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Five senses winter camp - it was a hit with my students!
« on: February 06, 2014, 02:41:29 PM »
I taught this winter camp themed around the 5 senses over 3 weeks. The classes were 50 minutes each, except for the last one which needed to be longer. (It involved making Welshcakes.) My students loved it! I had extra students coming to this camp after it started, and by the second week they were taking notes without being asked! I got some material from Waygook and edited it, and I made some material myself. I taught this to 1st grade high school girls, but most of these lessons can be modified to suit different levels (although the touch-themed lesson involving face masks might not work for boys!). I can't remember where I got some of the borrowed stuff from, but I will acknowledge all material which wasn't originally mine. I got the list of English girls' names from a google search, but I made everything else in the first lesson.

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Five senses winter camp lesson 2 Sight part 1
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2014, 02:48:22 PM »
I got this powerpoint from Waygook but I can't remember where. I created the game though. I am very grateful to the person who shared this; it tied in very nicely with my camp!

Here is my lesson materials from day 2 of the five senses Winter English camp.

Prep work before the lesson involved printing the handouts I wrote and setting up the online movie at the right point in the episode so I didn't have to waste time with adverts or finding the right place during the lesson.

First I introduced the theme for the next three lessons, the sense of sight. Then I handed out the vocabulary sheets and showed the students the Doctor Who Powerpoint. They enjoyed the word unscramble game. Then we watched the Doctor Who episode 'Blink'. (It's in English with Korean subtitles.) I skipped the first 17 minutes of the episode as it was too long to show all of it, but it told them enough of the story. Here's the link to the episode: http://www.mgoon.com/view.htm?id=3047832
  After the episode the students had a lot of fun playing the Weeping Angels game. I concluded with a recap of the new words they learnt.

The theme of statues and sculpture linked in nicely to the next lesson about art history.

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Five senses winter camp lesson 3: Sight Part 2
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2014, 02:55:11 PM »
This is a shortened version of a Powerpoint downloaded from Waygook. I didn't have time to show all the clips, but everything needed for the lesson is in this powerpoint. I suggest prepping some of the links before teaching this though so you don't waste time during the lesson with internet adverts. The Cistine Chapel link was the most inspiring to my students, and they liked the flipbook animations. Pictionary at the end got quite competitive - it's amazing how fast students can draw when there's points at stake!
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Five senses winter camp lesson 4 - Sight part 3
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2014, 03:02:29 PM »
The lesson plan is simple: print out pictures of some of the art styles we looked at in lesson 3, and ask the students to imitate these styles in their own drawing, painting, or flipbook animation. I gave a recap of the features of each style, and left colour printouts on the table for them to look at in detail. In period 5 and 7, all the students wanted to draw or paint. In period 6, all the students wanted to make flipbook animations.

The lesson plan is simple, but it needs lots of art materials: paints, paint brushes, water and mixing bowls, old newspaper to protect the table, pencils, erasers, felt tip pens, small blank notebooks for flipbook animations, plenty of blank paper. I also provided chocolate as prizes for the best pictures, and let the students listen to music while they worked. It was an enjoyable lesson.

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Five senses winter camp lesson 5 - Touch Part 1
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2014, 03:11:51 PM »
This was a fun lesson and really made my students focus on the sense of touch. I made the texture powerpoint, lesson plan, and vocabulary handout, but I downloaded the weather powerpoint from Waygook.

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Five senses winter camp lesson 6 - Touch part 2
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2014, 03:17:59 PM »
I created the worksheet, but the powerpoint is a slightly edited version of one I downloaded from Waygook.

I continued the theme of touch and we looked at sports. I started with a short ice breaker (a simple ball throwing game), then we talked about which sports the students like. I told them that they would invent their own sport after the powerpoint presentation, so for each slide I asked them to talk about the equipment used in each sport and how to play each of these sports. This made them practice speaking English. They already knew the words for most of the equipment in the slides, and they learnt some new words too. Then they did the worksheet. Some of them found the worksheet a little hard, but they all invented some interesting new sports. I told them if it was too hard to invent a new sport, they could simply change the rules or equipment of a sport they already know. This appealed to the lower level students. I finished the lesson by telling them we would continue the theme of touch tomorrow with a special surprise treat.

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Five senses winter camp lesson 7 - touch part 3
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2014, 03:25:50 PM »
This was one of my post popular camp lessons and my high school girls cheered when they found out the surprise treat was a face mask :-) This was a fantastic way to reinforce texture words and teach comparative and superlative grammar! These lesson materials are my own work.

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Re: Five senses winter camp lesson 2 Sight part 1
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2014, 03:35:41 PM »
I got this powerpoint from Waygook but I can't remember where. I created the game though. I am very grateful to the person who shared this; it tied in very nicely with my camp!

Another poster made the first version, but the one you have here is the one I took and spiffed up. I used the template to make eight Doctor Who PPTs if you want to hunt them up.

Here's the most recent version of that lesson. It looks a bit better as I replaced some of the photos with better ones.

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Five senses winter camp lesson 8: Sound Part 1
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2014, 03:45:56 PM »
The students really enjoyed the 'Run to the right flag' game in this lesson :smiley: It's all my own work, but I don't own the music clips linked to on Youtube.

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Five senses winter camp lesson 9 - Sound part 2
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2014, 04:00:24 PM »
This is an easy lesson from the teacher's point of view  :smiley:

Here are my lesson handouts from winter camp lesson 9. I started each lesson by playing the song on Youtube. These songs were chosen by the students in the previous lesson. We then looked at both the Korean version and the English translation of their chosen song, then I asked the students to write new lyrics in English to their favourite songs. For lower level students, I simply asked them to change some of the words in the English translation and think about how they want to perform their song tomorrow. While they were working on the new lyrics, I let them listen to their chosen song as much as they wanted to help them write the new song words. I promised prizes for the best translations and performances in the next lesson.

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Five senses winter camp lesson 10 - Sound Part 3
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2014, 04:10:22 PM »
These are my lesson materials from lesson 10 of Winter Camp. The students had great fun performing their songs, playing games, and when there was time at the end, doing the K-pop quiz (some groups wanted more time to practice their performance so not everyone had time for the quiz, but that wasn't important). I gave candy rewards for the best lyrics and the best performances, so the students enjoyed the lesson even more.

Thank you to the Waygooker who made and posted the K-pop quiz, which I haven't edited. I wrote out the answers though as I don't know much about K-pop! Thanks also to the Waygooker who shared the Zip Zap Zop game. They were fun additions to this lesson  :smiley:

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Five senses winter camp Lesson 11 - Smell Part 1
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2014, 04:15:14 PM »
This focuses on the sense of smell. All the material is my own work. My students enjoyed the smell quiz game  :smiley:

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Five senses winter camp Lesson 12 - Smell part 2
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2014, 04:32:42 PM »
This is a fun lesson which involves making pomanders, a medieval air freshener made with oranges, cloves (the spice) and ribbons. The lesson plan is my own work. The Five Senses review is an edited version of a longer worksheet I downloaded from Waygook - thank you to the Waygooker who posted the original worksheet!

I was a little nervous before this lesson as most of my students said in the previous lesson they didn't like the smell of cloves, which can be quite strong and bitter on its own. But when you only have a few cloves (as opposed to a whole jar!) stuck into an orange, it smells lovely and all my students were happy with their free air freshener. I let them eat the leftover oranges  :P

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Five senses winter camp Lesson 13 - Taste Part 1
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2014, 04:44:25 PM »
This lesson is the important prep lesson I did to explain my final two camp lessons, which both involved cooking. There is plenty of material here, it's all my own work, and my students loved the warm up involving candy!  :smiley: The Powerpoint is to tell students about foods from the different nations of the UK.

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Five senses winter camp Lesson 14 - Taste Part 2
« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2014, 04:55:18 PM »
Here are my lesson materials from day 14 of the five senses winter camp. The cooking lesson itself is quite straightforward, but it is important to get enough ingredients for all the students ready for this lesson. If possible, use your school's home economics/cooking classroom for this lesson if they have one. Mine wasn't available as the cooking teacher was on holiday, so we used the school science lab (!!!) and some portable hotplates. First I showed them the Powerpoint and told them to start cooking the pasta, then where necessary I demonstrated how to chop the vegetables etc. The only problem I  had was how long the hotplates took to heat up, but apart from that it was a great lesson and the students really enjoyed cooking and eating!    :smiley:

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Five senses winter camp Lesson 15 (last lesson!) - Taste Part 3
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2014, 05:18:32 PM »
This lesson lasted 2 hours, but could probably be done in 90 minutes. All the materials are my own work.

I showed the 'Welshcakes Recipe' powerpoint to begin with, and demonstrated the different stages where necessary. The students from my  3 different English camp classes all wanted to be in the same lesson, so they worked together in groups of 2 or 3 or 4 and shared the hotplates. (There were 20 students but only 7 hotplates available.) I switched the hotplates on at the start of the lesson this time so they had plenty of time to heat up. The only problem I had with this lesson was that no one had any kitchen scales for weighing the ingredients, so I showed the students how to estimate amounts based on the size of a packet. For example, the recipe said 225g of flour and I had 1kg bags of flour, so I explained they should use roughly 1/4 of the bag of flour. The amounts may not have been exactly right, but fortunately that's mostly not important and the recipe still works with slightly different amounts of ingredients! The only ingredient you MUST get right is the baking powder - too little, and the Welshcakes won't become fluffy; too much baking powder, and the end result tastes a little bitter or sour. But don't worry too much about that. I brought pepsi, jam and fresh strawberries to this lesson as well, and jam and strawberries can mask the bitterness of too much baking powder. Welshcakes are traditionally eaten on their own or with a sprinkle of sugar, but some people like to eat them with butter, jam, or even fresh berries and whipped cream.

 My main task during the lesson was to walk around the room and make sure each group's recipe was going ok, give help and advice and answer questions, and demonstrate when needed. Different groups worked at different speeds, so I prepared some word searches and a short powerpoint about different foods of Britain  and a review of food words. I didn't need them in the end, though, as the students who finished first got straight on with eating and cleaning, and then helped their friends finish cooking and cleaning (and eating!). I have very well trained and well organised students, I was very impressed with them! I'm so lucky to have such great students    :smiley: This was an extremely popular lesson and a great end to a fun and successful Winter Camp  :smiley:

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Re: Hoosier_Jedi's comments on Lesson 2
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2014, 01:42:10 PM »
"Another poster made the first version, but the one you have here is the one I took and spiffed up. I used the template to make eight Doctor Who PPTs if you want to hunt them up.

Here's the most recent version of that lesson. It looks a bit better as I replaced some of the photos with better ones."


Thank you Hoosier_Jedi! The Powerpoint was a hit with my students. They unscrambled most of the words pretty quickly and were enthusiastic throughout the lesson. And I love Doctor Who!  :smiley:

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Re: Five senses winter camp - it was a hit with my students!
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2014, 03:14:49 PM »
Thanks for the really helpful and interesting camp idea!

A couple things to point out though:
박쥐 means "bat", yes, but like the nocturnal flying mammal, not the sporting equipment.
외국인 means "alien", yes, but like the person from a foreign country, not the ET kind.

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Re: Five senses winter camp - it was a hit with my students!
« Reply #18 on: March 13, 2014, 12:08:40 PM »
I know this is supposed to be for either winter camp or summer camps but I decided to put it in my regular high school classes. I basically split up the senses in different lessons. I am doing the sense of touch first, next week I'm doing sight and sound and the week after I'm doing taste and smell. Thank you for all the amazing ideas! I love the zip zop zap and kpop quiz idea. Such good ideas !!

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Afraley's translation feedback
« Reply #19 on: March 24, 2014, 02:11:26 PM »
"Thanks for the really helpful and interesting camp idea!

A couple things to point out though:
박쥐 means "bat", yes, but like the nocturnal flying mammal, not the sporting equipment.
외국인 means "alien", yes, but like the person from a foreign country, not the ET kind."

Thank you for your feedback Afraley!

I'm really glad you pointed out the translation mistakes - hopefully anyone else who teaches this camp will adjust the translations or at least be aware of these mistakes! I'm a beginner at Korean so I rely heavily on Google translate. Unfortunately Google translate is only about 80% accurate with translations, so when I have time I usually ask a colleague to check the translations for me, but this isn't always possible.

Do you or any other waygooks know the correct translation for 'bat' as in 'baseball bat' or 'cricket bat'? And does anyone know the Korean for 'alien' as in ET? Google translate gives more than one translation for these words and I don't know the correct one.

And thank you to Lennerz for the feedback. I've benefited greatly from the free lesson plans on Waygook.org so I figured it was time to start sharing my own stuff in return :-)
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