Rohingya Culture and Traditions (Part 3 of 8)

Introduction (5 minutes)

• Welcome the participants
• Remind the participants that this workshop is part of the course about Rohingya Culture and Traditions
• Introduce today session (objective and how long it will be)

Ice-breaking game (10 minutes)

• Explain that you are going to do an ice-breaking game to warm up the participants and to help them to improve their listening and concentration skills during the session.
• Ask everyone to stand up in a scattered way
• Tell them that you are going to make some continuous rhythm. They have to hear the rhythm carefully. If the rhythm:

1. fastens, they have to move fast.
2. slows down, they have to move slow
3. stops, they have to stop moving.

• Remind them to be careful of not pushing each other
• Do this game for 3 to 6 minutes
• Conclude the game by thanking the participants for their participation.

Main activity (70 minutes)

Part 1 – Review of the last workshop (5 minutes)

Ask the participants if they remember what we discussed in our last workshop. If needed, ask the participants: What is culture and why it is important to be curious about other cultures? Then, if the participants cannot answer, remind them the definition of culture.

A culture is all the traditions and beliefs, art, way of life of a particular group of people or a country.

Encourage everyone to participate.

Ask the participants what they remember about fairy tales. Encourage everyone to participate.

 

Part 2 – Collecting fairy tales (45 minutes)

• Ask everybody to share the fairy tales one by one that they know or have heard from their elders as requested in the last workshop
• After hearing from everyone, ask who would like to volunteer to record their fairy tales.
• Before recording, think about which voice we should use (maybe several voices according to the characters in the fairy tales), which sound or noise we can make to illustrate the fairy tales (using music instrument or any other item to make noise, maybe somebody walking when it’s what’s happening in the stories, or the sound of water, or we can imitate the sound of animals…. Let’s be creative!)
• Do it several times to be well prepared
• Review on how to use the voice recorder to record the stories
• Record the fairy tales with the recorder (use one recorder in this regard so that everything is on the same record)
• Listen to what has just been recorded, decide if we keep it or we should do it again (if do it again, we practice first)
• Ask other participants, if they would like to record their stories too. With their consent go through the same process of practicing and recording.
• At the end of the session, the facilitator will save all the records in the laptop’s same folder (the folder should have the name of the course and the target group), giving a clear title to each voice record (like the title of the fairy tales and the information that it’s a fairy tale)

Part 3: Task for Next Workshop (20 minutes)

 Explain to the participants that in the next workshop we are going to discuss how cooking recipes are associated with tradition and culture. However, ask participants to take pictures of foods that they usually eat at their home using his/her personal phone or someone’s phone if possible. Ask them to bring the phone so that we can see the pictures together in the next workshop.

• Explain how food represents a culture: Food, cooking, and eating habits play a central role in every culture. For example, in some cultures, people add lots of spices when cooking food, whereas, others like to eat their food with fewer spices. Similarly, some people eat their food using their hands. On the other hand, some use spoon, fork, and knife to eat their food.
• Show pictures 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 to explain different foods that have been cooked using different recipes and ingredients.
• Play the video “What does the world eat for breakfast” from the folder “Discover the culture of the world” in the Ideas Cube. This video will show how people around the world have different types of breakfast. Ask the participants to watch the video carefully.

After playing the video, ask: What did you understand seeing this video?

Conclusion (5 minutes)

• Thank the participants for their involvement and concentration during the session.
• Summarize what was learnt during the session: Today we learnt about different interesting fairy tales and how to record it. We also learned new elements on food and culture and how they can reflect each other.
• Collect feedback from the participant. Ask questions like: do you feel that you learnt something during the session? Do you think this new knowledge can be useful to you? Were you comfortable during the session?
• For the next workshop, ask your relatives and the elderly of the community to tell you the traditional cooking recipes and try to remember it well. If they agree, invite on of them to join during the next workshop.
• Give the participants the date and space of the next session, make sure everybody will be available. If not, find a more convenient time and place so everybody can be here.