Middle School English Books (Ji Hak Sa)

[iantrich]

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Check out some of their help videos, specifically those on frames and layering, personally I love to use it as an outline feature, referring back to my outline as much as possible and zooming in for the details. It can zoom in a crazy amount.

Take my word for what it is, I'm a new user as well, but after reviewing my past Prezis at a high speed more than once, I felt quite sick.

~Ian

[iantrich]

I'm curious to hear how the Bomb games have been going for people. From what I have seen, they look pretty difficult for 3rd graders.

~Ian

[Taya]

I taught Grade 2 lesson 1 this week to advanced classes only (and they are not really that advanced) and they could write what they did during winter break in short sentences, but many students didn't bother to do the work, as to be expected I guess.

Next week I will have to teach the same lesson to my intermediate and basic classes. I'm frantically trying to adapt my lesson plan. It needs a total overhaul.

[iantrich]

Anybody up for a Sunday night planning session? I'm playing ultimate frisbee in Namcheon till 8pm, but free after.

[hchbabyg84]

Im in Masan !!!

[iantrich]

Oh yeah, not everyone is Busan, haha. Stupid internet and its vastness. Busanites, any takers?

[DevilMogun]

Taya

This is my Grade 2 Lesson 1 lesson.  Actually I cheated and used it for Grade 3 too. 

It worked with my horrible Grade 2 who arrived fully evil in Grade 1 and don't seem to have matured during the break.  It also worked with my Grade 3 who have been adorable and willing but hard to get speaking since Grade 1.

I haven't had time to write out a lesson plan so I'll describe anything that isn't obvious from the ppt - and thanks to all the others that I've scavenged bits from too.

Here goes - Ask the class if anyone did anything interesting during break (doesn't matter if just one or two or none volunteer an answer.) 

Tell them that by the end of the lesson they WILL all be able to tell you about their winter break.
Remind them that if they are talking about the past, they have to use past tense.  Elicit the past tense of the verbs on the slide.  Get them all to shout it out.
Tell them that first you will tell them about YOUR vacation (probably need to change a few pictures here). 
Now show them the conversation and remind them that they WILL be able to have this conversation by the end of the lesson.  Demonstrate it with an able student or a co-teacher.  Speak fairly quickly and naturally.
Show them the first (simple part) of the conversation and get them to chant it.

Tell them that they now have to prepare 5 things they did over the vacation.  I printed a simple A5 sheet with a grid and prompts; either 'did you go anywhere special?' and a space or, for lower ability 'I went to.....''
Give them 5 minutes (timer on screen) to complete.

Now tell them that they are to come to the front in pairs and read out their conversation, adding 3 things from their lists.  The fastest conversation will win a prize (stickers, sweets, points, whatver works for you)

Set a timer (I use Cool Timer - free download) and time the conversation. 
Get the first volunteers up to the front and write down the score time when they are done.

The next volunteers should be more willing to come forward to beat the time.

The rest of the class will finish their table of 'what I did during vacation' just in case the find the courage to get up there and compete

Carry on till the end of the lesson - I find somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes is enough before it gets old.

Hope it's of some use.

[jauntwithjo]

I have lessons for first grade (Grade 1), Lessons 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 from my first semester. My students are pretty low level, so all lessons follow the same format as I tried to get them used to the routine and therefore less afraid to practice speaking. I use pictures a lot as well and the students have to identify them and then use them in the fill-in-the-blank dialogues they copy down from the powerpoint.

Lesson 11_review+planets is an altered ppt I took from another user on waygook. I forgot who it was, so I can't credit like I should. I essentially added more pictures for greater clarification. 

Lesson 10_11_planets game is a bomb game using material from my 10, 11, and the planets lesson.

A good game to play after lesson 7 is the preposition heart, bomb game, since 7 covers "in, on, under". I'm including an attachment for convenience's sake, but this awesome game was not my creation! Lesson 7 was my first class without a teacher, so there's a picture of a cashier for you show back-and-forth. Then there's a fake menu for students to pick items off to practice the dialogue with. Last, a fill in the gaps of a paragraph using key words and phrases from the lesson.

Lesson 8 is cell phone conversation, using dialogue from the text. Then I showed comics of what situations in which you shouldn't use a cell phone.

Lesson 9 is giving advice and a bit on key polite phrases after.

Lesson 10 is self explanatory in the ppt.

Lesson 11, practice dialogue after watching bits of music videos. I have lots pictures of K-pop groups after the main lesson for further practice. You can choose to show bits of their popular music vids or not. The kids or you Co-T will be able to ID them.

Lesson 12 is self explanatory in the ppt.





Also, I was still learning how to use powerpoint, so some of these will be a bit makeshift and ugly. Lessons 10, 11, and 12 are the prettiest.

[DevilMogun]

Well folks, I've decided it's easier to get all my lesson plans together on a wiki page, so here it is if you are interested.

http://namhaemiddleschool.wikispaces.com/

The Schemes of Work are works in progress and will be updated when I can find time. 

Thanks to all the people who have posted - I have borrowed a lot of stuff and got a lot of inspiration from everyone and will continue to do so.  Thanks to hcbabyg84 for the information on the Lesson Objectives box.  I got my friend to translate the first six chapters of Grades 1 and 3 books, so all of this will be going into my SoW for reference as I develop my lesson plans.  Before long I should be able to catch up with myself as I begin to re-use lessons from last year and it should all pull together eventually.

[iantrich]

Here's the template I'm now using for all my listening classes. http://prezi.com/yffr9qmjnaqa/listening-class-template/

Fairly straight forward, and avoids excessive panning, rotation and zooming. It will be pretty much the same for speaking class. Use it or lose it is the production phase, while getting ready is the engage. Let me know if you have any questions about it.

[Harry Yeong]

So this basically follows the book. Ideally each lesson would take at least 2 45 minute classes. Vocabulary, Sounds, Reading, and Comprehension are all sections. There is a BAAM Game at the end.   Enjoy.

[juskajo]

Here's the template I'm now using for all my listening classes. http://prezi.com/yffr9qmjnaqa/listening-class-template/

Fairly straight forward, and avoids excessive panning, rotation and zooming. It will be pretty much the same for speaking class. Use it or lose it is the production phase, while getting ready is the engage. Let me know if you have any questions about it.

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also, why is this thread not a 'sticky' yet?  it seems that plenty of people have these books.

[iantrich]

Sorry about that, I had it set to Private.

http://prezi.com/yffr9qmjnaqa/listening-class-template/

Should be able to view and copy it now.

[iantrich]

This dude is awesome!

http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,3718.0.html

[PinkPrincess]

Sorry to reply late, just saw the post about a planning session!  I'd be down for doing this!  Weekends are hard for me but what about week nights?  Like 5pm?  Meet at a coffee shop - Seomyeon??!  I know it makes for a long day.  Just another idea! 

By the way, I'm in Busan too!

[Taya]

Thanks DarylM. For my advanced classes I was getting students to interview their friends and write down what their friend did. Your lesson worked well for the class that I just had. They were all reluctant to speak at first but I pulled out my magical bag of candy and they were a lot more willing to volunteer!

[dsob]

Yeah, good job DaryIM. My lessons are soooo dull at the moment. I keep coming back hear to steal the odd powerpoint or game to try and spice things up. If only I had more time with the students and fewer activities I had to follow in the book!

[konayuki]

My third graders are using this book, too. My co-teachers told me I don't have to use the textbook, but I've never taught before and it's a useful guide. Thanks for sharing your plans, I'll be sure to share some myself if I come up with anything of quality.

[Canucktim]

I used this textbook all last year, still do! I have a bunch of materials centered around the the key sentences. here is my grade 2 lesson 2 lesson, ill get the rest up later.

[Canucktim]

whoops here's the ppt