In 2011, year 6/7 students spent a term focusing on the song Lupa Lupa Ingat by Kuburan, . The aim of the term was to make our own song video. Students were divided into committees, each with their own area of expertise, eg., backup singers, filming, musicians, makeup/costumes, etc. The finale was a whole school performance.
The filming was done with flip cameras and then edited in Windows Movie Maker.
what a great idea to use with any middle or upper class that knows how to use a language dictionary or even as part of a lesson learning how to use one. has lots of potential. love the matching idea too by the comprehensible classroom. great revision.
Educreating Spanish Cooking Videos.
Follow this link to see a fantastic way to plan a food based unit of work. Love the heavy language focus.
Have just had fun exploring Carolina’s blog called rightly “Fun For Spanish Teachers”. It was very inspiring for many reasons but for this time i enjoyed reading her games page. It made me realise that i could share some of the games i use in the Indonesian classroom successfully.
Charades- all ages
One of the games she explained reminded me of a game we played at the IALF (Bali). A student is shown a phrase written on a card and then has to act it out to a small group or to the class who then has to guess exactly what the phrase is. The winner is the one who can say it aloud. Another variation we played was in teams – Chinese whispers. The first team members read a phrase shown to them by the teacher and then they whispered it to the next person in their team and so on. The final person had to go the board and write down the phrase they heard. The winning team is the one that repeated the phrase exactly or closest to.
Flyswatter – JP
Flashcards with illustrations of the vocabulary being studied are laid face up on the floor with students sitting in a circle. 4 students hold a fly swat (4 different colours) and gently swat the picture that correlates to the vocabulary i say.
Dimana Monyet? – JP
students sitting in a cicle. All but one cover their eyes or put thei face down. One student stands and taps a 2nd student on the shoulder who hides monyet either up their shirt or behind their back. We all say together, “Dimana Monyet?” The students then take it in turns to guess who is hiding him.
Bola Kenalkan – MP & UP
in my room i have a soft squishy ball which is perfect for this. Students sit spaced out on the floor. I throw the ball to one at a time and ask them either:
Siapa nama
Tinggal dimana?
Umur berapa?
Apa kabar?
Ada berapa orang di keluarga (name)?
Even though it is only one student at a time answering my questions, my students adore this game and are totally miffed if they don’t all get a turn! I begin with expecting one word answers and build up to complete sentences. If the student is perplexed and needs a clue, i repeat the question and then answer it in Indonesian for myself. There is no English at all in this game.
Siapa nama Saya? JP & UP
One student sits in the hot seat while another student stands behind them and writes the name of one student in the room on the board behind them. The student in the hot seat has to ask questions in Indonesian eg. Umur saya berapa? When they know who it is, they say their name.
Bingo – MP & UP
This can be either the assessment task for a whole terms work to produce a bingo grid or students quickly draw up a 3×3 or 4×4 grid on a scrap piece of paper. In each square, students write the english or draw a picture of whatever vocabulary we have been learning and i call it out in Indonesian. Winner gets an Indonesian fruit or chili lolly!
The Twin Game – MP & UP
Each student is given a card which has information about:
Nama
Umur
Tinggal
Altogether students work their way round the class asking umur berapa and tinggal dimana of each other. When they find their “twin” they sit down. The winner is the first set of twins to find each other!
Evolution – MP
Each student is given a set of 4 cards, each with a different picture of an animal. I use the animals from my room as we are all familiar with their names. One card has an orangutan (top of the evolution ladder), then a beruang (next in line), then a babi (third in line) and finally at the bottom of the evolutionary ladder is ikan. Students make sure their cards are in order: ikan, babi, beruang, orangutan with ikan on top facing upwards. They then move around asking each other questions in Indonesian. They can only talk to someone on the same evolutionary step as themselves. If they could each question and answer correctly, they play rock paper scissors. The winner of rock paper scissors moves up the evolution ladder by moving the ikan card to the bottom of their pile while the looser remains at that level to hopefully win their next confrontation. On orangutan, they must come and converse with me. I put myself in mainly to check that the winner has been saying the vocabulary correctly and not cheating.
The four levels of questions are up to the teacher. For ikan, students ask each other siapa nama? For babi, they ask this and tinggal dimana? For the beruang level, they ask both about nama and tempat tinggal and also ask umur berapa? For orangutan, they add in apa kabar to me. Technically if the person they ask the question to makes a mistake, they should either start again or choose a new partner. The element of luck means it is not always the same person who wins!
Variation: mistakes in word order/answer student drops down an evolutionary step.
Just a few of the ones i can remember. Will add more when i think of them! Have you played any of these successfully in your language classroom? Do you have some you’d like to share?
What a fantastic idea! I think this is a great idea and would work very well with upper primary students.
What’s the most important thing in a foreign language class? To give students comprehensible input and show them the language in context. When you can accomplish this and entertain the kids at the same time to keep their interest, you’ve got yourself a win-win situation. During the Food Unit, we decided to google image search some vocabulary words/terms and we found some delicious memes.
Google Image Search is such an easy way to show students differening vocabulary. Want to compare the word “tortilla” in Mexico and in Spain? Google Image Search “Tortilla” and “Tortilla española”. The students can clearly see the difference directly from the pictures. Can same comparisons with “torta” and “torta de chocolate”
Anyway, we found some great memes incorporating the phrases “Tengo hambre” and “Estoy lleno”.
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Today I accompanie Annie Bernauer & Marg Roberts’ year 5 class to the Central Market in Adelaide to explore both Chinese and Indonesian culture and language.
Marg earlier this term spent some time talking to her students about Chinese New Year and I have always wanted to take a class to central market to do an Indonesian trail, so we collaborated and today was the result. Marg did all the transport organising as well as notifying the CM that we would be there whereas I did the trail.
Brent Bloffwitch, the INTAN president, kindly sent out a group email to all members for me asking if anyone had a trail that I could use. I had 2 replies and both were great. One of which was from Kaye McGeever who told me about a folder put together by the White lotus group. It is amazing although a little out of date, and included detailed sections on different shops. Using the folder as a basis, I headed to Central Market last Thursday to research the trail.
I began with the Chinese Entrance and then instead of the restaurant that used to be just inside the entrance that had brownish pekin ducks hanging up in the window for sale which is now a fancy modern restaurant I included the Taiwanese Bubble Tea place directly opposite. I bought a papaya bubble tea with soy milk & pearly tapioca which was delicious. I then went to the Bali Corner Restaurant stall in the Food Plaza and booked our meals. Abdul gave me an invoice for 28 nasi campur and 6 gado gado! He also gave me a potato pegedel to try which is easily the yummiest I have ever eaten! I then headed off to see if the Chinese Medicine place still existed. It did while it had moved around the corner but unfortunately it was too small inside and also it was more like a doctors clinic, so it didn’t feel right to have groups of students walking in and looking around. So that too was crossed off. I then headed to the Food Court which was air conditioned thankfully and after tallying what nationalities were represented there, found unsurprisingly that the Chinese food out numbered all other significantly! I then finished up with a visit to Kim Wang Supermarket to find the buddhist shrine that used to be at the back of the shop. Unfortunately I couldn’t find it anywhere, so instead I wrote some questions are kecap manis which all students know and love and then a question about the pigs trotters and chicken feet in the front freezer. I then finished up by asking them to find something in the shop that was unfamiliar and came from Indonesia.
eating recess in Victoria Square
Our excursion today was fantastic. It was so well worth all the preparation and effort not to mention doing it on a day I don’t work! There were so many aspects I loved.
Firstly I loved the fact that my group grasped each and every opportunity to speak to Indonesian speakers. They were so excited about getting the chance to use their Indonesian with Abdul at Bali Corner, that they could barely contain themselves to get it out and were all speaking over each other! Abdul was awesome, very patient and very encouraging. Even when the students had mental blocks or made mistakes they persevered and thoroughly enjoyed communicating with him. It really impressed me but when I thought about it further, I realised that this is the result of our many Indonesian visitors. PEPS students are generally relaxed and eager to communicate with Indonesians because they have had many opportunities to do this. Firstly in 2003 with Bi Anas and Bu Siska (Flores) then again with Bu Anas in 2005. Our next visitors were Bu Febi (Lombok) in 20009 & 2010 and Bu Arfa (Kalimantan) in 2010 and then in 2011 we had several visitors from all over Indonesia: Pak Agus (Bali), Bu Indra (Sumatra), Pak Usman (Sumbawa) and finally Pak Asep & Bu Valentina (Jakarta). How EXCITING!
Another thing I absolutely loved was spending a lot of time out of the classroom with a small group of students and having the opportunity to get to know them better. I had a terrific bunch of students and the best thing was that they had chosen to be in my group! How Cool! I had time to joke around with them, talk to them about non school things, and point out interesting things in the market that would have been really difficult with a whole class.
drooling over Chinese food!
drinking bubble tea!
Our lunch from Bali Corner in the Food Plaza was amazing . The students that ordered nasi campur were delighted with their food. Apparently the opor ayam and the rendang were fantastic. My gado gado took me right back to Indonesia even though the vegies were all Aussie ones: bean sprouts, cabbage, carrot & potato! The staff at Bali Corner were just so friendly and so encouraging of all students to use their Indonesian as much as possible! Students were all asked ‘ayam’ or ‘sapi’? All communication was in Indonesian and for students who lacked the confidence, it was repeated in English and then followed up with encouragement to answer in Indonesian! Just loved their manner with our students.
What a fantastic day and one I am sure all students enjoyed and hopefully they take home many great memories.
To finish up: walking back to the bus, Brayden and Cooper both said they want to go back just so they can say Hi to Abdul!
Today i experimented with Prezi again.
Tried to set up a keluarga prezi using the app and was getting somewhere when i minimised the screen and then when i went back to it, nothing was there. So frustrating. Did i do it the first time on the iPad or the desk top? The iPad app looked totally unfamiliar!
I remember there being more on the screen. But then again, i used a preset template. Maybe i should have done it that way again. I tried adding words to a photo of a family tree.
Follow the link below and watch the presentation! Either click on the link button above or copy the link address below.
This would be a great introduction if students were to make their own prezi. It certainly answered a lot of my questions! The main one being: why is my ‘canvas’ so huge!
Teachers and students can enjoy Prezi for free!!
http://prezi.com/xe5thxwgcxz1/if-you-put-it-that-way/#share_embed
Taking a leaf out of Kathy’s book (see My Teaching Travels”) I have decided to start my own blog to record all the things i’ve been doing in and out of class which have helped make me a better teacher and also helped to increase student engagement and lesson quality.
After reading Kathy’s last post about Pinterest, it really made me realise just how much research i do in my spare time. It also made me question the value of research if all one does is research without actually trialling it. Maybe it is time though to start using some of the great ideas i have discovered! I have found heaps of great ideas but rarely find that something that i can use straight away. Is this because my ‘research’ is too broad and i need to focus directly on what i am teaching at the moment? Is it because there is very little (make that almost nothing!) specifically on teaching Indonesian? Why is there heaps and heaps for spanish and, French etc, but almost nothing on Indonesian? Maybe this blog can start to address that issue too! Is it because i lack courage to trial new ideas? I hope not. Is it because i lack time to tweak them all to suit the year level i am working with. I do seem to spend an awful amount of time on the computer/iPad these days as it is. How does everyone else manage this without hours and hours online/ on the computer?
So, here I go: i would like to begin recording all that i do so that in the future i can look back and if i ever need a record of my “training”, this will help prompt my failing memory! Hopefully it will also help me work out how to streamline my ‘research’ so that i can balance my teacher prep with teaching time. It seems way out of balance at the moment.
Yuk, Yuk Semua ……
Lets go everyone…
Indonesian Teacher Reflections 