• CEFR,  KSSM,  Teaching Resources

    [Google Sheets] New KSSM English Form 5 Lesson Plan Template (With Dropdown Lists)

    Good day, my fellow teachers! I hope you’re in your best health wherever you are. In this entry, you will find the Google Sheet version of KSSM Form 4 Daily Lesson Plan Template. With this template, you can even use your phone to prepare your lesson plans! Google Sheets allow you to print your lesson plan directly or to save it as a PDF file.

    Last Updated: 14 January 2020, Ver.2

    The dropdown lists incorporated are for the following columns:

    • Week number, day, class, number of students, and time.
    • Topics (from English Download B1+)
    • Themes, skills and standards
    • Cross-curricular elements, HOTS, i-Think and CLS (Cooperative Learning Strategies)

    Other features:

    • Insert school logo (replace the default Daily Lesson Plan lettering with your own graphic)
    • Date picker. Just double click the date column to pick a date from a pop-up calendar.
    • Edit the standards and other information as you see fit.
    • Recolour the columns.

    Do leave a comment to let me know your thoughts. Have a good day!

    Looking for form 4? Click here.

  • CEFR,  KSSM,  Teaching Resources

    [Google Sheets] New KSSM English Form 4 Lesson Plan Template (With Dropdown Lists)

    Good day, my fellow teachers! I hope you’re in your best health wherever you are. In this entry, you will find the Google Sheet version of KSSM Form 4 Daily Lesson Plan Template. With this template, you can even use your phone to prepare your lesson plans! Google Sheets allow you to print your lesson plan directly or to save it as a PDF file.

    Last Updated: 14 January 2020, Ver.2

    The dropdown lists incorporated are for the following columns:

    • Week number, day, class, number of students, and time.
    • Topics (from Full Blast! Plus 4)
    • Themes, skills and standards
    • Cross-curricular elements, HOTS, i-Think and CLS (Cooperative Learning Strategies)

    Other features:

    • Insert school logo (replace the default Daily Lesson Plan lettering with your own graphic)
    • Date picker. Just double click the date column to pick a date from a pop-up calendar.
    • Edit the standards and other information as you see fit.
    • Recolour the columns.

    Do leave a comment to let me know your thoughts. Have a good day!

    Looking for form 5? Click here.

  • Learning Resources,  SPM Paper 2 Exercises,  Teaching Resources

    [Google Forms MCQ Quiz] Rational Cloze: Science & Technology and Health

    Hello again! I hope everyone is doing fine. The Movement Control Order (MCO) is further extended until 28 April, so let’s do our parts. Stay at home AND study 😉

    These rational cloze question sets are adapted from JPN Perak’s Modul Cemerlang Bahasa Inggeris Amanjaya SPM 2018. Unfortunately I don’t have the original link to the material. Please let me know if you do.

    Happy answering!

    [For Teachers] Assign as Google Classroom Assignment:
    Copy and paste this link to assign this quiz to your class (click the attachment button) >> https://forms.gle/iRPfYDZCW6E1EZbKA
    ^^^
    (For Quiz Assignment option, note that grades can only be imported if students are logged in with their MOE-DL IDs, OR you can ask the students to upload a screenshot of their quiz grade and then mark as done to turn in)

    See you next time!

    [USM_form]

  • Form 4 Lessons & Activities,  Full Blast Plus 4 Online Lessons & Activities,  Learning Resources,  Teaching Resources

    [Form 4] Module 3: Buy It! Online Lessons & Activities Part 1 (Intro. & Reading)

    Hello everyone! No matter what time of day it is, I hope you’re doing fine! Since the MCO is further extended (and experts predict that this partial lockdown might continue), I’ve decided to introduce a more interactive online lesson for both form 4 as well. I will start covering Module 3 of the prescribed textbook (Full Blast Plus 4) as I assume everyone is done with the first and second modules (do let me know otherwise).

    Today, we’ll cover the introduction (p.37), the reading text (p.38) and the questions on (p.39). This blog entry goes through each slide and interactive activities.

    Click the link below to download the slides in slideshow format:

    FBP4 Module 3: Buy It! Online Lessons & Activities Part 1 (Intro. & Reading) (1839 downloads)

    p.s/ Subscribe/ vote for my materials @ Ruang Ilmu KPM! https://ruangilmu.moe-dl.edu.my/user/3565

    For embedded lesson version, continue scrolling and have fun!

    Activity 1: Opinion Polls

    [poll id=”2″][poll id=”3″]

    Activity 2: Vocabulary Match
    Match each phrase to its correct definition.

    Activity 3: Opinion Polls

    [poll id=”4″][poll id=”5″]

    Activity 4: Reading

    Activity 5.1: MCQ

    Activity 5.2: Vocabulary Match

    Activity 6: Opinion Polls

    [poll id=”6″][poll id=”7″]

    Activity 7: Homework

    NEXT:
    Module 3: Buy It! Online Lessons & Activities Part 2
    (Grammar & Vocabulary Lesson 1)

  • Learning Resources,  SPM Paper 2 Novel,  Teaching Resources

    Sing to the Dawn Novel @ Open Library

    Hello fellow teachers and students. By now, I hope everyone has finished reading (ahem) and analysing this novel. If you haven’t don’t start panicking. Left the book at school? Don’t panic too!

    All you need is a free Virtual Library Card from Internet Archive/Open Library. You can sign up with your existing Google account or your choice of sign up options, go to your mailbox to verify your e-mail address and done. You can login to Open Library and have virtual access to more books than you can ever read.

    Here is the link to the digitised version of Minfong Ho’s Sing to the Dawn novel (this link is completely legal, no worries!)

    https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5059695M/Sing_to_the_dawn

    Click BORROW to start reading the novel. You can borrow the novel for 13 days!

    Students! You can use the On-the-Go Reading Organiser & Revision Companion to read and analyse the novel as you go along!

    p.s/ If you are familiar with Adobe Digital Editions reader, you can download the acsm file in ePub or PDF format (but I strongly suggest choosing the PDF format because the OCR doesn’t digitise some words and names correctly (e.g Takchit became Takehit instead!)

    Happy reading!

  • Learning Resources,  SPM Paper 2 Novel,  Teaching Resources

    OTG Reading Organiser & Revision Companion (for SPM Novels)

    Good afternoon! Today I would like to share the template I’ve used with my students for a few years to read, analyse and understand the novel. Yes, I am painfully aware that some people choose to only read the chapter synopses instead of the whole package deal.

    I believe that reading the novel in full and critically analysing it as you go will not only help you answer every kind of novel question thrown your way easily, but it will also help you with your English as a whole. After all, one of the best ways to master a language is to READ A LOT.

    The organiser is simple! Here is a blank template and below it are some examples of filled columns to demonstrate how it’s used. Click the download button to download the file (next to the zoom option).

    **sample inputs are based on classroom discussions of the novel Sing to the Dawn by Minfong Ho

    Tips: If you have an iPad or a tablet with a pen/ stylus (or a computer with a pen input), you can use handwriting -friendly apps to duplicate the pages.
    Tips 2: You can also print the handout and duplicate page 2.

    Happy reading AND writing. Reading helps you climb stairs but writing will help you reach the next level 😉

  • Education World,  Teaching Resources

    [For Teachers] The Quick “P.O.E.T.R.Y” (Tasks + Handout)

    As a big fan of prose and poetry, I’ve always been of the opinion that the present-day curriculum doesn’t integrate enough of them. Instead of seeing the literature component as yet another a hurdle on the question paper, the poems should be enjoyed fully.

    To have a more focused reading in the classroom but with limited time (yes we don’t usually allocate a lot for the literature component, sadly), I use the P.OE.T.R.Y handout with my students before, while and after reading. You can assign the tasks to be done individually, in pairs or even as a roundtable activity.

    Below are examples of handouts I used with my form 5 classes.

  • Education World,  Teaching Resources

    [For Teachers] KSSM English Form 4 Yearly Scheme of Work (RPT) with Civic Education

    Sharing the simplified YSOW I made for my school (I’m in Kelantan, so we’re in Zone A). This version should only be used as a quick guide. Always refer to the prescribed SOW and Teacher’s Book 😉

    Scroll for preview.

    .DOCX Microsoft Word Document Download:

    SMK-Baroh-Pial-2020-Eng-SoW-F4-with-Civic-Education.docx (5147 downloads)

    Psst… Special thanks to my husband for the dates and week columns!

  • Education World,  Teaching Resources

    [For Teachers] Pendekatan Mudah “ABCD” Dalam Penulisan Objektif & Kriteria Kejayaan

    Ada yang minta saya kongsi versi BM. Lebih kurang macam ni yang saya buat ya.

    A – Audience (Siapa klien/ target kita?)

    Pada akhir PdPc, murid 5EKO dapat:

    ** perincikan murid yang mana, jangan tulis secara umum.

    B – Behaviour

    Apa yang kita mahu pelajar buat. Contohnya:

    Senaraikan 5 faktor yang _____ …

    C – Condition

    Pelajar perlu buat B tadi dalam bentuk apa?

    Contoh:

    … di dalam peta buih berganda…

    D – Degree

    Tahap yang kita ingin ukur murid kelas tersebut dalam menyiapkan C tadi.

    Contoh:

    …. dengan lengkap.

    Objektif penuh:

    Pada akhir PdPc, murid 5EKO dapat:

    Senaraikan 5 faktor yang _____  di dalam peta buih berganda dengan lengkap

    KRITERIA KEJAYAAN

    Perlu dinyatakan berapa ramai murid yang dijangka boleh menyiapkan tugasan dengan sempurna. Selebihnya mungkin di tahap sederhana atau lemah. Di sini boleh kita kesan golongan yang perlu diberi latihan pemulihan (lemah), pengukuhan (sederhana) dan pengayaan (cemerlang).

    Faktor “C” di bahagian objektif tadi lah yang akan ditulis di ruang Kriteria Kejayaan. Contohnya:

    20 daripada 28 murid kelas 5EKO dapat:

    1. Membina peta buih berganda tentang ___
    2. Menulis surat kepada pengarang

    Semoga Bermanfaat.
    W.I. Adlina

  • Education World,  Teaching Resources

    [For Teachers] Writing Lesson Objectives & Success Criteria

    If you’re having a hard time writing learning objectives for a three-part lesson, look up and read about these three approaches:

    1. Robert Mager’s Performance-Based Learning Objectives
    2.The ABCD Model for Writing Objectives
    3. Gronlund’s General and Specific Cognitive Objectives

    This is how I do it:
    A – Audience (Be specific about the audience)

    At the end of the lesson, students of 5EKO will be able to:

    B – Behaviour (What do you want them to do?)

    List down 5 factors that influence one’s decision…

    C – Conditions (in what form must the student complete the action in B )

    … in a bubble map…

    D – Degree (how far/ to which extent are they expected to perform?)

    … with the correct spelling.

    Complete example:
    At the end of the lesson, students of 5EKO (A) will be able to:
    List down 5 factors that influence one’s decision (B) in a bubble map (C) with the correct spelling (D).

    WHAT ABOUT THE SUCCESS CRITERIA?

    Based on the above example, C is what you’d like the students to produce. So, it goes like this:

    12 out of 12 students are able to successfully:
    Create a bubble map on what influences one’s decision.

    Best regards,
    Adlina.