SITI SABARIAH BT. ALI
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LITERATURE REVIEW

Learning English by using game is quite new in the Malaysia specification of education syllabus. However in the western education this technique of learning the language has being done for many years. It has been told that language learning by using game can enhance the student's interest and schemata in the learning the language. According to McCallum (1980) the students will ensure more participation in learning when we use a game while giving the lesson to the students. Besides that, the teacher is easy and free to know or find out what is the students' level in learning without being focusing on their attention. Because of this reason I had made a game which can help teacher in making the learning process in the class become fun and easy for students to understand.
My game is just a simple game. This game is a combination of spelling and thinking activities. The spelling activity is to ensure the student's ability in spelling the right words while the thinking activities is to reflect the student's what actually know about certain information that they get or hear. For this game, students have to guessing some clue given by the teacher and then spell the answer that they give. For each right answer that they can give the students will be given marks. This game is giving the students exposition about the type of occupation. By giving some clues to the students, they have to guess the type of occupation in the question given. As they can answer the questions they have to spell the name of the occupation correctly to the class.
As to make the language games offer an enjoyable informal learning the teacher have to get the students into some groups. This is to provide the fun learning atmosphere and banished the boredom besides promotes motivation to the students. Motivation in here means give the students a picture of characteristic (clues of the one occupation) of the occupations so that the students can set their ambition. By setting the ambition on what they want to be when they have finished the study, the students will try to study hard and maintain good scores to make sure their ambition will be succeeded. Getting the students into some groups also can contribute to an atmosphere of healthy competition. They will try to provide a right answer for the questions given in order to make sure their group will be the winner of this game.
This game also provides the students with the vocabulary of the type of occupations. This may help in providing the students with the vocabulary when the students want to write an essay about their ambition. The vocabulary can be found in the clue given by the teacher when the game is played. Students will focus their attention on specific characteristic of the occupation in order to write the essay. Although this game is quite simple and easy it still offer an enjoyable informal learning atmosphere.

LESSON PLAN
Subject: English
Standard : 5 Nilam Attendance : 26
Date : 3th January 2002 Time : 2.00-4.00 p.m.
Topic : Venue : Classroom
Level : Intermediate Skill : Vocabulary

OBJECTIVE
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. give the correct vocabularies based on the clues given;
2. spell out the vocabularies with the correct letters.

TEACHING AIDS
1. Clue cards
2. Mark board
3. Spelling board
4. Handouts containing the rules of the game

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Students have been taught

DELIVERY
Content
Teacher-Student Activities
Set Induction
1. Teacher asks students whether they still remember the previous lesson.
2. Students are asked to list down what types of … that can be found.
3. Students response by giving the correct examples of …

Pre-Game
1. Regarding the topic of the lesson, teacher starts her teaching by inviting the students to participate in a language game.
2. Teacher explains briefly that the game involves… that they've learned from the previous lesson.

While-Game
1. To start the game, teacher explains to the students on how they can play the game.
2. Teacher first, asks the students to divide themselves into group of 9.
3. The first group will need to take the first round by taking a clue card from the teacher.
4. Based on the clue, the group is needed to answer the clue by giving the correct vocabulary within 10 seconds.
5. 10 marks will be given for a correct answer.
6. But then, a representative from the group is needed to come forward to spell out the vocabulary so that other students can see it too.
7. The same process will be done by the following two groups.
8. If it happens the group cannot answer the clue, it could be passed on the next group to answer.

Post-Game
1. In the end of the game, teacher counts all the marks that each group has collected.
2. Teacher then, announces the winner of the game.

CLOSING
Teacher ends the lesson by asking the students on how they feel about the game they've just played. Teacher recaps all the vocabularies they've learned from the game.

HOMEWORK
Students are asked to compose 5 sentences based on the vocabularies learned.
Date of submission: 7th January 2002

TEACHER'S NOTES







RULES OF THE GAME
1. FORM YOURSELVES INTO GROUPS OF 8.
2. TAKE ONE PIECE OF CLUE CARDS FROM THE TEACHER.
3. BASED ON THE CLUE, PLEASE ANSWER IT WITH THE CORRECT WORD.
4. 10 POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER.
5. THEN, ONE OF YOU NEEDS TO COME FORWARD AND SPELL THE VOCABULARY USING JUMBLED LETTERS.
RULES OF THE GAME
1. FORM YOURSELVES INTO GROUPS OF 8.
2. TAKE ONE PIECE OF CLUE CARDS FROM THE TEACHER.
3. BASED ON THE CLUE, PLEASE ANSWER IT WITH THE CORRECT WORD.
4. 10 POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER.
5. THEN, ONE OF YOU NEEDS TO COME FORWARD AND SPELL THE VOCABULARY USING JUMBLED LETTERS.
RULES OF THE GAME
1. FORM YOURSELVES INTO GROUPS OF 8.
2. TAKE ONE PIECE OF CLUE CARDS FROM THE TEACHER.
3. BASED ON THE CLUE, PLEASE ANSWER IT WITH THE CORRECT WORD.
4. 10 POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER.
5. THEN, ONE OF YOU NEEDS TO COME FORWARD AND SPELL THE VOCABULARY USING JUMBLED LETTERS.