Role Play: A Town Map.

Wednesday (20/06/2012)

a)      Street Routes.

l       We compared the meaning of alley, road, highway, flyover, overhead bridge.

l       Kids and I brainstormed a street map that similar to our town. As we were doing that, more associated vocabulary appeared.

b)      A Town map.

l       We sketched on the board. There was a T-junction. Hiro suggested traffic lights. Alisa said there is number on the traffic light top. “Stop at red, Go at green”! We thought of buildings at each corner. There was a petrol station, school, restaurant, car workshop and also Jaya Jusco.

l       Further up, there’s a roundabout. We chose not to have traffic lights at this roundabout. There’s a big park and police station near here.

c)       Role-Play.

l       We transformed the classroom into a big town following the sketch on the whiteboard.

l       We arranged chairs as street borders. 4 kids volunteered as traffic light. 1 kid as traffic police, 5 kids as cars while the other kids acted as Jaya Jusco, police station, school, etc.

l       The kids changed roles after 15 minutes. We changed roles for 3 times. They really had a great time.

l       The kids implemented their rules as they play along. Shang Hong, Si Suen and Hiro started doing countdown in order to change the traffic light colour. They even notified Xiang Wei the traffic police when someone goes against the traffic rules. The driver became very careful. However, Rei was a very careless driver who kept driving against the red lights. She was brought to the police station to pay so many summonses. The police officer asked for her driving license.

l       At some point, the traffic lights were faulty and immediately the technician came to repair. Traffic police came to ease the situation.

l       When cars broke down, mechanics came by to repair them.

l       When the cars needed petrol, they went to pump at petrol station. It was so fun!