Dictionary & Reading Skills Workshop

The new form 1 students of MOZAC are exposed to 2 important skills in English by the form 1 teachers. Puan Wan Hailah conducted the dictionary skills and later En. Ahmad Rizal did reading skills with the students. It is hoped that the form one students are able to use these skills in learning English.


Here's an excellent website - a free e-book courtesy of Mindtools ( Thanks to Pn. Rahmah Sayuti for sharing)

Activities 2011

As the year draws near to the end, I think MOZAC ELD has done quite a lot despite the busy school calendar. These are some of the activities that we have done in 2011











Thank you to the teachers and students who have made it such a memorable year.2012 is going to be another challenging year for us @ MOZAC. Hopefully, we will be able to face the challenge and hopefully the results for English will increase too. Let's hope for the best.

Happy Retirement

On 9th November, we bid good bye to another dear friend - Madam Ivy Foo Siew Lan, an English teacher at MOZAC for 23 years. She will reach her retirement day in December so the school decided to have it earlier while school is still in session. It is indeed a teary occasion especially for the English teachers. Kak Long as she is fondly called by us advised the students to study hard and to always appreciate their parents and teachers. All teachers must have the passion for the profession and always be sincere in teaching the students. I worked with some ex students who are now studying abroad and produced a farewell video and retirement wishes to her.Students from United States, Australia, Praque, Ireland, Japan and Indonesia did short video clips for their special teacher. The form 4 students did another video on her teaching career. Thank you Madam Ivy..you will be greatly missed by all of us

Item Building - Tokoh NILAM 2011

Item building for comunication part/session was held at Bahagian Teknologi Pendidikan, Melaka for two days. The panel was asked to come up with questions for selection of "Tokoh NILAM" 2011. 4 secondary English teachers and 4 primary English teachers were called to come up with the questions/module for English Communication Session. I was asked to lead the secondary team consisting of 3 other master teachers. After 2 days, we managed to come up with quite a comprehensive module. It was indeed a fruitful session for all of us. Thanks to Pn. Madia and Pn. Mages for making it enjoyable and possible.

English @ Tiara Beach Resort, Port Dickson

The final preparation for MOZAC students before SPM was done at Tiara Beach Resort, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan. This programme was held from 30th October - 4 November 2011 involving all the subjects. This time, the focus was on LITERATURE, LITERATURE AND LITERATURE especially the personal response. In groups, students were asked to brainstorm and later write their answers with detailed textual evidence. The reponses were later checked by the teachers and a compilation of the answers were given after the Hari Raya Haji break. On the last Saturday before SPM, the teachers once again went through the answers with the students. It is hoped that with all the programmes done, the English language results will be better this time.

Team teaching @ MOZAC

We tried another approach in teaching and learning process which is team teaching. This was done for a period of 2 weeks starting from 17 - 28 October 2011. The idea is to have 2,3 teachers in one class at certain hours. English is given 4 hours which is from 10.50 1.50 and from 2.30 - 3.30 every day. During this period Puan Amesah,Puan Rita and I decided to focus on writing. The first week, we tackled Directed Writing and on the second week we did Continuous Writing. The 1 hour in the afternoon was spent doing Section A, B and C. With this approach, the students were divided into groups and were able to work with their peers and teachers as the number is small. Peer coaching was done while the teachers focused on weaker students.

On 13 -16 October 2011, 5 students and a teacher from Philippines Science High School visited MOZAC. Puan Norizah, Pn. Ivy and Pn. Amesah welcomed them and gave a briefing on MOZAC. Later the 5 students were placed in 5 different classes and took part in all the activities done by MOZAC students. They were also brought to various tourists spots in Melaka.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Immersion Programme with SMV Datuk Seri Mohd Zin, Alor Gajah/MRSM TGB

MOZAC invited SMV Datuk Seri Mohd Zin, Alor Gajah, Melaka to a three day immersion programme , on 9 - 11 September 2011 involving subjects like English, Sejarah, Pendidikan Islam, Bahasa melayu and Mathematics. For English, we did a Reading Comprehension/Summary and Literature Revision (Poems) to prepare the students for Melaka trial the next week.


We did another immersion program.This is the first time both schools collaborated involving all the F5 teachers of both schools and about 600 students all together. Since it's involving a large number of students, the teachers of both schools worked together to produce materials for the students. The immersion programme was held at MRSM TGB from 10 - 13 October 2012. It involves all the 10 subjects. The teachers took turn to handle the sessions. For English we decided to do a literature revision for all the four poems since both schools are doing different novels.The students were given all possible questions on the poems as final revision for Section D. It is hoped that students from both schools will do well for English papers in SPM.

Exam Answering Techniques

This year, i had to turned down many invitations to give a talk due to busy schedule at school. Being one of the high performance schools, there are many activities done at school level and on top of that we have to make sure that our results is good. Nevertheless, I managed to do 2 workshops on exam techniques:

1. In collaboration with BAKTI, I gave a talk to 250 students from various schools in Melaka at Seri Negeri, Ayer Keroh.

2. Then with collaboration with Majlis Guru Cemerlang, Melaka, I gave a talk to F5 boys of SMK Tahfiz Cenderah, Jasin. It's a programme held at Bidara Resort, tanjung Bidara.

I hope that the students will do well in their trial exam and ace their English papers during SPM. Good luck and all the best.

Writing Workshop @ SMKA Assyaidatul Khadijah

It's that time of the year again when all schools are geared up towards exams. This year I did a few workshops and the first one was with F5 students of SMKA Assyaidatul Khadijah, Merlimau, Melaka. This time I did a writing workshop with the girls covering Directed Writing, Continuous Writing and also Personal response for Literature.

School Visit from Bandung

On 2 July 2011, 13 teachers from Vocational English Teachers Association (VETA), West Java, Province, Indonesia visited MOZAC. The teachers were given a school briefing by Puan Saripah and later Puan Norizah briefted the teachers on the school curriculum and activities and programmes done by MOZAC ELD. All the English teachers were present and we managed to exchange ideas with the Indonesian teachers. The teachers were later brought to visit historical Malacca. Hopefully, we will be able to visit their schools in the future.

Mag. Inc 2011

This year MOZAC participate in the Mag. Inc competition like previous years. Students of form 1, 2 & 4 were made compulsory to enter the competition as their yearly project. Their works are graded based on content and creativity - this will be added to their Test 2 marks later. This year many entries were received and a display of their work was done on 23th June 2011 at the school library before entries were sent to Kuala Lumpur. Well done all. Congratulations to a team from form 3 which received a merit award. This year, apart from the pizza vouchers, the participants and teachers received a certificate of participation and appreciation.

2ND SGGS INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' CONFERENCE 2011

From the 28th until the 31st of May 2011, MOZAC sent 5 representatives to the 2ND SGGS INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' CONFERENCE 2011, held at SEAMEO-RECSAM, Penang. The delegates were Madam Ivy Foo,as teacher delegate, Jananieswary Servai d/o Kalisvaran, Mohamad Adib Mohamad Adam, Muhammad Nabil Salim and Adlina Ab.Rahim. The theme throughout the conference was 'Youth of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow' with talks by guest speakers such as Dato' Michael Yeoh, Dato' Idris Jala and even the 4th prime minister's daughter, Dato' Paduka Marina Mahathir.

RELAY FOR LIFE MALAYSIA,MELAKA EDITION

MOZAC participated in the on the 4th and 5th of June 2011, at Tun Fatimah Stadium, Bukit Serindit, Melaka. RELAY FOR LIFE is an annual community run in support of cancer awareness.The participants were Aisyah Humairaq bt Mohd Zairi, Jananieswary Servai d/o Kalisvaran, Adlina bt Ab.Rahim, Muhammad Hazim b Zainuddin, Muhammad Danial b Zainuddin, Mohd Fadhil Helmi b Ishak, Muhammad Zul Harith b Hasan and Ilham Muzaffar b Abdul Mutek. Two teachers participated as survivors: Madam Ivy Foo and Madam Haidah.

GC CONVENTION @ SSP

More than 300 excellent teachers from all fully residenrial schools in Malaysia gathered at Sekolah Seri Puteri Cyberjaya for the first GC Convention. For three days we listed to many papers being presented by fellow excellent teachers. Here are some of the papers presented for English:

1) Abidah bt Sarajul Haq (ashaq33@yahoo.com.my)(STAR)
BUILDING HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS :INFUSION OF THE CORPORATE AND KAIZEN CULTURE
2 Hjh Rogayah binti Haron (rogayahharon@yahoo.com) (SASER)
INOVATIVE APPROACH TO EST REPORT WRITING USING OS (ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE) MODEL.
3.Jayalakshmi A/P Muthusamy (jaga0515@streamyx.com) SMAPL
READING TRAP : ENHANCING WRITING SKILL
4.Juliana binti Shaharum (STAR)
iPEDAGOGY : THE USAGE OF IPOD TOUCH, IPHONE AND IPAD TO ENHANCE THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ENGLISH
5.Marina binti Mahmood Marinasham@yahoo.com (SMAPL)
ENHANCING WRITING CAPABILITIES: REVITALISING THE FIVE SENSES INTO THE WRITING PROCESS.
6.Norlia Binti Said (norlia686@hotmail.com)(KTK)
TOPIC : ENGLISH IN CAMP A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRAMME
7.Zahuren binti Abdul Kadir (zahuren@yahoo.com)
GRAPHIC AND LINEAR TEXT FORMS ON STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH COMPONENT TEXT

It's a good way of spending the holiday meeting friends; old and new and gaining new knowledge to improve my T&L. Hopefully, next year, I'll have the chance to present!