Ministry of Education introduced
a new program to enhance English usage among teachers and pupils. For the
first phase, the program has been implemented in few pilot schools. Many
teachers are still not fully informed or curious about activities that can be
used for HIP. Here, Miss I provided certain ideas.
First of all, teacher must understand HIP must involve all
the teachers, especially non-English teachers and the activities must encourage
English usage.
There are four types of activities:
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Indoor
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Outdoor
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Whole school
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Outreach- Field trips or activities with the
society.
Here some ideas on the activities.
1. Create an English environment by playing a song:
You can assign the other panels to play
the song. When other teachers search for English songs, it will involve them in
the activity. You also can encourage pupils to be a DJ or record their voice
and play the audio.
2. English stage. Create a small stage and choose
one day for your pupils to perform anything in English. Give theme, if it is
the Science week, pupils will perform topics on Science in English.
3. Informative Board. Assign a theme. For example,
Mathematics. So during the Mathematics day, pupils will find content related to
Mathematics in English and paste on the information board.
7. English documentary. Play a short clip of
English cartoons, movie or documentary for pupils enjoyment.
9. English culture. Set a day for pupils to speak
English. Greet everyone in English or else will be charged 10 cent for each non- English word.
10. Personal English book. Make sure every pupil own
this book. Every pupil must write the book based on what they read. They can
read anything: story, science, history and etc. They have to copy what they
read, this can encourage them to learn sentence structure and content of various subject.
HAPPY HIP!