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Offline arachi

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Back to School After Summer Vacation Lesson
« on: August 05, 2011, 11:36:23 pm »
Hi guys,

Here's a lesson that you can modify as you need to for levels, ages or time.

I have advanced high school students.

Basically the lesson works like this:

1) Welcome the kids back
2) Talk about some news stories that happened (my students are interested in current events)
3) Talk about m'vacation (they like personal stories when I fit them in)
4) Play the find someone who game - encourage them to try harder than last semester, walk around the room while they're playing, make note of mistakes and talk about common mistakes after the game is finished
5) Have the students work with a deskmate to interview each other and write a creative story to summarize their work. I'm actually going to have them write their names on their work and submit it when they're finished so I can help with common writing mistakes the next day...

Hope this helps so that you don't have to plan anything for that first day back! ^^

(I prefer Powerpoint - Word sucks, or I do because I can't use it easily :P)

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Offline kaymac

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Re: Back to School After Summer Vacation Lesson
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2011, 10:44:34 am »
Thanks again for this, it's been going well with my students (much more so in the classes with co-teachers present). Cheers again.
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Offline jameshbarnett

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Re: Back to School After Summer Vacation Lesson
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2011, 10:39:43 am »
Did you use any holiday specific ideas in your find someone who game?
I was thinking about doing that but then realised most my students spent most of summer at school, so was wondering if it would be effective?
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Offline jakub

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Re: Back to School After Summer Vacation Lesson
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2011, 01:12:20 pm »
Yea, I can't do this because 90% of my student spent their summer vacation either in school or in academies. A further 8% spent their vacation in the dark recesses of a PC bang.
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Offline arachi

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Re: Back to School After Summer Vacation Lesson
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2011, 07:40:34 am »
You can always change the 'Find Someone Who' to reflect what happened in your class.

_____ found a new game to play
_____ played video games instead of studying
_____ ate more than five bowls of ramyeon
_____ wished he/she went somewhere
_____ argued with his/her mom
_____ wishes it was still vacation time

 :P
(You can probably put your own name on the last line)
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Offline kdawg860

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Re: Back to School After Summer Vacation Lesson
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2011, 01:01:30 am »
thanks a LOT.  this lesson went very well for me.  the worksheets were fantastic.  using a little copy machine magic i managed to put all three sheets on one paper.  for the Find Someone Who part, i told them to raise their hand if they got 4 or more names, then 5 or more, and so on until there were only one or two hands left.  then i would collect that paper from those one or two students and call out the names to confirm that the students actually did the things.  if they did i would ask them one more question for more detail.  then give a round of applause.  if they didn't i would hey, what is this!!! and everyone would laugh. 
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Offline stucker0731

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Re: Back to School After Summer Vacation Lesson
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2011, 11:41:28 am »
I am in my second year in Korea, first year at a high school. My school is GREAT. Any advice on spicing up lesson plans that must pretty strictly adhere to the text book?
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Offline levyjas

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Re: Back to School After Summer Vacation Lesson
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2011, 09:34:52 pm »
Hey thanks. I'm a first time teacher at a high school and starting my tenure there after the summer vacation. I definitely incorporate some of these ideas into my introductory class. Cheers!
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Offline asandhar

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Re: Back to School After Summer Vacation Lesson
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2011, 10:25:42 am »
Some ideas:

- introduce lesson with a short youtube video of summer vacation activities I downloaded, asking students to note different activities that they noticed and to tell you after.
- get them to 'Write a postcard to Mom' from a dream destination, with certain criteria you can decide, post a sample postcard and recite together as class. Draw a pictureof dream destination on one side.

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