1st Grade Lesson 5B

This is what I'll be doing next week. I adapted the idea of using "heads up 7 up" for this lesson, changing the rules a bit.

This lesson is focused on forming the question "Do you remember.....?". I've also included embedded questions, which is something the book doesn't cover but I think is much more useful (e.g. "Do you remember when Children's Day is?" rather than simply "Do you remember Children's Day?")

Anyway: Grammar explanation --> Book work --> Speaking practice --> Short explanation for game --> "Thumbs up" game

BTW.. was it only me that had never heard of "heads up 7 up" before coming to Korea? I don't know whether I never heard of it because it's an American game, or if maybe I just had a sheltered childhood!

There may be some mistakes, but I wanted to get them finished so I can enjoy the weekend.

Amen to that!

Grade 2 Lesson 5B

I might make some changes to this before next week, but wanted to post it up now as I'll probably not be motivated to do so after the World DJ festival this weekend  :D

This lesson is about "I've decided to..." and "I'm sure..."

Grammar explanation --> Book work --> "Coin flick" game

There are a few references you'll need to change if you decide to use this - my name and 2 of my co-teachers are on the game board, and there's also my photo in the PPT.

If you can, it's good to laminate the game boards as the coin slides better and you can re-use them with different classes easily.

Here is a video we made for Grade 2, Lesson 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cu8LrOkf0&feature=youtu.be.

It is our first attempt at making a video for the book's dialogue. It is not exactly like the book, but uses the same forms.

My interactive whiteboard is broken, won't be fixed till at least next week so all my prepared lessons are useless.  Any ideas how to entertain teach 30 low ability middle school boys without the benefit of technology.

My interactive whiteboard is broken, won't be fixed till at least next week so all my prepared lessons are useless.  Any ideas how to entertain teach 30 low ability middle school boys without the benefit of technology.

My students really eat up "Stop the Bus." And it lasts all class. Kinda review, kinda not. highly engaging...

Draw a grid on the board with the team name/number at the top of the columns (awkward at first, I know, but it makes it easier...). Then to the left, write the categories. Depends on if you want to really review or just have fun... I always include City/Country | Company Name | food | funny word (aka free point but they won't all figure that one out)_| etc etc... tell them spelling is okay, you'll help with that.

They form teams (4-6) and need one sheet of scratch paper. You write a letter on the board. That means GO! and the students must quickly WRITE a word for each category. Whoever finishes first yells, "Stop the bus!" and EVERY TEAM MUST STOP WRITING and send ONE person to the board to WRITE the answers they have (They'll try to cheat and copy here. Be mindful). Okay, now tally up the score (I make a separate row for points to keep the points aligned with the team columns). Here's the fun part.

If students get the same answer for a category, then BOTH are crossed out and neither team gets the point. So for a country, two groups put Korea, but one put Kuwait, only Kuwait will count as a point. It gets competitive, and the stragglers will try to nullify other teams' points this way at the board as they write. This is why I hover and check what they've written on their paper while writing on the chalkboard. Otherwise, they'll try to cheat. Send them to their seats once the lone student has finished copying his team's answers.

Always start with "S" because it's easiest and they'll all put Samsung or SKT for the company name 

There ya go!

Hello, I do hope everyone's weekend was lovely.

I always seem to be ahead with these books and currently have some classes on Chapter 5 and some having finished Chapter 6 owing to various timetable bugger-ups in the past few weeks. I've made a 4,5 and 6 review PPT for Grades 1 and 2 which somebody may eventually find useful.

I've alo adapted the AWESOME Pokemon game to use as a 4,5,6 review (so far only for G1 but G2 and maybe 3 to follow) but including pictures it's around 45mb and I don't know how to shrink it. Any ideas?

Apparently I have a few lessons to kill now as my students are only tested on these chapters for the final exam. D'oh.

As always, the presentations have been exported from Keynote so some of the animations may be a little weird.

I've alo adapted the AWESOME Pokemon game to use as a 4,5,6 review (so far only for G1 but G2 and maybe 3 to follow) but including pictures it's around 45mb and I don't know how to shrink it. Any ideas?

That sounds awesome! I'd say zip it with Winrar.

grade 1, lesson 6, visit to the big apple.

plans for the weekend.

The lesson focuses on the speaking part of the chapter. there's a game, worksheet, and speaking activity going round the room filling in the grid thing.

I'm supposed to give speaking tests for lessons 1-4 in a couple weeks. Have any of you guys had to do this?

I have to prepare the students for the speaking tests next week but I don't have a good idea of how to do so.

My school appears to be way behind the rest of you. I was told to continue with Chapter 4, but was pretty much out of materials. I have a wordsearch covering some new vocabulary for today, followed by a quick powerpoint offering some suggestions for what to do in a zombie attack. Next, the students completed a review worksheet (sentence scramble, dictation, and creative writing). Finally, they played an Angry Birds review game covering "You're supposed to, You're not supposed to, Did you remember?", etc. There were some problems with the powerpoint that I had to work around. I can't toggle between the game board and questions. In addition , birds aren't awarded upon completion of the question. To compensate for this, we played straight through from the first slide, hitting the arrow button to move until the next question (A>B>C...etc). We also had a colored dice that the students rolled to determine their awarded bird. Light Green was designated as the pig, and the team that rolled it lost all their birds. You could regular die in a similar manner. Hope this isn't too late to help some people!

the angry bird power point didnt work when trying to get the correct answers to pop up.