Middle School English (MG1 author - Mark Brown, MG2 - William Roszell, MG3 - 장영희)

[Dantheeducator]

Here's another for become a better problem solver. Not entirely on topic but close enough and the students get really involved. Thanks again to the original poster.

[lkc4rang]

For lesson 4 (become a better problem solver), I want to have my students to become detectives to solve a mystery.  For example, have something hidden the class and give them little clues on where it could be.

[peasgoodnonsuch]

Here's my part 1 of chapter 4, grade 3. I lucky enough to have 3 cushy weeks to spread out the chapter, so I'm starting off slow and easy.  I have 2 lessons, one for my high levels and one for my low levels. I've tried it out on 2 high classes and 2 low classes with basic success across the board.

I begin class with a powerpoint/game. First, I show them some optical illusions as a group and ask them what they see, or how it works. I use the target language like "do you get it?" etc. The rest of the powerpoint is a game. In teams, they must solve the word puzzles and riddles. If they answer first, they get a point. Team with the most points wins. I also finished the game with the "crossed, un-crossed" game. However this made everything take too long, and we didn't have time for the dialogue part of the lesson.

After this, I elicit the target language by asking, "what questions have I been asking and words have I been using this whole time?" If it doesn't work, I just tell them :p

This is followed by listening to Ready B to reinforce some of the language. For the high level kids, they are divided into groups and must choose a situation in which someone needs an explanation, and the others give it. They must create and perform a dialogue using the target language.

For the lower levels: I made an easier powerpoint (I'll probably combine to 2 for my intermediates). NOTE: Many thanks to the OP of the Animals And Faces Optical Illusions powerpoint and lesson plan. I stole at least 3 images from that powerpoint for my own, so credit goes to Mlatte . Also, since in my case I have a lot of behavior issues with these kids and a consistently lacking co-teacher, I used candy as a bribe for this. I know, I know. It was a weak moment, but sometimes it's nice to have one peaceful class! Anyway, I didn't do a game with teams, but rather based it on individual participation. When it came to the slide of naming colors I offered a candy to any student in the class who could do it. Then I offered a candy for the first person to solve the mad gabs. Again, I consistently checked their comprehension using the target language.

Also for the lower levels, I told them we had 3 dialogues to choose from and listed the characters on the board (Korean celebrities). I asked for volunteers for any one of them and had those volunteers come to the front. Together, we went over the words and I had them fill in the missing blanks. Then they performed for the rest of the class. For kids who can't really read, they did surprisingly well! I kept repeating this until class ended or everyone that I could semi-force/bribe had spoken.
I think it's important that they had some choice over which dialogue to do.

Anyway, sorry for the long explanation! Here's the materials, use it or chop it up as you will!

[sunshinefiasco]

This is my my first lesson for Grade 1 Ch. 4. It covers the offering food to guests bit and reviews food names.

For the last slide, I brought 2-3 chairs to the front of class, and told them that it was my house. Take a textbook, sit kids in the seats, and demo offering the food. The next time, bring up 3-4 kids and have one take your part. Let them pick the food that they offer to their friends (I left the foods from the brainstorming on the 3rd slide on the board). If you've got a super low level class and they can't remember the responses, go back one slide.

Hopw it helps someone out there!

[sunshinefiasco]

oops! forgot the file!

[KarizmaB]

I modified a writing worksheet found on Boggle's ESL (a GREAT site for resources if you haven't discovered it already) to give to my low level students. It features pictures of 5 different food and drink with 2 blank lines next to them for writing practice. The dialogue from this lesson: "Help yourself..." and "Have some..." is printed at the top along with examples of each and the appropriate responses. I've included some words to get them started.

In addition to writing, I have them practice speaking by offering the food in the picture to their partner and then writing down the response. They switch roles until both have completed the worksheet. Hope this is helpful!

Go here  http://bogglesworldesl.com/kids_worksheets/basicverbs.htm  to see where I got the outline.

[jaybird]

Working on a bomb game for grade 1, lesson 4 part 2 - about remembering things from the past, and I'm stumped out of examples. Anyone have any more ideas? I'll upload as soon as I'm done.

So far I've got: Do you remember:

this song
this movie
shinhwa
starcraft
spiderman
this book
that strore
your old school
your grandma
that house
these toys
this picture
my cat
my puppy
this game
chess
this candy
pororo
pokemon

[KarizmaB]

Working on a bomb game for grade 1, lesson 4 part 2 - about remembering things from the past, and I'm stumped out of examples. Anyone have any more ideas? I'll upload as soon as I'm done.

So far I've got: Do you remember:

this song
this movie
shinhwa
starcraft
spiderman
this book
that strore
your old school
your grandma
that house
these toys
this picture
my cat
my puppy
this game
chess
this candy
pororo
pokemon

How about firsts?
your first haircut
your first vacation
your first friend
your first bike ride
your first day at school

or favorites:
your favorite teacher
your favorite toy
your favorite game

[jaybird]

Grade 1 Lesson 4

A Lucky Wheel Bomb Game for the suggesting food part of Lesson 4.

- Everyone will read the suggesting food expression out loud, replacing the blank with the picture of the food.
- Based on the suggestion, there will be either an accept (Yes) or decline (No) clause attached to the suggestion. The team will answer using the appropriate response: "Yes, thank you" and "Thanks. It's delicious" for yes and  "No, thanks. I'm full." for no.
- Everyone will then read the revealed response out loud. This will reinforce the other responses that are also valid

Thanks! This game was great, even my very low level students got into it. Pitting the boys against the girls made it even more exciting for them. I have a trouble student who is very unmotivated and he was speaking complete sentences by the end! The sound effects are icing on the cake. Great job!

I'm glad it went well for you. My students were all "Teacher, why? Hungry!"

[karenology]

Here's my powerpoint for Grade 3, Lesson 4: Become a Better Problem Solver and accompanying worksheets.

On slide 1, I had a link to this video (it's saved on my hard drive, but you can just change the hyperlink to point to the Youtube version instead): 

On slide 10, I linked it to this amazing Optical Illusions powerpoint put together by mycombs, here: http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,2702.0.html

Slide 11: click on the Charlie Chaplin picture and it links to another youtube optical illusion.

Slide 46 is this video:

Font here: http://www.dafont.com/just-the-way-you-are.font

Much credit goes to SpaceRook from this thread: http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,3234.0.html for all the logic puzzles!

[Dantheeducator]

Great work as always karenology!

[karenology]

^ Thanks, definitely piggybacked off the work of many others here on this fine forum. :)   

[peasgoodnonsuch]

It might be late, but here's the 2nd year lesson I did last week to practice "I can't believe it!".

First, I showed them these two videos from Will It Blend. If you don't know this series of videos I HIGHLY recommend it! It's hilarious and the kids love it. If you're short on time, just do the iPhone video, it's awesome.

Tom blends an XBox Connect
  Tom blends an iPhone 4

I followed the videos by eliciting the students reactions in English and eventually getting the target language from the book.
We then did Ready A in the book, followed by a game.

I gave each team a big paper (just print out the ppt as 1 slide per page landscaped and double-sided) that had "I can't believe it!" on one side and "I believe it!" on the other. I then showed them the powerpoint and each team had to answer showing their paper and saying it out loud. For every slide, the paper had to change to another student so that they all had to speak at some point in the class. Each team got a point if they guess correctly.

Here's the links for the videos, as I have an ancient Korean version of powerpoint and cannot get links into my slides ㅠㅠ

Amazing Stunts- I just showed Numbers 3 and 4: 
Parrot sound effects:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sXENI8tpJE
BBC Penguin fake:

Answer Key to Powerpoint
Slide 1-Penguin video-False, Slide 2-True, Slide 3-True, Slide 4-False (they lay 40-100), Slide 5- False, Slide 6-True, Slide 7-True, Slide 8-Amazing Stunts 3 and 4-True, Slide 9- False, Slide 10-True, Slide 11-False, Slide 12-Parrot-True, Slide 13-False(it would be green), Slide 14-True, Slide 15-True

The kids really enjoyed this lesson, even the low level ones paid attention!

[frappps]

3rd Grade Lesson 5 Week 1

[nzaslow]

Man, everyone's so far ahead! Next week my 3rd years are going to be doing our 4th week of chapter 3! I'm running out of things to do - and as far as I can see, the book doesn't have a speaking activity for the 3rd communication point in that chapter (I'm going on a picnic / I'm sure you'll have fun.)

Here's what I'm doing this week, if anyone else is still on chapter 3..This lesson couldn't of been made without Olive26, Jaybird, or Kari2maB's lessons and games. Thanks to everyone for contributing to this thread!

Y03Ch03
Low/multi level: Tag Questions
The lesson starts by introducing tag questions and doing part A of the worksheet. After you explain ways to answer tag questions using the books target language, have your students write down 3 truths and one lie about themselves. Since my SS are low level I made the sentences for them, but for higher level students you could have them free write. Then, have them trade paper with a friend sitting near them and practice asking and answering the questions. You should have 10~15 min leftover to play the team bomb game.

Korean words on the board: Agree (동의하다), Certainly (물론이지), True (진실), Lie (거짓).

[karenology]

3rd Grade Lesson 5 Week 1

Thanks frappps!  Is it just me or is this chapter so absurdly random?!

[KarizmaB]

These posts have been so helpful to me! Sometimes I find it very difficult to come up with lessons based on the text. Thank you everyone!

Here is a writing worksheet for Grade 2 Lesson 4. I write the three forms of asking permission on the board: May I..., Can I..., and Let me..., as well as ways to give permission: sure, you can; go ahead; yes, you may (these are also printed at the top of the worksheet).

Situations are presented in which one would need to ask for something: I'm hungry, I'm cold, I'm bored, etc.  Students must write a permission question and positive response as in Part A on pg. 68. I then have them practice the dialogue in partners. It was a little difficult for my very low level students but the rest had fun getting creative (ex. I'm hot. Can I take off my clothes?)

You can add the refusing permission dialogue, my students wrote these down anyway, especially "No way!".

source: http://busyteacher.org

[SteveP]

Big thanks to Seoulian!
This is a revised version of his submission with a TicTacToe game activity at the end.

Tips
-- be careful with clicking the X and O buttons-- they are small and can be finicky. Beware, SmartBoard users. You can highlight and resize everything larger if you want.
--Also, every time you say "Tic Tac Toe" your students will probably reply with "ID"... apparently it's from a very successful gum commercial.

[karenology]

Grade 3 Lesson 4

An excellent Spy vs Spy Bomb Game for the asking understanding part of Lesson 4. The Spy vs Spy game, by Sechje requires you to download two fonts as well as have an active internet connection.

http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,10864
...

I've updated the game a bit to include more gain points than lose (all the teams were running minus in the first round!) and embedded the videos so you can play all of them without an internet connection (a lot of the videos were changed to not allow playing embedded videos and instead required you to open a new window in Youtube.)

Edit:

Video files to drop in the same folder as your powerpoint

Thanks a bunch for this - great work!  I especially appreciate the video files, as my students and I frequently grumble together about "Youtube buffering" in class...

[summerthyme]

Index post for this thread has been updated.

Sorry for the delay.  Please feel free to PM me when you see things falling behind (and thanks nzaslow for the friendly reminder).