(천재교육 Cheonjae/Frances Sohn) Grade 5, Lesson 1 - "I'm From Brazil"

[rockiavelli]

I used this before we started the book to get the students to make namecards, but it works well with this lesson.  It explains how to write a Korean name in English letters.

A couple notes:

Explain to the kids that 아 is 'a' not 'nga', 영 is yeong, and 앙 is 'ang' not 'ngang'.  Some were confused and thought the circle that indicates the start of word that starts with a vowel needed to be written out.  It doesn't.

Also, explain the difference between 'g' and 'k'.  각 is a great example.  When it comes first in a character it is a 'g'.  When it comes second it is a 'k'.

[katsy3g4]

Hello everyone! I made an activity for this lesson that I'm pretty excited about. I made this activity for section 2.

At my university back in the states, we have an international festival every year and it's always a really big success. So I thought wouldn't it be great to bring a mini international festival to the classroom? Here's the lesson:

-->Greeting
-How are you?

-->Motivation
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M37NcTHi1aU
~Go through the video and pause at certain points to ask the class what's going on and what country they think the people they see are from. Elicit any and all target language. The video is a bit long so feel free to skip to good parts!

-->Textbook
-Watch the textbook video clips and practice the target language.

-->Mini international festival
-Download the word document on this post and use it to assign countries to tables. My class sits in tables of six so I made six country handouts. We rolled up the handouts and tied them with string so when the students picked them it would be truly and completely random.

Explain to your class that you are going to have a mini international festival like in the motivation video. One person from each group will pick a rolled handout. Have the tables unroll the handouts at the same time and ask each student to choose a name. Then, all students should stand up and walk around. Using page 15 in the textbook to write down countries and names, they should meet people from at least five different countries and record their country and name.

They will use the language:
A: "Where are you from?"
B: "I'm from _________."
A: "Oh really? What's your name?"
B: "My name is ________."
A: "How do you spell it?"
B: "A-B-C-D."

After maybe five minutes or so, have everyone sit back down.

-->Wrap-up
-Have students stand up and take turns introducing who they met in the activity.


I'm in the process of making a shorter version of the Youtube clip. I still have the footage from that event so as soon as I have a shorter version edited, I will post it. Happy teaching!

[Natz]

Batman bomb game!

[rocketeerjoe]

I know there have been tons of ideas for this chapter already, but I didn't like the reading section because it's pretty scant. So I made a reading game. Each group will get sentences printed out to choose from. There is a video section and a PPT section.

10 points each for the video quiz questions. The points for the PPT questions are on the PPT. I used the Les Miserable trailer as an example so I didn't make a sentence for that one. I only play a few seconds of each of the videos and get them ready before class so we don't have to wait for the videos to load.

VIDEO QUIZ

1

http://youtu.be/r_lsFq8yeY0
 
go to :42
 
2

ghanan ghanan
 
http://youtu.be/88T_MjxxzH8

3
 
Freedom is coming - Sarafina
 
http://youtu.be/Q_T2Fx77QbM
 
go to :50

4
 
http://youtu.be/SsXqt7Wg-6w
 
go to 1:37

5
 
http://youtu.be/1AS-dCdYZbo
 
go to 2:30


answers:

1. They are from China
2. They are from India
3. They are from South Africa
4. They are from France
5. They are from England (the UK)


Due to time constraints we actually got rid of points for this exercise and we just had the kids run up to the front of the class, which they just seemed fine with since the videos themselves went over so well! Then we had each of the people that were able to guess correctly say the sentences out loud.

[kimchistud]

Hi teachers,

Here is a writing (and reading) activity for the fifth period.

I take no credit for coming up with the Sleeping Elephants Game. Whoever posted it first, THANK YOU! My kids have loved it since I discovered it last year. I have adapted it for the 4th - 6th grades. It's works beautifully in my classes.

This is how it works:
- You have to look at the PPT while reading this for it to make sense.
- It is a writing game so each student will need a white board and marker and eraser. (use paper if you don't have white boards.)
- Have groups of four or five students.
- Assign each student a number from 1-4.  (if you have five students in a group pair a lower and middle level student and assign the pair one number)
- For the next bit I make it into a bit of a story.
- Instruct all your students (they will now be called elephants) to go to sleep.
- One by one wake each elephant up by saying: Elepant number # get up. Give each elephant a chance to look at his or her part of the sentence and then say: Elephant number # go back to sleep.
- Do this for all the four students in the group.
- When all the elephants had a chance to view their part of the sentence, I usually like to tell them what they are dreaming of as they are sleeping. They get very upset because at this point they know what they have top write but they are scared that they will forget it PLUS I confuse them by telling them all kinds of stories sometimes using the key language to confuse them.
- Now wake all the elephants up and have them write their sentences.
- This is a varation on sentence scramble/blazing pens.

I hope this makes sense.

[katielane18]

Kimchistud, was it fairly easy to explain this game to your students? My co-teacher doesn't speak much English so I'm worried so won't understand or be able to explain it to the students if they are confused. It seems like a great game though!

[Anne1]

Mrsbradbury's game was an ENORMOUS SUCCESS.

Here is a game that I will be trying to with my students today.  I have used it with previous classes and they enjoyed it.

1.   One student will be “it”. They will stand in the centre of the classroom with their eyes closed. 
2.   Each corner of the classroom will have a country’s flag.
3.   The “it” student counts to 10. 
4.   All of the other students choose a ‘country’ to stand in.
5.   When the “it” person reaches 10, the other students will say “What country are you from?”.
6.   The “it” person will say, “I’m from (Koream Canada, America, England, India, China, Brazil or Japan).
7.   The “it” person opens their eyes.  All students standing in the country said are ‘out’ and sit down.
8.   The last person standing wins and becomes “it”.

Here is my ppt explaining the game. It starts with a quick review of the 8 flags, but a bonus 4 flags just for fun. You should probably change USA and UK to America and England, that was my bad.

Later when picking the "it" to start the game, I would chose by asking a question about the bonus countries. Ex. Where is my grandmother from? (I had told them about a minute earlier) or Which country is in Africa? But this is optional.

Seriously, a HUGE SUCCESS.  I highly recommend you play this game.

[JC49]

Reading game for period 4

[grilledpho]

I've become addicted to a phone game called 4 Pics 1 Word recently, so I decided to make a game about Lesson 1 for my students.

Includes:
-Brazil
-China
-Japan
-Korea
-America
-Canada
-England
-France
-India
-spell
-reporter
-from

I'm from Canada so I made the last slide really ambiguous and difficult because I told them all about that stuff in my introduction (most of my grade 5 kids have have known me since they were in grade 3).

No letters are provided in the beginning (too easy), click "Hint" to show the letters scrambled, and the arrow button to reveal the answer. Give the kids white boards or paper to write out their answers first; give points for getting the word without the hint, correct spelling, and correct capitalization.

Happy gaming!

[lianney]

Successful active seat-changing game.

First, to practice the pattern, laminate, cut out, and attach magnents to each country and then country flags. Have students ask "Where are you from?" I'll say "I'm from _____" with the flag and put it on the board. Then, I will ask students "where are you from?". They say "I'm from _____" while I show them the word. I'll put it on the board above the flag (I usually put it on the wrong one on purpose and they scream and tell me the right flag). So now they are familiar with the flags.

Cut out and laminate little card-sized flags. Give two different flags to each student, telling them not to show anyone else. Have one volunteer come up. Take his/her chair away. The class should ask "Where are you from?". The volunteer should say "I'm from ________" while choosing a flag that's on the board. Students who have that flag should stand up and switch chairs. Whoever is left without the chair is next to stand up and choose the next country.

I then take the flag off the board and have students practice. "I'm from ______". Then they ask the student standing up "Where are you from?" and they choose the next country.

It is a little hard to explain, so just use demonstration. Kids caught on quickly and LOVED the game!

[rlmackie06]

I've become addicted to a phone game called 4 Pics 1 Word recently, so I decided to make a game about Lesson 1 for my students.

Includes:
-Brazil
-China
-Japan
-Korea
-America
-Canada
-England
-France
-India
-spell
-reporter
-from

I'm from Canada so I made the last slide really ambiguous and difficult because I told them all about that stuff in my introduction (most of my grade 5 kids have have known me since they were in grade 3).

No letters are provided in the beginning (too easy), click "Hint" to show the letters scrambled, and the arrow button to reveal the answer. Give the kids white boards or paper to write out their answers first; give points for getting the word without the hint, correct spelling, and correct capitalization.

Happy gaming!

Thanks for the game. I played it with my kids today. It really helped them to focus on spelling. I made each team member take it in turns to write. The first team to hold up the correct answer (correct spelling and capitilization) got 1 point. 

[RainbowJeZ]

Period 3 Team names

[beccajane]

Same as above, but photo-shopped from the CD-rom and put in B&W for easy copies

pg. 12 Team Rosters

[powelldr]

I used this before we started the book to get the students to make namecards, but it works well with this lesson.  It explains how to write a Korean name in English letters.

A couple notes:

Explain to the kids that 아 is 'a' not 'nga', 영 is yeong, and 앙 is 'ang' not 'ngang'.  Some were confused and thought the circle that indicates the start of word that starts with a vowel needed to be written out.  It doesn't.

Also, explain the difference between 'g' and 'k'.  각 is a great example.  When it comes first in a character it is a 'g'.  When it comes second it is a 'k'.

I had the same problems with the adding 'ng' to the front of syllables, but also another problem that arises when doing this activity is not properly capitalizing names or putting hyphens in the wrong place. I made a sheet similar to your's last year, and made this sheet this year. Instead of throwing all of the letters at them at once, have them go through each character of each syllable of their name.
Step 1. The first letter
Step 2. The Vowel
Step 3. The last letter (if there is one)
While there was still a bit of explanation required, the results from all of the students were flawless. And as a plus the sheet is small enough for them to paste to their English notebooks for future reference.
Hope this helps!