Yea, the talking points seem a little scattered- Expressing Regrets, Asking / Telling a Plan, Saying You'll Remember. I'm kind of stumped in coming up with an activity that uses all of these.

Quote from: frappps on May 24, 2011, 11:16:09 AM

3rd Grade Lesson 5 Week 1

Thanks frappps!  Is it just me or is this chapter so absurdly random?!

I'm moving onto Chapter 5 with my 1st years next week, and everything that I made last year for ch5 was pretty bad. Looking at it now, painfully bad. The communication points are what middle-age adults use... it's so weird to be teaching "what a pity!" to 7th graders. Anyway, I'm editing some of my older stuff which I'll put up soon. Anyone else struggling?

  HAHA I preformed it for a co-teacher in the teacher's room for a laugh, but none of the teachers had the students sing it. *cringe*

Wrapping up Lesson 4 this week.

Here is a short PPT with some dialogue slides I used to review asking permission and giving/declining permission with a few exclamation words thrown in.

For the last slide I explained the expression "It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission" The students that understood it thought it was great.

I just did a PRNT SC on the CD book and pasted the picture into Photoshop.

I'm not sure what you're using, I don't have any .PDF copies of the book. There should be an executable file (neungyule.exe) on the CD that has the book on it.

I just finished the speaking test last week and the format I used was simply to ask open ended questions that are related to the themes of each chapter. For example, if one of the lessons was about food and desserts, I would ask: "Do you like desserts? why or why?" and if another lesson is about animals and the zoo, I would ask: "Which animal surprises you the most? Why?", etc. I gave the list of questions to the students ahead of times to prepare and practice and when it comes to the test, they would randomly pick 3 lessons and I would pick the question for them to answer. My speaking test covered up to chapter 4. I looked for fluency, grammar, and sentence structure.

Here's the powerpoint to go with my "There is" lesson above.

Thanks for this!  It worked well with my high level class.  I made them ask to see the cards in complete sentences as well.  But to make the game a little more exciting I brought a dice in and let them roll it if they got a match and made a sentence.  The point system was as follows:

1=1
2=2
3=3
4=Death so I made this erase all points for that team
5=Switch
6=3 for your team and 3 for another team of their choice.  You can also make this 3 and 2 or something that allows the team that rolled it to be on top still.  But 3+3 just made sense for me because it adds up to 6.

This keeps every team within reach of winning.

For Grade 3, Lesson 5, explaining "cause" and "result" -  I found an awesome game from this blog: http://pjgalien.wordpress.com/

How I play it: divide the class into teams.  Teams each get chances to find two cards that match.  Once they find a match, to get points, they'll have to make a sentence including both the cause and the result: "I ate too much, so I got a stomachache." 

I started to play this with my grumpy 9:00 a.m. Monday class, and they seemed to be getting into it.  If you play this, look at the slides first and make sure you know which cards are a match in advance.

As often happens, I am not teaching the talking points for Lesson 5 in order . I felt so inspired to instead begin with a PPT for Part C. I will use it to explain "Look on the bright side", "Cheer Up", and "Don't worry." A lot of the pictures are borrowed from other waygookin, thanks guys!

I will start class by showing a couple short music videos, here are the best ones I've found so far:

- On the Bright Side by Never Shout Never.
-It goes too fast for my low level students to read along but it does have sing-along subtitles and a nice little story we can discuss afterward. I think they will like this one best.
- Simple stick figure story with a clip of Bright Side of Life playing in the background
- Monty Python's Bright Side of Life, full live version (03:50)
 - WARNING: a couple concerns with this one, it has nice sing-along type subtitles but my students would struggle with the thick British accents and obscure lyrics. Also, it clearly says "shit" at one point. Don't want to get myself in trouble!
- Another simple animation, this time combined with photos and with Don't Worry, Be Happy playing. There are lyrics on the screen to follow.

I will then go through the dialogue using the PPT.

Note: I have not yet pasted the graphic from Part C but you can see where it goes.

Finally I will do a sentence scramble game where each team of students gets a small whiteboard and must write the sentence in order for points. I give them 3 minutes to discuss as a group and write the sentence. I give 10 points for each correct sentence and 5 points if they are only off by 1 word. We then read the complete dialogue together for extra speaking practice (and to add time).

Enjoy!

EDIT: I modified the scramble slides into fill-in-the-blank for my really low level students.

Grade 1 chapter 3.

Focused on commands. An alternative version of Simon Says. This was week 2 of the chapter. Reviewed how to put simple commands together. Showed that awesome video someone posted with the Mom singing commands with Korean and English subtitles. Then went through the listening sections of the book. Then played this action game the last part of class. They had to do what I said and NOT what I did. I'm sure you guys can come up with some better action moves though! Was really tricky to do at first hahaha. I let some of the more out going students lead the class after awhile. Worked out great.