During one of our tutorials, we had to come up with our own fable and draw it a mahjong paper. It took us some time to get an idea and write our own fable. Wendy and I finally came up with this story of a crow who tries everything to be as pretty as the peacock. The story is inspired by one of our very own classmate’s attitude whom forever wants to be a few skin tone lighter than she is now. She have been trying everything under the sun to get fairer, and we would just like to tell her that it is of no use, because we she is born dark n she should be thankful for it, and what better way than using a fable. Hopefully she gets the message.
Ok, I admit it; I am not an artist, I CANT DRAW WELL. Same goes with Wendy and Cheah. We were laughing all the way while drawing our comic strip. We did get some help from our classmates, if not the crow would not have looked like a crow, and the peacock would have looked like one retarded bird. The final outcome isn’t that bad when we look at it again.
Fables are indeed interesting to be used in the classroom. It is a good material to be used in language classes. The language in fables are simple, and the visuals would help lower proficiency students to get the story. Every fable has its own moral values, and those values can be incalculated in our daily lessons. Though some people would mark fables as being old school and boring, it is rather relevant and effective to be used as a material in classrooms.
Yes, i agree with you nova.Fables are indeed an interesting material to use in a language classroom. Despite that, having the experience in creating our own fables in tutorial class really make a good start to try some new way in teaching language classes. Such a good exposure for us as a future teacher.
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