Immersions

This semester, MOZAC planned 3 immersions with 3 different schools for PMR students. The second immersion this year involved students from MOZAC and SMS Selangor. This time, we had to travel to SMS Selangor on 29 June - 1st July. Kak Haidah was kind enough to accompany me driving to Majid Tanah at wee hour before Rizal drove us to Cheras. Razlin and the gang started the students with a writing workshop. After that, it was my turn to conduct a literature workshop with the students on How I Met Myself. Meanwhile the form 5 teachers had the same programme at Sek. Men. Sains Alam Shah (ASiS). The next Tuesday on the 3rd of July, we hosted SMS Johor for the third immersion this year. Rizal and I conducted the 4 hour workshop with the students. This time we focus on Sp

eech and Text Completion. Two SMSJ teachers helped to facilitate. Next week, we will be going to SBPI Gombak for the fourth immersion. This time we plan to do poem revision with the students. Meanwhile, the form 5 will play host to students from ASiS. Hopefully, the students gained something from this programme especially from their friend in the 3 SBPs

Item Building @ TKC

This year , despite the busy schedule at school, I managed to contribute something to SBP. With friends from Negeri Sembilan, I'm honoured to work with a bunch of enthuasistic teachers. The work is made easy by everyone's committment and high spirits. Despite many years of experience building items, there's still a lot to learn. We also managed to work on a project together, Hopefully, we will be able to come up with a way to help our students in writing. Wish us luck!

HKSBP 2012 @ STAR Ipoh

Hari Kecemerlangan Sekolah Berasrama Penuh (HKSBP) was hosted by STAR this year on 25th - 29th May 2012. I tagged along this year as an adjudicator. Two weeks before that, I attended an adjudicator course conducted by MIDP. We even sat for a test and if we pass we are accredited to judge any debate in this world (like WOW!) Nevertheless, till this entry is posted ,I 'm still waiting for the result! Like previous years, I was given the chance to adjudicate till the quarter - final. I was appointed Chief adjudicator twice in the earlier rounds...it's good to see that SBP students are able to speak well though some still need to polish their talent but considering the time given to them to prepare, I think they did quite well. This year, we are very fortunate to have been invited to Istana Iskandariah by the Regent of Perak, DYTM Raja Dr Nazrin Syah and his wife the beautiful DYTM Tuanku Zara Salim. Having an experince dining at the palace was indeed a once in a life time experience! Another highlight of the event was the speech by the Regent of Perak in the morning. DYTM Raja Dr Nazrin Syah gave a moving and inspiring speech. MOZAC English debate team only managed to win 2 debates and lost 1 debate to STF. Therefore, we couldn't proceed to the next round. The BM team shared the same fate.Nevertheless, 2 MOZAC's students made us proud by receiving the SBP full colour award ...among the very few schools with 2 recipients.

Cempaka Technology in Education: CTIE 2012.

I went to Cempaka International School in Cheras with 4 other collegues to attend Cempaka Technology in Education: CTIE 2012 on 24th May 2012. CTIE 2012 is a one -day event to expose participants to the latest technology in education through different technology workshops. It is also introducing and promoting SCHOOLOGY - a newly launched technology in education which encourages students, parents and stakeholders of the school to share first hand information at their finger tips through interschool social networking system. It is a full feature Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with powerful appeal of a social network. It is structured in a similiar way to social networks like Facebooks combine with powerful learning management tools. Well, will MOZAC uses SCHOOLOGY?...only time will tell. Nevertheless, it is an interesting day and I got to know and take a peek at how international school is like.

School Based Assessment for Form 1 Course

I joined the course with teachers from Jasin because I missed the Melaka Tengah course last week. The 3 - day course is held to expose the teachers of how to do School Based Assessment for English form 1. We also built sample intruments for band 1-6.
1. Band 1 : Know fundamental skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
2. Band 2 : Understand meanings of word, phrase and sentence level
3. Band 3 : Use knowledge acquired through listening, speaking, reading and writing
4. Band 4: Apply knowledge acquired in a variety of of situations using some
appropriate language conventions
5. Band 5: Demonstrate the ability to use language in a variety of situations using
largely appropriate language conventions
6. Band 6 :Appreciate bliterary works and present ideas critically in an exemplary
manner

Although the course was tiring but I enjoyed meeting new friends from schools in Jasin. 2 days later, I also had the chance to visit JPN booth and looked at SMK Seri Bendahara's PBS files during Karnival Pendidikan Melaka 2012.

Fully Residential Schools International Symposium 2012: FRSIS 2012

MOZAC hosted Fully Residential School International Symposium (FRSIS 2012) on 26 - 31 March 2012. The theme chosen is Global Culture Generates Global Unity. All 63 fully residential schools took part in this symposium along with 19 schools from abroad. The students presented papers on the theme, participated in workshops and sharing sessions and came up with 9 resolutions for FRSIS 2012. We are priviledged to listen to Tun Mahathir Muhammad's view on the theme. Dato' Zuraidah Atan also shared her view when she spoke on Cultural Diversity Promotes Mutual Respect. Datuk Seri Ali Rustam, sponsored a dinner for all the delegates on 28th March 2012. The participants performed cultural shows from their countries during the state dinner and closing ceremony. The delegates also had the chance to visit Melaka during Melaka Heritage Tour. This is a good platform for students because the delegates also had the chance to know each other's culture and foster new friendship. The symposium has achieved its objective of generating unity by understanding others' culture. All in all, we had learnt a lot especially in organising a big event such as this at international level. It is a once in a life time experience for everyone of us at MOZAC. The 3rd FRSIS will be hosted by SSP next year.

F3 New Literature Component Course

I attended this course on 22 March 2012 at Dewan bestari, JPN, Melaka. Although we have finished doing the form 3 poems and novel, I found the course interesting. The course covered the 2 poems Leisure, A Fighter's Lines and the novel, How I Met Myself. Finally, we receiced the CDC Modules. Thank you to all the facilitators and participants who made the course fun and interesting

Briefing & Pre survey of OPS English

On 20th March 2012, we did a briefing of OPS English to form 1 students at the hall after the weekly assembly. Pn Wan Hailah, the English form 1 coordinator gave the briefing and after recess the students were called to the language lab to answer the pre -survey questionaires. Apart from minor technical glitch, everything else went quite smoothly that day. Mr. Aki Azizan, the Melaka Tengah DELO came to see the running of the pre survey at MOZAC.

Oral Proficiency in English for Secondary Schools (OPS English)

MOZAC is among the 20 schools nation wide selected to do a pilot project for this programme - Oral Proficiency in English for Secondary Schools (OPS English). Three form 1 teachers, Pn. Norizah Baba, Pn Wan Hailah Wan Yahya and En. Ahmad Rizal Aziz attended a 5-day course at English Language Teaching Centre (ELTC), Kuala Lumpur. From 20th February till May 2012, the form 1 students are going to do this programme which focuses on speaking.

A Fighter's Lines - Marzuki Ali

Here's a video I found while on the hunt for materials to teach form 3 poems.

Leisure

Tonight I'm on a mission to find materials for form 3 literature. I am pleased to find that there are many on the net and here are the 3 videos which I found interesting to teach the poem "Leisute" by William Henry Davies

Pledge & Diagnostic Test

The new form 1 students started formal lessons last week. I have 1 form 1 class this year which is 1 Omega. It has been a long time since I last taught Form 1....I was as nervous as the students ( not really) when I entered the class...I hope I have the patience to deal with the newest kid on the block who are still very much looking and behaving like primary students....all those innocent faces. Here are a few photos of my form 1 Omega students when they made a pledge to try their best in learning English. There are also photos of them taking a diagnostic test.

YOU ARE ME!

What would you do, how would you feel, if some dark night you met yourself,
face to face?

What's a doppelgänger?
Doppelgänger pronunciation

A German word which is used in English.
doppel – double (look alike)
ganger – goer (move from one place to another)

A doppelgänger is a ghostly double of a living person.
A doppelgänger can be seen by its “owner”.
It comes to its "owner" to give messages about danger or to offer advice.According to popular belief, meeting a doppelgänger brings bad luck, leads to a serious problem or even death! A doppelganger can sometimes be seen by somebody who is close to that person, if it has an important message. Watch this video:

Here's a video that shows someone bumps into her doppelganger:




The story of John Donne & Anne Moore



John Donne is a poet, a lawyer and a priest. His wife, Anne Moore was pregnant.
One day, John went to Paris leaving his pregnant wife in England.While in Paris, Anne’s doppelganger appeared in front of John.The doppelganger of his wife was holding a newborn baby. The doppelganger looked sad.At the same time that the doppelganger appeared (in Paris), his wife had given birth to a stillborn child (in England).Anne’s doppelganger was trying to tell John that she had delivered their baby but the baby was dead at birth.



Read more about doppelgangers here

">PowerPoint presentation prepared by Pn Santhy A/P Subramaniam,

Credit to Teacher Nuha for the information

How I Met Myself

I was browsing the net for ideas and reference for the new form 3 novel when I came across Teacher Nuha's blog. In her blog, there's a link to a really cool site called My Heritage that later brought me to these fun apps called My celebrity look -alikes and celebrity morph. It is a fun activity to introduce the word 'doppleganger'. I agree with her when she said that meeting an evil doppleganger can be spine chilling but the idea of knowing celebrities you resemble can both be fun and hilarious...I found the kid in me again as I anxiously waiting for the results...well, here goes nothing....LOL


I might not know all of them...I mean who is Matshushima Nanako? I ought to watch more Japanese and Korean movies but at least, it's fun to know that Cindy Crawford, Jessica Biel and yours truly share some resemblance...hahahaha. Well, who's your doppleganger? Aren't you curious? Find more about them here. You can find your celebrity doppelgangers at:
http://celebrity.myheritage.com/face-recognition

Speaking Skill - My Classmates

Since we didn't have enough time to do the speaking skill activities for the form 1 students last week, we did it in class. In a much smaller classrooms, I think the activities went well as students had fun asking questions to answer the questions given. From my observation, there are a few students who are still shy and seemed 'lost' amidst the "chaotic" but fun class. All in all the students had a lot of fun, asking and getting to know their friends. The best thing is everybody tried their best to get the answer and everybody uses ENGLISH - objective achieved! Thanks to Pn. Rahmah for sharing the questions.