Teaching > Textbook-Based Lessons
Middle School English (MG1 author - Mark Brown, MG2 - William Roszell, MG3 - 장영희)
summerthyme:
I think the toughest thing for me about these books is trying to pinpoint exactly what the book is trying to teach in each lesson.
From my understand, here are the "targets" of the first lesson for each grade:
MG1 - Introducing oneself, what one is and likes
MG2 - Introductions of self and others, giving and accepting apologies
MG3 - "I'm looking forward to..." (future & lengths of time), "I'm interested in..." (expressing how you like things?)
Does this make sense to anyone else?
flips:
--- Quote from: summerthyme on March 03, 2011, 12:43:23 PM ---I think the toughest thing for me about these books is trying to pinpoint exactly what the book is trying to teach in each lesson.
From my understand, here are the "targets" of the first lesson for each grade:
MG1 - Introducing oneself, what one is and likes
MG2 - Introductions of self and others, giving and accepting apologies
MG3 - "I'm looking forward to..." (future & lengths of time), "I'm interested in..." (expressing how you like things?)
Does this make sense to anyone else?
--- End quote ---
i think that you will be walking in quicksand if you attempt to tease out some logic or overarching plan in these lessons. i would suggest using the teacher's book for ideas if you are stumped. i don't think there is any idea governing each lesson. last year, i approached planning for the 2nd grade book the same way you are now and i was flummoxed, but now i'm of the belief that the best way to teach this book is to use a variety of short tasks/communicative activities, in groups, that use one or more of the speaking points in the lesson.
i actually believe that they have made our jobs much easier, by finally giving us a clear, if somewhat nonsensical, curriculum. also i have been pleasantly surprised, leafing through the teacher's book. they clearly made an effort to focus on communicative activities over rote memorization. however, many of the activities, as-is, are useless in most school settings, so they need to be modified, but at least it is a start.
there is a good section in one of Willis' teacher's doing task based education books where a teacher in a language school in japan describes how he integrated tasks while having a strict textbook-based curriculum. i believe the e-book is available online. also the I.S.P. Nation speaking book has many wonderful activities you could use.
gookie:
listening and speaking only too
bedheadredhead:
Yeah I'm also having trouble getting a clear theme out of these. I'm just trying to derrive something from the key sentences at the beginning and what is being said in the dialogue section. What was stated above sounds good to me.
Brimmy:
Hey Karen loving your graphics. Do you mind me asking where you got them from?
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