Thursday, April 16, 2020

PKP MUET Online Lesson 2 - Blogging as a Homework Hub

Hey hey! So I'm back with another video, this time I faced so many technical problems I was ready to punch my laptop but I managed to hold back. Anyway, the ending is a little abrupt but I think I got across all the necessary points in less than 10 minutes. Happy watching and do leave a comment if you'd like to give me feedback. 

Special thanks to all my students who in one way or another end up as lab rats... kudos and great jobs on updating your blogs. Basically a blog is quite easy to do with either Blogger or Wordpress and there are a multitude of YouTube videos that they can watch to learn how to start a blog. It is an excellent Homework Hub to compile all their individual work and gives them free reign to be creative and expressive while using the target language in an authentic manner. 

Some of the blog tasks I have given are: 
1. Write about a typical day being quarantined under MCO restrictions. 
2. Post about anything you like (K-pop, K-drama, food, cats, hobbies, poetry etc) 
3. Analyse the sample answer for the recent March MUET report writing test and retype the answer onto your blog. 
4. Record yourself giving a 2 minute speech following the MUET format. 

For No.4... the students can explore by themselves which applications suits them best. Most of them uploaded to YouTube but some used different applications like InShot, Moviva, Anchor (Podcast) etc. Interesting apps that can be explored further. 

Happy teaching and learning and most importantly, keep safe! 

Special thanks to Ann Suhana because I highlighted her blog and to Zul because I printscreened him in the midst of his speech on YouTube. 


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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

PKP MUET Online Lesson 1: Academic Essay

Hi all.. by popular demand, I am back! Here is a good video to share with your students on how to brush up their academic essay writing skills.

For teachers, get students to watch the video and you can ask them to list the 10 tips they garnered from the video. Alternatively, get them to write an essay of their own and you can use the Review button on MSWord to write comments on sections of their essay.

For students, you may do any of these tasks.
1. Write a good thesis statement for this essay.
2. Make two lists, one list for nice vocab, another list for good points.
3. List down 10 Tips for good academic essay writing
4. Write an essay (free topic) and submit to your teacher. Be careful to follow the MUET format rather than copy and paste stuff from the internet which is PLAGIARISM!

Good luck and may I have more motivation to make another video. Cheers n stay safe!



Or your can click this link:Syna's Academic MUET Essay