November 08, 2017, 12:47:14 PM

Author Topic: Middle school - free semester - South African culture & more  (Read 1508 times)

Offline saffainsoko

  • Adventurer
  • *
  • Posts: 64
  • Gender: Female
Middle school - free semester - South African culture & more
« on: February 06, 2017, 03:17:11 PM »
Our free semester English programme was called "Cultural English".

I only had some very vague guidelines going in so the materials are a bit haphazard. The idea was to cover a little bit of South African culture etc. and do some kind of group activity in each 90 minute lesson. The programme was 8 weeks long.

I'll just attach everything here and you can do with it as you please.

For Week 1 to Week 4, I borrowed heavily from previous materials about South Africa from this site (thanks for your thorough work, fellow countrypeople!). I broke it down and adapted it to suit the format of the programme.

I sometimes used fonts I downloaded here:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hello-Fonts-Personal-Non-Commercial-Use-301730
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ALL-Kimberly-Geswein-Fonts-in-One-Big-Download-Personal-Use-537780

Week 1
Introduction and ice-breaker. Getting them into groups took long and they were reluctant to speak to students that weren't in their homeroom classes so it took a lot of coaxing. The "personality quiz" came in handy in one of the classes where there weren't many students and we finished a little too early to warrant "free time".

Week 2
1. Introduction to South Africa
2. Cape of Good Hope (link to video in PPT)
3. How Do You Feel - my co-teacher had the book so I read it to them, then we went through the feelings again and translated each one

Week 3
1. SA schools
2. It's okay to be different (video embedded in PPT)

Week 4
1. SA food (there's a few hyperlinks in the images)
2. 20 questions
3. SA sports
4. Quiz (questions about food and sports)
« Last Edit: February 06, 2017, 03:27:16 PM by saffainsoko »

Offline weigookin74

  • The Legend
  • *****
  • Posts: 4174
  • Gender: Male
Re: Middle school - free semester - South African culture & more
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2017, 05:40:08 PM »
I'm doing middle school again this year after doing a couple of years of elementary.  When is the special semester?  First or second? 

Offline shostager

  • Veteran
  • **
  • Posts: 191
  • Gender: Female
Re: Middle school - free semester - South African culture & more
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2017, 06:10:40 PM »
It's the second semester. In my school it's first grade only, and they have the special classes in the afternoon after a morning of regular classes (I teach them in the morning). Your mileage may vary.

Offline saffainsoko

  • Adventurer
  • *
  • Posts: 64
  • Gender: Female
Re: Middle school - free semester - South African culture & more
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2017, 09:15:30 AM »
(Continued from above)

Week 5
Everyday heroes. I was inspired by this lesson. Students designed posters on B4 paper.

Week 6
Festivals. I used a lesson I found on here (couldn't find the link again). I'd recommend fact checking this lesson as I may have taken some liberties for the sake of simplicity.

Week 7
Ndebele patterns. I made 3 sample huts in various stages of construction to help give students an idea of what they were working towards.

Week 8
Food flags. Before showing them the Korean flag, I had them design and present the flag first (I printed out Slide 14).

Golden bell. Covers the previous 7 weeks.
« Last Edit: February 07, 2017, 09:31:45 AM by saffainsoko »

Offline saffainsoko

  • Adventurer
  • *
  • Posts: 64
  • Gender: Female
Re: Middle school - free semester - South African culture & more
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2017, 09:28:33 AM »
These are the video clips I used in "Week 6 Festivals". They were embedded in the PPT originally, but the file was too large to upload.

Online HilaryJane

  • Waygookin
  • *
  • Posts: 10
  • Gender: Female
Re: Middle school - free semester - South African culture & more
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2017, 02:19:37 PM »
Thank you so so much for this - incredible!!!!!!

Offline biancamoksha

  • Waygookin
  • *
  • Posts: 18
  • Gender: Female
Re: Middle school - free semester - South African culture & more
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2017, 01:15:43 PM »
Awesome! Thank you so much. I'm sure this will be useful sometime this year.

Offline ZAcelliers

  • Waygookin
  • *
  • Posts: 13
  • Gender: Male
Re: Middle school - free semester - South African culture & more
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2017, 10:42:39 AM »
thanks loads, will have a look.