In the first meeting of tutorial class, I’ve got new experience. The tutor is my senior at English department. His name is Anwar. He has ever attended in my Instructional Media course last semester. He shared about blogging. He explained how about teaching English by using blogging in SMA 3 N in
For the second chance, I try to share about what I’ve got in tutorial class today in my blog. Even though it was only an hour, but it gave me more motivation for improving my English, especially in spoken English.
Tutorial started by checking attendance and brief introduction. Then, the tutor gave us explanation about what we would learn. He took an issue for discussion. The topic of the issue is “Education should be expensive”. We were divided into two groups. Each group should be gave argument (Fort or against) and explanation about that case. All of people got chances to state their arguments. My group chose against that statement. Our group firmly believed that Education should not expensive. I tried to express my argument, but as usual I felt difficulty to express what I want to say in English. I’ve just piled them up in my mind.
Before we stated our argument, he wrote some expressions for giving strong opinion in whiteboard such as:
- I firmly believe that…
- I’m absolutely convinced that…
- It’s my belief that…
- There’s no doubt in my mind that…
- I’m certain that…
The expression in above can used when we fort argument or against argument. He also wrote expression for neutral opinion such as:
- I think…
- As far as I’m concerned…
After we expressed our argument, the tutor gave an assignment before ending the class. He asked us to make a report about discussion text about the same issue “Education should be expensive”. I think it is given to train and practice our writing skill.
Let’s do it...!!!
