Introduction
Do you know how to give congratulating and complimenting others in English?
There are a lot of ways to give your congratulating and complimenting others in English. You can use verbal. Verbal language is portrayed from your vocabulary, tone, and stress you use while you are talking. Congratulating (Congratulation) is congratulating others on achievements and happiness achieved. While compliment is an expression to appreciate or praise others. Praise or appreciation is very important to encourage others so that they will consistently maintain their achievements and improve their abilities.
Today you will learn about congratulating and complimenting others. Let's get started!
Task
You will familiarize yourself with the expressions used to express congratulations and expressions of compliment that will later be used by you to find a partner and practice with your partner by having conversations recorded on video. Follow the step-by-step activities in the “process” part of this WebQuest. I hope you enjoy your exploration. I’m looking forward to watching your video next week. Good luck!
Process
Step 1: Find your Partner
Make a group consisting of two students.
Steps 2 : What congratulations and compliments are used?
Get yourself familiar with congratulating and complimenting others to give congratulation and compliment others. Open the links below and take a note of vocabulary mostly used in showing certain congratulation and compliment others.
https://todayactivities.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/materials-and-worksheet.pdf
https://englishdoremi.blogspot.com/2019/07/congratulating-and-complimenting-others.html
Step 3 :
After knowing the expressions used, try to see how they are used in communication. Visit the link below and watch the video. Pay attention to the use of sentences used when congratulating and complimenting. How to compliment a food made by someone? Find out yourself.
Steps 4 : Create Video
Make a video conversation with your partner, the conversation must contain expressions of congratulations and expressions of compliment to others. Make sure the video is of good enough quality. Upload your video on Youtube and share the link on Google Classroom.
Please join Google Classroom with the code hdath7. Good luck!
Evaluation
This is how your project is going to be evaluated.
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Poor (1 point) |
Fair (2 Point) |
Good (3 Point) |
Excellent (4 Point) |
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Grammar |
Grammar almost entirely inaccurate, frequent errors showing some major patterns uncontrolled and causing misunderstanding |
Occasional errors showing imperfect control of some patterns but no weakness that causing misunderstanding.
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Few errors, with no patterns of failure. |
No more than two errors during the conversation |
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Pronunciation |
Student’s pronunciation was incomprehensible |
Student’s pronunciation made understanding difficult |
Student’s pronunciation was understandable with some errors
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Student’s pronunciation was like a native speaker
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Fluency
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Speech is frequently hesitant and jerky, sentences may be left uncompleted.
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Speech is occasionally hesitant, with some un evenness caused by rephrasing and grouping for words.
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Speech is effortless and smooth, but perceptibly non-native in speed and evenness.
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Speech is on all professional and general topics as effortless and smooth as a native speaker's.
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Intonation |
Speech monotonous, not showing happiness |
Speech shows a little happiness
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Student showed good use of tone and intonation, but the tone or intonation was inappropriate for the context at times
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Student showed excellent use of tone and intonation.
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Video Quality
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The quality of the video was bad. The picture was not clear at all and the audio was not clear either, cannot be heard
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The quality of the video is fair, some of the picture couldn’t be seen clearly and in some parts the audio was not clear
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The quality of the video was good, the picture and the audio were clear, but there was a little noise on the video
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The quality of the video was excellent. There is no problem with the video
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Conclusion
Good Job! You have completed the step-by-step activities of learning about congratulating and complimenting others and also create your video