Compliment and Compliment Response

Hello guys, nice to meet you in this morning. Here, I want to show you my lesson plan in conversation. In this post, we will talk about compliment and compliment response. But before I give my student lesson about it, I will ask them to speak out. I will divide this post into three activity


A. Pre-Activities
1. Reading Activity
In this activity, students will have a reading segment. They must read and understand about "What's in a name?". The text is available page 12 in Here

After that, the teacher can give some questions orally about the page. The questions are available in the same page.

2. Speaking Ability

I provide a video above about Taylor Swift. I ask my students to retell about the article in video by using their own words.

B. Main Activities
In this activity, I will give them lesson about compliment and compliment response. 
1. Compliment
Compliment is a good evaluation from the speaker to the hearer. Compliment consists of four topics.
a. Appearance
Examples: You look so beautiful. You've beautiful hair. You are adorable.
b. Ability
Examples: You are an excellent student. You've excellent English
c. Possession
Examples: You have cool shoes. Your laptop is so expensive.
d. Character
Examples: You are very helpful. You are so kind.

2. Compliment Response
Compliment Response is an utterance to respond to compliment given.
Examples:
a. Appreciation: Thank you
b. Agreement: Yes, this is my new laptop.
c. Disagreement: No, this is not Blackberry but it's Mito.
d. Question: Really?
e. Downgrade: This is a second-hand product.
f. Upgrade: Yes, this is a new brand of samsung.
g. Return: Your laptop is the best.
h. History: My father bought from Singapore.

The following activities, the students will identify some utterances from the video below.
Which utterance is compliment and compliment response? Please provide a table consist of two columns.

After that, the teacher asks the students to read their works. The teacher must correct incorrect utterance and pronunciations. After this, the teacher asks the students to give some comments (They must use compliment) about some character in the following video. For instance: I like the boy. He is really cute. The girl has beautiful hair.

The video is available below:

C. Post Activity
The teacher asks the student to give four compliment (different topics) to four different students. It would be fun if they make in some sentence each topic. Make sure the complimentee will respond to compliment for complimenter.

That's all guys. Thank you for reading this article. See you in next lesson.

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Conversation Questions: Name

Today, I will teach my teens class. I have some questions about their names. I found the conversation question in the following website http://iteslj.org/questions/names.html After that, They will continue to do their student's book. 

Let's go to check the questions here! 

Conversation Questions
Names

• What's your name?
• What's the most beautiful girl's name you've heard?
• What's the best boy's name you've heard?
• How did your parents choose your name?
• Are you happy with your name?
  • If not, why not?
• What are some of the most common names for boys and girls in your country?
• What are some really unusual names you've heard?
• Are there any names you absolutely hate?
  • If so, what are they?
  • Why do you hate them?
• Do you think names shape our personality? To what degree?
• Does your name have a meaning?
  • If so, what does it mean?
• Do you have a middle name?
  • What is it?
  • If you have multiple middle names, what are they?
• In your culture, when you introduce yourself, does the last name come first or the first name?
• Do you have a nickname?
  • If so, what is it?
  • How did you get it?
  • Do you like it?
  • What are some interesting nicknames that you have heard?
• How many letters are in your name?
  • How many syllables are in your name?
  • Does your first name have the same number of syllables as your last name?
  • How many duplicate letters are in your name?
• What do you think of people who name their children after months, seasons or days of the week?
  • What do you think of parents who make up unique names for their children?
• Some parents give their children names in alphabetical order. Do you think this is a good idea?
• What was the name of your first girlfriend or boyfriend?
  • Have you ever dated two different people with the same first name?
• What are some titles you can think of? (e.g. Mr., Mrs., Professor, Duke etc.)
• Do you think it is okay to give pets human names?
  • What is the most popular name for a dog in your country?
  • How about cats?
• Do you know the names of some famous race horses? If so, please name a few.
• Can you name some famous world leaders?
  • Can you name some famous composers?
  • Can you name some famous artists?
  • Can you name some Western foods?
  • Can you name some Eastern foods?
  • Can you name some Middle-Eastern foods?
  • Can you name some cars?
  • What are some names of famous companies you know?
• What's the name of your favorite singer?
  • What's the name of your favorite character from a story you've read
  • What's the name of your favorite writer?
  • What's the name of your favorite novel?
  • What's the name of your favorite restaurant?
  • What's the name of your favorite television show?
  • What's the name of your favorite movie?
• Do you know the meaning of your name? If yes, what does it mean?
  • What does your name mean?
• Have ever changed your name?
• Do you have names in two different languages? (ex. a Chinese name and an English name )? If not, would you like to?
• Do women change their name after marriage in your country or keep their maiden name?
• Can you name some notorious people or criminals ?
• Is it ever appropriate to "call someone names"? When?
• Can you name the seven continents?
  • How many U.S. state names do you know?
  • How many Canadian province names do you know?
• Do you believe some names or words have magical qualities?
• Do people in your country predict the future according to names?
• If you could change your name would you? What would it be? Why this name?
• Do you remember any kids whose names other kids in school made fun of? Why? What were their names?
• Are you named after anyone in your family?
• Do you ever feel pressure to live up to your name?
• Can your name mean anything funny in your language?
• Have you ever known a boy that has a "girl's name" or a boy that had a "girl's name"?
• Do you wish your name was less common, or more unusual?
• If you could change your name would you? What would it be? Why that name?
• How did you choose your children`s names?
• Are you named after ancestors that are already dead?
• Are you named after a famous person?
• Can your name mean anything funny in your language? Did you ever get teased in school because of this?
• Have you ever known a boy that has a "girl's name" or a boy that had a "girl's name"? What was it like for them?
• Is it common in your country to name a person after a person in the Bible?
• Do you know some names that can be a boy's or a girl's name?
• Does your husband or wife call you a "pet" name.
• Pet name is a special endearment such as honey, sugar, sweetie, etc.

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