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Emergency Lesson plan - Grade 5, 6 or Middle 1, 2 - Good for extra classes too

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Virginia:
Do you have supplementary classes to do? Or do you have groups of students that randomly arrive from time to time? Have you ever been stuck with a 2-hour long lesson to do? Have you been asked to evaluate your students but not told exactly how or what to do?

Here's a quick and easy lesson plan. It's a three parter:

(Part 1)

1) Follow this link and copy and paste the grid into a word document. For my lesson, I deleted the job names so that I could do a grand unveiling after the kids had tabulated their scores, but you may want to keep the original as is - the instructions are pretty clear. I also changed "Sumo Wrestler" for "K1 Fighter" and "Burglar" for "Gangster".

http://www.edochan.com/teaching/job.htm

2) Write on the board:

I like__________________.
Do you like _________________?
Yes, I do.
No, I don't.

I presented a few examples (like: studying, playing computer games, shopping, sleeping...) and practiced with the students. "I like shopping. Do you like shopping?".... and took some of their suggestions as well.

3) Give each student a grid. Either have them pair up (as per the original instructions) and ask each other the questions, or you can ask the questions while circulating the classroom to make sure they understand what to do.

4) While the students tabulate their scores in the right-hand column, write the job names on the board in order (that the students can copy into the left-hand column). Pretty much all of them have been Konglicized and are easily understood....

5) The student's highest score is their future job. Laugh uproariously at the results.... and then continue on with...

(Part 2)

The text:

My name is ____________________. I am __________________.
My best friend is ____________________________. I like (him/her) because (he/she) ____________________________________________.
I like _______________________ but I don't like _____________________________.
Next year, I will ________________________________________________.
In the future, my job will be ___________________________. I (agree/disagree). <--- write result from lesson one here.
One day, I will ____________________________________________________.

6) Individually, the students fill in the blanks. I found that things went easier if I wrote it all on the board, then went line by line (in grade 6).

(Part 3)

7) This can either be left as a text, or you can take it to the next level and have the kids memorize their "English speeches". The language is simple enough, with the students writing as per their own ability (for example, a more advanced student wrote "I like him because he is a nice guy", but a lower-level kid wrote "I like him because he is happy"), and when all the parts are done, it ends up being a good integration of listening, reading, writing, speaking (albeit rote) and grammar.

AlexMokpo:
If your grade 1's and 2's can do part 2 of that, then they really ARE officially smarter than my highschoolers!!

Virginia:
Nah - Did it with my Grade 6 group - but think it's appropriate for Middle School too.

The memorization was pretty good, and getting the kids to say the speech in front of the class will also burn almost an entire class period. I have a small, close-knit group and they helped each other (prompting) recite...

uticmmacdonald2003:
I used this lesson idea for my high school students. They very easily figured out the chart, but enjoyed/had a laugh about the results they received (ex. sumo wrestler). I made sure they interviewed each other, and had them present their personal stories to ensure lots of speaking practice. For my more advanced students I had them explain why they did not agree with the outcome of the "job for you" activity. And then had them explain why they chose their actual future job. I have attached a power point I made to accompany this lesson.

Brian:
Useful powerpoint, thanks for adding it. 

I tried to print the worksheet from the printer-friendly version of the webpage but it didn't come out properly, so I typed up my own and attached it below, in case anyone else is having the same problem.  I left the jobs blank because I tell the students at the end of the activity. 

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