WEEK OF SPEECHES

This week is a week of speeches for my students..they were asked to give 1) birthday speech 2) graduation speech 3) wedding speech 4) funeral speech 5) informative speech 6) demonstrative speech 7) persuasive speech...

Students really enjoyed this activity especially when their friends were doing funeral speech...they should pretend that they were at the funeral but some of them were laughing....

Most students asked their friends to be a model when they were giving speech.. for instance...they asked their friends to be birthday girl/boy...asked their friend to be husband and wife for wedding ceremony...and some of them also asked their friends to be the dead body for funeral speech...

In conclusion...well done to all my students...you have done a good job....

PSPM 2

Dear friends,
                         Since the essay writing will determine the students' grade  in English paper in PSPM 2, I've asked  the students to come up with appropriate topic sentences and elaborate them well.I've realised that they should be given ample exercises in creating topic sentences based on the essay title given and also the process of writing supporting details of each paragraph.   




                                                                                                                      by,JAM

Guess this would be my few last times writing here.:( By next semester, I'll be settling down in Kolej Matrikulasi Labuan..If I could, I wanted to remain here, to continue my service in KMPP..my heart belongs here..but who am I to ask for the impossible? Nevertheless, I'll keep on praying, begging for Almighty God's intervention, praying that I'd be back in KMPP in no time..So my dear friends, do pray for me too..Thank You.- Sabina

MUET Speaking

I had this insight after reading Kaz's post on MUET Speaking, so I would to share what I did with my students with all of you in case it can also benefit you and your students.

You remember, right, that I said MUET Speaking questions have 3 levels- personal/individual; societal/national; and international? Having known this, I make sure that before the Speaking Test, the students had attempted all these 3 types of questions.

I just brought one question, made copies for all groups (that means all groups attempting the same question) then taught them how to answer the question (in terms of what to say, what points to raise, etc). I have to warn that this takes time, so sometimes we only had time for Task A. Task B had to be done on another day. Remind yourself (I did this all the time) that we are focussing on THE PROCESS and not THE PRODUCT.

The other thing I did was to use past year questions. This also works as some of the questions are often repeated but with a new twist. However, do not take recent question, that is if for 2012, do not use questions from 2010 or 2011. Use questions that are like 5 years back as there are more chances of the questions to be repeated.

Hope this has been helpful and beneficial to you.

-Shariza Abbas

5S

Last two days I attended  a course on 5S internal audit.  Personally I feel 5S is actually a good thing but to achieve it will definitely take time.. It does not help that we face lots of constraints especially in terms of budget and time.   But I guess the biggest obstacle actually comes from us.  It is up to us to make things work - 5S should be done in phases - so work at it slowly but surely.. If we do not start now.. then when..  

FM