Where Are Your Manners? ++ Game Day

Salam and Hi to all,

So I guess my writing is a bit sequential ain't it? Because I just want to sum up the whole week into one entry...tehee :D  

We started the week with the first chapter in their text-book which would be the MOST LOVABLE topic for all teachers/lecturers/instructors!~

As the title goes: "Where Are Your Manners". Basically this chapter discusses about the declining of manners among tertiary level students, so the examples would be from actual current real life happenings. It mentions about students coming to class late and do not have the common sense to apologize, keeping quiet in class [i olls terasa tau uolls] or chattering while the instructor is teaching, playing with their fancy smartphones and gadgetry, so on so forth. The good thing about this chapter is, I can use it against them whenever I feel they are doing the same thing that annoys me after this. Kudos to the team who came up with this chapter in the book :D

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Game Day

I wanted to test their knowledge on certain aspects of English without having to go through the boring old stuff from primary school so I came up with an idea to do it in a form of game. During the weekend, I cut the A4 paper into small sized pieces and wrote down questions. YES, MANUALLY [huhuhuhu]. I bought jajan [snacks] as a form of reward because I know, their motivation to participate would increase because of positive reinforcement [hey, aren't we all like that??? :D]

Questions varied from tenses, spelling, pronunciation, idioms, prepositions and also singular/plural and I divided them into three categories; EASY, MODERATE and CHALLENGING. I put them into three different envelopes [detailed explanations for future reference :p] and conducted my first game for FKE students. What I wanted was; everyone to answer so I called up one by one to the front and they had to choose an envelope, I pick a question and they have to answer it, correctly. So we can see that sometimes, they make silly simple mistakes but I truly appreciate their effort and participation in the activity. For the second class, I changed a bit where I told them to get into groups of 4-6 but the same rule applies because I want everyone to attempt answering a question, once. I also asked them to jolt down the words that they don't know so they shouldn't be making the same mistakes over and over again in the future. Got one more class to go for this game. I really hope they enjoyed the game and drill some new words into their minds, inshaAllah :D

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For research class, we have covered until research methodology and now I am waiting for their first draft which comprises of; Introduction, Literature Review and also Methodology. I hope they have understood whatever being presented and explained in class and come for consultations so that they won't get lost in the process :) I'm not worried about these students because they come from the most toughest faculty in this university and they do their work well [hopefully]. Let's see whether they really understood what they have done...ngehehe

Till next week,

KEEP CALM AND TEACH ON~~~