Here is a clothing unit of study that I have been working on, it consists of four days worth of lessons for 45 minutes each. It's designed for grade 2 middle schoolers but you can use it with grade 1 or grade 3 depending on the levels of your students. I tried to structure the lesson to flow as smoothly as possible, but you may need to change activities and language based on your students. Here is an outline of the lessons and their schedules:
Day 1:
Warm Up
Learning/Reviewing Known Vocabulary
Clothing Line Slap (Tables will be handed cards with different images of clothing on them, the teacher will call out a word, and the first student to grab the card gets to keep it. After the teacher has called out most or all of the cards, the students then count how many they have. The student with the most cards is the winner.)
Clothing Pull Pirates (The slap cards from the previous game will be used. Students will be given one of those pirate games where you stick the swords into the pirates (I bought five mini versions of this game for a total of 10,000 won on gmarket) they will then stick the swords into the barrel, when the pirate jumps out they take a card and read it with the expression "I am wearing ________." This continues until you are ready to move on. The student with the least amount of cards at the end is the winner.)
Bonus Game: If enough time at the end, have students stand in lines and play a variation of the whisper game where students pass along information to the front. Students have to draw a picture of what the teacher whispers to the last students in line.
Wrap-Up: Review what we have talked about and wrap the rest of the lesson.
Day 2:
Warm Up
Powerpoint - This powerpoint begins with a directed drawing where students must roll the dice and then draw the image correlated with the square. Once students have finished they label their drawings and write their names on their paper. Make sure to give students the supplies they need for this activity. This can take anywhere from 10 - 15 minutes depending on how much time you give them. They need this pictures for the next game, especially if they have to wear uniforms to school.
How much does your outfit cost game - The instructions for this game are in the powerpoint. It invovles students looking at what the other students are "wearing" (their drawing if your students wear uniforms) and then checking to see if they match the powerpoint. If they match the powerpoint then they get a certain number of points. The winner of each round is the one that has the most "expensive" clothes at the end of each round. The powerpoint I made should hopefully explain it a lot better.
Day 3:
Warm-Up: Price is Right (I like to start this day off with the price is right to get students thinking about buying and prices.
Powerpoint: Review some of the vocabulary that we have learned and then move onto the second activity. The second has students practicing the phrase "I bought . . ."
Second Activity: Students are given a catalogue of different items of clothing and a budget of 50,000 won. They must buy at least four things and record them on their "receipt." Once everyone has finished, everyone will gather into a large circle. We will then play a version of pass the ball. When it stops, the person with the ball must tell one thing they have bought and how much money they have left over. The catalogue and receipt idea was from the idea of another waygook user by the name of "sleeman." I got the idea for the catalogue and receipt part from his post.
Tip: For the catalogue, it's important that you print it double-sided and two to a page if you want it to look like an actual catalogue. I printed mine double-sided and double-paged in the order of the fourth page, first page, second page, and third page. This way it would look more like a catalogue.
Day 4:
I'm still deciding on all of the details for day four but, so far, I have the idea to have students do a model walk. It's a drama class related idea. You have students work in teams and they design an outfit. Then you give them the materials to make the outfit. Such as newspaper, or wrapping paper and tape. You give them a time limit to work in and they design and create their outfit during that time. Once the students have finished you have them put on a model walk for the rest of the class. For lower levels, you can have them explain the different pieces of clothing they used. For higher levels, you can have them go more in depth. This is my last class with these students so I tried to make it a little more fun than I normally do. It's fun to take pictures as well so that way the students can look back at their outfits and laugh.
