Choral Speaking is alive and well!!!

It was refreshing to watch the eight teams pit against each other in the recently concluded Kluang District 2017 Choral Speaking Competition. SM Sains Sembrong secured second place overall and the Best Conductor Award- congrats to Nash, Azhar and Azie for training them. They did well and I knew they would get a placing.  I oversaw the briefing for adjudicators and dabbled as the MC for the closing ceremony haha...what's the Malay proverb...tiada rotan akar pun berguna? Suddenly, in the midst of the closing ceremony the VIP arrived and Radhi was cutely signalling me to notice him and luckily I did. Thank you to Mr. Nasarudin Ahmad (PPD Kluang Co- Academic Officer) for making it despite having to be in three different events on the same day.

Thanks to all adjudicators, Madam Sarojini who was chief adjudicator (SMK Canossian Convent), Madam Rukumani (SMK Seri Kota Paloh), Mdm Nurul Fiza (SMK Taman Sri Kluang), Mr. Nafis (SMK SEDARA) and Ms Sheimah Nallasamy (SMK Kahang)

Congrats to all in the English Panel for making this a success! Tiring but fulfilling day :)
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Team SASEM -ist runner up and Best Conductor

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Nadi Kasih Programme SBP Southern Zone in Sehebat

Date: 20-22 April 2017

Venue: SEHEBAT, Batu Pahat

No. of participants : 240

Assalamualaikum and hi all! It's been a while I know. April has been a really busy month...I felt swamped! But I said to myself I must post this before it becomes ancient  news. I sure missed training a lot! It felt good to conduct a training session again for 240 students in all. Hopefully, my session was okay and so were the rest of the other sessions. We focussed more on Paper 2 considering it can help the weaker candidates to do better in this paper. Slip disc or not, the show must go on.

My thanks to Sehebat, particularly Loh Pei Wern (Head of English Panel) for being so accommodating and receptive to the trainers' needs, Suzi (Suziana Muhammad) for conducting the ice-breaker, trainers, Reeza from Sekolah Tun Fatimah, Hida from SM Sains Muar and Rozman, from SM Sains Johor, facilitators from SBP Southern Zone schools, 80 Young Tutors and participants. You were awesome! 

I felt rejuvenated somewhat from this event. I still have it in me to train methinks...Managed to visit old friend Zubaidah in Sehebat too and my prayers are with you. Speedy recovery o.k!

Sains Sembrong reps with Saufi and I 

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Teaching descriptive composition in 5 Bukhari

Dear all, am sharing this lesson plan that I carried out last week in 5 Bukhari. Do try it in your classroom and see how it goes. You know it would be nice to get some feedback on what challenges you face in carrying this out. It would be very professional teacher talk! Hope to hear from you :)

DAY/DATE	TUESDAY		17/1/2017
FORM	5 BUKHARI	TIME	2.30-4.00	NO. OF SS	20
THEME	People
TOPIC	Descriptive Composition
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	By the end of the lesson, you will be able to: 1. Describe a place using descriptive words in about 80 words.
SUCCESS CRITERIA	I will be successful if I can 1. Write a description of a place in 80 words in grammatically correct sentences.
TEACHING & LEARNING ACTIVITIES	1. Hi-5 warmer activity: T distributes a pink sheet of paper to each ss. 2. SS trace their left or right hand on the paper. 3. T sensitises SS with the five senses in writing a descriptive composition: sense of touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell and SS label them on the five fingers. 4. T writes a description of a room on whiteboard and get SS to identify words/phrases that depict the five senses. e.g. smell of urine, small and dark, loud opera music. Use red marker pen to circle the words/phrases. 5. SS individually choose from a choice of 9 topics and write a short description using the five senses. 6. Teacher evaluates SS work in the class period.
TEACHING AIDS/RESOURCES	Pink papers, Rahmah HS, English SPM Module, Nilam Publication
21ST CENTURY ELEMENTS	Collaboration / Creativity / PBL SS centeredness / Communication / Critical thinking / I-THiNK Maps Task-based /
REFLECTION

(What SS in Bukhari came out with)

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FORM 2 LESSON PLAN: Simple Present and Simple Past

Here's the Form 2 lesson plan for next week. We are going to revise simple present and simple past. From my experience is it always good to contrast the two tenses in one lesson so that SS see the difference. A little extra care is needed to explain irregular verbs though! Feel free to use and share. It would be nice to get some feedback with your classes too. Teaching is an art so don't worry about making mistakes! 

Happy teaching!

DAY/DATE	SUNDAY		8/1/2017
FORM	2 KATHIR	TIME	11.00-12.30	NO. OF SS	26
THEME	Social Issues
TOPIC	Simple present and simple past
LEARNING STANDARD	By the end of the lesson, you will be able to: 1. revise the simple past tense and irregular verbs
LEARNING OBJECTIVES	I will be successful if I can 1. Listen to a song and complete the lyrics correctly 2. Provide the simple present of the simple past verbs in the song
SUCCESS CRITERIA	1. T writes some words from a song lyric on the whiteboard and get SS to guess what the song is about. 2. T distributes a handout with gapped lyrics (verbs) of the song 3. SS listen to the song twice and fill in gaps. 4. Teacher provides answers by listing the verbs on whiteboard 5. T calls individual SS to provide the simple present tense of the verbs e.g. “stood = stand” 6. SS change the present tense to the past (handout) 7. SS do reinforcement exercises on the simple past (handouts)
TEACHING &  LEARNING ACTIVITIES	Tape recorder, song by Celine Dion, handout with gapped lyrics, handout with irregular verbs, extra tasks
21ST CENTURY ELEMENTS	Collaboration / Creativity / PBL SS centeredness / Communication / Critical thinking / I-THiNK Maps Task-based /
SCHOOL-BASED ASSESSMENT	1 2 3 4 5 6
REFLECTION

MATERIALS
1. Simple present and simple past 




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