1. Physical activities photos and videos regarding Sports and Fitness.
2. Locate sites dedicated to Sports and fitness activity.
3. Using the information from the site, prepare a worksheet.
SAMPLE OF VIDEO
PROCEDURE:
• Ask the students by showing sports
activities video and photos of Malaysian athletes write them on the board. Ask them what they
know about popular sports in Malaysia and issues related to it such as types,
issues and what are their preferences.
• Distribute the worksheet prepared.
They should think about the answer by
relating to their existing background knowledge. Tell students that the exact
answers to all the questions are
available online.
• Ask them to log in the websites
selected, and ask them to read and understand the content before complete the
worksheet, making sure they check any of the answers they have already written.
• Students should find out any vocabulary that is new or difficult for them.
Discuss
the vocabulary problems that they encountered, and discuss any unusual
facts they learned.
•
When all the students have finished, discuss their results. Tell students to
prepare for a short or mini debate about the advantages and disadvantages of
sports, using facts they have learned. Divide them into two (2) groups and proceed with the
debate
•
Students should practice the usage of the vocabularies in the debate.
END OF LESSON
Teacher recap the whole lesson of the day.
WORKSHEET:
QUIZ
Look at the questions below. Answer can be found on the Websites given.
1. What are the six (6) popular sports in Malaysia?
2. Describe the rules and regulation of playing one of the sports chosen ?
3. What is the tendacy of injury occur in sport such as football?
A) Low
B) High
4. How to prevent injury in sports?
5. Squash has never been played widely in Malaysia. True or false? If false, gives the correct answer with supporting evidence.
6. What is the history of Sepak Takraw in Malaysia? Briefly explain in one paragraph.
FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY
• Students
will be asked to relate all of the top sports in Malaysia by linking and
describe any videos that they can find from the internet, in their group page
of Facebook. • Construct
a sentence for each of vocabularies or terms that have been found and post it
in the same page.
The following article review is taken from a journal
entitled the, JOURNAL OF LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2: JUNE 2009,
ISSN: 1535-0975. This journal is written into several subtopics. It is divided
into three (3) sections which are consisted two (2) articles and one (1)
research study. These are the three (3) sections of the journal:
Wireless ESL: How
second language students, instructors, and administrators envision our laptop classrooms.
This particular article is produced by Dr. Meredith W.
Zoetewey Department of English,University of South Florida 4202 E Fowler Ave,
CPR-107, Taampa, FL 33620-5550, United
States of America.
What Students,
Professors, and IT Staff Had to Say About the Laptop Program at a Four-Year Hispanic
Serving Institution.
This particular article is produced by two (2) authors which
are Angelina I. T. Kiser, Ph.D.Assistant Professor University of the Incarnate
Word CPO #27 4301 Broadway San Antonio, TX 78209 and Annette Craven,
Ph.D.Associate Professor University of the Incarnate Word CPO #141 4301
Broadway San Antonio, TX 78209.
C) Should
Four-Year Olds Use Computers to Develop Emergent Literacy Skills?: A Study of
the Waterford Early Reading Program.
This particular article is produced by two (2) authors which
are Heidi J. Stevenson, Ph.D.Benerd School of Education University of the
Pacific 3601 Pacific Avenue Stockton, CA 95211 and Rachelle Kisst Hackett Benerd
School of Education University of the Pacific 3601 Pacific Avenue Stockton, CA
95211.
SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE
This journal is
written purposely to find out the usage and ability of stakeholders of the
university towards the computers technology. According to Dr. Meredith W.
Zoetewey (2009), This article presents the case of a laptop computer writing
classroom for non-native speakers of English at a large,public research
university. Participants included ESL students, instructors, and administrators
connected to the classroom. Data came from official documents pertaining to the
classroom, site observations, questionnaires, tape-recorded interviews and
focus groups, and written reflections. Dr Meredith (2009) also stated that This
study promotes the consideration of L2 learners’, instructors’,
andadministrators’ preferences, and provides the field with heuristics for
outfitting and ordering wireless classrooms. The third section is the one that
is focused in this review. This research is
actually done to the Waterford Early reading program which consisted of
a target group of 4 years old children. According to Heidi J. Stevenson (2009)
this research is intended to solve issue regarding the literacy. It is stated Early
childhood educators may have difficulties therefore, in attempting to
compensate for home environments which do not foster emergent literacy, and
differentiating reading instruction in an effort to meet the needs of all
students.
While currently under researched (Kamil & Lane, 1998;
Tracey & Young, 2007), a technologically-focused approach to
differentiating instruction, such as employing an Integrated Learning System
(ILS), may prove effective in developing emergent literacy. For the purposes of
this study ILS is defined as a computer management system that assesses
students and places them in an individualized sequence of lessons appropriate
to their learning level. There are a variety of ILSs that focus directly on
emergent literacy skills such as phonological awareness, alphabetical
principles, word identification, and basic concepts of print. The present study
will focus on a particular ILS, Waterford Early Reading Program Level 1
(WERP-1). WERP-1 software assists in developing the above-mentioned skills
through stories, songs, and rhymes. As far for sample of the research, Heidi J.
Stevenson (2009) stated that, Participants were drawn from twelve classes at
six preschool sites in the same school district. All sites included preK
classrooms with students who possessed relatively low test scores, and used
Houghton Mifflin’s Pre-K text, “Where Bright Futures Begin!” There were morning
and afternoon classes at the six sites with approximately 20 students per
class. The three treatment sites each had two computers equipped with WERP-1
software, and employed teachers who were interested in using WERP-1 and willing
to fully participate in all components of the study. The findings of the
research The results suggest that use of WERP-1 for the prescribed time period
of 12-minute sessions five days a week significantly increased these
pre-kindergarten students’ abilities to identify the sounds associated with
letters. Phonological awareness is necessary for success in both the ability to
read and spell words. Therefore, teachers, principals, and parents hope to
assist children in developing this skill as easily and quickly as possible.
This journal has
caught my attention as a whole especially on the conducted study about the
usage of an intergrative and interactive software for the sake of young
children literacy. This is because we do know that the development of cognitive
ability begins at the early age and it is very important for the children to be
undergoing such a great program particularly the program that is fully in
computing technology. This will allow their learning and thinking skills
simultenously increasing without letting one or other left out. This will
eventually helps to contributing to the whole development of a literacy in term
of educational skill and others high skill, which are very important in this
challenging era. In my opinion this research is a well conducted research. This
is because the group respondents that is selected. The selected repondents are
among the early age children and how it is cross related to development of
computing technologies. Another thing is the collection of results had really
made amazed me. Those results had opened my eyes and made me realized the
importance of early exposure towards education and the implementation of highly
technology education is something that should be done by all community around
the world. This research must be one of the researchs that should be
implemented and extended in the teaching and learning of ESL in Malaysia. This
is because, few of implications that can positively affect our future
generation. First of all, the production of our future generation will be at
one step further than the past generation in their involvement and performance
in teaching and learning aspect. This will further improve the education system
that we are implementing at the moment as a whole. Secondly the production of
citizen who is really high in computing technologies literacy must be done at
the early stage of education. This will allow students have more interactive
session in acquiring knowledge and promote longevity in finding more knowledge
in the future. Our future is at the hands of our children. If we mold them to a
high quality person a much more victories will be claimed by us in the future.
REFERANCE
Dr. Meredith W. Zoetewey, Angelina I. T. Kiser, Annette
Craven, Heidi J. Stevenson, Rachelle Kisst Hackett Benerd (2009), Journal of Literacy
and Technology Volume 10, Number 2: June 2009, ISSN: 1535-0975 that is retrieved
from www.literacyandtechnology.org/volum10_2/jlt_v10_2.pdf
