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Discuss the Indonesian custom of 'oleh-oleh' or bringing gifts home for family and friends when you  have been away. Ask students to consider whether this custom is also followed in their family traditions, in the wider Australian community and in other cultures they may know about.

The Carilah oleh-oleh learning object is designed for multiple use, offering students a range of learning experiences.

    Session 1
    Session 2

Session 1:

Introduce students to Carilah oleh-oleh and explain that they will work in pairs to choose a quiz, then explore the learning object to find the answers to the quiz questions and find out more about the culture of gift-giving in Indonesia.

Explain that they are not expected to know all the language, but rather to use their literacy skills and the support in the learning object to work out what is going on.

Ask students to list the sources of information they find in the learning object. These sources of information include questioning the people on the stalls (different people can give different answers to the same question!); the information button; and to a lesser extent, the fact files on each item for sale. Ask students to consider whether it is possible to tell the difference between fact and opinion? What clues are there in the language used?

Explain that when students have explored the market to complete one quiz successfully, students should evaluate their use of the learning object in their learning journals, considering these questions:

Assessment as learning:

How well did I:

• identify different sources of information in the learning object?
• identify the difference between fact and opinion
• understand the gist or main idea of what was happening?
• infer the meaning of some unknown words?
• follow who was speaking in the conversations?
• answer the quiz questions?

Students could also comment generally on what they found most interesting and most difficult.

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Session 2:

Students should again work with a partner, but choosing a different quiz.

Challenge students to not only answer the quiz questions, but also to note down any information they find about gift-giving in Indonesia on one side of the gift-giving sheet (in Word or PDF), and then, on the other side of the sheet, to reflect on that 'fact' and whether or not that custom also applies to gift-giving in Australia.

Ask students to include this comparison sheet in their learning journals, and revisit their initial concept map to add new understandings in a different colour. Ask students to also reflect on the following questions. Explain that this is an assessment point and provide the assessment criteria (below). Questions:

In what ways are the cultural customs around gift-giving similar and different in Indonesia and Australia? Why might the differences exist?

Does this suggest anything about the national cultural identity of both countries? Eg What kind of behaviour is valued in each country?

Is it possible to generalise about the ways in which 'Indonesians' and 'Australians' are culturally similar or different? Explain your ideas.

Assessment for learning:

Using students' learning journals and revised concept maps, assess the extent to which they:

• identify cultural conventions in gift-giving in Indonesia
• identify parallel cultural conventions in gift-giving in Australia
• compare those conventions in Indonesia and Australia
• draw conclusions about the factors contributing to cultural differences between the two countries
• justify their opinions
• analyse the relationship between cultural conventions and national identity
• clearly explain their ideas.

Provide feedback to students.

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