I don't start teaching until monday so I made this today for the unit.

Edit: Added a wordsearch with the vocabulary and a worksheet where they draw a line from sentence to picture.
Final Edit: Added a roleplay script. (My co-teacher always had me make them for everything.)
Final Edit(for real): Added flash cards that my co-teacher asked me to make for the "Let's Practice" section of the textbook.

Here are a few resources that might help :)

My co-teacher asked me to teach the kids this instead of the chant in the book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikdqNVoCYQ

I thought it would be a bit too fast and have too many hand actions for it to work. I didn't have time to edit the video to a slower pace, she suggested this randomly after seeing how another co-teacher and I added actions to a grade 3 chant.

I did this class all day today and to my surprise, everyone went crazy for it. The girls got the actions straight away, and the boys were so amused by the wiggling at the end they sat through the video several times and got the actions down. The shy kids were at least making hand actions, it didn't get them to actually talk, but I was excited to see them doing something.

glad I'm not the only lazy one- I had flashcards for the six weather phenomena which I taped to the board - I wrote the number and name under each card - I had simple dice for each pair of kids - worked fine

Here are my 'lesson plans' and materials for this unit. Sorry the lesson plans aren't in a very good format, my school is happy for me to just have them as notes for myself.

Also, here's one I made about the four seasons.

Here is a quick ppt review we used in our classes.

I teach at an elementary school in Gwangju (3rd, 4th and 5th grade). My students are at an extraordinarily high level (80% go to hagwons 3 times a week or more), so the textbook is too low for them, and the school asked me to ratchet up the rigor in my lesson plans.

Last year during a club class I realized how much students love “would you rather” exercises because most of their day is spent memorizing/ regurgitation information as opposed to being creative. Whether you classroom is high-level or not, I have implemented an activity called “would you want?”, in which every week I present students with 5 slides asking them if they would want one of two items, both of which are relevant to or included in the weekly vocabulary. The students have 1 minute to think and discuss with a friend, then I ask for volunteers or call numbers to see who will answer the question (I usually choose three students a slide).  I always make sure to write the sentence frame “I would want ______ because _____.” So that students called on will have something to rely on/ something with which to practice their reading skills, and the 1 minute talk time holds students accountable without stressing them out.


Long story short- this activity gets students talking! Try it out if you have time in your classroom today!

Lesson 1 pictures

For some reason, the kids loved this song, maybe it's the catchy tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpjgfcMk5c
Enjoy