Sentence Monster

A resource from the Bentong cluster comes to Jerantut.

When the teachers at SK Kuala Tembeling were busy with a PPD course, the mentor and a TESOL visitor from Korea entertained the children with the Sentence Monster. This was the second visit to SK Kuala Tembeling by special request of the Year 2 pupils who missed out on a previous visit.

No one is scared of the Sentence Monster, but the TESOL
visitor from Korea made everyone a bit shy at first.

If the word order is not correct, the Sentence Monster
will shout and push the word cards back out - look at
the apprehension on those faces!

Not everyone was busy on the course, and teacher Zul
came into the hall to help the boys' team make
their sentences.

Let's feed these words to the
Sentence Monster!

Previously, when the Sentence Monster visited the school, the pupils from Years 1 and 3 came with their teachers Akma and Khairi. The SK Kuala Tembeling teachers adapted the tasks and games to suit the children's English abilities and a lot of emphasis was placed on phonics. On that day, the Sentence Monster became the Word Monster as well. We used some Year 5 students to help us, and they did a great job as junior mentors working with the younger pupils.

This Year 5 pupil did a FANTASTIC job as the voice of
the Sentence Monster.

Older pupils helping younger ones to make sentences.

We have a sentence! Next, we need to feed it to the Sentence
Monster to see if it is correct.

Year 5 girls looking on as word cards are fed to the
Sentence Monster - it is quite tense!

The voice of the Sentence Monster.

Stephen-Peter Jinks (ELC Jerantut)