OMG!!!!
I have that same USELESS book!!! We're not as far as you in the book tho, we're on midterms and about to start chapter 9: The Shepherd and the Princess.
Aside from my friend that also uses the same book, you're the only other person I know of to have this text.
On a side note, what the heck did you do for Ella Grasso? And how useless was that chapter?
-James

Yeah we had to rush through 7,8 and 9 in time for the exams which have just passed. I was basically just covering the key terms and doing one or two of the activities, don't think the kids really learnt anything as they only have english once every two weeks which meant squeezing the whole of one, sometimes two chapters into one 45 minute slot!

Having done these three chapters i can confirm that the book is definately useless. 

Anyway, the exams have finished now so i have a little more freedom to design a (hopefully) useful lesson plan. Away on training tomorrow and thursday but will upload some things i did for lessons 7/8/9 on friday.

7 i talked about gestures and body language, 8 i focused on famous people and 9 we talked about fairy tales and played a baam style game featuring answers to "What do you enjoy doing on Sundays?"

Will check back in Friday....

Very unfortunately I have to use the same textbook and I have to base my lesson and activities on the key phrases which are completely random and unnatural to say the least. On top of that I have to make everything interesting to appeal to the students but I wonder if they even have the remotest idea how difficult it is to adapt the material from this text. I feel constantly stressed out. Can anybody please suggest ideas on activities/games we can use which will encourage students to use the target language?

Harry! Are you kidding?!?!  Did you do all the work in the PPT yourself? That's a huge amount of work! And it looks great! Do you teach the entire book? My co-teachers have asked me to only be responsible for the listening and speaking portions.

Anyway, thanks. The game looks great. I've never done a Bam game before.

Lychee, I'm in the same boat as you. I usually try to make some kind of activity or task based exercise that relates to the game and keeps their brains active. I'd share but I have nothing that was successful with this book yet. I'm anxious to try the Bam game.

Orla, much thanks to you as well. Nice work!

this is what i did for chapter 7 - gestures

for the picture cards and word cards i did about 8 sets. this works well as normally i can get them into groups of 4. i laminated the cards. it took awhile, but i got 8 third year classes from it. my partner will also use it for his third years i expect too.

some of the images are a little obscure on purpose. you may have to explain: fed up (i used the example that if i went on holiday and it rained everyday by the 4th day i would feel pretty fed up of the rain), operation (they seem to know surgery), embarrassed (i used the example i had written on the word card but also demonstrated falling over in class and all the students looking at me and laughing), frustrated will need explaining (i also explained tearing your hair out), joking (i told them about winking and how you can use it if you are having a joke with someone or messing around, i told them i was Barack Obama, or that i will fly to the moon next week and then winked and said i am joking)... you will find some classes are better than others. i found this class to be quite active when i was explaining things to them.

i gave out the answer worksheets after the game and before we went through the answers on the screen. after one class i realised they weren't making notes or anything (this seems to be the norm) but i thought if they want to learn them they can do. i also explain they can write in English and Korean here, whichever will help them most.

Create different teams 2 works I have done it with as many as 5. Each team picks a number they answer the question hyperlinked to the number based on what was covered in the lesson. If they answer correctly they get points. If they pick a BAAM slide they lose points. There are many adaptations for this game, this is just the basic version.  There is a Food Bomb game on this site that is very well done, you could incorporate some of the same ideas from that game into this game.