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[jayne1215]

I am uploading all my LEVEL 1 Lesson plans for next semester.
At my school, I am responsible for LISTEN & SPEAK 1+2 and LETS COMMUNICATE for each chapter in the course of 2 weeks.

The lesson plan can be followed as you would follow your book(LISTEN & SPEAK 1), but with a few more supplementary things/info/examples/random factoids.

LESSON 7:: CONSERVATION & The environment
ACTIVITY: Give students a piece of garbage that can be recycled. (IE: Glass pop bottle / Stained T- shirt/ coke tabs/ etc.)
                Ask their groups to come up with creative ways to REUSE that piece of garbage for another purpose.
                Do presentations. Get points for Market Day.

Thank you!  It will be nice to get some ideas from your information.

[jayne1215]

I know they are hard to make lessons off of.  I am only using the Year 1 text.  This is my PPT for that lesson. Hope it helps.  I start off with an introduction to me which leads into the chapters about introductions.

That's a great idea, I think I will do something similar.  I already have the introduction to me organized!

[jayne1215]

I have those books too. I usually find one interesting thing per chapter and build a lesson around that.
The "Design your year" chapter is not fun at all and I still don't know what I am gonna do with that.

I think that is the best option, as far as trying to keep it somewhat interesting to motivate the students. 

[jayne1215]

I use this book for 2nd graders and taught from it last year. I agree, they're terrible, but here's some tips:

Definitely get the teacher's book. Ask your coteacher for one. It's a big blue book that outlines the grammar points/expressions for each lesson.

Give the lessons structure so the students aren't confused with too many changes from week to week. My basic structure is this: Introduce the grammar point or expression, then we get into the book work. They listen and answer the questions, and after each section we practice the dialog chorally. Then they practice with partners, then they volunteer to read with their partner in front of the class. Rinse and repeat for each section until you finish the book work. After the book, we always have an activity or game to focus on the point of the lesson.

The activity section is very dry for this book, IMO, so add some sort of game or activity at the end to focus on the point of the lesson. Even if you have to stick to the book, there is NOT a lot of material to get through. We finish the bookwork in less than 20 minutes, usually. This can be anything from having students create their own dialogs to preparing a PPT game, or anything in-between. For lesson 1, I'm going to make an activity using the "Pass the Pencil" template where they will practice "Long time no see" and "Do you remember...". I'll post it when I'm finished in case anyone wants to use it.

Thank you so much for the help!  I will be teaching from the book this year, which makes it easier & harder all at the same time.  Hopefully I can use this to my advantage to engage the students. 

[jayne1215]

I teach 1st and 2nd grade. I don't have to teach directly from the book, but I find it does help my students if i teach topics based on the chapters.

I show students what is in the book then explain the more common ways of saying things. Example: How are you? I'm fine thanks, How about you?= Hows it going? I'm good,You?

Grade 1-Chapter 1-Meet my friends
Week 1 intro-teacher and different sentences for introductions
Week 2-Different ways to say How are you? and different responses(vocabulary words)
Week 3- Describing people- Not related to book but i use it in creating a dialogue that works the 2 previous weeks vocabulary into it.
ETC...


This is wonderful, thank you so much for the excellent suggestions!  I am looking forward to talking about a typical American breakfast with them!

[petergrant86]

These are the themes of those books for each chapter.  I have total freedom to do anything so long as I discuss the themes of each chapter.  I don't necessarily have to do all the listen and repeat garbage inside. 
I made PPT's and wrote my own dialogues, word puzzles, etc based on these themes.  Some lessons I used for all grade because of similiar themes.  Sometimes a good warm up is a 5 minute video or cartoon.  I had downloaded a bunch of short bugs bunny clips.  I use those as an into sometimes before starting the lesson or PPT. 

Grade 1 Themes:

Chapter One- Greetings and Introductions
Chapter Two – Routine
Chapter Three – School
Chapter Four – Hobby
Chapter Five – Family / Birthday
Chapter Six – Foreign Culture
Chapter Seven – Environment / Weather
Chapter Eight – English Expressions (slang)
Chapter Nine – Feelings / Emotions
Chapter Ten – Telephone Conversation
Chapter Eleven – Science / Technology.
Chapter Twelve – Descriptive adjectives.  (To be in awe – Seven Wonders of the world.)


Grade Two Themes:

Chapter One – Future Goals.
Chapter Two – Around the World / Geography.
Chapter Three – Using the internet.
Chapter Four – Advertisements
Chapter Five – Party / Cooking.
Chapter Six – Activities (What have you done?)
Chapter Seven – Heroes / Role Models:
Chapter Eight – Animals
Chapter Nine – Giving Advice (If I were you…)Suggestion
Chapter Ten – Life in the Future
Chapter Eleven – Traditional Korean Culture
Chapter Twelve – Exercise & Fitness
   
Grade Three Themes:

Chapter One – Career
Chapter Two – Memories with friends and family
Chapter Three – Watching a Movie or Performance
Chapter Four – Foreign Culture / Geography
Chapter Five – Art / Museums    
Chapter Six – Science Experiments (as; like, etc)
Chapter Seven – Travel; Cultures
Chapter Eight – Moral of the story; life lessons
Chapter Nine – Daily Economics : Daily Budget : Spending Habits
Chapter Ten – Food Theme (Around the world)
Chapter Eleven – Environment : Global Warming. 
Chapter Twelve – Future Goals (Memories of me – Activity)

Thanks for this weigookin74
I'm kinda in the same boat where I don't have to teach out of the text book but
instead build lessons around what is taught in it.
When looking through the chapters, it get's pretty confusing
seeing as each chapter has so many different things/material in it, but looking at how
you divided each chapter with a specific topic makes it much easier to build a lessons around
and create games.  Nice one, thanks!

[Gus]

I have got no new books my teacher just informend me that I will be designing my own curriculum from this year. Does anyone have any ideas on where to start?

[NicknameHaHA]

Grade 3 - Lesson 3 - Laughs, Tears and More.

Here's a lesson plan that mostly ignores the language functions for the chapter but is aimed at teaching some vocab and phrases related to talking about movies.  I haven't made any other materials for it / tested it on a class yet, but I'll add some PPT action when I finish it.

Has anyone got any ideas for Grade 2 - Lesson 3 - Are You a Good Netizen?  "Will you do me a favour?"  Would be much appreciated at the mo! 

I really like to say that this ppt is good to me when I teach the students in the class!!

[lilaznjocky]

Thank goodness I found my book! This is from 2008 too! not 2011 like we were told in orientation.

[nanetteolivier]

Dido! Luckily I did receive the activities handbook. But the CD's was just copied to my desktop, without an explanation how it works. I listened to Grade 3 Lesson 1 (Listen and Speak 1) and it just didn't make any sense. They ask what the girl is likely to be in the future, but then there's three pictures? If I (as the teacher) find it confusing, how will the student's understand it? It took the English teacher sitting next to me 15 minutes to explain what I should do. The learners is supposed to listen to a dialogue between a girl and a boy, and then they have to guess what picture goes with the dialogue. It actually sounds very straight forward when I say it like this. Now I know! Yay!

[pearlie.l]

Okay, so I'm using this set of books for my school too. For my third grade co-teacher, he wants me to only teach using the "warm up" section all the way to the "tune in" part. He says he'll take care of the "read and do" section. Is it normal for co-teachers to ask us to only use part of each chapter like that?

[Shinsegae]

Okay, so I'm using this set of books for my school too. For my third grade co-teacher, he wants me to only teach using the "warm up" section all the way to the "tune in" part. He says he'll take care of the "read and do" section. Is it normal for co-teachers to ask us to only use part of each chapter like that?

Well, I dont know about "normal" but at my school it is similar.  i teach warm up, listen & speak 1+2 and then the week after i do communicate and check. The Koreans deal with all the stuff in the middle. However, I only see each class once per week, so it would take ages if i had to teach the whole book.

[Dewald]

I also have the new books, They are not sufficient for your teacher needs. I know some of you are not allowed to imcorporate your own material, but without it, this lesson will fall flat. I am lucky enough that they enable me to explore and experimet with the course. The co teachers actually do the work in their own classes (from the text book) and my classes are there to help them and develop their speaking skills; something that is very important to my school.

[mmerc06]

Thank you for some of your ideas I am new at teaching and these books are not very helpful

[weigookin74]

These are the themes of those books for each chapter.  I have total freedom to do anything so long as I discuss the themes of each chapter.  I don't necessarily have to do all the listen and repeat garbage inside. 
I made PPT's and wrote my own dialogues, word puzzles, etc based on these themes.  Some lessons I used for all grade because of similiar themes.  Sometimes a good warm up is a 5 minute video or cartoon.  I had downloaded a bunch of short bugs bunny clips.  I use those as an into sometimes before starting the lesson or PPT. 

Grade 1 Themes:

Chapter One- Greetings and Introductions
Chapter Two – Routine
Chapter Three – School
Chapter Four – Hobby
Chapter Five – Family / Birthday
Chapter Six – Foreign Culture
Chapter Seven – Environment / Weather
Chapter Eight – English Expressions (slang)
Chapter Nine – Feelings / Emotions
Chapter Ten – Telephone Conversation
Chapter Eleven – Science / Technology.
Chapter Twelve – Descriptive adjectives.  (To be in awe – Seven Wonders of the world.)


Grade Two Themes:

Chapter One – Future Goals.
Chapter Two – Around the World / Geography.
Chapter Three – Using the internet.
Chapter Four – Advertisements
Chapter Five – Party / Cooking.
Chapter Six – Activities (What have you done?)
Chapter Seven – Heroes / Role Models:
Chapter Eight – Animals
Chapter Nine – Giving Advice (If I were you…)Suggestion
Chapter Ten – Life in the Future
Chapter Eleven – Traditional Korean Culture
Chapter Twelve – Exercise & Fitness
   
Grade Three Themes:

Chapter One – Career
Chapter Two – Memories with friends and family
Chapter Three – Watching a Movie or Performance
Chapter Four – Foreign Culture / Geography
Chapter Five – Art / Museums    
Chapter Six – Science Experiments (as; like, etc)
Chapter Seven – Travel; Cultures
Chapter Eight – Moral of the story; life lessons
Chapter Nine – Daily Economics : Daily Budget : Spending Habits
Chapter Ten – Food Theme (Around the world)
Chapter Eleven – Environment : Global Warming. 
Chapter Twelve – Future Goals (Memories of me – Activity)

Thanks for this weigookin74
I'm kinda in the same boat where I don't have to teach out of the text book but
instead build lessons around what is taught in it.
When looking through the chapters, it get's pretty confusing
seeing as each chapter has so many different things/material in it, but looking at how
you divided each chapter with a specific topic makes it much easier to build a lessons around
and create games.  Nice one, thanks!

Glad I could help.  But, I have to change schools every year.  My new school wants some phrases of the books too.  But our final solution / agreement was one week I play the speaking and listening part of the book from the book CD.  I make a mini power point and merge it with some files downloaded from here.  The second week I do my power points I have created based on last year where I did the theme of each chapter but not related to the book in detail. 

This is an example for Grade One - Chapter 3 -How is your school life?

http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,9144.msg73836.html#msg73836

[aalexandromoreno]

I have to use these books for 2/3 of my class periods. They seem extremely boring and unstructured, though. I haven't taught with them yet. I'm sure I'll figure out how to do it, but I don't feel very good about the book's contents just from reviewing 'em. I can just imagine the blank look on my students' faces. At least, I have 1/3 of class periods to work with my own material. It's not that the books are boring really, it's that there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the chapters. I'm not sure what each chapter is trying to teach and I think the students can pick up on that, too. I'm sure we could get through the activities, but I think students would be better served if they learned in a way that they could speak English without cues from an activity book. I think it'd be better if it tried teaching a concept in each chapter like "adjectives: words to describe" or "pronouns." If anything, the activity book should be used as a supplemental resource. Oh well, I'll see how things go this coming week.

[weigookin74]

Wondering if anyone has come up with any fun auxiliary activities to go along with chapter 4 for grades 1 and 2, "Abracadabra" and " Advertisements and Our Life", respectively. 

Any simple ideas of how to spice these up?

I made up a quick lesson based on the book.  Grade One Chapter 4.  It's very short.  But the Listen and speak will take up some of the class time anyways.  Afterwards, I'll play a jeopardy game with them.  There are plenty of those to find on here and download.  I basically ask what their hobby is and tell them that next week, I'll discuss my hobby.  (Unrelated lesson based on a hobby.  Choose anything and make a random power point.  Say, it's your hobby.  I will do one based on "camping".  )

PS:  Sorry, you'll have to put your own effects on it.  I have English PPT at home and need to modify it.  I'm limited on Korean PPT here at school.

[weigookin74]

Same thing for Grade One Chapter 5 -->  I mostly borrewed this from another member and slightly modified it.  I focus on the Listen and speak section first then do other things from the book.  Next week, I do a more vague lesson based on the overall theme or topic of the chapter.  (More my own lesson for that one.) 

Note:  I removed the picture from the "Now can you guess what they are doing?  Make some sentences" slide.  It was a pic of me doing something silly.  Put your own pic on that one for a personal touch. 

[weigookin74]

Why not follow up with Chapter 6 (Grade One) - Mongolia? 

[cocosheff]

Attached is the grade 2 lesson 1 Listen & Speak 1 lesson plan I made, with worksheet etc.
Hope it's useful.