At the beginning...

June 30 2012........the beginning of us

Movies for English learning!

Thumbelina!
This is my ever-green favourite animation movie. I watched this since I was a little girl. I extremely love this movie. I watched it everyday. I even memorised the songs in this movie! I think I was in primary school at that time. As I watched it several times, I was able to write the lyric of the main song (Let me be your wings) just by listening to the song. Well, those days there were no internet or Mr Google to assist me. To my surprise, I could learn English very well through movies and songs.

Movies are actually useful for young learners as they are fun. Students love learning without doing any task, right? Hehe. Well, you can include your lesson indirectly for example:

Before the movie viewing:
1) you can give out open-ended questions,list of vocabulary, names of characters or even discuss one of the theme.

While viewing:
1) The students can relate the previous discussion and find the answers for the questions you have given earlier.

Post viewing:
1) Students provide responses regarding the movie; their feelings, opinions
2) Discuss the answer for the questions given.
3) You can highlight the moral values in each movie,or portrayed in each character either from the good or bad characters.(I like to highlight this part of the lesson as students could relate it to their own experience)

I have done movie viewing for my students. They loved it and had great time. Although, I understand about the time constrain as the time are limit to 80 mins. Well, I suggest you do it during extra class or tuition. If you will need to kill 2hours fruitfully so try this method.

Here are my list of movies that I have used for my class:
1) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( the most fav )
2) Ratatouille
3) Ice Princess
4) Rio (the recent most fav)
5) Wall-E
6) Toothfairy
7) Pacifier

Try it! and Have fun! ^_^

Me in the year of 2012

  This is your Miss Farah. ^_^

          Picture taken on May 2012 during Teacher's Day celebration at SMK Datok Syed Ahmad, Kuala Nerang, Kedah. Looking old...obviously because she is already 27 years old. She was having  stressful first months of 2012 as she is in charge of the Form 5 Academic Performance. Her job is to plan out the Form 5 extra classes throughout the year and make sure the ETR is achieved!  However, with the assistance from my helpful colleagues, I managed to make it through! yeay!

My job now is make sure all my five classes which are 3 classes of form 5 and 2 classes of form 2 get a flying colour result in SPM and the final exam. InsyaAllah.

My SuperABAH! ^_^

Dear Abah,

You are my alarm clock every morning,
 waking me up early to face the new day with strong will,

You are my reminder for every small matters,
as your small sticky notes or memo are there to trigger my day,

You are my cook for my weekend's breakfast,
 the nasi kerabu or nasi ayam bakar or roti canai,
Even for my breakfast before work,
 you never forget to stock our pantry with Milo Cereal & roti Fairy,

You are my 'dobi' as you do my laundry when I forget to wash and 'sidai' my clothes
,
You are my driver when my car is in the workshop, you never sigh

You are my mechanic for every broken things I made, It's easy and cheaper as you said

You are my Bank@ ATM machine when I'm broke,

You are my 'pakar motivasi', when I'm down
You are my recuer, when I'm lost or in trouble,
You are my manager of life
You are my 'guru besar' who teach me about the circle of life,

You are my SuperABAH!

Every victory I own now, is because of
your advice,
your sweats,
your motivation,
and your LOVE....kasih sayang abah tiada tolok bandingan, tiada gantinya... 

Abah, wani minta maaf di atas segala dosa wani selama 27 tahun wani menjadi anak Abah.
Although one day, I will be someone's wife, I will always be your only daughter... your baby girl.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY Abah...

Your Baby Girl,
Nurfarah Zawani
18 June 2012