This English lesson plan outlines a 90-minute lesson for 10th grade students on expressions of greeting, leave taking, thanking, and apologizing in English. The lesson includes pre-activities like prayer, attendance, and intro questions. During activities involve exploration through pictures, elaboration of concepts, student practice through role plays and exercises, and confirmation through assessment. Students will learn formal and informal expressions, see examples in dialogues, and do a homework assignment practicing the skills. The goal is for students to correctly use these common social expressions in English.

1. ENGLISH LESSON PLAN
SMKN 7 (STM PEMBANGUNAN) SEMARANG
Subject
: English
Class / Semester
:X/1
Program
: All Programs
Skill
: Speaking
Theme
: Expression of Greeting, Leave Taking, Thanking and
Apologizing
Time Allotment
: 90 minutes ( 1 meeting )
Pre-Activities
: 10 minutes
Whilst activities
: ( 80 minutes )
Exploration
: 10 minutes
Elaboration
: 30 minutes
Experimenting: 15 minutes
Networking
: 15 minutes
Confirmation : 10 minutes
Standard Competence
: Communicating in English at Novice Level
Basic Competence
: 1.1 Understanding basic expression of social interaction in
daily life.
Indicator
:
a. Expressing greeting, leave taking, thanking and apologizing expressions.
(Correctly)
b. Responding greeting, leave taking, thanking and apologizing expressions..
(Correctly)
c. Making a dialogue using expression of greeting, leave taking, thanking and
apologizing. (Correctly)

2. I.
Learning Objectives
In the end of lesson, students are able to:
a. Express thanking greeting, leave taking, thanking and apologizing expressions.
(Correctly)
b. Respond greeting, leave taking, thanking and apologizing expressions. (Correctly)
c. Make a dialogue using expression of greeting, leave taking, thanking and
apologizing. (Correctly)
II.
Learning Materials
Gretting and Leave Taking
Greeting
Greeting is a kind of statement to begin a conversation. Greetings are special
expressions are used when you first meet someone in a day. The greetings depend on
the situation.
Formal Greetings
Responses
 Good morning
 Hello
 Good afternoon
 Hello,good afternoon.
 Good evening
 Good evening
 Hello, how are you?
 I’m fine thank you.
Informal Greetings
Responses
 Hi, how’s life?
 Terrific / Great, and you?
 What’s news?
 Just fine, thanks.
 How’s everything?
 All right thanks.
 How’s bussiness?
 Pretty well. What about you?
 Good to see you?

3. Leave Taking
Leave taking can be defined as an expression or act with which somebody is leaved.
Leave Taking
The responses

Goodbye

Goodbye

Stay in touch

Nice to meet you, too

It was nice to meet you

Bye.

Talk to you later.

See you later.

So long.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Take care.

See you later.

Take it easy.
Expression of Thanking
How to Express Thanking
How to Respond

Thank you

You’re welcome

Thanks

Not at all

Many thank

Don’t mention it

Thank you very much

It’s my pleasure

Thanks a lot

That’s alright / OK

How kind of you

No problem

It’s really good of you to help me

Any time

4. Expressions of Apologizing
Apologize is to tell someone that you are sorry for having done something that has caused
him inconvenience or unhappiness:
How to Express Apologizing
How to Respond

I do apologize for...
 That's all right.

I must apologize for...
 Never mind.

I apologize for...
 Don't apologize.

I'd like to apologize for...
 It doesn't matter.

I am so sorry for...
 Don't worry about it.

I shouldn't have...
 Don't mention it.

It's all my fault.
 That's OK.

I'm ashamed of...
 I quite understand.

Please, forgive me for...
 You couldn't help it.

Excuse me for ...
 Forget about it.

I'm terribly sorry for...
 Don't worry about it.

Pardon me for this...
 No harm done.

Please, forgive me for my....

Please, accept my apologies
for...
Example:
Miss Arimbi runs into her old neighbour who moved to Jakarta 3 years ago in the
park.
Miss Arimbi
: Good Morning, Mrs. Rahajeng.
Mrs. Rahajeng
: Good Morning, Arimbi.
Miss Arimbi
: How are you? I think we've been quite a long time no see.
Mrs. Rahajeng
: Very well, thank you. Yeah, I've been visiting my mother this
holiday. How about you?
Miss Arimbi
: I'm fine too. What about Jakarta? It's great, isn't it?

5. Mrs. Rahajeng
: Oh, not really. With all of glamorous things there, I still love
our beloved hometown.
Miss Arimbi
: Well, I hope you doing great, Mrs. Rahajeng. I need to go
home now. Give my greeting to your mother. Good bye.
Mrs. Rahajeng
: Good bye, Arimbi.
III. Learning Method
Communicative Teaching Learning
Role Playing
IV. Learning Activities
No Teacher’s Activities
1
Students’ Activities
Time
PRE-ACTIVITIES
a) Greets the student and lead
them to take pray.
Good morning, class.
a) Answer teacher
greetings and praying
together.
How are you today?
Good morning,
Before we start our
Miss. I’m fine, and
lesson today, let’s take
you?
a morning pray
Pay attention. Let’s
together.
pray together.
10 minutes
Character education : students are able to pray before do something ( religious )
b) Check the students’
attendance list.
Let me check your
b)Respond to the teacher
Yes I am here,
Miss.
attendance list to
know who is absent
today. When I call
your name say “I am
here” or “present”.
Character education : (communicative and responsible)
c) Giving some questions
c) Respond to the teacher

6. related to the material which
questions
will be taught.
Do you know what we
Yes, Miss. We can say
say when you meet
Hello or Hi guys.
your friends in the
We say thanks, Miss.
morning?
I am sorry, Miss.
What should you say
when somebody helps
you?
What should you say
when you make a
mistake?
d) Teacher gives
compliments to the
students
Ok, that’s great!
Awesome.
e) Teacher tells to the
students about the material
that they will learn.
Today we are going to
learn about greetings
, leave taking ,
thanking and apology
expressions
2
WHILST ACTIVITIES
2.1 EXPLORATION
2.1.1 Observation
a) Displaying a pictures to a) Paying attention to the
the students and asks
them
to
observe
pictures.
Look at the picture!
the
pictures
.
10 minutes

7. 2.1.2
Questionings
a) Asking questions related a) Answering the questions
to the pictures.
She wants to say
sorry, Miss.
The first picture is
about a girl who
want to say thank,
Miss.
Okay, class. Based on
the picture, what
happened in the
pictures?
2.2 ELABORATION
a) Giving
greeting,
concepts
leave
of
a) Paying attention to the
taking,
concepts of greeting, leave
thanking and apologizing.
There are formal and
informal
doing
ways
and
thanking
and
apologizing.
in
greeting
taking,
leave taking.
“Good morning” or
“Pleased to meet you”
are formal greetings.
“Hi” or “See you
around”
are
said
30 minutes

8. informally.
b) Giving
samples
greeting,
b) Paying attention to the
taking,
leave
of
samples of greeting, leave
thanking and apologizing.
Here I have a short
taking,
thanking
and
apologizing.
dialogue and I want you
Let me practice the
to come forward and
dialogue, Miss.
practice it.
c) Giving exercises about
greeting,
leave
taking
thanking and apologizing.
c) Doing
exercises
about
leave
taking,
greeting,
thanking and apologizing.
Now let’s answer my
Miss Arimbi and
questions.
Who
are
Mrs.
involved
in
the
Miss.
dialogues?
Observe
Rahajeng,
OK, Miss.
that
dialogue
and find some greeting
and leave taking and also
thanking and apologizing
expressions.
2.3 EXPERIMENTING
a) Asking students to apply
the
expressions
greeting,
leave
of
taking,
thanking and apologizing
with their partner.
Now
apply
a) Applying the expressions
of greeting, leave taking,
thanking and apologizing 15 minutes
with partner.
Yes, Miss
the
expressions in a short
dialogue
and
then
perform it before the
class.
2.4 NETWORKING
a) Students are working in
a) Working in group (STAD) 15 minutes

9. group (STAD)
2.5 CONFIRMATION
a) Giving confirmation to the
a)
Accepting confirmation to
result of exercises that had done
the result of exercises 10 minutes
by the students.
that had done
Who get the perfect
Most of us, Miss.
score?
b) Facilitating the students to do b) Doing reflection to get
reflection to get learning
learning experience that had
experience that had done.
done.
What do you think about
It is not too difficult,
today material? Is it
Miss.
difficult or easy to
understand?
c) Concluding about the topic
today.
c) Concluding together.
We learnt about greeting,
Let’s conclude about
leave taking, thanking and
today material. What
apologizing expressions,
have we learnt today?
Miss.
d) Giving chance students to ask
question related to the topic
Is there any question so
d) Answering the teacher’s
question
No, Miss.
far about today lesson?
Character education : (communicative and curiosity)
e) Giving students home
e) Accepting home assignment
assignment concern with the
concern
material about concern material.
material.
For your homework do
task 1 and 2!
Character education : responsible
Yes, Miss.
with
the

10. V.
Media and Sources
a. Media
:
Pictures
Power point
b. Source
:
Entin Sutinah, dkk. 2010. Get Along with English for Vocational High School
Grade X. Erlangga: Jakarta
Sarti, M.Pd. 2012. Road to English, An Integrated Course of English for VHS
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/communication-lessonapologizing.php
VI. ASSESMENT
a. Technique
: Spoken and written Test.
b. Kind of instrumen
: Performance and Written
c. Instrument
: Short answer, Completion, Performance
d. Scorring system
:
Task 1 and 2
Grammatically and lexically correct
2
Either grammar or vocabulary is incorrect but not both
1
Both grammar and vocabulary are incorrect
0
Performance :
Element
Pronunciation
Fluency
Vocabulary
Grammar
Score
25
25
25
25
Standard of each element :
Excellent
Very good
Good
Average
Poor
21-25
16-20
11-15
6-10
<5

11. Approved by :
English Teacher,
Yoyok Andriyanto S.pd
NIP.197710072007011010

12. HANDOUT
Gretting and Leave Taking
Greeting
Greeting is a kind of statement to begin a conversation. The greetings depend on the
situation.
Formal Greetings
Responses
 Good morning
 Hello
 Good afternoon
 Hello,good afternoon.
 Good evening
 Good evening
 Hello, how are you?
 I’m fine thank you.
Informal Greetings
Responses
 Hi, how’s life?
 Terrific / Great, and you?
 What’s news?
 Just fine, thanks.
 How’s everything?
 All right thanks.
 How’s bussiness?
 Pretty well. What about you?
 Good to see you?
Time of formal greetings:
1. We say “Good morning” when we meet someone early in the morning between
12 a.m in 12 a.m.
2. We say “Good afternoon” when we meet someone in the afternoon between 12
p.m to 6 p.m.
3. We say “Good evening” when we meet someone in the evening at around 6 p.m
to 11 p.m.
4. We say “Good Night” when we will go to bed in the night.

13. Leave Taking
Leave taking can be defined as an expression or act with which somebody is leaved.
Leave Taking
The responses

Goodbye

Goodbye

Stay in touch

Nice to meet you, too

It was nice to meet you

Bye.

Talk to you later.

See you later.

So long.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Take care.

See you later.

Take it easy.
Expression of Thanking
How to Express Thanking
How to Respond

Thank you

You’re welcome

Thanks

Not at all

Many thank

Don’t mention it

Thank you very much

It’s my pleasure

Thanks a lot

That’s alright / OK

How kind of you

No problem

It’s really good of you to help me

Any time

14. Expressions of Apologizing
Apologize is to tell someone that you are sorry for having done something that has caused
him inconvenience or unhappiness:
How to Express Apologizing
How to Respond

I do apologize for...
 That's all right.

I must apologize for...
 Never mind.

I apologize for...
 Don't apologize.

I'd like to apologize for...
 It doesn't matter.

I am so sorry for...
 Don't worry about it.

I shouldn't have...
 That's OK.

It's all my fault.
 I quite understand.

I'm ashamed of...
 You couldn't help it.

Please, forgive me for...
 Forget about it.

Excuse me for ...

I'm terribly sorry for...
Example:
Dialogue 1
Miss Arimbi runs into her old neighbour who moved to Jakarta 3 years ago in the
park.
Miss Arimbi
: Good Morning, Mrs. Rahajeng.
Mrs. Rahajeng
: Good Morning, Arimbi.
Miss Arimbi
: How are you? I think we've been quite a long time no see.
Mrs. Rahajeng
: Very well, thank you. Yeah, I've been visiting my mother this
holiday. How about you?
Miss Arimbi
: I'm fine too. What about Jakarta? It's great, isn't it?
Mrs. Rahajeng
: Oh, not really. With all of glamorous things there, I still love
our beloved hometown.
Miss Arimbi
: Well, I hope you doing great, Mrs. Rahajeng. I need to go
home now. Give my greeting to your mother. Good bye.
Mrs. Rahajeng
: Good bye, Arimbi.

15. Task 1 
Name
:
Class
STUDENT WORKSHEET
:
Create a short dialogues expressing greeting, leave taking, thanking and
apologizing using your own words with your partner based on the
following situations.
a.
You woke up late this morning. Now, you are having breakfast with your family, but
can’t finish it because you are in a hurry. Give an excuse to your family.
b.
You meet your old friend on your way to school. You greet him/her cheerfully, but
you cannot talk too long because you are in a hurry. Give an excuse to your friend.
c.
You arrive at your manager’s party. You meet some friends that you know well. You
are enjoying the party but unfortunately you have to leave early. Give an excuse to
your manager.
Task 2 
Complete these following dialogue with the appropriate expressions.
Amir made a serious mistake. He broke his friend’s camera.
Amir
: Budi, ______________________. I made a big mistake.
Budi
: what happened?
Amir
: I broke your camera. I dropped it when I was trying to clean the lens.
Budi
: Is it totally broken?
Amir
: I think so. I'm terribly sorry for that Budi.
Budi
: ___________________
Task 3 
Arrange these jumbled dialogues with your partner.
Dialogue 1
Ranti meets her teacher, Mr Bakri on the road on Sunday Morning.
Mr Bakri
: I am fine, thank you. How about you?
Mr Bakri
: Good Morning. You are ....
Mr. Bakri
: See you.
Mr. Bakri
: Oh, I will go to the bookstore. And you Ranti?
Ranti
: I am fine, too. Where would you go sir?
Ranti
: Good Morning, Sir.
Mr Bakri
: Well, Ranti. I have to go now. Pleased to meet you.
Ranti
: Ranti, Sir. My name is Ranti. How are you?

16. Ranti
Ranti
: Pleased to meet you, too, Sir. See you.
: I want to go to the market sir.
Dialogue 2
Christ meet his old friend, Jane in the Park on Sunday afternoon.
Christ : See you.
Christ : Hello Jane, how are you?
Jane : I’d love to stay but I have to go now.
Jane : I’m glade to hear that. What are you doing here?
Christ : Pretty well.
Jane : I can’t wait to say hello to her!
Christ : You cannot wait her more minutes?
Jane : Christ! Nice to see you. I’m fine. And you?
Jane : Thank you too. See you again.
Jane : I really have to go now. Please give my best regards to your wife for me.
Christ : I’m sure my wife will be happy to see you too.
Christ : I came for a walk with my wife.
Christ : I will. Take care.
Dialogue 3
Rado meets his Uncle and Aunt in the cinema on Saturday Evening.
Uncle John
: Good evening Rado. Long time no see. How are you?
Rado
: Good evening, Uncle John and Aunti Jane!
Uncle John
: Where is your friend?
Rado
: I’m fine. How about you Uncle and Aunt?
Rado
: Nice to see you too, Bye.
Rado
: They don’t arrive yet. And how about you?
Rado
: I want to watch a new movie with my friends aunt?
Aunt Jane
: Pretty well, where do you go Rado?
Uncle John
: I’m fine too.
Uncle John
: I have been watched a funny movie. Ok, I have to go
now. Have fun with your friend.
Uncle John & Aunt Jane
: Nice to see you Rado, Good bye!

17. KUNCI JAWABAN
Task 1
1.
John and Ted
2.
He looks so happy because tomorrow is his birthday
3.
The party will be held at Four Seasons Hotel.
4.
Yes, he does.
5.
Hi, Hello, Thanks, See you tomorrow, See you
Task 2
Amir
: Budi, I do apologize. I made a big mistake.
Budi
: what happened?
Amir
: I broke your camera. I dropped it when I was trying to clean the lens.
Budi
: Is it totally broken?
Amir
: I think so. I'm terribly sorry for that Budi.
Budi
: I quite understand.