Gerakan-gerakan: a language arts activity
This learning object explores actions that can be done
by a range of characters, and how these actions can be described in
sentences.
Ask students to suggest any of the verbs from
kata-kata dasar that they can remember. Collate a list
of these verbs onto a large piece of paper or the whiteboard, as a reference for students.
Give students some time to work in pairs or groups using bilingual
dictionaries or other class texts to add to the list of verbs eg makan,
jalan etcetera. These do not have to be MeN- verbs.
(NB: Another learning object in this series, Wayang kulit, explores
20 different actions that can be done by a wayang kulit puppet
character.)
Share with students images of many characters
performing different actions, such as Breughel's Young Folk at
Play from a site such as
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~museum/VirtualExhibits/Brueghel/aboutpaint.html;
picture books by Richard Scarry; Where's Wally pictures
or any other drawings or illustrations portraying lots of different actions.
Explain to students that they are going to create a
large collage of actions, with an interesting sentence in Indonesian
about each action. Model the process yourself (maybe more than once) of
deciding on an action and writing a sentence, talking through the
decisions that you must make: What action will I choose? Who might be
doing that action? How can I draw that? What would make my sentence more
interesting?
What makes the sentences more interesting is the use of adjectives,
adverbs and conjunctions. You may need to provide vocabulary lists and
model using these.
Design a basic background eg in a park, in a suburban
street. Then have students individually draw small pictures of
characters performing an action and write their sentence in Indonesian
about that action. For example Bayi menangis dengan keras; Anak laki-laki makan
eskrim basar. They can also refer to the sentences used in
Kata-kata dasar for further examples.
Students then cut out and glue or staple the pictures onto
the large collage background, attaching the sentences on the outside of the collage
somewhere.
When all the actions and sentences are displayed,
divide the class into teams. Have each student on a team take turns to
choose and read a sentence, and challenge the other teams to be first to
find the matching picture (one point) and give the meaning of the
sentence (one point) . Bonus points could be given for any team which
can correctly make up another sentence using the same verb.
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