3 Dec Session 8

Writing
Today's lesson focuses on text types and writing techniques. We share with our participants various letter and report formats, as well as how to teach vivid verbs and vocabulary using exciting activities. It's interesting how teachers find it difficult at first to write. We finally have to admit that we can empathise how the students must have felt when we reprimand them for not being motivated to complete their writing assignments. We realise that like us sometimes, students need more scaffolding before they can embark on a new writing task. We are also tickled that even though we know "roughly" what all the words in the vocabulary list mean, we may not necessarily be able to give their exact meaning and how they differ from one another especially in degree on intensity. Last but not least, we are touched by our participants' hospitality who visited us the night before bearing much appreciated snacks. We spent quite a while to interact with one another in an informal setting. Some of the teachers shared with us more about their hometown and their lives back home. We couldn't help but to be even more appreciative and grateful that they came all the way to Yogyakarta to learn more from us.