Hi, does anyone else have to use this lovely textbook with their 1st grade MS students? I was wondering if anyone had any great ideas for games or activities that could be used with this lesson or if anyone has actually covered this lesson before and had a particularly successful class. The main themes are clothes and shop[ping and the main phrases seem to be 'How may I help you?' 'I'm looking for...' and 'How much is it?'

I really want to get this lesson right as I have to base my 1st ever open class on this chapter of the book in a couple of weeks time. Any tips/ advice would be much appreciated!

When I taught this lesson last year, my co-teacher and I had them act out situations. Gave groups cards for prices, and had food items on the table at the front. Students had to put random prices on the cards from $1 to $10 and we put them in front of the items at random.  We then had activities through the lesson which resulted in a team getting certain amounts of money if they answered questions or won one of the activities, and then at the end of the lesson, we had each team split their money fairly and then come and buy a snack to take away with them back to their classroom. They loved it because they were working for things like chocolate milk, cookies and cream breads.

The activities were based on the listening and speaking parts of the text book and we were focusing mostly on the 'In Communication' task for the majority of the prizes.

I hope this gives you an idea of something you could do.

Oh!  If only Bob Barker was still doing the price is right.     :(

wow cassie thanks a million~
nice work with this game and the ppt.  you definitely saved me a lot of lesson planning time

i have a question though.  i just wonder how you dealt with teams getting items?  take kimbap, for example, can every team buy it, or is it only the team with the closest guess gets the chance to buy it?

also, lots of the bonus questions are about change, but thats not in the ppt. so i plan to ask some comprehension questions about change while i present the ppt


i like the card ideas, but i wont use them.  my school has two english 'zones' with touch screen tvs and special furniture, but we 'dont have any budget' for laminating materials. go figure

One that I just tied into the lesson, as all of the students may not be going to shop in the U.S. or Canada, is the idea of saying different currencies (화폐). Give them some different countries where they would have a greater possibility of visiting. U.S., Canada, England, Europe (as a whole), Russia, South Africa, Australia, Mexico (and many latin countries), Brazil, China, Japan, etc.  However, they will give you the Korean version of some like Japan sounds like 'en' but we would say 'yen'. Then explain that the currency marker should always come after the number to show the price.  Should be easy.
 
Another concept that you could work just a little on is the difference between 백, 천, 만, etc. in Korean.  How does that translate to English when said? Student have a lot of difficulty saying something like 25만원, so instead of 250,000 they'll say 25,000 because of the way it looks.  Explaining how to say it using the places of hundred, thousand, and even million might be very useful.

I mean when you're speaking the marker goes at the end no matter where it's written.

cassie
you're right, there is a change slide in there.  i thought i looked through the whole ppt, but i guess i didnt  :-\.  my students seem to be really good with the shopping item vocab, but terrible at numbers.  I need to find a good way for them to brush up before playing the price is right.  Like sheila said, they have a lot of difficulty with changing 만 into English.

and yes, sheila, if you're speaking the marker goes at the end.  but if you're writing it goes at the front in English, and at the back in Korean.  not many of my students had problems with this, so i might mention it to them to boost their confidence~

Thanks Cassie. I used some of your ppt and edited it with animal pictures.

Hi everybody, I made a giant powerpoint and also included slides from other people's presentations. Thank you so much. The power point includes:

Suggestions from the text: Who do you think is the best dressed? Do you like your school uniforms? etc.

Review of numbers #1-20, counting by 10's up to one hundred, review of one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, etc., thousands, and then big numbers. (How to read 1,234,567,890 in English. For this part, I start by having them say ninety. I cover all the numbers on the TV screen with my hand or a book up to that point. Then, I reveal the 8. Eight hundred ninety. Then I show the seven and they see how it is in the thousand spot. So they should say seven thousand, then eight hundred ninety. Then I show the six. 67 thousand, 890. Usually I only make them go up to a million, but advanced groups may like to go farther.)
 
Review of clothing items. Also, asking how much is it?

Presentation of new dialogue format. May I help you? It's too expensive, etc.

Towards the end, added slides describing how to play the Go Shopping! game. This idea was modified from someone's earlier suggestion. It's like Go Fish! but has shopping clothes. Each set of cards is available in the Word document. 12 cards in each stack, and I made four copies of each of the 12 cards. So each pile should have 48 cards. I added a Wild! card that can be any item. The slides in the power point are only for the basic format of the game. The game can be increased in difficulty by making sets of cards that contain 6 items. For example, one pile would have both skirts (different prices), both boots (different prices) etc. Then, the students have to ask, "Do you have a skirt?" -- "Yes. How much is it?" -- "It's BLAH BLAH BLAH." To make a set of four, the students must have four of the same item, and the prices must also all be the same.

The additional materials at the end are for a garage sale. They also describe differences between shopping in Korea and shopping in America. (Thank you to the person who first made that power piont).

I made a set of numbers 1-8 and 2 commas on A4 size paper (one number on each piece) and laminated them.  I'm going to bring some students to the front and give each of them a number or comma.  Then, my co-teacher and I are going to take turns calling out numbers and they have to put themselves in the correct order.  I thought about choosing a student to put other students in the correct order so that I can have more members of the class participate.  Of course this will be after reviewing numbers and teaching them how to say them.  Any suggestions on how to improve the idea?