THE LAST LETTER

THE LAST LETTER

Prepared by:

NUR FATIN BINTI ROPIZOL (A11PP0019)

NURNAJWA BINTI MOHD NASIR (A11PP0047)

OBJECTIVES:

·                                                  To enrich students’ vocabulary in English

·                                                 To encourage students to use English Language

LANGUAGE

·                                             Listening skill

·                                           Critical thinking skill

·                                           Prior knowledge

PROCEDURE

·         Briefing

o   Teacher/ facilitator will introduce and explain the rules of the game. The rules are as follows

                                                        i.            Teacher/ facilitator will ask the students to form one straight line.

                                                      ii.            Teacher/ facilitator will give the first word.

                                                    iii.            Students must listen to the word given by the teacher/ facilitator and think of a word that starts with the last alphabet of the word given.

                                                    iv.            Students only have 5 seconds to come up with a word before the next person continue with another word.

                                                      v.            Student who fails or late to come up with a word, lose and will not be allowed to continue joining the game.

                                                    vi.            The final person who stays will be the winner.

·         Demo

                                i.            Teacher/ facilitator will demonstrate the game.

·         Playing the game

                                i.            Teacher/ facilitator will start the game by giving out the first word and the first person in the line will continue with another word that start with the last alphabet of the first word.

                              ii.            Teacher/ facilitator will count for 5 seconds for each student to come up with the word.

                            iii.            Student who fails or late to come up with a word within the allocated time will be eliminated or not allowed to join the game.

                            iv.            The game continue with the last person who come up with a word. He/ she needs to come up with a new word and the next person will continue the game as usual.

                              v.            The game will continue until the last person remained. He/ she will be announced as the winner.

·         Debriefing

o   Teacher/ facilitator asks the students randomly what they think about the game and what they have learned from the game.

VARIATION

o   Instead of forming one straight line, the students can stand in a circle.

COMMENTS

  This is a simple game that can help in hyping up the students’ learning. This activity can help to tackle students’ attention and gives the student new perception that learning English is fun. This activity can help students to enhance their vocabulary and critical thinking skill. Apart from that, this activity can be practiced in a classroom as one of the learning and teaching activity. Teacher can boost up the students’ motivation by preparing rewards to the winners.