Level: Form 4 (Intermidiate)
Time: 40 minutes
Aims: To enable students to search the specific information via internet and be able to practice writing and complete the task given
Technical Requirement: One computer for each pair of students equipped with an Internet connection and a Web Browser.
Websites:
1. http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-follow-proper-table-etiquette-185616/2. http://www.gourmet-food-revolution.com/dinner-table-etiquette.html
3. http://www.didyouknow.org/info/tablesettings.html
Preparation:
1. Find a suitable website on the Table Manners Etiquette
2. Prepare worksheets based on the title above.
Procedure:
1. Asks students if they know or ever apply table etiquette
2. Asks students to work in pairs and share a computer
3. Shows a video on table manners etiquette and the students are required to open the same website using their own computer
4. Ask the students’ opinion based on the video
5. Asks students if they know what they should and should not do at the table (table rules)
6. Distribute handout A to each groups
7. Discuss the answer with the students
8. Asks students whether they know the proper table setting
9. Share opinion with the students
10. Distributes handout B
11. Asks the students to work in pairs to answer the question
4. Explain to the students that the information can be searched at http://www.gourmet-food-revolution.com/dinner-table-etiquette.html and http://www.didyouknow.org/info/tablesettings.htm
12. Discuss the answer with the students
Follow-up Activity
Teacher asks the students to make a role-play based on the Table Manners Etiquette. The students can choose either to do the Do’s or the Don’t. The role-play will be presented for the next class. The best group will be decided by the other students and will be given a present. (The information can be found at at http://www.gourmet-food-revolution.com/dinner-table-etiquette.html )
Friday 18 September 2009
Monday 14 September 2009
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NELSON MANDELA
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961.
After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a military wing within the ANC. In June 1961, the ANC executive considered his proposal on the use of violent tactics and agreed that those members who wished to involve themselves in Mandela's campaign would not be stopped from doing so by the ANC. This led to the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town; thereafter, he was at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland.
During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.
Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's National Chairperson.
Thursday 27 August 2009
TASK 2
TITLE :ORAL INTERACTION AROUND COMPUTERS IN THE PROJECT- ORIENTED CALL CLASSROOM
JOURNAL :LANGUAGE LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY
VOLUME :September 2005, Volume 9, Number 3 pp. 121-145
WEBSITE :http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num3/jeon/
WRITER :Gumock Jeon-Ellis, Robert Debski, & Gillian Wigglesworth, University of Melbourne
The aim of this research is to investigate the oral interaction and students’ collaborative relationship which occur during the activity (learning and teaching process). Besides that, it also study on the impact of the computer in creating learning activities. In order to do the study, the spesific task designed by the teacher. The students were form in three groups (A, B and C). Group A consist of three students, B two students and C three students. The students were asked to rate their French skills and experience in a hypertext writing. The study was done in one semaster and the students were met for one hour per week. The data sources were video and audio recording, questinnaires, interview, observation and also students’ participants. Each group were recorded in each class using a saparate video camera. The students were interviewed individually during or at the end of the semaster in order to get information about their hypertext writing process, and also need to answer questionnaire. Then, the audio/video will be transcribed and the French words were translated into English. When doing the analysis, themes that relate to the research questions were modified to relate to the data’s categories. Attention will be given to any modification in order to ensure that iterative process was establish. The subject of the research were eight monolingual English speaker who were in their first year of elective of Franch language and culture. It’s objective was to develop the communication and writing skill skill in French using the multimedia projects that relate to French and francophone cultures. The class was based on Debski (2000) guidelines. The finding shows that ProCALL classroom able to create an interaction between the students. For the example they can share knowledge or opinion about the somputerscreen. Furthermore, it also encourage the students to learnt through “perception-in-action”.
Basically, the research does interest me because it give me some idea on how to make the teaching and learning process become more interesting. As for me, I would definitely utilize technology in my teaching because it has become a part of our daily life. If teachers in the past used chalk and blackboard to teach their students, and today’s teachers still used the same medium to teach, then, maybe we are still stuck in the past. There are many ways we can achieve a fun and interactive learning besides the conventional and traditional chalk and talk. For me, technology is more of an opportunity to learn something new and at the same time; it is useful for the students even after they leave the school and go into the working world. In my opinion, the research is not well conducted because the students only met one hour per week. For me, one hour in not enough it is too short and if there is a technical problem occurs then it will shorten the time, but the good part of it is that the study is made in the whole semester, thus we can see the students’ progress. As for students’ tasks, I think that it is good because the students not only learn on how to use computer but also how to create and evaluate website, how to search for keywords using internet and many more. In a nutshell, it covers many areas and not focuses on just one area. In my opinion, this technique can be applied in Malaysian context in order to attract the students. This is because we can see that many students do truancy because they do not like the subjects that are boring and dull. So, this is one of the alternatives to create their interest. Besides that, it somehow helps the students to improve and learn new English words and improve their pronunciation, for the example if one make mistakes then the other members can correct the pronunciation. However, there are barrier in implementing the research because it requires a high coast for the government to supply each school with computers, computers lab, and teachers capable of fully-utilizing CALL in the classroom. Besides that, it also takes times and consumes lots of money to train teachers in ICT. So, in my opinion we should think the best way which can benefit all the parties, especially the students because we want them to be somebody in the future.
(700 words)
TITLE :ORAL INTERACTION AROUND COMPUTERS IN THE PROJECT- ORIENTED CALL CLASSROOM
JOURNAL :LANGUAGE LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY
VOLUME :September 2005, Volume 9, Number 3 pp. 121-145
WEBSITE :http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num3/jeon/
WRITER :Gumock Jeon-Ellis, Robert Debski, & Gillian Wigglesworth, University of Melbourne
The aim of this research is to investigate the oral interaction and students’ collaborative relationship which occur during the activity (learning and teaching process). Besides that, it also study on the impact of the computer in creating learning activities. In order to do the study, the spesific task designed by the teacher. The students were form in three groups (A, B and C). Group A consist of three students, B two students and C three students. The students were asked to rate their French skills and experience in a hypertext writing. The study was done in one semaster and the students were met for one hour per week. The data sources were video and audio recording, questinnaires, interview, observation and also students’ participants. Each group were recorded in each class using a saparate video camera. The students were interviewed individually during or at the end of the semaster in order to get information about their hypertext writing process, and also need to answer questionnaire. Then, the audio/video will be transcribed and the French words were translated into English. When doing the analysis, themes that relate to the research questions were modified to relate to the data’s categories. Attention will be given to any modification in order to ensure that iterative process was establish. The subject of the research were eight monolingual English speaker who were in their first year of elective of Franch language and culture. It’s objective was to develop the communication and writing skill skill in French using the multimedia projects that relate to French and francophone cultures. The class was based on Debski (2000) guidelines. The finding shows that ProCALL classroom able to create an interaction between the students. For the example they can share knowledge or opinion about the somputerscreen. Furthermore, it also encourage the students to learnt through “perception-in-action”.
Basically, the research does interest me because it give me some idea on how to make the teaching and learning process become more interesting. As for me, I would definitely utilize technology in my teaching because it has become a part of our daily life. If teachers in the past used chalk and blackboard to teach their students, and today’s teachers still used the same medium to teach, then, maybe we are still stuck in the past. There are many ways we can achieve a fun and interactive learning besides the conventional and traditional chalk and talk. For me, technology is more of an opportunity to learn something new and at the same time; it is useful for the students even after they leave the school and go into the working world. In my opinion, the research is not well conducted because the students only met one hour per week. For me, one hour in not enough it is too short and if there is a technical problem occurs then it will shorten the time, but the good part of it is that the study is made in the whole semester, thus we can see the students’ progress. As for students’ tasks, I think that it is good because the students not only learn on how to use computer but also how to create and evaluate website, how to search for keywords using internet and many more. In a nutshell, it covers many areas and not focuses on just one area. In my opinion, this technique can be applied in Malaysian context in order to attract the students. This is because we can see that many students do truancy because they do not like the subjects that are boring and dull. So, this is one of the alternatives to create their interest. Besides that, it somehow helps the students to improve and learn new English words and improve their pronunciation, for the example if one make mistakes then the other members can correct the pronunciation. However, there are barrier in implementing the research because it requires a high coast for the government to supply each school with computers, computers lab, and teachers capable of fully-utilizing CALL in the classroom. Besides that, it also takes times and consumes lots of money to train teachers in ICT. So, in my opinion we should think the best way which can benefit all the parties, especially the students because we want them to be somebody in the future.
(700 words)
Thursday 23 July 2009
Task 2 - Electronic Worksheet
This is my second assignmnt in this class. At first, I am very confident that i can do it in not more than an hour, but finally it takes about hours for me to finish it. Well Dr, this is the best i can do. I hope you like it. =)
Sunday 12 July 2009
shaiey_sha
my name is Nor Syahirah bt. Mohamad Fakurudin. i am 23 years old from Kelantan. some people call me Iera or Sha(usually people who are close to me call me Sha). As for me, I dont care whether it is Iera or Sha as long as it is a good name.
Well, today is my first class after having a long semester break. That's why I guess I am a bit dreammy in the class (sorry Dr. heheheheheh).
Basically, I do not know much about computer. As a student, I do agree that computer is essential in our lives because it makes ourlive easier. I can't imagine how im gonna survive in the time where we need to use typewriter to do the assignments because i've seen how difficult my aunty was at her time. she need to type carefully with no mistakes, othermise she had to retype her work again. So, thank to the technology that help to make our life easier.
Well, today is my first class after having a long semester break. That's why I guess I am a bit dreammy in the class (sorry Dr. heheheheheh).
Basically, I do not know much about computer. As a student, I do agree that computer is essential in our lives because it makes ourlive easier. I can't imagine how im gonna survive in the time where we need to use typewriter to do the assignments because i've seen how difficult my aunty was at her time. she need to type carefully with no mistakes, othermise she had to retype her work again. So, thank to the technology that help to make our life easier.
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