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#original uploader: Gamesteacher
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"Planning
- usually last minute so don't expect a lot of advance notice about when, where, or whom you will be teaching (prepare ahead)
- be proactive; go talk to your co-teacher and VP and get the details ahead of time
- if it is set up by just your school then usually you teach alone, often just morning classes so your afternoon is free
- sometimes the camp can be from 9 am to 10 pm or can include a sleepover
- often you are solely responsible in the classroom
- sometimes teachers are required to hand in lesson plans
- if it is a group effort then you may share the classroom with a Korean teacher or you and other foreigners may be teaching different groups
- best are if they organize small groups of equal ability students but some camps have had 20 or 30 students in a class; one had elementary and middle school students mixed; one had high school teachers teaching grammar.
Curriculum
- heavy on fun: picnics, ice cream, outdoor activities, games that use up energy
- no textbook, not academic - promote conversation
- kids may be more motivatd
- set a theme: animal week, Harry Potter, Pirates, Parts of Speech - Mon nouns, Tues - verbs etc.
- if you are alone in your classroom you can generally do what you want
Outcome
If the kids finish the camp and don't complain then you have succeeded; don't set high expectations
Ideas
Treasure Hunt
- set up students in teams of 2 or 3; one student blindfolded and the other reads the clue and directs the blindfolded student without using Korean or touching them; the third person comes from another team and is the umpire - if they hear Korean then they send the team back to the beginning and get an extra point for their own team.
- higher level students can make the clues for use by another class.
- get the kids to make the treasures that are to be hidden, or paint rocks, hide candy, printout rewards
(see
http://gamesteacher.bravehost.com/rewards.html for some reward ideas)
Running Dictation
- message retrieval - lower level can retrieve individual letters
- middle level can retrieve sentences
- higher level can retrieve paragraph with full puncutation
- set up the sheets outside the classroom and set up the teams runner and writer - the runner goes and reads the message and runs back and tells the writer what to write
- this can be done with picture crosswords with the pictures and labels outside the classroom
Insect game (or any other topic like fish or clothes - they just don't collect them)
- have the students go outside and collect insects,
- then they bring them inside and draw them and colour them
- use to decorate the classroom
- use for other games such as cutting them out and then having a race with them with students blowing them across the table or using a book to generate wind and propel them down the race way. The students race in heats of 4 and the winners go on to the semi and finals.
Gingerbread Man
- read the Gingerbread man story
- get the students to make masks to match the animals in the story
- rehearse and perform the story
Songs
- do a cloze (fill in the blank, gap fill) exercise
- have them count the occurrence of specific words in the song
- make a wordsearch from the words in the song
- have them change the lyrics
- use slow, clear songs - Beatle songs are usually nice and clear
Games from Activity books or websites
- make sure you pre-teach the vocabulary
Movies
- watch a movie and do activities based on it
Themed Camps
- Pirate theme is already provided in your EPIK Manual which is available in this forum if you don't have the book. It is loosely described there with website links - just add some creative activities - students make their own pirate boat and then race (see insect); make swords or eye patches; watch the pirate movies
- Harry Potter theme
- I will do a separate posting with the ideas and links for Harry Potter
Use the internet; do searches for "esl camp games"; talk to other teachers. Use some of the lesson plans from the EPIK manual
And, above all, please share your ideas at this forum so other teachers can also benefit from them.
Thanks
Pat"
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