Gerakan-gerakan: a language arts activity
This learning object explores actions that can be done
by the monkey character. Beginning with the daftar gerakan compiled by
students, have students work in pairs or groups and use bilingual
dictionaries or class texts to increase the list by adding other common
verbs such as makan, membaca, membeli etcetera.
NB: Another learning object in this series,
Kata-kata dasar, introduces MeN-verbs.
Scribe all action words (correctly spelt) onto a large
piece of paper or whiteboard, as a reference for students.
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;
Richard Scarry picture books; Where's Wally pictures or any
other drawings with lots of actions going on. (NB it
is possible to buy a 'Where's Hanuman?' version from a Ramayana site -
see Online
resources).
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 aloud 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
models using these.
Design a basic background eg in a park, the beach or 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 besar.
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
translate the sentence (one point) and find the matching picture (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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