Mummy and Ibu have been pulling our teeth out (yeah, right:)) getting the kids to speak and write English well.
This week Mummy started having the kids act out scenarios.
Monday it was simple stuff. "hi, how are you?" etc etc., basic text book conversations. Then they had to find something around the house and talk about it for two minutes.
Let's just say Azraf gave them a run for their money. His vocab and content was simple, no big deal, he's only 5, but his sentence structure was more English than the others and so less grammar mistakes. The older kids were basically thinking in BM and translating it out loud. Amjad and Syazmi had pretty good content though. Hania has good pronunciation, now if only she pays as much attention to the content!
Tuesday was a bigger challenge. They did giving directions. And for the second round, they had to choose whether to speak on favourite hero, sports or food. Syakira dumb-founded everyone when in the second round she chose as her hero the Prophet Muhammad.
Wednesday moms were exhausted and out of ideas, but the kids were gung-ho. There was a flyer from Domino so we had them do a phone conversation ordering pizza. Then they really wanted to act out scenarios. So we had them pretend to be tourists and tourist guides. They ended up sitting around talking about touristy stuff in English. Interesting.
Thursday we were all pooped out, plus Syazmi wasn't feeling well. So they pretty much had the day off.
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