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Today's class seemed so short since Puan Foziah didn't enter the class. Initially, there has been subnission of the e-book assignment. All the tiring work seemed worthwhile when we sent the assignment to the representative of the class. This assignment actually challenge our skill in producing teaching aids that are interactive for students, besides sharpening our skill in using technology skill in preparing teaching aids for primary classroom.

After the handing in of the assignment, we received our second task, which require us to form a group of four and produce a simple learning activity that involves all four basic main skills, which are reading, listening, speaking and writing. Sincerely, this task was given quite abruptly to us, since we already have an assignment to be completed in a week time. Hence, I really need to manage my time since the due date of both tasks are close to each other. However, I do admit that this task has its own advantage, since it is like an extra training for us before we start the assignment. Fortunately, this task will be completed as a group work and this provides opportunities for us to practice all the technology skills , for instance internet skill, video editing and many more that I have learnt during the previous weeks. In addition, the way all the four skills inserted in one task gave us opportunity to use our creativity and comment on each others’ work. It also provides us opportunity to vary our scope of teaching, since all the four skills were integrated into one task.

Besides that, we also got another group task, which required us to prepare a power point presentation based on the text that we get for the day. ‘Working with the course book’ was the title of the text that we get for the discussion. Since the text was quite long, we have decided to divide the text into parts, so while the others are internalizing it, someone will be preparing the power point presentation. From the text, I got to know that course book offers many advantages in the classroom teaching. Besides served as the basis for the syllabus taught in the classroom, it can be a good reference for both teacher and students. However, we need to be aware not to be too dependent towards course book, as teacher is the real manager of the classroom. Teacher can enhance the use of the course book by guiding students along the learning process, and not just let the course book dominates the class.