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siamagoo:
Is anyone else using "고등학교 관광 영어"? The only English on the cover is 'Ministry of Education, Science and Technology." It's kinda orange, green, and yellowish, and has a ceramic or stone partial face on the cover.

And if you won't be teaching from this book, what activities will you do with your students instead?

siamagoo:
So, no one has responded. This is bad news for me (gotta do all the heavy lifting by myself), but good news for Korean students (this book makes the much-maligned Thomas Orr series look Pulitzer-Prize worthy).

I'm still gonna post my stuff here anyway, cause who knows who may be lurking.

This is my Simpsons Tic-Tac-Toe game for the first two chapters. It went over well with my not-particularly-motivated bunch. Just don't call on anyone who appears sleeping. Also, make sure you explain how to play tic-tac-toe before, and maybe do a few practice rounds.

Lesson plan:
1) explain tic-tac-toe
2) play the simpsons game
3) have students write their own questions
4) play ttt again with the student questions

This fit fairly well in the 50 minute time period.

phin84:
This is a speaking and analysis task I made for my high school 2nd grd class that worked quite well. My class is only 28 students, and they're divided up into groups of 6. They first answer the questions about themselves, then they ask their classmates the same questions and fill in the table. Afterwards we assess who they have the most in common with. We didn't have time, but this could also be made into a presentation project.

lizardflix:
OK, I am in my 3rd year of teaching and I want to ask if anybody has cracked the code on teaching from the textbook.  When I look at the textbooks I see a bunch of chapters on different topics but I can never discern what English any particular chapter is teaching. 

For instance, I am looking at the High School English book, lesson 4, Tsunami: The Killer Waves.  As I go through it, it is various dense conversations about tsunamis or disasters and it highlights words or parts of speech, but it doesn't have a focus on a single part of speech or area of grammar to focus on. 

I have avoided it in the past because I could see no structure that I could follow but now I've been told I need to create lesson plans based on the book. 

Can anybody offer some ideas?  I'm really open to any suggestions.

Thanks

Andyroo:

--- Quote from: lizardflix on April 21, 2011, 05:40:47 PM ---OK, I am in my 3rd year of teaching and I want to ask if anybody has cracked the code on teaching from the textbook.  When I look at the textbooks I see a bunch of chapters on different topics but I can never discern what English any particular chapter is teaching. 

For instance, I am looking at the High School English book, lesson 4, Tsunami: The Killer Waves.  As I go through it, it is various dense conversations about tsunamis or disasters and it highlights words or parts of speech, but it doesn't have a focus on a single part of speech or area of grammar to focus on. 

I have avoided it in the past because I could see no structure that I could follow but now I've been told I need to create lesson plans based on the book. 

Can anybody offer some ideas?  I'm really open to any suggestions.

Thanks

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I don't have the same book.

For Grade 1 it's pretty simple as the communicative functions for each unit are summarized at the start but for Grade 2 I have pretty much the same experience as you...... I read through an entire unit and can't tell what the focus is. Feels a bit like they slapped together all their on topic activities with little thought.

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