intermediate
-         Number of students: 50
-         Allotted time:  70 minutes
-         Date and time: 19th of March 2019
-         Material: Richards, J.C. & Bohlke, D. (2013). Four Corners Student’s Book 3. Cambridge University Press.
-         Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
o   Give advise against something
o   Consider advise
-         Teaching aids: Laptop, TV, speakers, board, chalk and hand-outs.
-         Teaching approach: CLT (Communicative Language Teaching)
-         Anticipated problems:
o   Students may not understand the meaning of some new words.
o   Some students may hesitate to join in-class activities.
o   Students may not understand the instruction of the activities.
-         Possible solutions:
o   Provide some difficult phrase and vocabulary that may appear in the listening.
o   Divide and group sudents in the class appropriately and deliver certain tasks for each group to complete.
o   Make the instructions clearer by giving some examples, and check their understanding of the instructions.


-         Procedure:
Timing
Stages
Procedure
Stages’ aims
Interaction
Materials

10

Listening
Pre-listening

























While-listening









- T leads students to recognize some words that may appear in the listening the audio.
- T provides some vocabularies and phrases that students may don’t understand the meaning and it’s pronunciation. Those are;
1. quit /kwit/ = leave (a place), usually permanently.
2. recommend /ˌrekəˈmend/=  to suggest that someone or something would be good or suitable for a particular job or purpose
3. charge /tʃɑːrdʒ/ = to ask an amount of money for something.

-T leads into the listening.
-T goes over instruction and sentences.
-T predicts for Ss the impossible answers.












-It helps Ss develop skills in listening for main ideas and details.















T-Ss




Slides


25 minutes


Listening part A:
- T requires students to read all sentences on part A
- T provides hints by asking some questions which can make students predict the answer from the listening session.
“who think she need to get a full time job?”
“who think she wants to take more classes?”
Etc.
-T plays the audio at once for the first time.
-T asks Ss to listen carefully and find the problem for each number of the conversation in student’s book.
- T asks students to volunteer to share their anwer for part A in the class.

Listening part B
-T goes over instruction
- T asks students to predict what advise that is probably given by Tim for his friends with those problems?
- T explain the way how to listen to the audio and get the right anwer.
- T informs about some sentence that can be the keyword to find the answer, such as;
“I think…”
“I don’t think…”
- T asks students to find the recommendation sentence for each problem in Part A.
-T plays audio for the second time.
-T invites some Ss to share their answers to the class.
-T goes over the answers with class and listen one more time to the audio and find the evidence.

T-Ss
Ss-Ss


PowerPoint slides

15 minutes















Post - listening








Activity 1
- T asks studenst to find their partner
- T provides handout for all of students to do with their pairs.
- the handout consists of three problems and Ss should ask their pair to share their opinion about what advice would they give for each problem, write down the advice on the handout and also give advice for friends in 10 minutes.

- the, T asks students volunteer to share what their pair advice for each problem in front of the class.
- T asks some other students to repeat what have been said by the volunteer before.




-Ss can give recommendation of other people problem.

-Ss improve speaking skills.



Powerpoint slides


Handout
20 minutes
Speaking Practice
Activity 2
- T devides students in to 5 groups
- each group will be given A0 paper
- T goes over the instructions.
- Students should make a dialogue on the big paper of giving recommendation based on the clue that will be given by teacher for each group.
- T provides example of the dialogue which uses expression of advising against something and considering advise.
- One person from each group should take one envelope to have the clue in making the dialogue.
- T requires students to write a dialogue by using the phrases of giving and considering advice/recommendation in 10 minutes.
- T asks students for each group to share their work in front of the class. 

- Exercise for speaking by using the expressions of advising against something and considering advise.

 Slides
Paper
Envelope













HANDOUT
Name: ……………………………………………………………
Imagine your friends wants to do the things below. What advice would you give?
PROBOLEM
RECOMMENDATION/ADVICE
1.      Your friends wastes his time to play video game too much. He always get up late in the morning, and can’t go to school on time!

2. Your friend has planned to go to the beach with her classmate this weekend. Suddenly, her mother also invites her to go to grandmother’s house!

3. Your friend often forget everything. Such as to do homework, task, deadline, etc.





Foreign Language Faculty



2nd of April 2019
In HCMUTE I have my teaching practicum in the Foreign Language Faculty especially in General English and English for Specific Purposes Classes. The Faculty of Foreign Languages (FFL) used to be a Department of Foreign Languages subordinated to the Faculty of Basic Science. In 2007, the Department of Foreign Languages was separated and officially operated independently from its former faculty. Nowadays, the FFL is in charge of delivering a bachelor’s program in Technical English Education and English Language Studies. Within the common trend of regional and international integration, English has assumed an ever more important role in a multilingual and multicultural working environment. The Technical English Education and English Language Studies programs delivered by FFL aims to provide the labor market with white collar workers, knowledgeable about ESP, and able to work in industrial parks, export-processing zones, companies, factories and plants, as well as for foreign offices, international and non- governmental organizations, where English is required.


Ho Chi Minh City University of Education and Technology

30th of March 2019
After having campus tour and several days to know Ho Chi Minh University of Education and Technology, I got more informations about the campus that will be the place for me to have the teaching practicum for a month. So, here is the detail information about HCMUTE, or we can say as the school profile.
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education (HCMUTE) is the first institution in Vietnam that educates, trains and creates the workforce of technical teachers for the country. Through time, the university’s name has been changed several times due to integration with other schools or its own promotion.
The university originated from the Technical Education College Department subordinate to the Phu Tho School of Technology, founded on October 5th, 1962, then was renamed Nguyen Truong To Technical Education College Center of Thu Duc in 1972. Two years later in 1974, it was upgraded to Thu Duc College of Education. On October 27th, 1976, the institute was renamed Thu Duc University of Technical Education in accordance with a decision of the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Vietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam). After merging with the adjacent Thu Duc Industrial High School in 1984 and further merging with Technical Education School V in 1991, the school was renamed Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education. In 1995, the university incorporated with National University Ho Chi Minh City as an unofficial member. In 2000, the school separated from the National University to become a member under supervision of the Ministry of Education and Training, and our school’s name was restored and has been HCMC University of Technology and Education since.
Nowadays, the main campus of the university is located at 01, Vo Van Ngan street, Linh Chieu Ward, Thu Duc District, about 10 km North-East from downtown of Ho Chi Minh City. With favorable position, convenient transportation system, spacious and well- equipped study environment, HCMUTE is highly advantageous compared to the other universities.


Jumat, 01 Maret 2019

Campus and Culinary Tour

23 of February 2019

Yasshhh this is my first morning in Vietnam, feel like I am in Bali with its hot weather. Factually, it is hotter than my expectation that is for about 34 degrees Celsius at the afternoon. My first impression about Vietnam is the hot weather and the crowded traffic which is exactly different from my hometown, Bali. Crowded traffic I mean here is not only about the number of vehicles on the road, but it is more about how the driver drove on the road with a horn that kept ringing which made the road become very crowded. I can only sigh and stroke my chest to see how the ride a motorcycle.:)) At last, I feel that this city is very hot and crowded and i should always wear my mask to cover my face from unwanted pollution, that's it.
In this day, I also had a culinary tour with Mr. Hin and 7 friends of mine. We got lunch in one of the “supermarket” in the campus to taste some foods. “Supermarket” in this country means a restaurant in Indonesia, means that we have different meanings of a place for eating. LOL. Okay, btw in this supermarket we were given menus in Vietnamese language in which my friends and I really don’t understand at all. So, we just trust Mr. Hin to order some food for us. Before the main course come, we were given cup of rice, banana, and traditional tea from Vietnam. Yeay, our order had come and we were like saying “WHAT??” in our mind, it was beef and carrot, cabbage and chicken, and the taste that I hardly should say were not too good. It was not suitable with my taste of tongue. FYI, the taste of some foods in Vietnam are salty, and the rest are tasteless. Nothing is suitable with my taste, but I try to adapt with all of the foods for my life in a month in Vietnam. Fortunately, I still can receive many taste of the dessert here and some traditional snacks sold. I cannot say the name of the food because those have Vietnamese name. One thing that I really don’t understand in this city, that all Vietnamese have big portion of eating, they eat a lot of rice more than me, but they have skinny body and I almost don’t find fat person but me, hmm. 


            Here I also give some pictures of food that I ever eat;