New Middle School English Books 1-green,2-yellow,3-pink

[WorkingTitle3484]

Hey all,

Sorry if this is too late, but I've been doing a "How was your summer?" prior to starting the book next week.

1. Word Scramble, first team to 4 points is the winner, 5-10mins.
2. Target focus, How was your summer/What did you do this summer/Where did you go?, 5mins
3. Vocab review, What did you do this summer PPT, 10-15m
4. Speed Survey, Ask your friends and write their answers, 1st 3 teams to finish win a point, 5mins

I didn't create the PPT, just modified it.  I wish I could give credit to the creator, but I can't find their OP

Hope it helps!

WT3484

[skeller]

Hi all,
Grade 3, Chapter 7, Four Days in Austria.
Focus: Do you Enjoy

last minute i came up with this.  You might have to beef it up, and the animations are a bit haphazard.  .   So this only took about 20 minutes of class,  (the first half of class was all rules review and welcome back stuff) but if you spent more time reading together and talking together it could certainly take up some time.   
maybe have them CREATE a vacation package (there's space on worksheet).

I hope this will help some of you!



 

[fmteacher]

I find that there are too many topics for each chapter. In one chapter, titled "Smalls Steps for a Better Tomorrow" there are topics about weather, recycling, what is in this place, I should/shouldn't do this" etc etc. It's frustrating when you must incorporate everything into your lesson plan   

[fmteacher]

To Twitch: Thanks for the ideas! I'm a new teacher and was having trouble figuring out what to plan my lesson around. Would you suggest breaking the chapter into smaller portions to make a more comprehensible lesson?

[pauly]

Hi, I'm a new teacher and i found out i'm going to be using these books also, albeit from halfway through - it has been good to read what you have all been doing with them so far, i look forward to sharing ideas on here in the future!

[SpencerShambaugh]

I want to observe, but my co-teacher has just left me sitting at my desk.  I do not know where she went.  We are suppose to have a class but she has been in and out doing things, and I don't think she is teaching at the moment.  I feel lost right now.

[naz437]

i'm startin on lesson 7 too folk..it's abit tedious and my teachers said it's ok to focus my lesson on the key expressions to I'm alright to miss out the textbook stuff. Although still not a clue on what to do and she wants the lesson plan in soon! Any tips and ideas would be a great help...

[avaeblu]

I'm working with this textbook too and unfortunately I don't have a choice of not using the CD...I'm new so I really want to sit and observe how my co-teacher using the CD in her class but once again it's not an option. Hopefully I will have more freedom to try out some of your advices here! Thanks for this thread!

[rfh16]

I have these books too!  I think I'm lucky as my co-teacher is keen for me to add different activities, as long as I cover all the content in the books.

I'm pretty new, but maybe those of you who are being restricted by the books (because they told you to), could ask if you could trial one of your own lessons.  Teach half a topic exactly as the book says, then the other half in the next lesson, you could teach with your own methods / activities.  Get your co-teachers to guage the response...Don't know if that would be possible, but that's what I would try.  Hope that helps!

[rfh16]

Okay so I've seen some really good ideas here, but I have a different sort of question/request...

Given the confusing, sporadic, some might say inane, babbling nature of these textbooks...could we post a simple 'Index' or Chapter list, detailing what the objective is for each chapter?

To be more clear..what is the focus or point of each lesson, for each Grade?

Example: "Are you a good Netizen" = learning about..._____

I don't want to copy and paste other people's ideas...I would like to learn but damn, I can't seem to grasp these topics!

Dude, I have the exact same problem. I asked my co-teacher if she could tell me what the point of each lesson is and if we can get together (each of my several co teachers and I) and actually write down the point/ objective of each lesson so that I could teach it and supplement the lesson with relevant activities. She said., "no". That's it. Plain and simple, "no". This leads me to believe that there isn't actually one. I thought it was written in Korean at the beginning of the chapter under "Focus" and "Function", but she said that it isn't.  So I make one up. It's rough. I feel your pain. If there is another. If there is another more discerning Waygookie out there who could also enlighten me and kickboxrko, that would be AWESOME.

I was given the actual CDs relating to each book to download onto my computer.  If you can get your hands on them, they actually come with a lesson plan attached, and at the top of each lesson plan is an objective, they call it 'specific aims'.  Instead of actually opening the CD on your computer, just open it so you can see all the different files on the CD, then on mine, I click into 'E-book' > 'Data' > 'Add' > then just open the various files until you find the English version of the lesson plan.  It's generally the one that has this after it: 영어 in brackets.

I really hope this helps!  It has made my life a tonne easier, and I haven't even started teaching yet.

[aribomop]

might be a bit of a stab in the dark, but does anyone know how these textbooks could be viewed online? I stumbled across a link here on waygook yesterday and totally regretted not bookmarking it.

thanks in advance if anyone knows!

 

[AlexGomm]

Yup, it's www.tsherpa.co.kr

You'll need to get a username and password from your co-teacher. It's great though, you can access the e textbooks and all of the multimedia resources as well.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

[joepeger]

My school uses the second and third books you have listed but a different 1st book. Is that the case with anyone else out there?

[Catfish]

Grade 2: Chapter 7
Famous People

Welcome back to the second semester everyone!  Ready to get back on the horse? 

Here is my lesson on "Famous People." I have low level second grade students and it is the 2nd week back into school, so I did not try to tax them too hard. 

First you introduce the "lesson vocab": musician, athlete, historical figure and so on.  For philanthropist, if you explain how a doctor goes to Africa and treats children for free they seemed to understand. 

Then you get to play a game.  The students have four clues to guess the famous person.  If they guess on 1st clue, they get four points.  2nd clue = 3 points, 3rd clue = 2 points, 4th clue = 1 point.  I only allowed one guess per clue, and you strictly have to enforce the "only when you raise your hand" otherwise it can turn into pandemonium very quickly.  They had fun with this.

This takes maybe 15 minutes.

Then it is there turn to make four clues.  I put them in pairs and gave them a name.  They had to write four clues.  I gave them 10 minutes and then they had to share.  The team that guess the answer was the next team to read clues. 

My list of famous people (which I cut out, laminated, and gave the students):
Shin Saim Dang, Gandhi, Elvis, Yu Gwan Sun, Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie, G Dragon, Leonardo da Vinci, Obama, The Beatles, Mozart, Beethoven, myself (for kicks and giggles), Miss A, SHINee, Kim Ku, Batman, George Washington, Isaac Newton, Johnny Depp, and so on. 

Hope this helps y'all.

[aribomop]

Yup, it's www.tsherpa.co.kr

You'll need to get a username and password from your co-teacher. It's great though, you can access the e textbooks and all of the multimedia resources as well.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

That's excellent! Just what I was after. Thanks Alex

[Catfish]

Grade 1: Chapter 7
The Environment

Here is my Grade 1 lesson plan.  I beefed up someone else's powerpoint about how the environment is in danger (Thank you, waygook-er).  And then we practiced "You should..." and giving advice.  I have all my activities listed (I don't do them all in one class) but depending on the level of my students I will do different ones.  For my low level kids I pretty much stick to repeating the slides--extremely basic.  But for my advanced Grade Ones I give them extra examples, make them answer questions, and ask for other pieces of advice when talking about Reduce, Reuse or Recycle.

For my low level, I give them multiple "problem cards " and they have to write 3 sentences about any of the cards.  For my advanced students I give them only one card and they have to write multiple sentences about it.  The low level kids turned "I use a lot of energy" into "You should not use a lot of energy" while my advanced kids said "You should turn off the lights," "You should unplug your electronics," and "You should buy energy-saving machines." 

I gave a word search to the low level kids and the "Make your own symbol" worksheet to the advanced. 

Hope this helps anyone.

[rfh16]

Grade 2: Chapter 7
Famous People

Welcome back to the second semester everyone!  Ready to get back on the horse? 

Here is my lesson on "Famous People." I have low level second grade students and it is the 2nd week back into school, so I did not try to tax them too hard. 

First you introduce the "lesson vocab": musician, athlete, historical figure and so on.  For philanthropist, if you explain how a doctor goes to Africa and treats children for free they seemed to understand. 

Then you get to play a game.  The students have four clues to guess the famous person.  If they guess on 1st clue, they get four points.  2nd clue = 3 points, 3rd clue = 2 points, 4th clue = 1 point.  I only allowed one guess per clue, and you strictly have to enforce the "only when you raise your hand" otherwise it can turn into pandemonium very quickly.  They had fun with this.

This takes maybe 15 minutes.

Then it is there turn to make four clues.  I put them in pairs and gave them a name.  They had to write four clues.  I gave them 10 minutes and then they had to share.  The team that guess the answer was the next team to read clues. 

My list of famous people (which I cut out, laminated, and gave the students):
Shin Saim Dang, Gandhi, Elvis, Yu Gwan Sun, Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie, G Dragon, Leonardo da Vinci, Obama, The Beatles, Mozart, Beethoven, myself (for kicks and giggles), Miss A, SHINee, Kim Ku, Batman, George Washington, Isaac Newton, Johnny Depp, and so on. 

Hope this helps y'all.

Wow - this is so helpful, thank you!  This is the first lesson I have to teach to my grade 2's.  I have never taught before, so this was super helpful!  Can I ask - with the famous people you put both in the powerpoint, and those that you gave out to students - were they able to guess who they all were?  I have to teach this lesson without meeting my students first, so I don't know their level / interests / or knowledge of famous people.  Don't want to have a whole lesson where they can't guess any of the answer, you know!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[LeianneM]

Yesterday my co-teacher told me that I could add incorporate novels into my lessons and that students would simply have to go out and purchase them. But, what if some students cannot afford them? Has anyone ever experienced this?

[Landis]

Does anyone know where I can find ppt's and lesson plans for the middle school english textbooks by Daniel Ryan Keller? I am a new teacher just starting from lesson 8 but I can find no help beyond chapter 7.

Help anyone please?

[aldritg]

Grade 2 - Chapter 7  "Want to"

First upload here, so any feedback will be appreciated.

For this lesson, I focus on the phrase 'want to.' 

The warm up was taken from this thread: http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,4734.0.html

Next, I just introduce the language using my limited korean skills (hoping the translation is mostly accurate).  There is a section about "I want to try..." which explains this expression means "I want to do something for the first time" not "I want to put forth effort."

Next, we play M.A.S.H. to get the kids talking ("I want to marry Brad Pitt," "I want to drive a Ferrari.")

Finally, time permitting, we end with a music video as a backup activity.  The video I'm using is "Young Folks" by "Peter, Bjorn, and John."  I try to elicit what the characters want in the video.  "The girl wants to learn how to whistle."  "The boy wants the girl to go to his home." "They want to have a party."  "They want to play music." 
Here is a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V1VMkuyx0

I will probably add a worksheet or activity somewhere in the middle, as well but I haven't figured out what just yet.