Teaching number

How to teach young learners about numbers

Assalamualaikum.

Teaching numbers to the beginner is always chalenging . Especially, those who live in non english speaking country, like in Indonesia. The main thing a teacher should understand is that our students must have concept of number in their mother language. They must be able to count numbers in their own language first unless we will get stuck in teaching them in the future.

Well, just start our lesson joyfully. Enter their world first and take them to our world. Ask the students the number of chairs, tables, or anything in the classroom using their mother language. Ensure that all students follow us and keep attractive.

Teacher : Repeat after me (use this frase in the beginning of our teaching and stress our intonation in this phrase or we can translate into the students' language. using this frase also means that we speak in target language and in the future they will understand while we speak it again)

Teacher : one (write the symbol on the whiteboard)
Students : one
Teacher : Two
Students : Two, etc

Ensure that we have each students' pronounce the words correctly. I find that they mispronounce three, five six, eight, thirteen,fifteen. I suggest to teach them 1 to 12 first.
If they are geting bored, we can use songs or quiz. Remember that we must keep the learning interesting.

We can use the modified songs they have known. I usually sing 'one and one'.
Now, if the students are good in this step, ask them in group or individually.
Teacher : Bayu, What number is it?
Bayu : one
Teacher : Good, what number is it?
Bayu : Six

Do this to the rest of the students. To check their understanding, we can random the number. We can also ask them the number of the things in the classroom.

Thanks.
Wassalamualaikum.

Time Worksheer Creator

When I surfed the internet yesterday, I was looking for a worksheet about telling time in English. I need the worksheet for my students who will be holiday for five days. To fill the holiday, the teachers should give worksheets. I found an exciting site. If I usually just downloaded the worksheets available free. This site offered me something different. Here, I can create the time myself then print it whenever I wish.

In the sreen shot above, you just need fill the time you wish.



After filling out all the time, it will appear like the picture above.

Or If you want to show the digital clock, you just need to click the 'show digital' button.



Thanks for the creator. If you are interested, just click HERE.

ICE BREAKERS; activity to cool down the class situation

Well, sometimes when I am teaching, i get bored or, even, my students get bored. To avoid this many things to do. The most important is never teach in a mere way. You just stand in the center of the classroom, holding a marker and a ruler. 'Shut up', you suddenly scream out seeing your noisy students. Or, you just ask your students to write and write. Hmmmm... If you always do this during teaching. I 'm sure not only you but also your students will get bored. Ok, I have some activities to make the class situation interesting and exciting. You can find ten ice breaker activities to apply in your class. This site provides some games and activities helping you to cheer up the situation. The activities do not require certain equipments. In my opinion, the ideas are very helpful in my classroom. Thanks alot. If you're interested, Plese visit HERE

Using a and an

Assalamualaikum.

Good morning every one. Well, this is my first lesson to share you all through this blog about learning English. In this hapyy occasion, I am going to explain how to use article 'a' and 'an' in English.
'a' is used before a singular noun begins with consonants.
For example:

a table a book a chair

In the example above, the word 'table' begins with a consonant 't',
the word 'book' begins with a consonant 'b', and
the word 'chair' begins with a consonant 'c'
'an' is used before a singular noun begins with vowel (a, i, u, e, o)
For instance:

an orange an apple an eraser
In the example above, the word 'orange' begins with a vowel 'o',
the word 'apple' begins with a vowel 'a', and
the word 'eraser' begins with a vowel 'e'

INCORRECT:




an dog the word 'dog' begins with a consonant 'd' not a vowel.






a octopus the word 'octopus' begins with a vowel 'o', not a consonat.

CORRECT: a dog
an octopus

EXCEPTION: For a singular noun begins with a 'vowel' but it is pronounced 'consonant'. The article 'a' is used, not 'an'.
For example: A university INCORRECT: an university

If you would like to download a worksheet related to article 'a' and 'an', you could send me an email to icikicik86@blogspot.com

Learning from Horton

A week ago, My students and I watched a film named "Horton Hears A Who". Actually this is an old film but it's no matter since what I want is that the students can learn from the movie.

Horton is a funny elephant living happily in a jungle called 'Nool'. Everything goes as usual until he finds a dust. It's not an ordinary dust. Horton hears something comes out from the dust as if there were a life in the dust. Yupp, it's true. There is really a life in that dust. Even Horton can communicate with the living things in the dust. Realizing that there is a life there, he began to get worried of one in the jungle know ot and do something dangerous. He then decides to save the very tiny tiny planet to the top of mountain.M eanwhile, the news that Horton speak to the dust make all animals get mad. The do not want their kids get mad like Horton. They finally get Horton trapped.


The animals, provoked by a mother kangaroo, offers him two difficult option. First, Forgetting the crazy idea (which is actually a truth) about living things in the dust. And he is permitted to live in the jungle. The second is he keeps his crazy idea but he will be vanished together with the dust.

One thing that we learn is that We must appreciate a life although it is very small. And it has been done bt Horton. Of Horton get struggled so hard for a life in the dust, why we, as the human being, do nt want to do the same thing for the bigger world.

Tic Tac Toe

This is another game I like to play with my students. it's easy and interesting to play. First, ask your students to choose an opponent. Then, decide who will get 'X' and 'O'. After that, in turn, give a question. If they could answer, they might draw an 'X' or an 'O'. The student who could draw three Xs or three Os in straight line (vertically, horizontally or diagonally) win the game. The question can be anything, depending on what are your students learning at this time. I usually play this game in the end of lesson. Instead of just asking them, this game offers different learnning atmosphere. Just try it.

Learning from Kungfu Panda

Kungfu Panda is one of animated movies made by Dreamworks, which its story, music and animation is very exciting. What impressed me from the movie is actually its moral message. I can find the examples how to behave in good manner to achieve a better life.



The major figure of the film is a panda anmed Po, which ic very fat as fond food, full of spirit but a little sloopy and is crazy about learning self defence 'Kungfu'. Though he is busy helping his father running a wellknown noodle restaurant for its great taste, he is obsessed to master the self defence 'kungfu'.

Po is very enthutiastic in watching a kungfu tournament held in his town. Po get difficulty when he climbs stairs to see the tournament, as it is held on the top of a mount, as its fat body. With panting breath he tries and tries stepping the stairs one by one up to the top. His tough attitude and willingness so impressed master Ogway that he chooses Po as the Dragon Warrior. And surely, Po is very happy having the precious chance.

Master Shifu, a successor of master Ogway, is actually disspaointed to master Ogway's decision. He regrets why master Ogway does not choose oe of his five excellent students. But this is actually the challenge just begins, since mister Shifu attempts to kick Po out from the Kungfu school. Po is very upset since master Shifu and his five students dislike him. Some ime master Ogway advises Po, "yersterday is a history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift, that is why it is called the present". Po understands what master Ogway means in order to appreciate the opportunity he has already got and ignores the negative things around him, including master Shifu hatred.

What was said by master Ogway is done seriously by Po. He tried to make Master Shifu and his five students like him by cheering up, making jokes, and showing his cooking ability. Otherwise Master Shifu still stands in his attitude. He wants to train Po only because of Master Ogway's command. Po's spirit to learn Kungfu is so amazing. He loves training together with his idol, the monkey. The training process creates Po gradually to be a great kungfu warrior and even he is the one knocking Tai Lung out.



We can learn from how Po behaves. though many people dislike him, he alwas tries to behaves well as he can. He kicks out his egoism since he does not want to loose the chance he gets. His good behavior by neglecting his negative emotion relly makes his partners like him and makes him reach his dream to be a Dragon Master very seriously.



The film, moreover, shows that Po becomes the dragon master, he has right to read the sacred scroll. But, Po got no one word in that scroll. He, surely,gets dissapointed and looses hopes. He, then, decides to return helping his father in noodle restaurant. One time Po's father telling him his secret recipes. 'There is no secret recipe. To make something to be special, you just have to believe it is special'. Po is very surprised but get an inspiration that the sacred scrol is truly empty, but he must be optimist he could beat his awaiting enemy. What can we get from the story? There is no special secret to get success. each of us has our own potention, strength and uniqueness. Just by being serious to pass the process, the willingness to do self reflection and also do the our best, then all potention in ourselves will grow to be an amzing achievment. Amin.