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

[flips]

1st grade - lesson 1 - open a door to the world (part II)

credit for the great classroom expressions idea goes to GrenWhit http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,5420.0.html. go there for the ppt/pdf.

best.

[GreenFloyd]

Wow, I'm so glad to see that others have this set of books! For a while I thought I was the only one. I didn't use the books last semester but this one I'm definitely going to. Thanks for uploading guys. I will contribute material periodically as I start creating plans to match the book. For the first two weeks I'm just doing introductions, rules, and classroom language.

Cheers

[sunshinefiasco]

@summerthyme, I've only been here about 3 weeks, so my knowledge of what cultural stuff the kids know is limited but here's a few ideas:
-if you're from the states, President Obama/First Lady Obama (they might not know first lady, but hopefully they'd know Obama?)
-Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck?
-the three jonas brothers
-miley cyrus/hannah montana
-there's gotta be a yu-gi-oh one in here, but I don't know the show
-maybe you could add misty/brock/their pokemon to the pokemon group?

[karenology]

I dunno about you but all my kids LOOOOVE Twilight (sigh), so Bella / Edward would probably go over like gangbusters. 

[summerthyme]

@summerthyme, I've only been here about 3 weeks, so my knowledge of what cultural stuff the kids know is limited but here's a few ideas:
-if you're from the states, President Obama/First Lady Obama (they might not know first lady, but hopefully they'd know Obama?)

Oh, my kids LOVE Obama.  LOVE LOVE LOVE.  Some of them have the Obama socks.

[Crete]

I also use these textbooks. Mainly the communication /  speaking part.
I've taken the PPT from this site and adjusted it.
Title: The magic of 10 000 hours.
Grade 3

[cdonald]

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?

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'm excited so many other people use these textbooks.

This might not help a lot, but you can find the lesson objectives on the computer program that goes with the textbook. When you open the program, click on the tab on the left, called 교사전용 자료실. A new page opens and there are 6 categories that have a link "GO-->". Choose the one from the second row in the second column, and it will take you to a page where you can look at proposed lesson plans for each part of the book. They aren't amazing lessons by any means, but they do explicitly say what the point of the lesson is.

Cheers

[CherryBlossom]

@ cdonald thank you so much it is very useful, wish I knew about it earlier.

Have a super day.

[flips]

I'm excited so many other people use these textbooks.

This might not help a lot, but you can find the lesson objectives on the computer program that goes with the textbook. When you open the program, click on the tab on the left, called 교사전용 자료실. A new page opens and there are 6 categories that have a link "GO-->". Choose the one from the second row in the second column, and it will take you to a page where you can look at proposed lesson plans for each part of the book. They aren't amazing lessons by any means, but they do explicitly say what the point of the lesson is.

Cheers

thanks for pointing that out, though it seems like the cd lesson plans just formalize the suggestions in the teacher's guide. i was alluding to the often disparate nature of the three dialog parts. i still don't understand why giving congratulations is taught along with ordering food. to my mind, expressing dis-/satisfaction, paying for something, or even discussing future plans(from the previous lesson) would have been much better compliments. i hope to see other lesson plans. my school is book-obsessed this term, yet i'm interested to see what the teachers who have a little more leeway may cook up.

[summerthyme]

thanks for pointing that out, though it seems like the cd lesson plans just formalize the suggestions in the teacher's guide. i was alluding to the often disparate nature of the three dialog parts. i still don't understand why giving congratulations is taught along with ordering food. to my mind, expressing dis-/satisfaction, paying for something, or even discussing future plans(from the previous lesson) would have been much better compliments. i hope to see other lesson plans. my school is book-obsessed this term, yet i'm interested to see what the teachers who have a little more leeway may cook up.

Yes, this is more of what I was talking about.  I have difficulty constructing a single lesson out of Introducing Someone Else and then Saying You're Sorry.  This week I just put a big divider slide on the powerpoint and sort of went "OK!  And now for something completely different!"

[summerthyme]

Lesson for Grade 3, Lesson 1, "The Magic of 10,000 Hours."

The lesson plan and powerpoint are both pretty long because I stretch it over two classes.

[karenology]

^^Thanks summerthyme - I'm going to try and incorporate some elements from your ppt into mine, like the sentence scramble!  It's pretty tough to make the phrase "I'm interested in..." interesting

[nzaslow]

3rd year, Ch1 - Are you interested in travel?
speed speaking / World map game /Hearts, Bombs, & Guns World Map Game

For low leveled classes loosely based off of the book. The map games are modified from another teacher on Waygook. LOL put in your name instead of mine for the examples, and make sure to cap the speaking and map fill-in games at 5min each. 

[michelleh]

3rd grade, chapter 1

I just took two of the main grammar points (I'm interested in..., Why don't you...?) and connected them. It's been going fairly well with the third graders.

[SteveP]

Grade 2, Chapter 1

It may be too late to help much, but here's a PPT for Grade 2's first chapter. I focus on introducing others, the different uses of please, and responding to "I'm sorry."

My students tend to know the pleases already. I find the "sorry" part of the lesson a little weak, but it works okay.

[summerthyme]

Steve, I'm totally nabbing your stick figures.  They're incredible.

[karenology]

thanks for pointing that out, though it seems like the cd lesson plans just formalize the suggestions in the teacher's guide. i was alluding to the often disparate nature of the three dialog parts. i still don't understand why giving congratulations is taught along with ordering food. to my mind, expressing dis-/satisfaction, paying for something, or even discussing future plans(from the previous lesson) would have been much better compliments. i hope to see other lesson plans. my school is book-obsessed this term, yet i'm interested to see what the teachers who have a little more leeway may cook up.

Yes, this is more of what I was talking about.  I have difficulty constructing a single lesson out of Introducing Someone Else and then Saying You're Sorry.  This week I just put a big divider slide on the powerpoint and sort of went "OK!  And now for something completely different!"

Yeah really.  Anyone moved on to lesson 2 for the 3rd graders yet?  Any successful combinations of "hey Mom's nagging me" and "crazy hair day in Canada"?

[gookie]

thanks for pointing that out, though it seems like the cd lesson plans just formalize the suggestions in the teacher's guide. i was alluding to the often disparate nature of the three dialog parts. i still don't understand why giving congratulations is taught along with ordering food. to my mind, expressing dis-/satisfaction, paying for something, or even discussing future plans(from the previous lesson) would have been much better compliments. i hope to see other lesson plans. my school is book-obsessed this term, yet i'm interested to see what the teachers who have a little more leeway may cook up.

Yes, this is more of what I was talking about.  I have difficulty constructing a single lesson out of Introducing Someone Else and then Saying You're Sorry.  This week I just put a big divider slide on the powerpoint and sort of went "OK!  And now for something completely different!"

since i see my grd 1 and gr 2 every week, i can do a warm-up game in the 15 minutes of class then do a role play with my students. have each group come up with their own dialogues or the ones in the book and have them present. Should kill off 25 minutes of class if not more.

[lauren_plitkins]

Hey, has anyone done anything for the 2nd lesson on grade 1?

[peasgoodnonsuch]

Question on grammar of Ch. 2 Grade 3:

Ms. Kim does not know both of the students.

Is this actually correct? It's in the book, but it seems quite awkward. I think it's more natural to say:

Ms. Kim does not know either of the students.