Hey this is first time I'm posting anything. Was wondering if anyone has any fun lesson ideas or know of good video clips for lesson 7 " teen volunteers"- Just really struggling to get an exciting angle to the topic and am boring myself with the lesson.

I'm not exactly finished preparing for Lesson 7 (Grade 2), but I thought I'd share what I have so far:

Part A: Thinking of starting off, showing them a ppt of different interesting volunteering situations (still have to make it), ie working in an elephant park in Thailand, or helping in orphanages in Nepal etc. Then I'll go through the book (Part A) and end off with a group activity (groups of 4) where they fill in the blanks and have to memorize the conversation, and present. There's only an A and B in the conversations, so 2 people are A and 2 are B.

Part B: I'll go through part B of the lesson and play an unscramble the sentence game. I use 3 mini whiteboards for this, as they are in 3 rows. For the first slide, the pair in the first row have to unscrable the sentence on their mini whiteboard, second sentence, 2nd row etc etc. First correct team = 15points, 2nd = 10points, 3rd = 5points

These are the activities I used last year. They're not the best ever, but maybe someone can use them/change them etc...

Hey, complete newbie teacher here using these textbooks. I must admit that I am quite confused as to what some of these chapters are trying to teach. For example, Grade 3 Lesson 7 (Five New Words at a Time) seems to cover two completely diffeent topics in the listening/speaking sections (requests) compared with the reading/writing sections (it-that statements). Is there always this disconnect?
I just received the books today and need to start teaching lesson 7 for grades 1, 2 and 3 on Monday. Yikes! I have only done a quick skim of this thread but it looks like there are some good ideas on here that I hope to use. Thanks for your help everyone!

Hey, I guess we're both in the same boat! I'm desk warming today and I will be starting lessons on Monday, and the topic for this lesson feels very scattered!

Hey, complete newbie teacher here using these textbooks. I must admit that I am quite confused as to what some of these chapters are trying to teach. For example, Grade 3 Lesson 7 (Five New Words at a Time) seems to cover two completely diffeent topics in the listening/speaking sections (requests) compared with the reading/writing sections (it-that statements). Is there always this disconnect?
I just received the books today and need to start teaching lesson 7 for grades 1, 2 and 3 on Monday. Yikes! I have only done a quick skim of this thread but it looks like there are some good ideas on here that I hope to use. Thanks for your help everyone!

Check if you have a Teacher's Guide book. They look the same as the Activity books but are just bigger in size. They come with lesson plans already built into them, but they are still poorly put together. The book (and my coteachers) want me to do the Listening section in one lesson, and then the Speaking in the following lesson. I managed to convince my teachers to give me more freedom and I now do half speaking/listening in a lesson and still cover the same amount of material. I've now managed to get into a bit of a formula to figure out what the book is trying to teach.

Generally Activity A from the Listening and Activity A from the Speaking sections have the same key phrases. Sometimes it might be Listening A and Speaking B, but more often than not it is A & A. The teachers guide book will roughly explain what they are trying to teach. Also the guide book will have a 'Consolidation & Evaluation' section which clearly states the objectives.

If you don't have the guide book though, read through the 2 activities and try find the phrases which are repeated. These will usually be the learning points.
E.g Grade 2 Lesson 7A, Listening A and Speaking A are both teaching 'Can you make it at...' and inviting yourself or joining with someone else in an activity.
Looking at next weeks lesson, Grade 2 Lesson 7B will be about persuasion (Please let me try) and experience (do you have any experience).


I have attached my G1 & G2 Lesson 7A for you to have a look at. It's nothing standout as it's my first lesson back from the break, but it might give you some idea about the books format. Generally after about 2 or 3 lessons you'll be in the swing of it and can just freestyle. I've taught the lessons 7 times (out of 10) now and they flow perfectly.


Also be aware that there are specific learning objectives and 'context' for those objectives. Lesson 7 for G2 is titled Teen Volunteers. Volunteering is just the context of the lesson to make the objectives fit. G2 Speaking A & B are talking about Volunteers, while the Speaking sections are about Book Club & washing a puppy. There's absolutely no correlation which can be confusing, you just need to read into it and try figure out what they are trying to teach.

Generally with my lessons I'll have the Listening activity as the Presentation, Speaking is the Practice and then I'll create a new activity to function as the Production. You will probably want to find someway to get the students interested in the lesson too as the animations are batshit awful. I make a stupid video each week for Grade 2 for the Speaking activities and have a small worksheet to go with it, which hooks them in for the lesson and they've grown to love them. I've attached the video for G2L7A, it isn't the best as I CBF at the end of the holiday, but just so you can see what I mean.


Good luck and have fun. You'll realise pretty quickly that the main objective of the lessons and teaching English in Korea isn't actually to teach English at all, but get the students involved, thinking for themselves, and ENJOYING English.
Al

You need to understand that your co-teachers have a whole set of separate classes that they teacher outside of yours. Plan your lessons and let them know what they are. I tend to email them the lessons so they can look at them at their leisure.

I'm assuming your new to your school, so be sure to start by laying down the ground rules. Start off strong, you can always loosen up later. It's much harder to do it the other way though. You can also explain how you plan to deal with disruptive behavior and any punishments should you have any in mind. I think it's good to let them know about this from the start. I've heard of some teachers having students sign contracts related to expectations and rules, some even have their parents sign too. Can be a bit of a hassel but could be worth it too. I'm thinking about implementing it myself.

As for lesson 7, grade 1, I'm doing restaurant vocab the first week along with normal book stuff and then a Mario Blast review game. The second week will be much the same but for review we're going to play an awesome game of Bear, Ninja, Cowboy. Not finished planning this, but here is the outline so far:

http://prezi.com/b1c6ow1psqiw/g1-l7b/

Grade 2 is all about making plans and I'm thinking I'll do some Battleship games to review at the end. Check out your Teacher's Guide and activity books for ideas on making the book material bearable and try to have some fun. The kids will be restless these first couple of weeks being back at school and seeing their friends. Good luck.

~Ian

Pssh, no! Haha. I mean you can get the general gist of what they are going for but I stick to broad topics with some key expressions from the book. I usually then go on to explain how no one says this and how they should say it to sound normal. I never get into grammar unless absolutely necessary, I'm just trying to make it fun and encourage them to take part in English outside of class. We have 45 minutes with them, once a week. Much of what I teach them doesn't stick, and I can accept that, but making them interested and wanting to try more is what you want. I try to get them to go to my website and play games and watch videos as much as possible. I started it right before summer break so not many were keen on looking at it after finals, but those that did say they had fun. Check out the games and what not, they are fun. Plus all our awesome summer camp zombie movies!

ianteacher.weebly.com

Tom,

Here's a great ice-breaker game for the kids too. This one is a blast.

This is for Grade 1 Lesson 7 this is a minesweeper game that I found for Grade 2 Lesson 4 before summer.  Thank you and credit to the username who escapes me.  I basically just changed the questions on the left to fit what we're learning in Lesson 7.

Click here to Download the PPT

 

Grade 1 lesson 5.
Grade 2 lesson 3.

So I've just started in a boys middle school, and we're using these books. I'm teaching grades 1 and 3. For grade 1 we'll be starting with lesson 7 (Favorite Food Day) and grade 3 we'll be starting with lesson 6 (Day By Day).  I need to have a lesson plan for both by Thursday, and I'm struggling a bit with what they want! And also with working the various CDs they've given me, which I can't seem to work... If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it as I'm fairly confused!