2010-2011 Grade 6 Lesson 1- Where Are You From?

[Beki]

Here's a pass the chicken game I made for review at the beginning of the second period of the lesson Where are you from?

I'm getting a fake plastic chicken from the party store in my neighbourhood and getting them to pass the chicken and answer where they are from using the flags on the screen (which they would have learnt during the first period).

the song is only 40 seconds long so make sure stop the music then as it fades into silence before looping again.  I couldn't find a longer version of the song so....

[Gabrielle]

Thanks for all the PPT's. I've used one and altered it for my lesson.

[Gabrielle]

Sorry they didn't seem to load last time.

[kecharakittie]

I'm so happy to finally contribute to this site. You guys are awesome and amazing and have given me so many great ideas. I'm happy to give back.

I made a Mario game on powerpoint with six characters and instructions on the first slide. Sound effects are included! (spent hours on this thing) You can play this game with any lesson however way you want (rock, paper, scissors/answer questions/do the correct action/etc.) for your kids to be able to advance through the map.

Is there a way to copy this post in every unit? I'm going to post it in the first unit of each grade and the index for people, but I was wondering if there was an easy way to post it for every unit.


Game instructions:
Slide 3 - Click on the characters to have them move around the map. They will move to each castle (1-6) and then advance to Bowser’s cave in the middle to kick his rump and save Peach.
Slide 4 – Click the winning character to grant them a 1up.


Enjoy!!!

[fishing1993]

Here's a Word-Search and Crossword puzzle I made for my students for their first week back.
They're easy and a nice way to pass about 5-10 minutes of your class time.
I've not yet received the new books so this is based on the content out of the old book, but from what I've gathered not much has changed so these should still be applicable to your lesson should you wish to use them.

[jalbrto]

I made a worksheet to accompany the PPT that was made by Gabrielle. Thanks for the quick simple PPT. I will hand the worksheet with the PPT when I get to the building slide.

I also made a worksheet for the first part of the lesson. 

For the 3rd or 4th part of the lesson, we will make a snatch game. I will get the cards from the back and my CT will get other countries. so maybe 10 countries. I will do 3 rounds.  First round I will read sentences. The other rounds I will have one of my Ss to make sentences. I will make a script for the Ss since they may not be able to make their own senctences.

Also, an idea that I have....Since they have 6 periods. For the last part of the period. I will have them I will try to do a project. Have each group come up with their ciountry, name, people, etc....will try to make a worksheet later and post it.

[Russbus65]

Here is the English Guide for Chapter 1 in the new book.

[suzettec]

Is anybody going to do the 6 review chapters that are before Lesson 1 in the 6th grade book?

[eggplant_tyrant]

Is anybody going to do the 6 review chapters that are before Lesson 1 in the 6th grade book?

I plan to do most of it, though in fewer than 6 class periods. I figure that it will give me time to focus on classroom expectations and procedures -- since the kids won't need to worry too much about new book content, we can pay more attention to behaviour and processes.

[gilithramaloce]

Is anybody going to do the 6 review chapters that are before Lesson 1 in the 6th grade book?

I'm going to do them, but before each chapter they're supposed to precede.  So I'll do the ch 1 review before I start lesson 1, and the ch 4 review before lesson 4, and so forth.

[mackattack]

These PPTs are just about the countries, and not much help with the dialogue.  I added nationalities in case you want to challenge your students, but i didn't include them on the countries quiz.  It's the 8 countries from the textbook, and 10 others (you might want to mix up the slides in the quiz).  Hope these are helpful ^_^

[suzettec]

In case you want to make ppt's using the new characters here they are for you.

The order is Nami, Jinho, Tan, Ann, Joon, Mike, Ms. Brown, Jenny, Kevin and Sam

Enjoy

[gilithramaloce]

For anyone else who loves animaniacs video posted earlier, I'm attaching the link to the HQ version of it.  It sadly doesn't have the list of the countries, but I'm hoping to fix that over the weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwyODsQ7do&playnext=1&list=PLB5DE29861A5026E9

Here's my contribution for period 3 reading.

Sentence Jumble:  Divide the students into groups if they aren't already.  Each group is given a set of words that allow them to make up the sentences dealing with country and what floor.  Everyone is given 30 seconds to make one sentence.  At the end of those 30 sec each group reads aloud their sentence.  If they are the only group to have the sentence they get a point.  If 2+ groups have the same sentence they don't get a point for that round.  The group with the most points wins of course. The goal is to be creative as possible.  As long as it is a grammatically correct sentence they get the point.  And the period is necessary for the point.

examples of possible sentences:

Ann is from Canada.  Minsu is from Korea.  Tan's classroom is on the fourth floor.
Nami lives on the tenth floor in Vietnam.   Ann's classroom in Australia is on the eighth floor.

[ahnatiuk]

I've taken the photos uploaded from suzettec (thanks for those!) and have made this powerpoint.  Thought maybe some of you would want to introduce your students to the characters quickly before getting started!

[donuts81]

I basically just adapted Sheila's worksheet from last year and deleted the Korean so my students could do some extra translation. Thx to Sheila

[Paul]

I'm not sure if this has been raised, but I feel its worth mentioning anyway. Naturally, the vocabulary building goal of the lessons is "countries", but my intentions are to also make it clear "Seoul" or "Busan" or "Gyeongju" are equally correct answers. Part of this is a perceived need (Asking an English speaking local who approaches me on an intercity bus/train where they're from and being told "Korea, duh!") but also that cities are just far more likely to come up in natural speech anyway. I'm wondering if anyone is taking this tack somewhere in the unit and curious as to when you'd fit it in. My current idea would be to avoid it lesson 1 to avoid students being lazy with the target vocab in activities, but I dunno. Ordinals and nations are an odd mix for a topic.

[Fallon]

Here is a powerpoint that I created altering another powerpoint and adding my own slides.  It is for the new 6th grade book.

[ISangHae]

@Paul- the (first) book was a poor attempt to get public schools into the English craze.

the second one has nothing new except 6 pages of filler. I'm pulling hair trying to find something interesting... perhaps Carmen Sandiego?

[wong812]

Here's a ppt. about countries and their flags. There's also a youtube video with 21 different accents which I think is brilliant. And my lesson plan explaining all the activities... ]
PS: I used a font called burs my bubble, it's free on dafont.com

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[Paul]

@Paul- the (first) book was a poor attempt to get public schools into the English craze.

the second one has nothing new except 6 pages of filler. I'm pulling hair trying to find something interesting... perhaps Carmen Sandiego?

This is indeed a good idea with potential. I've got some time before we start here so I'll see if I can't ponder something up as I finish this little desk warming project of mine.

Replace the weird international school dorm thing the student's likely cannot relate to with some sort of mystery/chase theme across the language production-stage activities. Y'know, first activity fairly basic with a lead up to some crime revealed end of lesson 1, then further activities on interviewing suspects and witnesses: Where are you from? <city if domestic, country if intl.> Revise "What did you do [that day]? Then: Where were you? 5th floor in the XXXroom etc etc. No more something students could relate to, but at least they see this on TV.