Task 11

Responding to students essay

Responding to student’s essay can be a burden if you don’t know how to do it. If you are too nice maybe the students will not be aware of their mistakes next time but if you are too cruel students will feel down and eventually students won’t have the encouragement to finish their work. To be honest the students essay was quite hard to read but still I can understand what is the student are trying to say.

When it comes to respond to the student essay I need to decide what method should I use to gives respond. Now I know how hard it is to mark students essay and how difficult to respond to their essay. In order to respond to the student essay I would use the method which is I will call the student to meet me face to face so that I can talk straight away to him or her. When it comes to give respond to a lot of students I will call students in group which are doing the same mistakes in their essay and then I will comment them as a group and not by individual.   

Task 10

Write an article on the topic integrating technology in teaching writing. It can be anything related to the slides, own opinion. How you would use it in future.

      The development of technology nowadays had change the teaching pattern of school in Malaysia. Technology can be a lot of different things such as mobile phone, computer, web base tool and Internet. We have to realize that integrating technology in writing is the best way to teach students nowadays. Computer or laptop are must have things for students nowadays and Internet connection are vital for students. Other than that technology manage students to be more creative in finishing their work and not to mention technology also motivate students.

Without laptop students cannot finish their work and do research regarding their assignments. Students who study in university are required to submit their assignment in form of typed on papers and not hand write assignment, that is why I said that laptop are must have thing for students nowadays, for them laptop are their soul and they can’t live without it. Early in the article I had mention that Internet connection are vital for students, this is because Internet is the place where students can get information for their assignments other than reading books in library.

When it comes to do their assignments students tends to be more creative because of the technology that we have today. There are times where students can show their creativity when doing a presentation. Besides students, teachers and lecturers also becomes more creative when teaching their students. This is because teachers and lecturers can add in visual ad to their presentation so that students will not feel boring when it comes to study about writing. Other than that videos and songs also can help students to learn writing. Videos and songs are the most useful things to add in because students sometimes are stress out with their work so in order to teach students in relax condition these things should be include in the lesson.

Motivating students to learn writing is not impossible when you know the techniques. For example social networks are things that can be use to teach and learn writing. For instance when it comes to do a writing lesson teachers can simply use “Facebook” “Twitter”or “Blog” to start a writing lesson. Teachers just have to put up a question on their social networks wall and let the students answer the question straight away and they don’t have to wait for class to teach the students. With this method students are able to give lots of idea because the process does not involved face to face interaction.

As a conclusion integrating technology in writing lesson really does help students to learn writing. Other than that technology help students to be more creative and motivated them in learning writing.                   

Task 9

Assessing student's essay

 "The Essay"

     As a future teachers we are ask to assess this student's essay and to be honest it is quite difficult to be a teacher and how I wonder a teacher can mark all of the student's essays in just a few days, it takes effort to do that. Continue with the essay, we decided to give this student 10 out of 20. Although there are lot of grammar mistakes and spelling errors still we can understand what is the student are trying to say in his or her essay. There are some good vocabulary that are used in the essay and it shows that the student are really trying to do the best for his or her essay. All in all we decided to gave the student 10 out of 20  which is enough for the student to pass.

Task 8

Question 1

Construct two instructions for two activities regarding the map shown.

1. Your friends car have been stolen while she was shopping at the Wisma Merdeka and now she wants you to text her the direction on how to go to the Police Station. Your essay must be at least 180 words. The direction must start from Wisma Merdeka.

2. You are a student from peninsular Malaysia which is studying in Kota Kinabalu. Your friend from your hometown asks you to write a letter about the places that you have visit in Kota Kinabalu. You must only write the places stated on the map. Your letter must be not more than 180 words.

Question 2

You are teaching the theme “Environment” to a form three class with intermediate level of proficiency. Describe one activity on how to integrate the following thinking skills into your lesson.

a)analysis

b)application

My title for the activity will be "Care for the environment"

           In order to teach my students about environment, I will show my students some pictures of our environment that have been polluted, after that students will have to point out some ways on how to manage our environment and ways to reduce and stop the pollution.   

Task 7

Experience the Haiti earthquake

 The game itself said that it is not a game. 

You can choose to be the survivor, journalist or aid worker. 

From my point of view the game was design to help us to get ready when any catastrophe strikes. Based on the game that I had play it is really exciting and it makes you feel like you are the one who is experiencing the tragedy. For me the game can help students learn English and it can teach students to write in English. As a beginner students in writing the game will help the students a lot, as we can see the game provides pictures, videos and sound, this can make students feel like they are watching a movie and at the same they are learning. For intermediate students this game can help them in strengthen their vocabulary and grammar because of the word choice in the game. Advanced students sometimes can easily get boring when it comes to do some work, so the game is the solution for the problem because it’s a game and at the same time they learn to solve things and to decide to do things in the game. The only problem regarding this game is it needs a good Internet connection because of the videos and sound from the game.