Wednesday, March 16, 2011

#9th Call : Task 3 Web-Based Lesson Plan

Level : Form 2 (Intermediate)
Topic : Which is which
Theme : Social Issue
Time : 50 minutes (two period class)

Language Content : Adjectives, Nouns. 

Objective : Extract information from a website and present the information in complete sentences. 

Learning Outcomes : By the end of a lesson, students should be able to 
  1.  identify adjectives in sentences
  2. construct full sentences using adjectives 
Educational Emphases : CCTS and ICT skills.

Teaching/Instructional Aids :
  • Personal Computer
  • Internet Connection
  • Web Browser


Procedure

Set Induction (5-7 minutes)
  1. Teacher asks two person to stand in front.
  2. Teacher asks the students to describe the person standing in the front
  3. Teacher monitor the answers so that negative description won't surface
  4. Teacher introduces the topic which is Adjectives
Development 

Task 1 (20 minutes)
  1. Students are asked to form a group of 3-4 people, depending on the number of the students in class
  2. Teacher asks the the students to surf/open the following website (http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/findPerson.htm
  3. Teacher explains the instructions of the games, The Descriptive Detective
  4. Students are allocated 15 minutes to play and finish the game in the group.
  5. Teacher assists each group in completing the task given.
Task 2 (20 minutes) 
  1. Teacher distributes a worksheet to the students and they are asked to complete the worksheet by putting adjectives from the characters they had played just now. 
  2. Students are permitted to look at the website for answer.
  3. Teacher guides the activity.
  4. Students are asked to write new sentences based on the adjectives that that they have filled in the worksheet. 
  5. Students are allocated 15 minutes to complete the task given. 
  6. Teacher monitors the students' work.
  7. Teacher discusses the answers with the students. 
Conclusion (5-7 minutes) 
  1. Teacher recaps the lesson. 
  2. Teacher informs the students that they can always play the game if they want to at home.
  3. Teacher asks the students what have they learnt in the lesson.
Follow-up Activity
  1. Students are asked to finish the worksheet at home and email it to the teacher before the next class.

 Appendices


Task 1 




The Descriptive Detective

Task 2







Download the full lesson plan and the task sheets HERE

p.s. I had fun playing the game because it's sort of challenging 

Monday, March 14, 2011

8th Call : In class task - Hyperlink



Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, on October 2nd 1869. His father died when he was still a teenager. At the age of 13 he married Kasturba Gandhi who was three years younger and the marriage lasts for 62 years until her death in 1944.

As a young man Gandhi left India to study law in London. Then he spent two decades working in South Africa securing rights for Indian expatriates. It was during this time that his political reform through non-violence which he called Satyagraha was born. This movement meant resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa, total non violence, which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. This way, when he returned to India, Mohandas Gandhi emerged as a political and religious leader in the fight for independence from Great Britain and was accorded the country's Father of the Nation. India freed itself from Britain on August 15th, 1947. Five months later, on January 25th, 1948 Gandhi was shot by a conservative Hindu.