Have Fun with Your Own Gadget

Objectives:

1. To encourage students to share their feelings by using social media.

2. To enable students to practice their writing skills in writing the short sentences that represent their thoughts.

Language Skills:

1. Thinking Skill

2. Writing Skill

Level: Intermediate

Duration: 30 minutes

Materials: Handphone that consists of Twitter and Instagram applications

Procedures:

Briefing (5 minutes)

1. The teacher introduces the game “Have Fun with Your Own Gadget” to the students.

2. The teacher explains the following rules of the game to the students:

a. They are going to write something nice about their classmates in the short sentences.

b. They are going to tweet the sentences to the Twitter with the hashtag of SLAE3652.

Demonstrate (5 minutes)

1. The teacher demonstrates the game once by tweeting his own sentence.

Playing the Game (15 minutes)

1. The students start to tweet their own comments for their classmates on Twitter.

2. The teacher shows all the tweets that tweeted by the students using gigatweeter.com and visibletweets.com. 

Debriefing (5 minutes)

1. The teacher asks the students on what they have learnerd from the game.

Variations:

1. The teacher can ask the students to tweet their reviews on Twitter after watched a television live show. Students can hashtag the tweet with the name of the television live show.

2. The teacher can ask the students to take a photo and post it to Instagram with a description for the photo. Students can hashtag the photo with the caption of #tesl. The teacher can show the collection of the photos to the students in the next class by using igwall.com.

Prepared by, 
Faza Reza bin Mohd Yunos (A11PP0086)
Lim Pei Rong (A11PP0008)