Mahdiansyah SMKN 3 Tanah Grogot
My own teaching journal related to teaching TOEIC and my support of students’
TOEIC exam preparations.
Topic : Listening to Conversation in Making Hotel Reservation Grade : X
Students’ characteristics : Good listener and Competitive
Method/ teaching strategies : Discussing,Modelling and Audio Learning
Teacher activities Student activities
- Introducing the students the topic.
- Brainstorming with students about the topic.
- Asking the students to prepare and to pay atatention to the audio.
- Modelling on how to listen on audio carefully.
- Playing the audio of conversation.
- Giving the students some question based on the conversation.
- Re-playing the audio to check students’
answer.
- Discussing the students’ answers - Discussing the clues for getting the
answers.
- Modelling on how to find a clue in the questions.
- Giving the students more English listening test.
- Giving corrections to the students anwers.
- Playing various games related to listening skill.
- Paying full attention to teacher’s explanation.
- Asking and giving comments while brainstorming.
- Listening to the played audio carefully - Answering the questions based on the
conversation
- Checking their anwers with the teacher.
- Discussing the answers with students and the tecaher.
- Learning how find the clue of the questions.
- Doing the test of listening.
- Making notes on the teacher’s correction.
- Having more practices on listening the audio such as English sons g or movies.
Problems (in teaching TOEIC):
- Having no Language labolatory.
- Doing the teaching learning of TOEIC rarely.
- The students have low level of listening skill.
Solution:
- Teaching students related to TOEIC skill/mateials more often.
- Giving the students some English test sources which can be done by students at home.
- Selecting some interesting materials.
- Implementing the best method and teaching strategies based on the students’ need.
