~language game "Word Poker"~

Then, as our tutorial, we need to conduct our language game that we prepared last week in front of the classroom. For our group, we have chosen a game entitled "Word Poker ". We decided to create a language game based on “scrabble” since this game is so popular around the world. Then, we combined it with some rules from the famous card game, “poker”. As a result, we named this game as “word poker”.

This game comes with some simple rules. Played in group consists of 4 – 6 person. Then, cards consists of letter and marks will be given to each group and shown in front of the class. Each group will try to create words with the given letter. The player that is able to create the word with the highest mark to become the winner.

This game is very interesting and can be used during teaching students to make a word because this word game is also very simple and no need a lot of materials, just a card that can bring it anywhere and anytime.

Apart from that, I also enjoy the other language games which carried out by the other group. Among of those language games, I think that the best language games will goes to Normaliza’s and Edward’s groups as their games are very challenging, exciting and creative. For Normaliza’s group, they have variety of games which will not make the participants get bored easily and focus on several skills in English including writing and listening.  Meanwhile, for Edward’ group, I am very interested with their game’s concept and they used the bid concept for their game. They use sweet for player’s bid. Not only me, I think the others group are also really enjoyed with the games. The others group also did a great effort for their language games, but  the most important is we all enjoy doing this activity.

Throughout this activity, I have learned much from it in term of how to design and then choose a suitable game, how to handle a game, attract the player’s attention and arrange the order of each question according to its level. Other than that, those language games also give a lot of benefits for my future lesson with my students when I am having my practical session soon and being a teacher in future.

♥That’s all from me. ♥Thank you.♥

let twist our tongue !!

Tongue Twister

What is tongue twister?? 

When most people think of tongue twisters a childhood image comes to mind: Attempting to recite a tricky rhyme or phrase as fast as possible without tripping over the verbal challenges and hurdles lurking within these tongue-tying sentences. 

In my English for Language Teacher’s class, we were required to conduct a tongue twister competition between groups of four. It is very fun and exciting. My group was challenged to recite these tongue twisters:

1^st tongue twister:

Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.

2^nd tongue twister:

Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.

            

It was really difficult for me to say words which involved these alphabets including ‘f’, ‘r’ and ‘w’ ..

Actually, this activity was helping us to practice our pronunciation accuracy.

During the presentation session, there was very fun and enjoyable in our class. Everybody try and follow the tongue twister of the group presenter.  I think Nickelson’s group are very entertaning group because they perform their part of tongue twister with the cute acting. We really enjoy it. 


I, myself still need more practice to speak a good English as well as we know that speaking skill is one of the main skill in studying English. So, I need to practice more on tongue twisters so that I will be able to master good pronunciation in English.

Beside that, I would like to share an article about tongue twister entitled,    

"Top 10 Most Difficult Tongue Twisters"

10. Slit a Sheet but don’t say Sh*t!

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit.

And on a slitted sheet I sit.

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit.

The sheet I slit, that sheet was it.

9. Are you tutoring a tooter?

A tutor who tooted a flute,

Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.

Said the two to their tutor,

“Is it harder to toot

or to tutor two tooters to toot?”

8. The skunk on the stump stinks!

A skunk sat on a stump.

The stump thunk the skunk stunk.

The skunk thunk the stump stunk.

7. The witch did what with the watch?

Which witch wishes to switch a witch wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch?

6. A three-toed toad that lives in a tree!

A three-toed toad loved a two-toed he-toad that lived in a too-tall tree.

5. Did you bet for One-one or Two-two?

One-one was a racehorse.

Two-two was one too.

When One-one won one race,

Two-two won one too.

4. Is it your Joe or our Joe that has a banjo?

Our Joe wants to know if your Joy will lend our Joe your Joy’s banjo.

If your Joy won’t lend our Joe your Joy’s banjo,

Our Joe won’t lend your Joy our Joe’s banjo,

When our Joe has a banjo!

3. Are you plucking pheasants for fun?

I’m not the pheasant plucker,

I’m not the pheasant plucker’s son.

And I’m only plucking pheasants,

Till the pheasant pluckers come!

2. Fischer is a young fisher… got that?

There was a young fisher named Fischer,

Who fished for a fish in a fissure.

The fish with a grin, pulled the fisherman in;

Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fischer.

1. Is the sheik sick or the sixth sheep?

The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

I got this article from 

http://www.tiptoptens.com/2011/11/25/top-10-most-difficult-tongue-twisters/

~aipollow~

let answer this worksheet together ! !

Another activity that we must design for the evaluation is a worksheet with two sentences for analysis using tree diagram and its suggested answer. Therefore, I have created two sentences as shown below which will be included in the worksheet that I have been created.

1.      Encik Azwan told us that the football club has training tomorrow.

2.      Scout uniform are usually used on Wednesday.

To avoid any grammatical mistakes or sentence analysis, we also have sent the worksheet as the draft to our lecturer for check, correction and modification. This activity will be conducted by exchange the worksheet among us so that we will have the chance to answer the questions that have been designed by our friends besides to increase our skill in grammar. 

In the process of designing these tree diagrams, I found that it's not easy to create a worksheet for others to try. We have to make sure that the questions given are correct in term of grammar and their orders. Sometimes, it is also to identify the word classes of certain words since some of the words are differ in term of meaning and function. Therefore, I have referred in the grammar book to make some preview on it and modify it so that it will be more challenging and interesting.

Morphemes are the building blocks that go to make up words and then, form a sentences is refer to syntax definition. The rules of syntax is combine words into phrases into sentences. This rules permit speakers to produce and understand a linguistic knowledge. Using tree diagrams can help us to understand clearly the grammatical structure of a sentence in a better and easier way. Syntax is an important part of language and is usually difficult to grasp. By observing a sentence which has been “broken down” into its constituents by means of a tree diagram we can see how each part combines to the others and fit together as a meaningful sentence. This is very useful for teachers and learners to study the formation of sentence.  

This activity will be carried out in this week during ELE3103 lesson. I hope that each of us will enjoy in answering the worksheets. This also will help us to recap the thing that we have learned from the ELE3103 especially in syntax topic. 

That's all from me. Thank you

Miming

Mime

What do you know about mime?

Mime is one of the most ancient forms of theatre, appearing around the time of the Greek tragedies. On the other words, mime is the theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement. It is one of the non-verbal communications.

Miming appears very simple but it takes a lot of skill and practice to make it appear realistic. Mime study can be very useful, not only for actors and other performers, but for anyone who needs to communicate clearly. Use our body to talk, not mouth. Instead, use facial expressions and make use of our whole body to do the 'talking'. Use a mirror (or an audience) to assess what movements are the most successful in conveying emotions, feelings, attitudes and reactions. A full length mirror is a necessity for beginners but bear in mind the mirror is a friend you will need to leave behind at performance time. A video camera, if available, is also an invaluable tool to utilize.

For our Tutorial Week 3, we were asked to prepare a three minute mime (non-verbal communication) of a situation of our choice. It was difficult for us because we need to brainstorm for the storyline so that the audience will understand the message that we want to deliver.

My group has done a mime entitled “Love Story”. We meant to name the title like that because we thought that the class will guess what does the title actually means. 

This was the mime video by our group. Enjoy!

This is some of the information about mime that we can use it as teaching and learning activity in class. 

Mime can be a useful activity in encouraging and aiding students to:

• develop their acting skills in terms of body language (posture, movements, gestures, etc);
• gain a greater awareness of the importance of body language as a form of communication;
• develop more confidence performing in front of others.

Students can focus on the following language skills:

• listening: viewing and responding to videos;
• speaking: planning a performance with a partner, discussing videos, reflecting on their, performance and/or commenting on the performance of others;
• writing: reflecting on their performance;
• reading: reading the reflections of other students;
• vocabulary: learning key terms like facial expression, gesture, pose and exaggerated.

Role Play

ROLE PLAY

In group activity, my group consists of Abdul Hadi, Hisyamuddin, Muhammad Azam and I was asked to prepare a dialogue with at least five language functions for role play. This was the tutorial for week 2 and the role play were being checked and analysed by Madam Ira.

As for me, this role play that we were doing was actually quite boring because it happens in a meeting room, when a person was having a meeting. We just asking and talking each other without some exciting act like other groups performance. But, we were satisfied to our effort doing this task because the most important is the understanding the role play in dialogue situation. On that day, we were asked to present this dialogue without looking to the script. Hence, we must memorize the dialogue. 

For me, I learned that different language function can gives a different meaning although the sentences given was almost the same. This was the dialogue that we used in the role play asked by Madam Ira.

Characters:

CEO                : Tuan Haji Hisyamuddin

Presenter        : Fadzillah

Worker 1         : Abdul Hadi

Worker 2         : Muhammad Azam

Adel	Encik Hadi, please inform all board directors, we have an urgent meeting 10 minutes from now.
Didie	Yes Encik Fadzillah. Excuse me, we have an urgent meeting 10 minutes from now. I hope everyone will come prepared for the meeting.

(The CEO enters the meeting room)

Adel, Azam & Didie	Good Morning Tuan Haji.
Esam	Good morning. Have a seat.
Azam	Tuan Haji, this is the file that you asked just now.
Esam	Thank you. (Take a look at the file given by Azam for a while). So, should we start our meeting Encik Fadzillah?
Adel	Yes, Tuan Haji. Good morning to all of you. We just received a call from our management office from Hawaii. We have got some problems regarding to our project there. Some of the workers are not satisfied with the payment. They wanted the salary to be increased up to 10%.
Azam	That’s a really high demand. 10% is not a small amount. We cannot satisfy everyone’s desire.
Didie	Yes, I agree. But, I think if we do not listen to their request, big problems might occur.
Azam	We cannot let this problem distract our project. This project is our biggest investment for this year.
Adel	Besides, we must take care of our reputation. This problem would affect our good reputation now.
Esam	Encik Fadzillah, what is their work performance?
Adel	Some of them are doing well in their work and some of them are not really committed.
Didie	Maybe we can increase the payment but decrease the number of the workers.
Azam	Yes, let us keep those who are really committed to their work.
Esam	This problem is very serious. So I would like you, Encik Hadi to prepare the suggestion on paper and I would like to have it by next Monday.
Didie	I will have that one done Tuan Haji!
Esam	As for you Encik Azam, I want you to check each department to analyse the number of workers needed to be employed. Remember, we will give some compensation to help them.
Azam	Yes, Tuan Haji. Anything else, Tuan Haji?
Esam	Exactly. I want both of you to go to Hawaii to inform the workers there about our planning and I want it to be done harmoniously.
Adel	Yes, Tuan Haji. We will do that as soon as possible.
Esam	Is there anything that you want to share? If not, the meeting will be adjourned. I will chew over this problem and consider all your suggestions. Thank you for your cooperation. The function of language: To Inform ·         Encik Hadi, please inform all board directors, we have an urgent meeting 10 minutes from now. To Greet ·         Good morning Tuan Haji. To Thank ·         Thank you To Explain ·         We just received a call from our management from Hawaii. We have got some….. To Object ·         That’s really a high demand. 10% is not a small amount. We cannot satisfy everyone’s desire. To Ask for Information ·         Encik Fadzillah, how was their achievement in their work? ·         Anything else, Tuan Haji? To Answer ·         Some of them are doing well in their work and some…. To Suggest ·         Maybe we can increase the payment but decrease the number of the workers. To Agree ·         Yes, I agree. ·         Yes, let us keep those who are really committed in their work. To Instruct ·         So I would like you, Encik Hadi to prepare the suggestion on paper and I would like to have it by next Monday. ·         I want you to consider to each department to classify the number of workers to stay working.

Besides, we need to know and understand about language form and functions. This really helps us in understand on what the person trying to show us. Through form and function, we will able to identify the reason on why the speakers wanted to told us. Since this task was a part of our assignment, we were very keen in doing this well because the marks will be given.

As a conclusion, I learned that different language function can gives a different meaning although the sentence given was almost the same. The others group’s presentation make me feel more understand about the language form and functions.