STARTER ALPHA LESSON PLAN

No Material Activities Notes

1. Let Me Introduce
Myself & Personal - Hi, I’m Nita (casual)
Information - Hello, my name is Nita (formal)
- I am 23 years old
- I am 23
- I am a teacher
- I work in a school
- I work as a teacher
- I am from cimahi
- I live in Cimahi
- I like reading books
- I am a good cook
- I am good at cook
- I like to shop when i’m free

My name is nita, what about yours?

Hi, I’m nita
Nice to meet you, nita. I’m emma watson
Sorry, Can you say that again please?
I’m Emma watson, But you can call me Emma.
2. Meet My Family Vocab about family
Immidiate family = father, mother, sister,
brother
Extended family = aunt, uncle, grandparents
Almarhum = the late (mother, grandfather,
shakespeare)

Exercise
 Make family tree

Tell about family through picture

3. Everyday Activities Vocab about daily activity:
Get up
Have a shower
Get dressed
Have breakfast
Brush teeth
Go to school
Arrive at school
Have lessons
Have lunch
Leave school
Do homework
Play computer games
Ride bicycle
Play football
Listen to music
Watch tv
Have dinner
Go to bed
Read a book
Sleep

Make daily schedule

4. Numbers cardinal number 1,2,3
 379 = three hundred and seventy nine
 2,860 = two thousand eight
hundred and sixty
 5,084 = five thousand and eighty-four
 470,000 = four hundred and seventy
thousand
 2,550,000 = two million, five
hundred and fifty thousand
 3,000,000,000 = three billion
Note:  There is no plural’s’ after hundred,
thousand, million and billion when they are
part of a number.
On their own, they can be plural,
e.g. thousands of people; millions of insects.

ordinal number 1st, 2nd.

One of the problems with dates is that we
write them and say them in a different way:
 We write 4 January (or 4th January),
but say the fourth of
January or  January the fourth.
 We write 21 May (or 21st May), but
say the twenty-first of May or  May
the twenty-first.
  1997 = nineteen ninety seven
 1905 = nineteen hundred and
five or  nineteen oh five

Fractions and decimals

 1 1/4 = one and a quarter
 1 1/2 = one and a half
 1 3/4 = one and three quarters
 1 1/3 = one and a third
 1.25 = one point two five
 1.5 = one point five
 1.75 = one point seven five
 1.33 = one point three three

Percentages
 26% = twenty-six per cent
 More than 50% is the majority; less
than 50% is the minority.

Arithmetic
There are four basic processes for working
out (= calculating) a problem:
+ = addition e.g. 6 + 4 =
10 (six plus/and four equals/is ten)
– = subtraction e.g. 6-4 = 2 (six minus four
equals/is two)
X = multiplication e.g. 6 X 4= 24 (six times /
multiplied by four equals/is twenty-four)
/ =  division e.g. 4/2 = 2 (four divided by two
equals/is two)
Saying ‘0’
This can be spoken in different ways in
different contexts.
 telephone number: 603 724 =
six oh three, seven two four (AmEng =
six zero three)
 mathematics: 0.7 = nought point
seven, 6.02 = six point oh two
 temperature: -10 degrees = ten
degrees below zero / minus ten
degrees
 football: 2-0 = two nil
 tennis: 40-0 = forty love

game one, two, three clap

5. The Calendar Days: Sunday, moday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Months: january, february, march, april, may,

june, july, august, september, october,
november, december

Today, yesterday, ago, last, the day after, the

day before
morning afternoon evening night

US = month/day/year (june 10th 1994)

UK = day/month/year ( 10th june 1994= the
10th of june 1994)
Year before millennium we split it up into 2
section (1995=nineteen ninety-five)
Past the year 2000
(2009 = twenty o nine/ two thousand and
nine)
feb 7th = februari the seventh
so on
 "January 21, 2016"—usually spoken with the
year as a cardinal number and the day as
an ordinal number, e.g., "January twenty-first,
two thousand sixteen")
Noon, midnight, am.pm
national holidays
1. Jan 1st = new years day
2. Feb 16th = chinese new year
3. Mar 17th = day of silence (nyepi)
4. Mar 30th = good friday (wafat isa al
masih)
5. Apr 14th = ascension of the prophet
(isra miraj)
6. Apr 21st = kartini day
7. Apr 22nd = earth day
8. May 1st = labour day (hari buruh)
9. May 2nd = national education day
10. May 10th = ascention of jesus
11. May 20 = national awakening day
12. May 29th = vaisakha (waisak)
13. June 1st = pancasila day
14. June 15th = eid al-fitr
15. Jul 23rd = national children day
16. Aug 17th = independence day
17. Aug 22nd = feast of sacrifice (idul
adha)
18. Oct 2nd = national batik day
19. Oct 28th = youth pledge day (sumpah
pemuda)
20. Nov 10th = heroes’s day
21. Nov 12th = father’s day
22. Dec 22nd = mother’s day
23. Dec 25th = christmast

Guess important days game

6. Physical States and Listening song: Happy
Emotions Review the song and vocab

Vocab about feeling

Angry expression:
- Piss of ( I felt really pissed off, when i
saw somebody.../ i think i pissed off
my teacher when i didnt do my
homework)
- Livid, fuming, seething (so angry)
Happiness expression
- Over the moon ( I’m completely over
the moon because....)
- I’m buzzing

Games guess the feeling

7. Cooking Time Vocab about kitchen and activities in the
kitchen

How to make spaghetti aglio e olio

8. Fast Food Vocab about fast food restaurant and taste

Role play
How to order food in the fast food restaurant

Disscuss about fast food

Guess the food

9. Colors Vocab about colour
The most common colour names:
• Black
• Gray/Grey
• White
• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Purple
• Brown
• Magenta/fushia = pink and purple
• Tan = pale tone of brown
• Cyan = halfway between blue and green
• Olive = muddy/ dark green colour
• Maroon = dark red colour
• Navy = dark blue
• Aquamarine = cyan and green like
ocean
 • Turquoise = mix pale blue and green
• Silver = metal
• Lime = yellowish green
• Teal= deep blue green
• Indigo = shade of blue
• Violet = blue and purple
• Pink

Practice/exercise
phrase, white dress, black hat
try to make a sentence
choose 5 things inside the bag
show and tell the colour
- Diana: “I have black pen, pink tumbler
etc”
Asking another member about their friend’s
things
- “what colour is diana’s pen?”
- So on

twister game/stacko
10. Clothes and Vocab about clothes
Shopping
Practice: in the shop

Fashion show
11. The Body Vocab about body:
Head
Hair
Ear
Eye
Eyebrows
Eyelashes
Forehead
Nose
Mouth
Lip
Tooth
Tounge
Cheek
Chin
Neck
Shoulder
Arm
Hand
Finger= tumb, pointed,middle,ring,little
Nail
Chest
Belly
Stomach
Hips
 leg
Tight
Knee
Calf
Heel
Foot
Toes

Body = fat, slim, lanky, curvy

Hair = long, short, medium, blonde,
red/ginger, black, grey, brown, brunette, bald
Eyes = big, small,
Nose = pointed, small, crooked, turned up
Mouth = small, big, pouty,
Face = rectangular, heart-shape, round, oval
Skin = fair, dark

Beautiful, handsome, pretty, good looking,

Describe someone’s appearance

Guess who games

12. Music Read about singer/band

Review about the text

Musical instrument vocab

Missing lyric : more than words

Music games
13. Tourist Activities Vocab

Practice

Discuss about traveling

14. The Classroom Vocab

Practice

Games
15. Question Words Who
Only refer to a person or people ( I want to
know the person)
- who is calling?
- Who is the best football player in the
world?
- Who are those people over there?
- Who is that man behind the mask?
Where
Refer to a place or location ( I want to know
the place)
 - Where should i go?
- Where is the library?
- Where do you live?
- Where can I buy lunch near here?
When
Refer to a time on an occasion
- When can i go on vacation?
- When does the store open?
- When is your birthday?
- When are we going finish?
Why?
Obtain an explaination or reason
- Why is the window open?
- Why are you angry?
- Why are they always late?
- Whay do you want to learn english?
- Because.....
What
Refer to spesific information about something
- What is making that sound?
- What is your surname?
- What are you doing?
- What do you want for dinner?
Which
Used for a choice
- Which dish did you order? Pizza or
lasagna?
- Which dish should i choose?
- Which day should we go? Monday or
Friday?
- Which is better? This one or that one?
How
For description of something o the way it is
done
- How do you go to school?
- How can i learn english quickly?
- How do you feel today?
- How often ...? (frequency)
- How old ...? (age)
- How far...? (distance)
- How many ...?
(quantity/numbers/countable)
- How much ....?
(quantity/price/uncountable)

Make 5 questions (snowball throwing)

Eg.
1. who is your favorite actor or actress?
2. where do you live?
3. when is the national day of your country?
4. why do you want to learn english?
 5. what do you do in your free time?
6. which do you prefer? Chocolate or pizza?
7. how do you celebrate your birthday?

snake and ladder, exercise

16. The Living Room Vocab about living room and bedroom
and Bedroom
Tell about their livingroom and bedroom

Hunting words
17. Public Listening about transportation
Transportations Review

Vocab aboutpublic transportation & street

Role playing
Be a flight attendant
18. Friends Missing Lyric : Give of a friend

Exercise

Discuss about friends