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

[mgarza]

Also, I showed my kids this human giant video to go along with lesson 3 , LETS  GO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEpDZETKzjw

[Linpap]

I'm having a horrid time trying to teach the 2nd Grade this week. I don't know what about this chapter they don't like. I looked at 2 lessons posted here, seems like your classes are pretty advanced. My classes don't like  any hardwork, anything that requires them to think.

I just wanted to let y'all know that you are pretty lucky if you can get through these lessons. I'm jealous !

[karenology]

I'm having a horrid time trying to teach the 2nd Grade this week. I don't know what about this chapter they don't like. I looked at 2 lessons posted here, seems like your classes are pretty advanced. My classes don't like  any hardwork, anything that requires them to think.

I just wanted to let y'all know that you are pretty lucky if you can get through these lessons. I'm jealous !

Which lesson are you on?  I'm still on lesson 2 and have been using this: http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,5494.0.html

Divided the class into teams, and gave them white boards to answer during the "quiz" portions - it's gone over really well.  That .rar file includes a version for higher and for lower levels.  Surely your kids must respond during food lessons, right?  Usually even my bad kids are interested because they're always hungry! 

[Linpap]

"Which lesson are you on?  I'm still on lesson 2 and have been using this: http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,5494.0.html"

Thank you. I'm on
Lesson 3: Caterpillar in the Cave

 i'll have a look through

[peasgoodnonsuch]

Ok, I taught with G1 and G2 books last year. This is my first year with G3. The "advice" phrases for L3 G3 are the SAME as the "advice" they learned in G2 L8!!

For any of the others facing this, how are you dealing with it? I don't want to just do the same things they did last year...

So far I have a game where I tape a paper with a problem to their back and they have to walk around getting advice from people until they guess what it is. Still, it seems kind of boring.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

[sjrdbh]

Hello! I am going to do a couple of review lessons before mid term exams on lessons 1, 2 and 3 for Grade 2 and 3. Does anyone have any ideas for good games or activities that will work for reviews?

My lesson focus for grade 2, 1st lesson is 'Whats your plan for this weekend/ next year' etc.
2nd lesson is 'Are you ready to order?' etc (may do pass the pencil for this one!)
3rd is ' Would you do me a favour?' 'Maybe what is it?'...

Grade 3
Lesson 1 is 'I am interested in ___' 'Are you interested in____?' ...
2nd is 'You must be'
3rd is ' If I were you I'd' 'I think you should'

Any help much appreciated! Thanks!

[nzaslow]

Midterm Review, Year 1
(Ch 1~3) low/multi level

I've edited the infamous Halloween game for  this review! I fixed some of the glitches that the original had, so let me know if some of the slides/timings don't work...
To play, I split my class into three teams. Each team sends up one students to choose where they will go trick-or-treating, and then the team needs to answer the question. I start each team out with 3 points and take it from there.

[Linpap]

I posted previously how hard it was to teach my 2nd Grade.

So i rearranged some things. My 2nd Grade level 1 did okay with their lesson. It was a group activity. Maybe I should post it.

Then my 2nd Grade level 3, still thought the lesson I custom made for them, so basic, even my 1st Grade can do it, still thought it was hard. Any who, I ask them for suggestions; What they would like to do?
Pokemon came up, dragon ball.. But the funniest when I asked for a song
"sex, money, honey" ?!!! I was like where the flip did that come from!! lol! That boy NEVER speaks a darn word of English.

But here I sit looking for this inspirational video on Youtube

[jackoneill87]

Here's the lesson I'm teaching this week for Grade 2 Lesson 3. I took the inspiration from the awful 'play' that's in their book, I've replaced it with the Gruffalo and tried to make it slightly more fun. This lesson should be quite a bit of fun, so it's good if you've had a boring class or two. It's not as full of educational content as some of the other lessons out there. There's about 10 minutes of video at the end as well so make sure that will be ok with your co-teachers. It's also probably a handy one to have in case of emergency as it needs very little preparation.

There is a link to a prezi I made at the end of the pre-vocab powerpoint which should help review the vocabulary. You can use it online without signing up I believe.

The transcript A is for more advanced students and some of the words in rhyming position have been removed for them to guess.
Any feedback is appreciated.

[flips]

Hello! I am going to do a couple of review lessons before mid term exams on lessons 1, 2 and 3 for Grade 2 and 3. Does anyone have any ideas for good games or activities that will work for reviews?

i am going to do some of the activities from the pink book that i omitted the first go-round. afterwards, i'll focus on the proper use of the target language with the communication spotlight section. i am hoping to avoid using any powerpoint quizzes, no matter how jazzed up they may be, since they have no learning utility. also, i don't want to deal with the kids frothing at the mouth and the general din that happens when you play a powerpoint game at a boy's middle school.

 if you find the activities in the pink book lacking or if you enjoy doing more work, i guess you could make your own. personally, i think the book is usually pretty useful, if you tweak the activities to your environment.

best.

[sjrdbh]

Thanks for your help. Sadly I don't have 1st years so dont have a pink book but do have a blue and yellow(!) so will have a good look through see if I can find anything... Thanks.

[peasgoodnonsuch]

For fun review games I recommend hot potato for 1st years and Kaboom for 2nd and 3rd years. Kaboom has never gone over well with my firsties, I don't know why.

Anyway, here's how I play hot potato--it's rather complicated:

Get some fun colored paper and crumple it into a ball right in front of the kids. Ask them what it is. I guarantee they won't say potato. Explain that No! It's a potato. A HOT potato! I like to bounce it back and forth making noises like it's burning me. They think it's hilarious. Anyway, onto the rules. Play a kpop song, during which they pass their potatoes around their separate teams. If there are tables, one team per table etc. When the song stops, the students holding the potato MAY OR MAY NOT have to answer a question for points. I've added an element of gambling into the game. I bring 2-3 large plastic dice out and ask the co-teacher to roll all of them. Beforehand, I've assigned each team a number (6 teams total, see below for alt. if you have more or less teams). If their number is rolled they have to answer (a different question for each team). If the same number comes up on both or all dice the team gets double or possible triple points for their question.Sometimes, I allow the teams to steal incorrect questions by raising their hands. Fastest team gets to answer. Team with the most points wins.

ALT: If you have more or less than 6 teams, you can just use 1 die and have all odd teams answer when an odd number comes up and all even teams answer when an even team comes up. Likewise, you could use heads or tails on a coin.

This game is a BIG hit and a great way to pass an entire class. Just make sure you prepare LOTS and LOTS of questions! I you run out, just let the songs play longer :p

On to KABOOM. A great game of revenge and sabotage that I learned from the Eat Your Kimchi folk at GEPIK orientation last year.

Make paper strips with questions. Make other strips with the words KABOOM!!! on them. Put them all together in a box or bag that the kids can't see in.  Divide the class into teams. Each team takes turns picking a question out of the bag and answering it. The other teams always have the chance to steal on an incorrectly answered question. I choose the team who raises their hands the fastest. Any team that gets KABOOM!!! can wipe out the points of any team of their choice. The key to making this game fun is making a big deal when some gets KABOOM. Say it in a big deep voice. Hum the funeral march and give a big wave good-bye to the team that's just been wiped out. This game has been very successful with my older classes, but again, I don't recommend it for 1st year.

Enjoy!

[Kaypea]

Here is my Grade 3 Lesson 3 Stuff. I am responsible for the Listening and Speaking parts. I am including listening ppt, and speaking ppt. which includes real-life speaking. I hope someone finds it useful.

Listening: All the questions, A compound words game, a guess what animal game it is, and a board race game

Speaking: All the dialogue from Communication Spotlight (with some alterations) and  I converted the Real-life speaking into a TOP 5 game which has been working OK.

Thanks for this!!!  I'm going to try your PPT.  It's a little different from my normal style, which... doesn't always work.  ^^  The pictures are good and bold, and will speak to my male students for once.  I've been neglecting that demographic with too much gratuitous Hyunbin...


Question, though... I'm not familiar with the Hadoken character.  Will the kids see that and associate him with tennis? 


Thanks!

-K

[peasgoodnonsuch]

I'm adding a game I did for G2, L3 on invitations using "would you like to..." . Unfortunately, it's all paper based and I do not have any card templates on my computer for what I did!

Materials:
On bright green index cards, I wrote different invitations, such as "Would you like to come to my party?" etc. With more time or more advanced kids you could try having them write their own invitation questions on the cards instead of giving them. I made 2 invitation cards for each team, but of course you could choose more or less.

Using this website: http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Flashcard_maker/
I made 8 cards with "yes" replies from the book for each team.  I also made 8 cards with "no replies". Since there's only so many ways to say yes or no, I repeated the replies twice for the "yes" cards and 4 times for the "no" cards (i.e. each team gets 4 cards that say "Sorry, I can't" and 4 that say "Sorry, maybe next time")

In total, each team gets 16 cards. Be sure to number the card sets on the back with the team numbers--this is important for later in the game.

Rules
-Divide the class into teams and give each team a set of yes and no cards.
-Choose 2 students from each team to be the "inviters" for their team. Explain that these students must visit all of the other teams in the class and invite them to whatever is written on the card. They must collect as many "yes" replies as they can from other teams in the allotted time.
-The rest of the team must stay at their table or section of the classroom. They are responsible for deciding who to give their "yes" and "no' cards to. When they are invited by another team's student they must say what is on their "yes" or "no" card, not just hand it to them. Ex: Team 1 student to Team 3 Student: "Would you like to eat dinner with me?" Team 3 Student: "Sorry, maybe next time."

-Here's the trick: A team CANNOT count their own "yes" cards as part of their score. They can only get points from cards they have received from other teams. This is why it is important to label your card sets with numbers and assign the same numbers to the teams.

Note: When choosing the students who will go around doing the inviting, I recommend picking out the kids who don't ever participate, or tend to be troublemakers. It's a great way to get them involved and give them a sense of responsibility.

I've only done it with one quite low level class, and I'd say it was a hit! The majority participated well, and it looked like they had fun.

[Linpap]

Let me try one more time to upload this*

This midterm review game is based on the Halloween game posted earlier by another waygooker.

I changed it a little bit to suit my students in the 1st and 2nd grade.

I noticed that, although we are doing Mark Brown, my 1st Grade Lesson 2 was "My cousin from America" while most of you were doing "My twin sister".. So I had to change it from the original one posted.

My 2nd graders like to be spoonfed so you might find that game a little to easy too.

I hope you find them useful.


I would also like to thank the person who designed the game originally. A lot of work went into this game. Thank you.

[karenology]

I found out that lesson 3 is going to be on my students' midterm...even though the students supposedly haven't started that lesson yet in their regular English classes anyway, here's what I have for it.  I've started the first part of it with some of my classes and it's gone okay so far.  My students are intermediate level. 

Slide 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLziFMF4DHA
incredible story about a boy who "sees" via echolocation, though the visual of him putting his glass eyes in might disturb your students.  I only showed the first 3 or 4 minutes of this because the latter half of the video is dialogue-heavy.

Slide 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=madoDvtKEes&feature=related
"Ice" man. Again, showed only about a minute or 2 of this.  They get the idea pretty quickly.  "Crazy man!"

Slide 10:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mx3pScvlwM
World's smallest bodybuilder.  I just showed this until the title credits.  Some of my students recognized him from Korean TV!

Slide 12 is just a video of Nelson Muntz from the Simpsons going "ha ha!" available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo

At the end of the powerpoint I'll give students the attached worksheet, based on page 57 in the text.  I plan to do a "Guess Who" style activity where I'll read off some of what the students have written, and have their classmates try and guess who it is.  I'm not sure how to turn it into a proper game with a reward, though.  Any suggestions?

[Seoulian]

Thanks for the lesson karenology, it's awesome.

I also added Kim Ung-Young, he is a Korean super-genius,Beethoveen  and Helen Keller to my presentation.

I am going to play one half of the class vs. the other ( i might do boys vs. girls). The one side will get three chances to guess who it is and will get a point if they do it right. It is exam time, so I might just give the students a candy if they get the question right.

[summerthyme]

Mid-term review!  Woo hoo!

Here is a review for Grade 3, Lessons 1, 2, and 3.  The presentation starts with a review of two vocabulary terms followed by a fill-in-the-blank or question for each term (for 15 terms).  It is followed by multiple-choice, open answer, etc.  At the end is an Annoying Orange ppt game.

I found I was able to get through the first part and that's about it, but maybe your classes will go a bit faster than mine.

[davs34]

Mario review games:
What I did for each of these lessons was go back though Real-Life Scene and Communication Spotlight for all three lessons so far then used these games at the end of the period to eat up the last 15-20 minutes.
For the grade 1s I used some of the questions from the Halloween game posted earlier.

One correction, in the grade 2 .pptx on slide 21 you should delete the word "thing." Not sure why I typed it.

And for clarification, if you can't figure it out yourself:
"1. Review 1-3 game.pptx" is Grade 1
"2. Review 1-3 game.pptx" is Grade 2
"3. Review 1-3 game.pptx" is Grade 3

[nzaslow]

Y03Ch03
Low/Multi level
Born This Way - on being unique

Today's Words: Superstars, unique 독특한, disability 장애, teased 괴롭히다, born 태어난.

I took the Born This Way lesson, made it a bit simpler, and threw in a ton of Korean. Besides the listening activity, the students will make little "I'm unique because ----" self portraits to decorate the room.

Video used: http://www.youtube.com/embed/xG0wi1m-89o

EDIT: Updated all the attachments, especially the Korean handout with the correct lyrics (my first one was off by a lot!). The circular handouts that I used for the students to fill in are the PDF file. This lesson went very well but three thoughts:

1. My lesson is for a very mixed class. If you have high level students, check out this page for more complex uses of Lady gaga's song: http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,6166.0.html
2. On the "Orientation" slide I would ask my students "Who is in the picture?" to which someone almost always called out"GAY!" and there was some giggling. Once they stopped laughing, I would point at the word 'unique' that I have on the board  (along with the rest of today's words) and say something like- "Yes, they are gay! Gay is _____?"  and they will all yell 'UNIQUE!!' LGBT stuff is kind of closeted  () in Korea, but none of my co's had an issue with this lesson, and the students understand that we shouldn't tease some for being unique.
3. Ask your students to describe how Pikacu is unique - what he looks like, what he likes, and what his hobbies are. That slide went over very very well!