Today, I will be handling the “Four Skills” assignment. I have worked on the assignment almost ¾, suddenly I realize that something is going wrong. I have forgotten that the topic for my group is people whereby I was working on topic food. It is my own carelessness and me, myself, really upset about that since I have to do the work twice.. I have to stay up for the rest of the night until sahur. That was the thing that I have to pay due to my own inattention.
Basically, my materials are pictures and video. Pictures downloaded from the internet were being put into video track and a video was developed. I used this video to teach writing. This video is about occupation. The material is able to provide a useful input for the pupils before they start their writing. It means that the pupils are gaining some ideas of how to write descriptions by using appropriate punctuations, nouns, verbs, and sentence structures. At the same time, the pictures and written descriptions in the video work as stimulus for the pupils to activate their schemata of prior knowledge about writing descriptions. Since the video presents the pictures together with the descriptions, I believe that pupils can easily gain understanding. Thus, the role of classroom assessment will be more reliable and useful.
