Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Are you familiar with Mr. Ghandi?

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.

Friday, March 13, 2009

TASK 3: www.lesson plan

Topic: Tour Guide
Level: Intermediate (Form 1)
Time: 90 minutes

Aims: To find and locate specific information on a website as well as practising the questioning and answering techniques using Wh-questions.
Technical requirements: One computer per student (or 2 students per computer), with an Internet connection, email account for each student,a Web browser and printer.


Websites:
http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/ktm-train-timetable-and-fare/#2

Preparation:
1. Locate the relevant sites associated with the chosen topic.
2. Prepare a worksheet using the information from the website.
3. Ask students to submit their email addresses and to those who do not have an account, the students are reminded to register quickly and submit their email address before the lesson starts.
4. Write down each of the email address on a small piece of paper to be distributed randomly later in class
Procedure:
1. Teacher tells the students that they are going to play a game entitled the electronic receptionist and the passenger.
2. Teacher assigns the students to form two groups: the first group will be given the role as a receptionist and the other group will play the role of a train passenger.
3. Teacher explains to students the task (refer to the worksheet)
4. Teacher distributes randomly the students’ email address to each student in which everyone in the classroom will get one email address of their friend and also the worksheet to be used as a guideline in the questions and answers process.
5. Teacher asks the group who plays the role of a passenger to compose an email to the given recipient to ask about the train schedule within 15 minutes.
6. The other group of students will be assigned to check the train’s schedule from this page: http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/ktm-train-timetable-and-fare/#2 and will need to get ready to answer the email sent by the passenger within 15 minutes.
7. Teacher asks each receptionist and passenger to print out their email and randomly pick a couple to role play it in front of the class.
8. Teacher discusses their questions and answers techniques and explains more about using the WH- questions.

Follow up activity:
1. Teacher shows the example of the tourism advertisement to students. Teacher asks the students to create the similar advertisement using all the information and pictures gathered from the same website to attract tourist to visit Malaysia. Students are required to include the Wh-questions on the advertisement which is to be done in the MS. Office Word. Then students are required to email it to the teacher and all classmates.