Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Mood Swing_Koyak rabak vs. Kain perca

Wow! Today, I walk to class with a big question mark crossed my mind. Previously, I've been informed that my lab session will gonna be interesting as Dr. Burn wanna do something different. Two activities gonna be held in 2 hours. Last week, there was just one activity done. So, I'm wondering what that activities are all about? Then, luckily also, he still not around. That mean, I wasn't so late entering the class, turned on the computer and what not. When he walked in, I was playing game from the BrainPOP ESL website. Then, he briefly told us about the activity I was wondering before. Enlighten me!

As been told, I searched the website he wanted us to looked up for; http://www.amnesty.ca. Once I found,wow! There are a lot of worldwide issues covered in the website of the Amnesty Organization. I was amazed as I really love current issues that cover around the globe. Once we done exploring the website, I had been ordered to find an issue that need to be focused on and voiced out my message. Then, I found to choose the issue of Stolen Sisters that occurred in Canada among the Indigenous women. This issue is mostly about the racism and sexism within the society itself. This activity is quite interesting actually but at the same time it created so much intense in most of hearts in that class as the issues debated are in reality and serious. From my point of view, this kinda activity is not so appropriate for primary students or even worse kindergarten kids.It is more suitable for secondary school students maybe or university students and also adults. But still, this activity is informative actually.

Around 11.30 a.m, we stopped. Then, we moved to second activity that was promised to be much more interesting. Writing Relay or Chained Writing. This activity is actually triggered my writing skill and my creativity that I thought was about to be expired maybe as never been polished. We were given four different unfinished stories. In a group of three, we need to choose one story and continue the story. Then, we asked to email that story to the next friend and so on. I chose the topic about genie thing and passed it to my next friend so she could continue my story. Then, I received my friend's story about a man who ran away after found a picture. I wrote the next paragraph but need to ensure that the main character won't encounter death. I wrote as creative I could be and as as nonsense that story could be set. I thought that this activity is super duper interesting and so appropriate to be applied in class with numerous categories of students. Try it out!

 

2 comments:

  1. Hello Asiah,

    Thank you for describing both of the activities that we had in the lab a few days ago. You are right, there are many interesting/alarming issues that are presented in the amnesty website. These things actually happened in real life, and it is quite unfortunate that they did happen. However, it also goes to show that learning English is not just about having fun, but it is also about doing something meaningful in life.

    On another note, I am glad that you find the writing relay activity interesting. I sure hope that you will try it out with your students in the future.

    Selamat hari raya

    AB

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    1. Yup! ok,thanks Dr. I'll try to do so as I really do like the activity actually

      Selamat Hari Raya

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