Friday, 5 September 2014

Lesson: Intlakohlaza (Spring) Poem

About:

This is an awesome lesson to do for fun, or to prepare the learners for exams. This lesson is based on the poem, Intlakohlaza, by a well known Xhosa poet,  J. R. R. Jolobe. In this lesson I also familiarized my learners with Xhosa figures of speech.

Below are all the documents I used for this lesson:

Power Point

Poem with translation and worksheet

Lesson Plan

Reflection:

This lesson was by far my best isiXhosa lesson to date. I can only attribute my success to the fact that the learners must have picked up that I am passionate about the topic. This just goes to show how important it is to be excited about and love what you are teaching as it definitely makes a difference to learner's attitude.

Something I would change would be to encourage learners to read the isiXhosa sections out loud to improve their pronunciation. I also believe it may be beneficial to only supply the English translations later as I fear my learners may have relied too heavily in the English and thus not learned any isiXhosa. 

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