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For this Listening and Speaking coursework, my group members, Muhammad Faaiz, Amira Wahida and I had learnt a lot of things from the microteaching experiences and also all the processes that we had gone through from the beginning until the end of the coursework. For our experiences on microteaching, we choose Amira’s lesson plan to be present in class. The topic is “The Holidays” under the theme “World of Knowledge”. From the demonstration of the lesson plan, there are some strength and also weaknesses that can be found. With the feedbacks and comments from other friends also, I can apply those entire thing to become a good English teacher in the future.
For the pre-listening stage, it was presented by Amira. The activity of this stage is the teacher showing the flashcards that consist of the great places for holiday. After that, the teacher asks the pupils to guess where it is located for example, KLCC, Sunway Lagoon, Zoo Negara and so on. Then, the teacher will ask several questions to the pupils about the places to get their responses and feedback. From the flashcards and also the Wh-questions from the teacher, we can see that it attract the pupils to engage with the teaching and learning process as they eager to answer the Wh-questions and also looking at the flashcards that consist of the great places for holiday.
Apart from that, in while-listening stage that is demonstrated by me, first of all, the teacher divides the pupils into groups of six by given number cards from one to six to every pupil. They need to find their own respective group members with the same numbers. After that, each group is given one of the flashcards. In their own group, the pupils have to discuss what they see in their picture. After about 20 minu...

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... the pupils as they only can listen to the recording, answer the worksheet and so on. Wickham (2013) stated that one of the pedagogical principles is to make the learning is fun, meaningful and purposeful. Lessons, which emphasise meaningful contexts and the integration of language skills, allow pupils to learn by doing in fun-filled activities. Contextualised as well as purposeful activities will promote the fun element in language learning. This means that, as a teacher, we need to make the teaching and learning process is fun and also meaningful to the pupils.
In a nutshell, I hope that all the strength and also weaknesses will be a turning point for me to improve myself on teaching skills especially in English Language so that I can create a fun and enjoyable teaching and learning process to the pupils and at the same time the lesson will be effective to them.

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