110 Learning Journal 4

Outline for teaching exercise


I am pairing up with Pravaas Gurung to do our learning exercise. We decided to do a "Simon Says" exercise in which we will teach the class simple action verbs in Urdu. They will learn how to say these words and then learn their meaning by enacting the actions they represent in a Simon Says game. We will use the following action verbs: 

Sit = Behto

Stand = Khurhe ho

Walk to = chau ho

Jump = Khudo 

We will then conduct a final round which counts as the "test round" in which we will be handing out prizes to those that get the words correct. 

Reflection


After doing the activity, I thought it was pretty effective in creating an association between the words, how to say them, and their meanings. This meant that the participants were able to comprehend/understand and hopefully now learned how to use four urdu words effectively. One thing I would have changed is we should have also translated how to say "Simon Says" for the sake of the exercise to make it more holistic as an activity. In the future, we could have probably included more action words to make the whole exercise more interactive and fun. For the most part, people did well and learned how to say and act out the words effectively. 

March 2015

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