Topic: The Culture of Television-Watching in Malaysia

Theme: People
Level of Proficiency: Advanced (Form 4)
Learning Objective: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. Engage through cooperative group work for
designing their own
television channels.
2. Present the mind map that they have designed to
the class.
3. Discuss among each other to talk about the good
side and the bad side
of the current television channels.

TEACHERS/STUDENTS
ACTIVITIES
1. Teacher shows a few pictures
of current television channels

RATIONALE
Rationale:
-

To create an interesting

projected on a slideshow to

environment by having a brief

the students.
2. Teacher poses a few questions

discussion on the topic of the

referring to the pictures

shown.
3. Students respond to teachers

day.
To enhance students thinking

skill and communication skill.

To engage students to

questions voluntarily.
4. Teacher briefly discusses the

participate in a cooperative

topic of the day to the

group work learning activity.

To improve students speaking

students.
5. Teacher then instructs

skills.
To assess students

competence and production.

To expose students to new

students to create a mind

map in order to design their

knowledge that stimulates

own television channel with a

discussion.

purpose.
6. Teacher divides students into
four (4) groups and instructs
each group to come up with
an interesting team name.
7. Teacher provides each team
with a manila card, a few
varieties of magazines, a

AVA:
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Slideshow (Appendix 1)
Manila card (Appendix 2)
Magazines (Appendix 3)
Scissors (Appendix 4)
Paper glue (Appendix 5)
Magic colour pens (Appendix
6)

scissors, paper glue, and also

magic colour pens.
8. Teacher shows a self-made
mind map as a sample for the
students.
9. Teacher instructs all teams to
finish up within twenty (20)
minutes
10.
Each team begins
designing their manila card by
browsing for some pictures
and wordings from the
magazines given.
11.
After twenty minutes,
teacher instructs all teams to
select a representative to
present the products that
they have come up with.
12.
Each representative
takes turn to come to the
front of the class to give their
presentation.
13.
Teacher gives feedbacks
to every teams
presentations.
14.
Teacher also instructs
all team to vote for one team
that has come up with the

Sample of self-made mind

map (Appendix 7)

best television channel.

15.
The team who has the
most votes wins.

APPENDIX 1

Pictures from a slideshow

APPENDIX 2

Manila card

APPENDIX 3

Magazines

APPENDIX 4

Scissors

APPENDIX 5

Paper glue

APPENDIX 6

Magic colour pens

APPENDIX 7

Sample of self-made mind map