Mr. Dika's Classroom

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I've been teaching English at middle school and high school at various levels for over 13 years. I have taught Key Stage 3 English, IGCSE English First Language and IGCSE English Second Language.

In this video, I taught a group of grade 10 students who were in their final year before taking their English IGCSE First Language examinations.

Please find preview of the slides here.

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn" - Benjamin Franklin

I believe learning is the product of the activities that the students are involved in. I like to assign my students in pods where they can collaborate in groups and learn from each other. I involve them when working on display boards and decorating the room.

Synonyms- Don't say 'Said'

Vocabulary Wall

Punctuation Wall

Students made these punctuation guide based on their misconceptions and mistakes I highlighted in their writing.

Survival Guide- Based on Novel "Kensuke's Kingdom"

Grade 7 students created these posters after they studied the novel.

This is one of the vocab wall that students create and update on a regular basis.

Grade 8 Poetry Display

Macbeth Shadow Puppet Show

One of the projects that I set to my Grade 7 students is to perform a shadow puppet performance. Shadow puppets are essential parts in Balinese culture and Balinese shadow puppet shows are usually based on Hindus myths and lores.

In this project, students work in groups and dramatise scenes from Macbeth which is a part of Grade 7 Shakespearean study. I find using literature to teach language to be more engaging and stimulating. Students not only learn the content but also practice their language skills through reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Camp Fire Story Telling

One of the units for Grade 8 students is Gothic Writing, where students practice their narrative and descriptive writing in order to build suspense in their writing.

In the final stage, students wrote their own scary story using descriptions and all other writing skills that they learned. We invited the Grade 6 students for a camp fire story telling session.

Student's reading challenge response

Reading Lessons

Reading plays an essential part in language learning. I encourage, model and monitor reading to all my students.

Once a week, I take my students to the school library to have a reading session where I recommend books, monitor students' reading progress through the Accelerated Reader and give students time to read independently

Students' reading challenge responses

Reading Challenge

During long holidays, I set all my students a reading challenge where they need to read and produce one response from a various options that have been given. These options usually include:

creating a map of the setting
writing a book review
designing a character profile
or any other other relevant responses