Integrating Speaking Activity with Adolescent Issues

To enable learners to

• enhance their personal function of language
• enhance their critical thinking
• enhance their reasoning skills
• enhance interactional function of language
• write by associating with their personal experience

25-30 minutes

1. Talk about one challenge//problem that you have faced in your life? How did you deal with it / how did you manage it/solve it? 
2. What did your elders advise to help you come out of the problem?

Activities

Text input, pedagogical processes (including teacher instructions and class organization)

Tell Me

Why do things always happen this way
why does my heart choose to stay closed 
why can’t you hear my pain
this is all I ask
hear me again
hear my cries at night
help me face my fears tonight
so tell me
why can’t I find you again
why can’t you be here when I need you
no one understands
who I am
where I’ve been
where I’m going why do things always happen this way
but I now understand
no one gets me
what I need
what I want
people can’t you see
I’m a girl in need
hear my plea………..
© Ayleashua Marchewitz
Published in April 2008
Source: http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/ poem/people-dont-understand-me#ixzz3lGLYJphF

Main Activity 1: Pair

Activity The students in pair will create a problem-solution chart for the above text/poem with the following cues:

1. List the major problem faced by the character.
2. Think and discuss at least three solutions for the problem.
3. Study and think deeply about what is good and bad about each solution.
4. Write down your best solution and why you consider it the best.
5. Share your best solutions with the class
6. Compare your solution with other pairs and discuss which is the better one and why.

Solution: The best option/choice is ………because