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Making connections
Have students think about shopping at markets in
Australia, and what they know about shopping at markets in Indonesia,
then brainstorm the language they would need to use
in an Indonesian market.
For example:
- social interactions (greetings, questions,
farewells)
- names and descriptions of foods (on fruit,
vegetables, dried goods and meat stalls)
- bargaining
- money and numbers.
Food items and their descriptions:
Display posters or large photographs of of Indonesian supermarkets,
shops, markets, wayangs and restaurants, as well as tropical fruits,
vegetables and other foods. Work with students to add captions or labels in Indonesian
during the course of this learning sequence, to build up a class resource.
- Discuss which foods the students have tried before
and introduce basic taste words such as 'manis' (sweet), 'pedas' (hot
or spicy); 'asin' (salty) and 'pahit' (bitter). Also use of 'sekali'
(very - eg 'manis sekali' = very sweet) and 'sedikit' (a little eg
'sedikit manis' = a little sweet). Have students taste some of the foods
they haven't tried.
- Reinforce and compare word order of nouns and
adjectives in descriptions in
Indonesian and English.
- Assist students in asking and answering questions
about their likes and dislikes ('suka', 'tidak suka').
Memory game with items for sale at
the market:
Have students in groups of six to ten, sit in a circle and play the memory game
I went to the market and I saw ... Saya ke pasar dan saya melihat ...
Students must then say one item they saw at the market. The next
student then repeats what the first student said, and adds something
different.
As students gain confidence with the game, you can
increase the level of difficulty by asking them to include particular
language such as numbers, adjectives such as colour or size; or add
rules such as not including fruit, for example.
Harganya
benar - The Price is Right: Hold up objects or photographs of
objects with a secret price in rupiahs written on the back. Students in two
teams guess the price, both saying and writing the price they suggest on
a board.
You provide feedback of 'lebih sedikit' (higher) or 'kurang sedikit'
(lower). When the correct price is guessed, announce 'Kamu menang!' (you
win) and that team wins a point.
As students become more confident, they can lead the game.
Explain how amounts of money are written in Indonesian - for example Rp 6.550 rather than $6,550 or $6 550 as we would in Australia. Briefly discuss
exchange rates and show students where they can find out the exchange
rate in the newspaper or on the internet at sites such as
http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~ddpay/currency/ or
http://www.ratesfx.com/rates/rate-converter.html
You can search on Australian Google
http://www.google.com.au/ or Indonesian Google
http://www.google.com/intl/id/
to find out the price of different commodities such as vehicles, houses,
hotel rooms and compare those with the cost of similar things in
Australia. NB: The prices of food items in 'Mari kita makan' were
accurate at the time of development.
Apa ini? What's this?
Bring along a 'mystery'
selection of food items. Have each one hidden from view - for example
in a box. Students ask
questions that have a 'yes', 'no' or 'sometimes' answer, in order to work out what
it is. Go through some sample questions with students. See some sample
questions (Word or
PDF).
Explain use of the word 'apakah' in asking questions where the answer is
'yes' or 'no'.
Bargaining:
Revise the nature of bargaining throughout
Asia, and make connections with Australia where bargaining can also
occur at markets, garage sales and when buying second hand goods for
example. Have students work in groups to build a list of useful words
or phrases that they might meet in a bargaining situation. View this example list (Word or
PDF).
Reflection: Discuss questions
around the 'customs' that families have about eating together. Do all
the families in the class have the same customs? What about the buddy
class? Why do families have different customs about food? Why are some
foods are not eaten by people (religious reasons or allergies) or other
foods thought of as 'special' (only eaten on some occasions)?
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