LESSON PLAN

Decor Your Living Room

Level: Form 2 (Intermediate)
Topic: Home Decoration
Theme: Social Issues
Time: 80 minutes (double period)
Language Content: Prepositions of location and vocabulary

Aims: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1) Identify new vocabulary using the information from the web.
2) Write sentences by using the right prepositions.
3) Decorate their living room.

Technical requirements:

1) One computer per group of 2- 3 students.
2) Internet connection.
3) Web Browser.

Preparation:

1) Locate the website.
2) Prepare worksheet based on the information in the website.
3) Whiteboard.

Website: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room and http://www.la-z-boy.com/furniture/

Procedures:

Set induction (5 minutes)

1) Teacher revises the previous lesson on prepositions.
2) Teacher asks the students about the use of the furniture and the locations of the furniture at their house.

Task 1 (35 minutes)

1) Teacher assigns 2- 3 students for one computer.
2) Teacher instructs the students to go to the following website: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room
3) Teacher explains on how to use the navigation bar to jump from one picture to another.
4) Teacher draws a table (see Appendix A) on the board and asks the student to draw the same table in Microsoft word.
5) Teacher asks students to work in pair and identify the furniture and electrical appliances in every single picture by fill in the table.
6)Teacher allocates 20 minutes for students to create and fill in the table.
7) Teacher guides the students in completing the task.
8) Teacher asks a few groups to present their findings and discuss it with the whole class.

Task 2 (35 minutes)

1) Teacher explains and lists down the prepositions of locations on the board.
2) Teacher instructs the students to go to the following websites:
(http://www.la-z-boy.com/furniture/com/furniture/)
3) Teacher distributes a work sheet (refer to Appendix B)
4) Teacher asks the students to label with the furniture and then create sentences to explain their locations using the right prepositions.
5) Teacher asks a few groups to read aloud their answers and sentences

Conclusion (5 minutes)

1) Teacher recaps the lesson on “living room decoration”.
2) Teacher inculcates moral values and asks for responses from the students.

Follow-up activity:

Students are asked to draw a picture on their living room decorations based on their own imaginations.

Appendices

B)

in class task - hypertext

NELSON MANDELA


Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961.

After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a military wing within the ANC. In June 1961, the ANC executive considered his proposal on the use of violent tactics and agreed that those members who wished to involve themselves in Mandela's campaign would not be stopped from doing so by the ANC. This led to the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town; thereafter, he was at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland.

During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.


Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's National Chairperson.

ARTICLE REVIEW

The title for this research article is The Attitude and Motivation of English Language Teachers towards the Use of Computers. It was taken from Malaysian Online Journal of Instructional Technology (MOJIT), Vol.3, No.1, pp 57 67. It was written by Nurul Atikah Abdullah, Mohammad Jafre Zainol Abidin, Wong Su Luan, Omar Majid and Hanafi Atan and they were from the Centre for Languages and Translation USM, School of Distance Education USM and the Faculty of Educational Studies UPM.

The aims of this research were to evaluate the situation that currently exists pertaining to teacher attitude and motivation and elucidate the problems they face in the secondary schools of the selected district and also to look at the problems that might have an influence in the teachers’ decision to use or not to use the computer in their instructional delivery. There were two types or survey being used as a methodology in this research, which are; a quantitative data survey consisting of a 40-item questionnaire and a qualitative data survey via oral interviews conducted on six English language teachers. They have selected a total of 62 English language teachers from 12 schools in a selected district randomly. They were trained by different colleges and universities and have been teaching less than 5 years and more to 21 years and above. Their findings revealed that the majority of teachers had a positive attitude, were highly motivated towards the use of computers to teach English and actually used them for teaching and learning purposes, and also showed that intrinsic rewards, such as responsibilities, a sense of self-worth and accomplishments, did being significant in enhancing the positive attitude and motivation.

This research is very interesting to me because it encounters the issue that really happens in schools in Malaysia. This research is well conducted since the researchers have already mentioned that they used qualitative (interview) and quantitative (questionnaire) altogether, and the respondents have been indicated specifically. However, the research questions were not mentioned clearly but being touched with explanations regarding the issue and the researches did not mentioned about the limitations of the research. The researchers also did not use any recent references for the literature review. This can be improved by explaining the research questions under one subtopic and also stating the limitations of the research. Their references also should be more recent so that we can look at the overview of the latest researchers specifically on this respective issue. The research has shown that there are some teachers who are really interested in using ICT in the classroom and there are a lot of teachers that still prefer the traditional chalk and talk for English lesson. From the findings, I could see ICT in classroom should be implemented since that it may attracts the students’ attention and it is useful in initiating the students; understanding on certain topics since they may visualize it and experience by themselves. The attitude of the teachers is an important element to ensure that the lesson will be interesting or not. Teachers should consider about the students’ condition and normally teachers know that the students like to participate when the activities are interesting to them. One of the reasons why the teachers did not use computers in classroom is because they are lack of computer skills, since not much training provided for them. As a teacher, it is important for them to keep on updating themselves with new things; it doesn’t show that they are outdated, but they should always bear in their mind that learning is a process, they learn new things everyday and if they still haven’t realize, they did learn things through their own teaching. They have to enhance their own existential fulfillments (self-acceptance, self-actualization and self-transcendence) so that they know their responsibilities toward their students. Knowing that majority of the teachers are interested in using computers in classroom made me realize, that they are a lot of teachers still interested in using it, but due to the lack of facilities, such as no computer lab in their school, not enough equipment and other related reasons, the usage of computers in language learning is hard to be fully implemented in schools. The ministry should realize this and should provide more computers to school, not just focusing on the urban schools, but the rural schools as well.

This is the link for the research article http://pppjj.usm.my/mojit/articles/pdf/0406/07-hanafi-final.pdf

In class task - 2

I'll try...

salam everyone...

blogging? yup.. i just started... (still can't believe it, i finally blog!) hip..hip.. :) let me start this whole new thing with introducing who i am...

I'm Norita bte Abd Razak, a 25 years old, still studying, came from Jb and u can call me Ita... knowing that i have to create a blog this semester made me really really nervous... will i manage to do this? i hope i will.. no matter what it is, it's a part of the course and a part of being what i wanted to be someday.. so just go for it.. hip..hip..

frankly speaking, i don't have any idea on what to talk about since this is the first time i create my own blog.. but never mind... i'll try.. i'll try and i'll try...

basically, this course is about using computer in assisting the language learning... still so nervous about it.. you see.. obviously I'm not good at this computer - technology - diary thingy so called blog.. but as what i said, i'll try.. i'll try and i'll try...

well, let's start with the first task..

What computer software you know how to utilize?What computer hardware skills and knowledge do you have?

If i have to list down what are the things that i did to my computer, this would be all : i have written a lot of assignments in microsoft word, i have used powerpoint for my presentation and i have surfed the internet... and dot... that's it.. so i could say that the only thing i know how to utilize is Microsoft Office. Hardware skills? None... i don't even know on how to open a PC!.. uhuh.. i'm somehow interested in learning this computer thingy, but i think i just don't have the determination to do so.. so perhaps this time, i'll try...

What computer / Internet activities do you oftenly engaged in? e.g download songs, upload videos.

Normally, whenever i start my notebook, i'll start with yahoo messanger,then log in my virtualfriends.com and then my facebook. I download songs a lot.. watching videos on youtube and sometimes, i play games...

Did you have the opportunity to use the computer in your teaching during your practicum?

No, i didn't. To be frank, i'm interested to use it, but due to the time constraints, and some other - complicated - process in bringing the students to use the computer lab, i decided to just stay in class.

Have you participated in any online learning? e.g via educational websites?

Ilearn is the only online learning that i participated in..

I guess that's all for the first start.. daadaaaa.. hip..hip..