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Offline rita2001

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Very first open class...
« on: October 29, 2010, 10:19:47 AM »
Coming up is my very first open class, Yea, Hooray!?! My class and topic are 5th grade Lesson 12-This is a bedroom. I am a "true teacher" kind of teacher. I "teach" teach the children and rarely do I play games. This is my dilemma... my liaison(which is not my co-teacher but that's her title) wants me to have 6-8 activities/games in a 40 min period. My students are low to lower level 5th graders (I have some that just mime the words we repeat). I am the type that want my students to understand everything they say when they speak in English. Any suggestions on lesson plans that do not involve games, so I can present it to her to get her input.

BTW: I do have a lot of game ideas. So don't get me wrong, it just takes them [LITERALLY] a min of 15min to play ONE game. ???

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Re: Very first open class...
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2010, 03:27:51 PM »
Well, most of my classes involve 4-5 games or activities.  And in an open class you usually want to exhibit your 'best' stuff.  If it were me, I would:

1. 3 min, Start class - What's today's date?  How's the weather?

2. 5 min, Motivation - Interesting video or PPT on unique homes in the world (or a small clip of MTV cribs or something hilarious like a clip of the movie Home Alone)

3. 5 min, Video guessing game - Use the Simpson's 3D tour (located on the other thread for this lesson).  Hit pause for each room and ask "what room is this" and "What's this?" --an oven, a refrigerator, a sofa..etc

4. 7 min, Racing game - Two or more students (however your class is set up) run through the rows doing a dialogue -- "Where's Jinho? -- In the bedroom!" As the students answer they sit down, and the fastest team wins.

5. 10 min, Virus game - The students each get a card.  They have to go through this dialogue to fill out the card "What are you doing? -- I'm reading. -- Where? -- In the living room."  They'll ask 3 to 5 people, depending on how long you want the game to be.  You secretly walk around and choose 2 students as the virus.  You call out their 'sentence' and whoever has those students (viruses) on their card loses.

6. 3 min, Song - Any song.

7. 2 min, Exit password - Have the students say a key phrase as they exit.

And you would still have time left over for a quick PPT on maybe a tour of your house in whatever country you're from.

Hope this helps and good luck with your open class.

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Re: Very first open class...
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2010, 03:51:52 PM »
A good song for this...covers rooms of the house and "what's he doing?"


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Re: Very first open class...
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2010, 09:26:22 AM »
Thank you for the suggestions. It is truly appreciated.

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Re: Very first open class...
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2012, 07:59:49 PM »
Hey I did the same lesson as you for open class. This a bedroom. ( I did that and combined it with 6th grade will you help me)? It was an okay lesson.  Do unscramble games(they're really easy to do) If you want to stretch it out longer make them spell it. (that's at least 5 minutes). Then do bingo-the kids have to write the words. Then do a picture game. Then do a prediction game. 

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Re: Very first open class...
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2015, 12:24:12 PM »
Hi, I'm also doing my very first open class in two weeks.  My teachers wants me to use the key expression in the book. I will be teaching 6th graders with low level english, it's lesson 5 in the book, key expression "What does he look like?". What are some good ideas to do? That will get the students involved and participating? I thought about a 'detective guessing game' where 'a witness' should describe someone to the 'detective' and then try and figure out who was the 'thief'. Other ideas was to get pictures of famous people/ or even animals, then one student gets a picture (but shouldn't look at it) and show it to the other student, then the other student should describe and the student with the pic should guess who or what he/she is... Any thoughts? And more ideas... please. Keep in mind that I only have 7 students in that class...