1.

0: INTRODUCTION OF ROLE PLAY

Basically, role play is an important skill for someone in implementing

character to the certain situation. In educational, role play in the classroom involves
students actively in the learning process by enabling them to act as stakeholders in
an imagined or real scenario.

Besides that, the role play creates a stimulating environment that simulates
reality enabling students to intensify their understanding of the situation or event
being re-enacted. They also develop practical skills for professional practice.

In role playing, participants take the position of someone else to "act" the part
of that person in a particular situation. So, it is a learning activity in which the
students will assume a role to practise a variety of language skills.

Overall, role-play is a beneficial teaching tool as it develops practical

professional skills as well as academic knowledge. Students generally enjoy this
hands-on approach to learning and broaden their understanding of multi-stakeholder
negotiations through a process of simulated experience. Thus, role play is one of the
learning processes in which participants act out the roles of other individuals in order
to develop particular skills and to meet particular learning objectives.

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 1.1 Mind Map about Role Play

definition of role-
playing is: ‘behaving definition of role-play is more difficult to arrive at
in accordance largely because it is associated with ‘dramatic’
with specified activity in the minds of teachers, and also because
function’. This is of confusion in the literature arising from its
accurate but a relatedness to play, games and simulation
working

Role-play is a product
of ‘play’, ‘games’ and
education role-play ‘simulation’, and
may be seen as an definitions of these are
interaction between provided in Box 1.
these three
components – either in
combination or by
Role Play
themselves – and the
child who ‘performs’
the activity, resulting in the initiation and
learning outcomes. design of role-play is
driven by the teacher,
enjoy this hands-on play takes on an
approach to learning and educational function
broaden their
understanding of multi-
role-play is a
stakeholder negotiations
beneficial teaching
through a process of
tool as it develops
simulated experience role play is one of the
practical
professional skills as learning processes in
well as academic which participants act out
knowledge.
the roles of other
individuals in order to
develop particular skills
and to meet particular
learning objectives.

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2.0: ROLE PLAY OF VISIT MALAYSIA 2009

En. Haikal is working as an engineer in the Southern Wire Company which is

located in Bandar Kinrara, Puchong. Puchong, is a very busy city as well as En.
Haikal lifestyle. He has four children and they are still studying in primary school. Pn.
Ruzita, wife to En.Haikal, working as a secondary school teacher.

A long holiday is just around the corner and En. Haikal decided to bring his
family to a vacation. However, he don’t have any idea about the location. So,
En.Haikal went to a tourist agency named “Berjaya Tourist Agency” near to Bandar
Kinrara to get some useful information about tourist places in Malaysia.

Thomas : Good morning, sir. I’m Thomas, manager of Berjaya Tourist Agency.
How can I help you?

En. Haikal : Good morning. I’m Haikal from Bandar Kinrara. Actually I want to go
for a vacation with my family during this coming holiday. But I don’t
have any idea about the places. So, can you please suggest me
some nice places in Malaysia that can be visited by whole family.

Thomas : Can I know what kind of leisure places you wish to visit?

En. Haikal : Well, I want a nice place that can let my whole family to enjoy the
beauty of nature and get us out from the city life for a short moment.

Thomas : Fine sir, if like that, I will suggest sir a historical and beautiful place to
visit, that is Malacca.

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En. Haikal : Oh, can you please explain me briefly about Malacca?

Thomas: Definitely sir. Malacca is ‘The historical State’ among locals. This
state is the third smallest Malaysian state after Perlis and Penang. The
states’ capital is Malacca Town and this historical city centre has been
listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 7 th July 2008. The head
of this states is the Yang Di Pertua Negeri or Governor.

En. Haikal : It sounds interesting. Can you please tell me more about Malacca?

Thomas : Sure, sir. Malacca has adopted as its slogan, “Visiting Malacca Means
Visiting Malaysia”. It is rich in cultural heritage and bears several
places of historical interest.

En. Haikal : How about the vacation places that can be visited?

Thomas : There are so many nice places to visit, sir. By visiting Malacca, you
can also improve your knowledge as well as your children’s
knowledge about history.For example, you can visit Padang
Pahlawan. This is where Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj
announced the independence day of the Federation of Malaya. Your
family also can have some shopping over there as Dataran Pahlawan
Malacca Megamall is located on this historical field.

En.Haikal : Well, can you explain me about A Famosa fort?

Thomas : It’s my pleasure, sir. A Famosa was a famous Portuguese fort. This
fort is among the oldest surviving European architectural remains in
Asia. The fort was almost totally demolished but for the timely
intervention of Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, who
happened to visit Malacca in 1810. Because of his passion for
history, this small gate was spared destruction.

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En. Haikal : I heard before this about “The Baba and Nyonya”. Can you please
explain to me about this?

Thomas : Indeed. Baba and Nyonya are Chinese of noble descendants that
have adopted much of the Malay culture into their. They are also
known as “Straits-born Chinese” or “Peranakans”. You can also view
the heirloom unique to this heritage at the Baba and Nyonya Heritage
Museum run by the “Baba and Nyonya” of Malacca at Jalan Tun Tan
Cheng Lock. It is a private museum. Other than that, I would also like
to inform that you can also visit “The Portuguese ` Square”. It is the
central to the Portuguese community of Malacca. This square is also
known as “Mini Lisbon” for its location within this Portuguese
settlement.

En.Haikal : It seems so many things that I don’t know about the Malacca and
honestly before this I thought that Malacca is a boring place to visit.
But now, I totally change my perception about the places in Malacca.
Mr. Thomas, besides the places in Malacca, is there any special
event take place in Malacca on the coming holidays?

Thomas : En. Haikal, please wait for a moment, while I’m checking the latest
events in the several places in Malacca.

Suddenly, a foreigner with dark brown hair, blue eyes and very tall, enter the
office accompany by a very pretty woman. The young man greets the officer.

Jack : Good morning buddy. I’m Jack Rodwell, coming from west England
and I’m looking for a holiday package that provides by your company
in Malaysia.

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Thomas : Good morning Mr. Jack, have a seat first. You too madam. I’m
Thomas, manager of Berjaya Tourist Agency and how can I help you
both?
Jack : By the way, she is my wife, Jessica and we’re here to explore among
all the top tourist places in Malaysia. We decided to stay in this
country for around two month. We need a guide for our vacation here
and we found out the information of your company in internet. So, will
you guide us?

Thomas : Yes of course, but wait for a moment please. En. Haikal, sorry for the
interruption and If you don’t mind, can you look out of this pamphlet
about Malacca for a while? Let me dealing with the foreigner for the
short time.

En. Haikal : Sure, Mr. Thomas. I also need to call my wife to discuss about the
places that you suggested just now.

Thomas : Thank you En. Haikal, and back to you Mr.Jack. Firstly, may I know
where are you both are staying now?

Jack : Now we’re staying in Federal Hotel, Bandar Kinrara for three nights.
We decided to start our exploration by the next two days.

Thomas : Fine, Mr Jack. For your information our company are now providing
several types of packages during school holidays next week. We are
updating all the information about the interesting places in Malaysia
and also set up all the transportation system to produce quality
services during the holidays. Besides that, our company also planning
an adventures trip for the foreigners that visiting this country. These
packages will be updated by next week and if you wait for another five
days, you may have the complete information for those packages.

Jack : That’s good. While waiting for the information, we can spend our time
in Kuala Lumpur by visiting some places here and also taste some

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 spicy Malaysian food available here. So, Mr. Thomas, bye for now, we
will meet again by next week and I hope your company will provide a
suitable package for our vacation.
Thomas : Sure Mr. Jack. I’ll responsible for that. Thank you for visiting our
tourist company and here is our company name card. If anything, you
just make a call to this number.

Jack : Thank you.

Thomas : You’re welcome. En. Haikal, sorry once again and can we continue
our discussion now.

En. Haikal : Never mind Mr. Thomas. It’s our responsibility to take care of the
foreigners that come to visit our country. It shows our attitudes
towards them that Malaysians are caring people. Besides that, I also
got a chance to talk with my wife just now about your suggestions
about the vacation. She agreed to visit Malacca for the coming
holidays.

Thomas : It’s really good to hear that. As you ask for the special events around
the places in Malacca, I found some details in the internet. According
to the latest update, there is an opening of Menara Taming Sari,
revolving tower. The Revolving tower is located at Bandar Hilir, beside
Dataran Pahlawan Megamall. This 110m high revolving tower was
built using Swiss technology at a total cost of RM23mil. It is the first of
its kind in the country with a revolving observation cabin, which
provides a breathtaking 360-degree view of the entire historical areas
in Melaka city. The air-conditioned revolving viewing cabin is
equipped with 80 seats. It revolves as it rises from ground level to the
top of the tower. Each viewing session would last 7 minutes. Fares for
locals are RM 10 for adult and RM 5 for children, foreigner adults are
RM 20 and children are RM 10. This event takes place in
Dataran Pahlawan Megamall.

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En. Haikal : Its cool. Sure my wife will pay more attention in this part, and my
children too. Is it having any other event, Mr. Thomas?
Thomas : Besides that, there is also Melaka Months and Heritage Night will be
held in Taman Mini Malaysia for the coming holiday. Experience the
Melaka heritage by witnessing the much unique architecture of the
Melaka olden buildings. You also get to witness other states antiquely
design wooden buildings and Asian architecture.

En. Haikal : So, Mr. Thomas, I think Malacca is the right place to be visited for the
next coming holidays. I hope my family will spend a leisure time over
there.

Thomas : Sure, En. Haikal. I feel great to inform you that you can also find for
our help in the aspect of transportation and accommodation.
Besides that, we also provide a tourist guide if you need. You can
contact us according the phone number that stated in the name card.

En. Haikal : Thank you very much for your kindly information and I really satisfied
with your suggestion just now. I also want your company to take care
of our accommodation and transportation along our holiday to
Malacca until reach here back. But I think we no need any tourist
guide to follow with us along the vacation.

Thomas : If like that En. Haikal, you please give me your contact number to me.
I will arrange all the facilities regarding to your vacation to Malacca. By
the way, how many people will participate your holiday vacation, En.
Haikal.

En. Haikal : There are six people among us will travel to Malacca by next week.

Thomas : How many days are you prefer to stay in Malacca?

En. Haikal : I’m not deciding yet. I’ll contact you after discuss with my family
members about this vacation.

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Thomas : Alright En. Haikal. I will wait for your phone call. After that, we can
discuss further about this.

En. Haikal : Sure, Mr. Thomas. Thank you and we will meet again.

Thomas : You’re welcome, En. Haikal.

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 REFLECTION

We have given an assignment to design an 8 – 10 minutes role play. We also

need to write a role-play based on the topic of “Visit Malaysia 2009”. By doing this
assignment, mainly, we can improve our English language especially our
vocabularies become wide.

Along we doing this assignment, we can enjoy our team work. we did this
assignment by dividing our work into what topic that we should do first so that this
assignment can be completed successfully. We not faced any big problem along we
do this assignment. Furthermore, we did this assignment very well. Besides that, we
felt happy because we like English language as our second language and this is a
very enjoyable assignment.

We also get the information from internet, reference books and we make
collaboration with my beloved supervisor, Madame Norlela @ Norlaila Bt Ali. These
sources are so help me more along we doing this assignment until it completely
finished and already compiled.

Besides that, we also need to point out all the interesting places in Malaysia
so that we can fulfil with the criteria needed. Finally, we choose Malacca as our
places in doing role play.

Last but not least, we are really hoped that this assignment will give benefits
to all people. Hopefully, through this assessment we can try to cope with current
issues and do more reading and understand how role play influences our daily life in
educating.

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 REFERENCES

A Famosa. (2009). Retrieved September 4, 2009, from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Famosa

Blatner, A. (2002, August 2). Role playing in education. Retrieved September 3,

2009, from http://www.blatner.com/adam/pdntbk/rlplayedu.htm

Padang pahlawan. (n.d.). Retrieved September 4, 2009, from VirtualMalaysia.com:

http://www.virtualmalaysia.com/destination/padang%20pahlawan.html

Portuguese square. (n.d.). Retrieved September 4, 2009, from

http://www.tourism.gov.my/en/destinations/item.asp?item=portuguesesquare

The Baba Nyonya heritage museum. (n.d.). Retrieved September 4, 2009, from
VirtualMalaysia.com: http://www.virtualmalaysia.com/destination/the
%20baba%20nyonya%20herita ge%20museum.html

What is role-playing? (n.d.). Retrieved September 4, 2009, from

http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Role-Playing/RPG.html

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APPENDICES

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