6 Beginner- My life Story
May Elyssa Bontog
Chapter 3: My Life Story
Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson the student will be able to:
- Explain the life map using the English language.
- Construct basic information about their life.
- Share their reflection about the motivational video.
Vocabulary
- Life – Refers to existence.
- Life Map– Listing the most important moments in your life from the time of your birth to the present.
- Reminisce – To remember the past.
- Information– A details that you get to someone or something.
- Motivation– A reason that helps you to achieve your goal.
Essential Knowledge
Life pertains to existence. It makes people think, act, assess, and develop over time. What sets people apart from inorganic matter is life. Many truly enjoy having free will in life. Others lack this right, such as slaves and prisoners. But life is more than just getting by on your own in society. Certainly, it goes far beyond that. Therefore, life quality is really important. Living a meaningful life should be the ultimate goal above all else. One that enables us to have a closer connection with ourselves is a meaningful existence (Toppr). Life is not easy, some hurdles would make us give up, and however, life is also filled with happiness and positivity. You made a mistake, but the important part is you learned from it. Every person has different stories, these stories have lessons and motivations to live.
Activities
General Instructions: Read the text carefully before proceeding to the activities. Prepare a pencil as the instructor will give you an answer sheet for the activities. Read the instructions carefully, if there are any clarifications or questions feel free to ask the instructor. The activities will be mainly focusing on conversational, technical and creative activities that will help you hone your skills in the English language.
Conversational
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
Source: (2024). Thoughtfullearning.com.
https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/sites/k12/files/minilesson/images/lifeMap.jp
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.
| My Life Map |
Peer Reaction
After the peer sharing your classmates can rate your work using the choices below.
Technical
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
Creative
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
Let’s Check!
Instruction: Read the statements carefully. Write the T if the statement is True and F if the statement is False.
Key Takeaways
In the lessons that were discussed you understand that life refers to existence. In the first lesson you learned that identifying important life events—either chronologically or at random—allows you to reflect on the past and make plans for the future. This process is known as life mapping. Making a life map requires thinking back on significant events in one’s life, observing oneself from the outside, and appreciating the influence of both good and bad experiences. It serves as a self-reflection and a changing habit, which leads to personal growth and helps you understand how past experiences impact your current life. Moreover, making a brief self-introduction in relationship building, self-discovery, and making a good first impression. Common questions about name, age, interests, and family history can be used as a starting point for self-introduction and self-improvement. Lastly, in order to achieve goal-oriented behavior, change bad habits, and have the confidence to take on obstacles, motivation is essential in life. It gives one direction and motivation to reach both professional and personal wants and needs.