Lesson 7: Bright Lights, Big Cities

[stuart.a.walton]

I'm using the Simpsons link to open, and for another activity I'm getting the students to draw a timeline of how they themselves have changed throughout the years. Such as how their appearance has changed, how their music tastes/favourite food have changed etc.

[ahartley288]

I just put this together for my first official EFL lesson.  Feedback is appreciated    I used the memory idea from KellyM's prezi.  Thanks so much!

One of the activities I created is a matching.  Students will put together a before and after adjective and recite the phrases:
"It used to be __________".
"Now it is ______________."
ex. dirty/clean

[javdek1]

here is my lesson for chapter 7. as always basic introduction. threw in some videos at the beginning and end. i teach at an all boys school so they loved the megan fox pictures. hope this helps. thanks to everyone whose materials i mashed up to make this.

sorry here they are

[JazzRat]

This is a ppt game I designed which worked really well using the language "It used to be" and "do you remember when". The two pyramids are locations to guess for bonus points. If the item appears and rotates it means there is another bonus. Hope it makes sense

[LemonWater]

Here's a little before and after activity.  Cut the paper in half, give each student one picture. They have to find their matching picture and write about it . . . .after have some students read it out loud.

[dpblake1]

I've attached "Cee-Lo Green - Bright Lights Bigger City" missing lyrics sheet + answers. Vids are linked to the worksheets. You can choose to show the original video (1st link) but the students find it difficult to find/hear the missing words. As an alternative, I've used the song with lyrics (2nd link) to guide them along. Mind you, they are masters at the no-look writing (astonished as to how good they really are at writing while not taking their eyes off of the screen), so this won't stretch very far into the lesson this way.

I was going to do this and was jsut checking to see if anybody else did! I'll do the fill in the blank with the next class, but I'll keep in mind how difficult it is for them--I remember how difficult it was in my foreign language classes to do similar activities...do they know who he is?

[Jimmer]

I dug on MissNickkiSue's powerpoint, but made some changes to it.  This is the update.

[UNIONNET27]

I would like to submit my prezi on the topic. If you can use it feel free! http://prezi.com/8jfhtdd9am7y/grade-3-lesson-7/

[Loudine]

Guys, thank you so much for all the great material!  I had downloaded some, tweaked it and used it with great success.  I wanted to re-post them, but have lost ALL my material due to a virus infestation, and am now starting over.... Thank goodness for mid-term tests soon!  :(

[Daejeon Gav]

Guys, thank you so much for all the great material!  I had downloaded some, tweaked it and used it with great success.  I wanted to re-post them, but have lost ALL my material due to a virus infestation, and am now starting over.... Thank goodness for mid-term tests soon!  :(

Sorry to hear you lost all that work  :(

I would really recommend getting Dropbox. I mainly use it cause I have a laptop I use in my staff room and then a separate computer downstairs in my classroom (plus pc at home). I just means that I can work up here and then everything will but update and is ready downstairs when I need to teach.

The main reason I'm mentioning it now though is that everything gets backed up online. So you can't lose it to a Virus or your computer self-destructing. I know it's too late for you now, but it may save you in the future.

Either google it, maybe watch a vid about it or here's a link: http://db.tt/Cy0lXOC

You get 2gb free space and if you refer people like I am now you can get a little more space for each person.

[seth.schy]

Check this out!

[Loudine]

@Daejeon Gav:  Thanks so much for that link!  I can't get it done at school, but am heading home now so will do it from my laptop.

I have built up some material from this link for my grade 3's for next week, and with the rest of the school all I need to do next week is make Halloween lanterns.... Will post what I found in another thread in case anybody else wants Halloween-themed filler-classes.

:)

[misterfisticuffs]

SHINee game!

In keeping with the whodunnit/police interrogation theme of the lesson (Do you remember ________?), I made this SHINee detective game to go with their Sherlock (clue + note) video.  If you want to be a stickler and have the students use full English sentences to answer the questions, you can.  I just used this to give the students a break from the monotony of textbook work, so I accepted sentence fragments or even one or two-word answers.

The way I used the game was I showed the video (from eatyourkimchi.com or youtube) and told them to pay attention to everything.  After watching the video once, the class had to come to an agreement on their answer before I showed it to them.  I will score each 3rd grade class against one another and give candy to the winning class.

[lauren elizabeth]

Love the Shinee game idea! I was thinking about doing something similar but now I don't need to take the time to make it myself  :D

Here's my PPT to supplement the textbook. It starts out with a few pictures of different cities at night that the students have to guess. It ends with Seoul which leads into a comparison picture of Seoul now and Seoul 100 years ago. Next up is the Simpsons commercial followed by a few questions then a few slides of "what was it like before?/what was he like before?" etc, etc. This part of the lesson ends with a spot the difference game. I know usually these pictures don't imply a temporal change but to make it fit into the lessons students have to say something along the lines of "There used to be 2 bananas", "There used to be a spoon" and so on.

As an aside, I did make up a quick writing excercise based off of Match and Talk C that's easy to do up quick and easy if you need more things to do. Just have students answer the questions in paragraph form; for example, What was your dad like 20 years ago?

For the second half of the lesson, Do you remember..., I borrowed the idea of another user with the memory game ("Do you remember how much the coffee cost?").  I added in a future tense slide... "Do you remember when the movie will come out" just to let them students know it can be used for events that have yet to occur.

I have about 2 months until I'll even use this lesson so I'll post up any updates.

[esanders211]

I combined a couple of your great ppts and activities. The last part is for review, and only if time. I also don't use both videos unless it's an advanced class, and we can convey the meaning at a rapid pace. Thanks again for all the great materials!!

[Chicagohotdog]

SHINee game!

In keeping with the whodunnit/police interrogation theme of the lesson (Do you remember ________?), I made this SHINee detective game to go with their Sherlock (clue + note) video.  If you want to be a stickler and have the students use full English sentences to answer the questions, you can.  I just used this to give the students a break from the monotony of textbook work, so I accepted sentence fragments or even one or two-word answers.

The way I used the game was I showed the video (from eatyourkimchi.com or youtube) and told them to pay attention to everything.  After watching the video once, the class had to come to an agreement on their answer before I showed it to them.  I will score each 3rd grade class against one another and give candy to the winning class.

How did I not think of this?

It's a running gag with my students that I am a SHINee fan (the pictures end up in my PPTs a lot).

My students love that I'm into Kpop and will get a real kick out of this idea.  Thanks a bunch!

[courtlandmiles]

Just wanted to thank the folks again on this board for helping me in a pinch. We all know how disorganized the beginning of a new semester can be, and I had to teach a class twice this week with no extra plan and about thirty minutes notice. I used the pictures lisapo posted a long time ago and did the celebrity matching game. Killed a good ten/fifteen minutes and got the students laughing and talking.

This week I have made a simple powerpoint, since we did a student survey at the end of last semester and many students said they felt I relied too much on ppts. Anyway, very simple, I also made a pop song worksheet this week for the Taylor Swift song "Change," (tried to stay on the idea of change, before and after, oh well).

[jayme86]

This is what I made for 3rd graders.
The first one is designed to introduce new words of reading part of Lesson 7.
And the second one is what you can probably use when you finish up the reading part.
I hope these are slightly helpful to your class.

[Warra]

Here is a PPT with two lessons worth and a document with two lesson plans to go with the PPT.
The lesson plans won't be useful without the PPT.
There are also two worksheets, one which I got from someone else and edited to make it easier.
The other one is about different New York City landmarks.
Most of my PPT content is borrowed from other Waygookers.
Hope it helps!

[jessica_ko88]

SHINee game!

In keeping with the whodunnit/police interrogation theme of the lesson (Do you remember ________?), I made this SHINee detective game to go with their Sherlock (clue + note) video.  If you want to be a stickler and have the students use full English sentences to answer the questions, you can.  I just used this to give the students a break from the monotony of textbook work, so I accepted sentence fragments or even one or two-word answers.

The way I used the game was I showed the video (from eatyourkimchi.com or youtube) and told them to pay attention to everything.  After watching the video once, the class had to come to an agreement on their answer before I showed it to them.  I will score each 3rd grade class against one another and give candy to the winning class.

This is an awesome idea! Thanks for sharing it :) I had trouble finding the video though, could you please post the URL?