Sunday, 31 August 2014

RPH MINGGU 35

RANCANGAN PENGAJARAN HARIAN
            MATA PELAJARAN: BAHASA INGGERIS

MINGGU 35

DATE/DAY
25.08.2014 (Monday)
CLASS
3N
TIME
12.50 – 2.00 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Revision for PT3
TOPIC
Error Identification
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) identify errors correctly in a sentence in order to get 1 mark
b) correct the errors correctly in order to get 1 more mark
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher tells the students to get their PT3 English revision workbook for a lesson on error identification.
b) The teacher explains that this will be the first question that they need to complete in the written test.
c) The teacher also explains that they need to identify the correct error in order to get 1 mark and correct the error in order to get another 1 mark. Both error and correction marks will be added up before dividing it with two in order to get the average mark which is upon 10 marks.
d) The teacher shows how this is done on the board. She writes down three sentences on the board and shows how to identify the error and how to correct them. She stresses on the importance of writing the correction on the same line with the error.
e) Then, the students are told to attempt the first exercise for Module 6. They are given 20 minutes to read and to identify the errors as well as to correct the errors.
f) At the end of this time, the teacher writes down the answers on the board while the students are to check their work. If students do not understand how an error is corrected, the teacher will explain further.
g) Once the students understand how this is done, she tells them to attempt the second error identification exercise in Module 5 on their own.  This exercise is to be completed individually before the teacher checks their answers.
REFLECTION
This lesson was not completed yet. The reason was the students could not identify even one error in the short text. Hence, the teacher could not even assign them to do another error identification exercise in Module 5. She had to teach them the grammar items before the students could identify the first error on their own. This question proves to be the hardest for the 3N students.

DATE/DAY
25.08.2014 (Monday)
CLASS
1L
TIME
2.35 – 3.10 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Grammar
TOPIC
Revision of simple present tense and subject verb-agreement
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) fill in blanks with the correct singular or plural verbs
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher begins the lesson with a revision of what are singular and plural nouns as well as verbs. She also asks the students when to use singular and plural verbs in a sentence. She tells them to give the two rules for subject verb-agreement.
b) Once this is done, the teacher asks the students to take down a set of exercise where they are to fill in blanks with the correct singular or plural verbs. They are to identify which nouns are singular or plural before assigning the correct verbs. They are given 10 minutes to do this on their own.
c) At the end of this time, the teacher calls some students to write down their answers on the board. She checks for any errors and explains to the students if they have made any errors.
d) Before the lesson ends, she reminds them to bring their books again for more revision of subject verb-agreement.
REFLECTION
This lesson was completed. However, the teacher found out that almost all of the students have forgotten what they have learnt in previous lessons. Hence, the next lesson will still focus on subject verb-agreement.

DATE/DAY
25.08.2014 (Monday)
CLASS
1A
TIME
5.10 – 5.45 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Grammar
TOPIC
Simple past tense
Past Continuous tense
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) construct simple sentences with five or six words
b) construct sentences using simple past tense
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) Before the teacher begins the lesson, the teacher asks the students to tell her what they have learnt about simple past tense. They are expected to say that it is a tense used to describe events that have happened in the past.
b) The teacher explains that they will learn about past continuous tense during this lesson. She explains how it differs from simple past tense. She gives examples of sentences in a table with two columns. The teacher writes down the structure for using past continuous tense.
c) Next, she assigns the students with a simple task. They are to write 12 simple sentences that contain at least six words. Their sentences must be written using simple past tense.
d) Before the lesson ends, the teacher reminds the students to complete this task before she moves on to more exercises on past continuous tense.
REFLECTION
This lesson was completed. The teacher found out that students rarely used past continuous tenses in their writing. Hence, the students learnt something new about the structures for past continous tense. The given exercise was also quite easy for them as most of them managed to write at least 5 sentences before the lesson ended.


DATE/DAY
25.08.2014 (Monday)
CLASS
3A
TIME
4.35 – 5.10 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Revision for PT3
TOPIC
Information Transfer
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
a) identify the correct main ideas
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher comments on students’ previously completed information transfer question in Module 6 where some students failed to include the correct main ideas and arranged them wrongly by skipping a few important details.
b) The teacher highlights the importance of analyzing the correct steps where steps must not be repeated or left behind.
c) To get the students to understand how to excel in this question, she gets them to complete on the second information exercise in Module 5. They are given 15 minutes to do this on their own.
d) At the end of this time, the students are told to check their answers as they listen to the teacher reading out the answers.
e) They are to identify why they can’t get a full 10 marks for this section if they have done any errors. For those who had gotten the 10 marks, they are to tell their friends how they did it.
f) Before the lesson ends, the teacher assigns another information transfer question in Module 4 which the students have to complete at home.
REFLECTION
This lesson was completed. The teacher introduced how to identify the correct sequence and to write answers short but still consisting of the main ideas. The teacher will check students’ work for Module 4.

DATE/DAY
26.08.2014 (Tuesday)
CLASS
1L
TIME
12.50 – 2.00 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Grammar
TOPIC
Subject verb-agreement
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) fill in blanks with the correct singular or plural verbs
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) In order to help the students to do better in this task, the teacher has decided to give more remedial exercises in the form of filling in blanks. She gives them further exercises on the board.
b) The students are to take down these exercises into their books and to complete them on their own for 15 minutes.
c) Then, the teacher asks some students to write down their answers on the board. She later checks their answers and explains why some answers are wrong.
d) Before the lesson ends, she reminds them that they will learn about simple past tense in the next lesson.
REFLECTION
This lesson was completed. The students were made to memorize the two rules for subject verb-agreement before attempting the exercises. However, not all of them could give the correct answers. When tested orally, some of the students get confused by giving the wrong answers. The last exercise, however, was given as homework where students have to write their own answers in order to fill in blanks. The teacher has asked 3 students to try fill in 3 blanks but it proved quite difficult for them as they have very limited vocabulary. The teacher will check this exercise by asking them to write their answers on the board which will be further discussed on Wednesday.

DATE/DAY
26.08.2014 (Tuesday)
CLASS
1A
TIME
2.00 – 3.10 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Grammar
TOPIC
Simple past tense and past continuous tense
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) fill in blanks with either simple past tense or past continuous tense
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher starts the lesson by asking the students to give her the two structures for writing sentences using past continuous tense. The students are expected to give a) was + verb + ing b) were + verb + ing.
b) Next, she tells them to take down two exercises into their exercise books. The first is to fill in blanks with simple past or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets while the second is to rewrite sentences using the simple past or past continuous tense of the verbs
REFLECTION
Instead of giving some filling in the blanks and rewriting sentences, the teacher has decided to get students to learn how to write sentences using past continuous and simple past tenses. She explained three types of sentences where all of the sentences must have a past continuous tense in the first half followed by a simple past in the second half. The students were told to construct 5 simple sentences to show all of these three structures. The teacher will check their work again during Wednesday lesson.


DATE/DAY
26.08.2014 (Tuesday)
CLASS
3A
TIME
4.35- 5.10 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Revision for PT3
TOPIC
Comprehension questions and writing an e-mail
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) identify true or false statements from a given text
b) answer four comprehension questions using information from a given text
c) write an e-mail of about 50 words about online learning
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Learning how to learn
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher asks the students if they know anything about online learning. If the students have some or little knowledge about this topic, the teacher tells them to open their workbooks to Module 3 where they are to answer a few comprehension questions and write an e-mail about online learning.
b) The teacher reads this short text and explains to the students what they have just listened.
c) Next, she tells them to discuss the questions for the comprehension section by asking the students to answer impromptu. The teacher guides them to select the best answer. Then, the students fill in the blanks with the correct answers.
d) After that, the teacher directs their attention to the e-mail writing exercise. The teacher asks the students to underline the benefits of online learning in the text and to use all of the points in their e-mail.
e) The teacher assigns this exercise as homework for the students to complete at home. They will submit their workbooks on Wednesday to be checked by the teacher.
REFLECTION
This lesson was half completed. The teacher has decided to focus on the e-mail writing exercise as she needed some time to explain the given text to the students before they could write a 50-word e-mail. The first exercise on the comprehension questions will be attempted at another lesson. The e-mail writing exercise was given as homework which the students will hand in on Friday.

DATE/DAY
27.08.2014 (Wednesday)
CLASS
1A
TIME
12.50 – 2.00 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Grammar
TOPIC
Simple Past Tense and Past Continuous Tense
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) fill in blanks with either a simple past or past continuous tense
b) rewrite sentences using either a simple past or past continuous tense
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher asks the students to tell her what they have learned in previous lesson. They are expected to say that they learned how to construct simple sentences using simple past and past continuous tenses.
b) Before she gives more remedial exercises, she reads a few sentences that the students have constructed in previous exercise. She wrote these sentences on the board and corrects any errors. She explains why there are errors in the sentences.
c) Next, she tells them to take down two exercises into their exercise books. The first is to fill in blanks with either a simple past or past continuous tense using verbs given in brackets. The second exercise requires students to rewrite sentences using simple past or past continuous tense using verbs given in brackets.
d) These exercises are to be completed individually as homework which the teacher will check during Friday lesson.
REFLECTION
This lesson was completed. The students asked when to use simple past and past continuous tense as they found it hard to determine which tense to be used to complete the two exercises. So the teacher explained further. She also reminded them that the rule of applying these two tenses depend on the sentences where the students need to study which action requires a long time to complete.


DATE/DAY
27.08.2014 (Wednesday)
CLASS
1L
TIME
3.25 – 4.00 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Grammar
TOPIC
Subject verb-agreement
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) fill in blanks with either singular or plural verbs
b) fill in blanks with either singular or plural nouns
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher gets students to take out their exercise books in order to revise previous exercise which was not completed in the class. She discusses the answers with the students by asking them to write their answers on the board. She checks and explains why there are errors (if there are any).
b) Next, the teacher gives further remedial exercise to help the students master the ability to identify suitable singular or plural verbs. The first exercise is to fill in blanks with suitable singular or plural verbs using verbs given in brackets. The second exercise requires them to choose suitable singular or plural nouns using the given verbs in sentences.
c) They are given some time to do this on their own. Once they are done, the teacher calls some students to write their answers on the board. She checks their work and does the correction on the board.
d) Before the class ends, the teacher tells them to recite the two rules for subjects to agree with verbs.
REFLECTION
This lesson was not fully completed. The previous exercise was completed. But some of the students still made mistakes. So the teacher gave them two more exercises which the students were told to complete at home as homework. The teacher will check this exercise during Thursday lesson.

DATE/DAY
27.08.2014 (Wednesday)
CLASS
3N
TIME
4.00 - 5.10 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Revision for PT3
TOPIC
Error Identification
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) identify errors correctly in a sentence in order to get 1 mark
b) correct the errors correctly in order to get 1 more mark
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher tells the students to get their PT3 English revision workbook for a lesson on error identification again as they were very weak in identifying the errors in previous lesson.
b) The teacher explains again that they need to identify the correct error in order to get 1 mark and correct the error in order to get another 1 mark. Both error and correction marks will be added up before dividing it with two in order to get the average mark which is upon 10 marks.
d) The teacher shows how this is done on the board. She writes down three sentences on the board and shows how to identify the error and how to correct them. She stresses on the importance of writing the correction on the same line with the error.
e) Then, the students are told to attempt the first exercise for Module 5. They are given 20 minutes to read and to identify the errors as well as to correct the errors.
f) At the end of this time, the teacher writes down the answers on the board while the students are to check their work. If students do not understand how an error is corrected, the teacher will explain further.
g) Once the students understand how this is done, she tells them to attempt the third error identification exercise in Module 4 on their own.  This exercise is to be completed individually before the teacher checks their answers.
REFLECTION
This lesson was completed. The error identification exercise proves to be the hardest task after writing essays for these students. They depended heavily on the teacher to help them identify errors in Module 6 and Module 5. The teacher will check their work for Module 4 in the coming class.

DATE/DAY
28.08.2014 (Thursday)
CLASS
3N
TIME
12.50 – 2.00 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Revision for PT3
TOPIC
Information Transfer
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
a) identify the correct main ideas
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) In this lesson, the teacher introduces the second question in the written test which is information transfer. The teacher explains that they will need to read the text before identifying the main ideas which will be used to fill in a diagram, a chart or a table.
c) For this exercise, the teacher reads out the short text in Module 6 and explains what it means. Then, she also reads out the instructions and explains what kind of ideas the students should look out for.
d) The teacher illustrates how this is done with the first point. The students are then told to complete this exercise on their own for about 15 minutes.
e) At the end of this time, the teacher reads out the answers while the students check.
f) Before the lesson ends, the teacher assigns another information transfer exercise in Module 5. She reads out the text and explains what they must do. They will do this on their own before the teacher checks their work during Friday lesson
REFLECTION
This lesson was completed. The first information transfer exercise was quite easy as it dealt with process and procedure. The task was made slightly easier for them as there were sequence connectors to help them identify the sequence. The teacher has assigned the exercise in Module 5 as homework which the teacher will check during Friday lesson.


DATE/DAY
28.08.2014 (Thursday)
CLASS
3A
TIME
2.00 – 3.10 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Writing
TOPIC
Recount: A robbery at a park
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
a) construct sentences using simple past tense and past continuous tense
b) write a 6 paragraph essay on the recount
c) describe people and situations using adjectives and adverbs
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher asks the students if they have ever witnessed a robbery. The teacher expects the students to say either no or yes. If their answer is yes, they are encouraged to share their experiences with their friends.
b) Then, the teacher asks them to imagine the feeling of being threatened by a stranger whose intention is to steal one’s money or belongings. The teacher listens to the students as they give words to describe emotions. The teacher then adds to this list by writing all of these on the board.
c) Next, the teacher tells the students to turn to a page in their workbooks where they will be asked to write a 6-paragraph essay on a recount of a robbery at a park. The teacher reads the question for the students and gets them to study the pictures. They are then asked to contribute ideas about the pictures.
d) After this, the teacher gives them a layout for the essay by outlining the main ideas for each paragraph. She also reminds them that they are to use suitable adjectives and adverbs in their sentences.
e) The teacher assists the students by asking them to share their ideas for the introduction. She writes down some of the words which may be used to begin the first sentence.
f) The teacher tells them to write their own introduction and complete this essay on their own at home.
REFLECTION
This lesson was completed. The students had never experiences this situation before but it helped them to think when the teacher decided to share with them her own experienced of getting mugged. This helped to trigger important ideas related to this topic. They were told to complete this exercise at home as part of revision for the coming PT3 Trial examination.

DATE/DAY
28.08.2014 (Thursday)
CLASS
1L
TIME
4.35 – 5.45 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Grammar
TOPIC
Subject verb-agreement
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) fill in blanks with the most singular or plural verbs
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher checked students’ work on Wednesday which was not completed yet. She called some students to write their answers on the board before checking them.
b) Next, the teacher taught them how to construct simple sentences using simple present tense. She draws a table with three columns and gives examples of simple sentences using subjects, verbs and objects. The simple sentences will have about three or four sentences.
c) After that, the teacher gets the students to fill in a table with three columns. She gives them some words to help them fill in the table. They are given 10 minutes to do this on their own.
d) At the end of the time, the teacher calls some students to write their simple sentences.
e) Then, the teacher checks each simple sentence and corrects them if there are any errors.
f) Before the lesson ends, the teacher tells the students to repeat the two rules for subjects to agree with verbs.
REFLECTION
This lesson was not conducted. The teacher has decided to conduct a quiz on electrical gadgets and road signs as part of revision on two chapters taught from the OPS textbook. The students had difficulties in spelling words such as vacuum cleaner, road humps, U-turn and pedestrian lane. The class was divided into two groups – boys versus girls. The girls won this quiz. The teacher will give away the prize on Tuesday next week.

DATE/DAY
29.08.2014 (Friday)
CLASS
1A
TIME
3.10 - 3.45 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Grammar
TOPIC
Simple Past Tense and Past Continuous Tense
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) identify which sentence is correct or not
b) correct wrong sentences by using simple past and past continuous correctly in sentences
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher checks students’ work by telling them to provide answers for the two previous exercises that were given on Wednesday.
b) Once this is done, the teacher gives them the last exercise for the topic which is error identification. The students are to identify which sentences are wrong or right. If they are wrong, the students are to rewrite the errors.
c) This exercise is checked in class once the students have completed it.
d) Before the lesson ends, the teacher reminds the students to be ready to do essay writing exercises in preparation for the final year examinations.
REFLECTION
This lesson was not conducted. The teacher has decided to check and discuss Wednesday’s exercise which was on simple past and past continuous. The teacher found out that the students had difficulties identifying which action lasts longer than the other one and which requires it to be described using past continuous tense. The teacher explained the exercise further and this did not allow her to give the last exercise on this topic.



DATE/DAY
29.08.2014 (Friday)
CLASS
3A
TIME
4.00 – 5.10 pm
SUBJECT
English
UNIT
Literature
TOPIC
The novel: Around The World In 80 Days – Describe a theme in the novel
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
a) elaborate three examples of situations that show a chosen theme in the novel by identifying evidence from the novel
b) construct sentences using simple present tense
c) write in five paragraphs
LEARNING EMPHASIS
Mastery learning
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
a) The teacher informs the students that they will learn to answer a new type of question as part of revision for the trial examinations. She writes the question for discussion on the board and tells them to identify the key words in the question. The students are expected to say that they are to write about one theme of the novel.
b) Then, the teacher asks them to identify several themes of the novel. Some of the possible ones are such as friendship, perseverance, love and adventure. For the purpose of revision, the teacher has decided to work on the theme of perseverance.
c) In order to help students to identify situations that illustrate perseverance, she defines the meaning of the word perseverance. She gives them 5 minutes do think of three examples in the novel that show this theme.
d) Next, the students are invited to share their answers with the teacher. She lists down their answers and chooses three best situations that the students are very familiar with.
e) She lays these out clearly for them in the form of a mind map where the main ideas, elaborations and examples are given in note forms.
f) Then, the teacher calls some students to give sentences for the introduction, the three content paragraphs and also the conclusion.
g) The students are told to take the essay into their exercise books and are reminded to do their revision for the exam based on this essay.
REFLECTION
This lesson was completed. However, instead of giving the students time to write on their own in class, the teacher has decided to speed things up by doing most of the mind map and the writing of the essay. Most of the time was spent of getting students to brainstorm ideas for the essay which was time consuming as they were not too sure of the three main ideas for the essay. The teacher had to give 2 out of 3 main ideas and helped them to construct the elaborations. Before the class ended, the students copied the sample essay.