Drowgames is officially my favourite game recently. Why I said so? I can't even stop myself from playing the game. I'm addicted to the drug called Drowgames. Hahaha...i can't believe I'm saying this.
If you curious to know if i like this game or not, i think i already answer that question. YES, I'M LOVING IT. I'M ADDICTED TO IT. =)
This game actually is like drill and practice. Believe it or not, the game consists of the most common English words that we use everyday. We use those words every single day. Even though we use them everyday, it doesn't mean we know how exactly to use the words. For me, it's like an exercise which i find really good.
This game is suitable for students in school. The used is simple and I'm sure students will be able to understand and play the game. In fact, if my students are lower proficiency students, I think it will not be a problem since this game is using simple English. I think young adults will enjoy this game and they will try to be more proficient in the target language. They can use this game and compete with their friends to improve their level of proficiency.
I'm pretty sure that students will have a great opportunity to learn vocabulary and how it is functioned. By knowing the words and their functions, it will help the students more to improve their English.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
1st lecture with songs..
Sufi Song
On the 1st lecture of this course, we had been introduced to a sufi song. The song was sang in other language, of course it was not English. Well, it was a task, all we needed to do was just listened to it.
First thought that came accross my mind was, "it sounds like Hindi song". But still i listened to it. The song was about praising GOD...although the singer, Saeen Zahoor was a Muslim and the song itself was about praising Allah, we still could listen to it as a universal song. Basically, my class was consisted of multiracial friends, so the song might give them different meaning. I didn't think it was a problem.
The song was sang beautifully by the singer. I didn't get the meaning when I listened to it but the beat of melody helped me to feel.It didn't matter if we didn't understand it by looking at the alien lyric, what we could do was listened and felt with heart. Then we could feel it and understand it. =)
Alejandro by Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is a famous singer all over the world and her songs are always hit songs. During lecture time, on the same day we listened to Sufi Song, we listened to ‘Alejandro’ sang by Lady Gaga. The song was played in class and almost everybody enjoyed listened to it.
Even though the song was just a hit song, it is actually beyond what we thought. The song itself carried a number of interpretations and different people might view it differently. For me, I felt like I was watching a drama that was played by Lady Gaga with a group of men. It was pretty much like watching a theatre. The songs itself indicated the feeling of the woman in the video clip which was obviously played by Lady Gaga. She expressed her feeling and emotion which were conveyed through the choreography of the song that suggested her sadness and regret. If we wanted to use this song in classroom, I didn’t think it was a good idea for a teacher to show the video clip to class but it was fine to let the students listened to the song and learn the message from it.
Of course ‘Alejandro’ was different from Sufi Song. We couldn’t compare the content of the both songs. But what I was trying to share here was although both songs were composed in different genres and purposes; both of them carried their own interpretations and meanings. They were just like literature and they had their own ways to convey different messages and ideas. For me, in our classroom, it was fine to use songs because songs were part of art as well as literature.
On the 1st lecture of this course, we had been introduced to a sufi song. The song was sang in other language, of course it was not English. Well, it was a task, all we needed to do was just listened to it.
First thought that came accross my mind was, "it sounds like Hindi song". But still i listened to it. The song was about praising GOD...although the singer, Saeen Zahoor was a Muslim and the song itself was about praising Allah, we still could listen to it as a universal song. Basically, my class was consisted of multiracial friends, so the song might give them different meaning. I didn't think it was a problem.
The song was sang beautifully by the singer. I didn't get the meaning when I listened to it but the beat of melody helped me to feel.It didn't matter if we didn't understand it by looking at the alien lyric, what we could do was listened and felt with heart. Then we could feel it and understand it. =)
Alejandro by Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is a famous singer all over the world and her songs are always hit songs. During lecture time, on the same day we listened to Sufi Song, we listened to ‘Alejandro’ sang by Lady Gaga. The song was played in class and almost everybody enjoyed listened to it.
Even though the song was just a hit song, it is actually beyond what we thought. The song itself carried a number of interpretations and different people might view it differently. For me, I felt like I was watching a drama that was played by Lady Gaga with a group of men. It was pretty much like watching a theatre. The songs itself indicated the feeling of the woman in the video clip which was obviously played by Lady Gaga. She expressed her feeling and emotion which were conveyed through the choreography of the song that suggested her sadness and regret. If we wanted to use this song in classroom, I didn’t think it was a good idea for a teacher to show the video clip to class but it was fine to let the students listened to the song and learn the message from it.
Of course ‘Alejandro’ was different from Sufi Song. We couldn’t compare the content of the both songs. But what I was trying to share here was although both songs were composed in different genres and purposes; both of them carried their own interpretations and meanings. They were just like literature and they had their own ways to convey different messages and ideas. For me, in our classroom, it was fine to use songs because songs were part of art as well as literature.
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