Indonesian Gotong Royong (Mutual Assistance), Traditional Communal work for the community

Tasks

Discussion of Culture

Student will discuss what is collectivist and individualist culture in general.

Task Description:

Provide students with a short video of collectivist culture vs individualist culture differences in L1

video: collectivist vs. individualist culture

From the video provided student should discuss about collectivist vs. individualist

 

Task Type:
need to know
Task Focus:
content
Technology Tips:

click on the hyperlink

Potential Hurdles:

Lack of understanding about the difference of collectivist and individualist culture.

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Listening to a song

Student will listen to a song in target language

Task Description:

Watch and listen to this Song, ask student about the general idea of what they hear and what this activity talk about. The song will have subtitles and the speech will be slow.

 

Task Type:
need to know
Task Focus:
content
Potential Hurdles:

The choice of the words in song might be to advanced

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Brainstorming of ideas

Brainstorming, ideas about what is gotong royong according to their own understanding Knowledge, where students should have a basic understanding in cultural society in the usa vs. asian countries. Students will have to research about the activity of: kerja bakti and gotong royong Student will give general understanding of what they found out about it and give word association to the term they have just researched

Task Description:

  1. Ask students if they have volunteered in the community and what they think about it (ask if they agree or disagree that someone have to volunteer their time at some point in their life, whether its for the local humanity organization or for an event) this can be done by raising hands or using stickies and put it in one place

  2. Brainstorm in answergarden.com about:

    1. What is considered as community work activities and things you can do for your neighbor or in the neighborhood.

    2. People, person or organization you can help

    3. Places to do community work

  3. Collect the answer and create a vocabulary list from the answer

  4. Vocabulary Topics needed: Environment, society, Cooperation, neighborhood social interaction, Cooperation.

Task Type:
scaffolding
Task Focus:
interaction

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Discussion of Pay it Forward culture

Student will watch video of pay it forward culture in the country and have to answer questions

Task Description:

Students will have to decide whether Pay-it-Forward culture can be categorized as collectivist culture or individualist culture.

Students have to get the discussion going and give reasoning behind it

The video is here

Task Type:
driving question
Task Focus:
interaction

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TASK 1

What do you see

Task Description:

gotong royong

Task Type:
scaffolding
Task Focus:
content

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