CONTENT ACTIVITY

Type : Poem

Title : Traffic Rules

Red light, red light

What do you say?

I say stop-stop

Right away.

Yellow light, yellow light

What do you say?

I say wait-wait

Right away.

Green light, green light

What do you say?

I say go-go

Go away.

1. Prepare the traffic light signs in the

hall. Paste the red, yellow and green

signs at the poles to represent the

traffic lights. Put the poem at each of

the pole.

2. Bring the pupils to the hall.

3. Show the whole ‘Traffic Rules’ poem

to the class.

4. Read aloud the poem and the pupils

will follow with correct pronunciation.

5. Teacher acts as police traffic and the

pupils will be the people who will

cross the road.

6. Teacher moves to the first traffic light

with yellow sign, for example and

read aloud the purple lines for the

stanza that contains yellow light. The

pupils read the blue lines.

7. Continue at the other traffic light

spots.

POEM : 4

The ‘Traffic Rules’ poem is suitable for Standard 2 pupils. The song could be taught

based on the topic ‘Do the Right Thing’ under the theme ‘World of Self, family and friends’.

The activity for the poem focuses on listening and speaking skill. The activity could be carried

out during 60-minute class since it is a long activity. The poem is suitable for the intermediate

group of pupils because it is very simple.

The poem is chosen because the vocabulary is very simple. It only contains easy

and common words like ‘stop’, ‘red’ and ‘yellow’. Besides, the words used in the poem like

‘say’, ‘yellow’ and ‘green’ consist of one and two syllables only, which could help pupils to

understand the content of the poem clearly. Based on the Standard 2 curriculum

specification, some the words that are being used in the poem are the list of words that the

pupils have to master. For example the words ‘do’, ‘you’ and ‘away’. Therefore, the pupils

could pronounce those words correctly through this poem. Apart from that, the repeated lines

like ‘ What do you say?’ and ‘Right away’ could attract the pupils’ attention. Repetition could

also help pupils in their memory retention. Then, the ‘Traffic Rules’ poem could instill the

moral value of following rules and keeping safe on the road.

Acting out as police traffic and the people who cross the road could attract the pupils’

interest. Ogunleye (2013), said that creative lesson like simulation and acting out could make

the lesson more interactive. The activity could introduce to the pupils the right things they

should do while they are on the road. It also helps the pupils to contextualize the knowledge

they have learnt about traffic rules in the real life situation. Then, by walking from one spot to

another, pupils could actually develop their bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. Gardner (1993,

1996), said that learning through physical experiences could develop the intelligence

(Hughes, 2010). Furthermore, the activity could help the pupils to respond to the teacher’s

question accordingly. For example, when the teacher says, ‘Red light, red light, what do you

say?’, the pupils would answer, ‘I say stop-stop, right away’. This shows that they are

responding appropriately to the question.