Eye opener…14 August 2008

Today’s class was an interesting class as Dr. Edwin relates to us the situation in our Malaysian classroom as all of us are going to go out to do our practical. He explains on how to deal with such situation in school. In today’s lesson, he taught us on autobiography of Mandela. It was interesting as he explained to us the significant of the clothes. How they are ranked according to clothes. He also taught us how we could use autobiography as a lesson in class. We could actually use our past leader’s autobiography to teach our students on nationhood. This will actually help students to have love and appreciation for the country. Besides that he also told us that speech also could be used as material in classroom. Using speech such as Tunku Abdul Rahman’s speech during declaration of independence is a good material to teach students. it could help them realize the vision that Tunku had for the country and this will help them to appreciate the nation.

Overall today’s class was a really an eye opener for me as I got a lot of information for my teaching practical as to handling class and students with various attitudes. Besides that, I gain a lot of good ideas on how to use good material which not only could teach them a good lesson of English but also build they virtues.

Viewing autobiography of Andy Warhol… 31 July 2008

Today as I entered the class, the laptop and LCD was fixed. I was wandering what was the purpose?. Is there any presentation that I did not know? I was thinking to myself. Then Carine told that we would be viewing a movie. I was excited. It was actually an autobiography and not really a movie = (. At first, I was wandering who is this Andy Warhol and why it is so important to view his biography. Then I got to know that this person is closely related to art. He painted lots of picture including Campbell soup cover. Personally, I did not enjoy it, as it was very boring. Moreover, most of the part I could not really understand. One of the reasons might be that I’m not into art. I could not relate to art and painting and I’m really bad in reading paintings.May be because of that i felt really bored viewing the movie... Honestly speaking, the first time I read painting was during Dr. Edwin’s class, when he taught us on Fall of Icarus. The autobiography movie was 1 hour. After the movie ended, the class was dismissed.

Meeting with Supervisor… 30 July 2008

Today my group meets up with our supervisor, Dr. Jayakaran to discuss about our topic for our research paper. It was our first meeting. Prior to the meeting, Dr. Jaya has asked all of us to prepare a page proposal on our topic. The meeting was scheduled at 3.30pm, at the FPP resource centre. All of us was there on the dot and was waiting for Dr. Jaya. The clerk at the resource centre informed us that Dr. jaya would be late as he was in a meeting. Around 3.50pm, Dr. Jaya came and we started discussing on our topics. He asked us to present on our topic. I was planning to research on ‘Relationship between parents and child in Paul case, Barn burning and Territory’. Dr. Jaya commented that I should try to focus on one story. I was confused at first as my initial plan was to compare the relationship between parents and child in the three stories. I clarified with Dr. Jaya and he said that, he wanted me to talk about the three stories first and narrow down to one story. After everyone has presented their topic, Dr. Jaya wants us to prepare our first draft and sent in on week seven. The meeting ended around 4.20pm.