1. Life – Refers to existence.
2. Life Map– Listing the most important moments in your life from the time of your birth to the present.
3. Reminisce – To remember the past.
4. Information– A details that you get to someone or                             something.
5. Motivation– A reason that helps you to achieve your goal.

LIFE MAP

Have you heard of life mapping?

Listing the most important moments in your life from the time of your birth to the present is known as life mapping. To avoid getting stuck attempting to recall the sequence in which things happened in your life, you can arrange it either chronologically or randomly. A life map can also be used for exploring future goals, strategies, and plans.

How to create a life map?

 In creating a life map, you should think about the impactful event of your life (Mwangi 2022). Reminiscing events of your life makes you realize the impact of it in your present life. First, making a life map allows you to see yourself from a third person’s point of view. In good situations you can pat yourself for doing great things, in bad situations, you can bash yourself for doing such things and with that you can ponder on how to stop yourself from making the same mistake again.

 Second, you may have changed in ways that no longer benefit you as a result of some positive or negative circumstances. For example, you had to make things happen to you since you had to grow up and take on greater responsibilities after things happened to you when you were younger. Their situations should be considered also as you need to look over the bigger picture. If you think you did your best, but the result says otherwise, maybe you need to change the system of your habit.

 Lastly, life mapping will get you back on track, it allows you to trace the things you enjoyed in the past and improve your perspective in life. Eradicate the negative experience and learn from it. The life map would help you change your perspective about yourself as it gives you the track of what results you aim for yourself.

Below is an example of a Life Map

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Activity 1. Life Map

Instruction: Create your Life Map your output should include the past events of your life from childhood to present. Put the impactful events of your life either good or bad. After you finish your output, discuss it in front of the class.

Peer Reaction

After the peer sharing your classmates can rate your work using the choices below.

WRITING BASIC INFORMATION THROUGH “SLAM BOOK”

   Knowing yourself is like an adventure, it’s about discovering the real you and knowing yourself which helps you to improve yourself (Campbell 2022). Moreover, according to Global India, a self-introduction enables others to learn about your identity, character, and other pertinent details. A strong self-introduction should highlight every side of the individual because it leaves a good impression on others and fosters future relationships. Learning to write these basic information is a practice for you to fill out information in work you want to apply, make friends and connect to people. Moreover, through the use of “Slam book” connecting to friends or making friends can be fun. According to Posner, Slam books combine traditional passing notes with the idea of a diary. These are books that individuals typically share among friends or acquaintances to get to know one another better.

     How do we know what information we need to provide about our life or ourselves? There are questions that often asked, through these questions you will know what information you should give. The common questions you will encounter are:

                   What is your name?
                       How old are you?
                       Where do you live?
                       When is your birthday?
                       What are your hobby/hobbies?
                       What is your favorite color?
                       What is your favorite food?
                       Who are your parents?
                       Who are your siblings?
                        Who is your best friend?

  Thus, let’s practice answering these questions using the English language to help you improve your ability in using the target language.

Activity 2. Fill in the blanks

LIFE MOTIVATION

        People always do something. Have you ever wondered what makes them do something? Because that is just what they want or they have some goal for doing so? People do want what they want because of their motivation. Motivation defined as a system of processes that initiates, directs, and sustains goal-oriented behaviors is known as motivation. Motivation is something or a reason that helps you achieve your goal. For example, you want to be good at the English language because of this you are motivated to study hard and listen very well to your teacher to achieve your goal which is to be good in English language.

Why is motivation important in your life?

    According to healthdirect, motivation is important as it gives you goals to work toward, helps in resolving issues, helps in breaking old behaviors, helps in handling opportunities and difficulties. It will make you confident and optimistic in facing life challenges.

Activity 3. Reflection
Instruction: Watch the video “Never Give Up” after watching the video write your reflection below.

Make sure to answer the question “What life motivation did you get from the video?”

My Reflection

Instruction: Read the statements carefully. Write the T if the statement is True and F if  the statement is False.