This is a thread for any lesson material for J.L. Haas (2009 edition) Middle School English 1 Lesson 3: My Family Weekend.  Please share your contributions here. Be sure to explain exactly what you are posting and please do not post multi-level materials in this thread. Also, any review lessons or materials should be posted in the review section for this grade. If you can't find what you're looking for here, be sure to check the previous edition of the book.  Best of luck in your lesson planning!

Posting my materials as I make 'em! I teach four periods per lesson, so there might be some stuff that doesn't directly correspond to the book.

Lesson 3A teaches "What's your hobby? / I like _________." First, I play a game called Rows and Columns. (Explanations in the lesson plan.) Afterward, I go over Listen and Talk 1 in the textbook, then pass out the worksheets. Last is a speed quiz game. You can use the PPT in lots of different ways. My students sit in rows of 5-6; I timed them to see which row could name the vocabulary the fastest using complete sentences (I like ________). Each student would name one hobby.

However, I think there's lots of other ways to do this. I might play "traditional" speed quiz with some of my other classes.

Lesson plan, worksheet and speed quiz game attached.

Lesson 3B teaches the dialogue "What do you do on the weekends? / I like playing badminton with my family." I didn't get to the speed quiz game that I intended to do for Lesson 3A; I therefore played it as a warm-up during this lesson.

Lesson plan, PPT and speaking activity attached.

Lesson 3C teaches the "Can you swim? / Yes, I can" material. I played human bingo with the students, then played a disappearing dialogue bomb game.

Human bingo instructions: Pass out bingo worksheet to teach student. There should be 16 empty spaces. Students must ask classmates "Can you _______?" and find others who CAN do the various activities. I gave stickers to the first five students to fill out their worksheets.

Bomb game instructions: Standard bomb game rules. There are 18 questions; each question is attached to two slides. The first slide shows a dialogue in full. Allow students to look at the dialogue; they have 10 seconds to memorize it. The next slide shows the same dialogue, but with words blanked out. The students had to fill in the blanks verbally.

I broke the class into three teams, and had them read dialogues in pairs. I'm also very lenient with the bomb games, and I encourage higher level students to help out the lower level ones.

Instructions for the human bingo and the bomb game are in my PPT. (There are pictures of me in the PPT, though, that you might want to change.)

Attached are my lesson plan, human bingo worksheet and the bomb game.

I've clobbered together a pretty good presentation. As with all my powerpoints, the powerpoint really does everything for you. It teaches the key expression: 'what is your hobby?' and 'what are your hobbies?'. Elicit as much as you can from your students.

Also be sure to stress that:
you are playing the instrument.
you are playing football.

articles, articles, articles.

I stole a 'guess what this hobby is as I slowly remove the panels' game from someone on this site and added a few slides of my own.


There is also a worksheet mingling activity where ther students get up and interview each other. Since my first graders are shy, I make sure the boys have at least 3 girls on their list, and vica versa.


Finally, I think I'll steal the speed quiz from Rachel and use that as a finisher. Thanks Rachel. Any feedback/questions let me hear it :-)

Any plans for next week guys? I'm thinking of teaching the simple future 'will' using activities from the textbook.

Finally, I think I'll steal the speed quiz from Rachel and use that as a finisher. Thanks Rachel. Any feedback/questions let me hear it :-)

Any plans for next week guys? I'm thinking of teaching the simple future 'will' using activities from the textbook.

You're welcome!  Let me know how it goes!

I'll be doing the "Can you _______? / Yes, I can" spiel. I'm stuck directly covering all the material in the textbook. Afterward, I was going to have the students do a human bingo game.

I made a really simple 3-level listening/gap fill exercise for this lesson with comprehension check questions at the end. I usually read it three times (slowly), give the students a chance to fill in the blanks and answer the CC questions, and then have the students take turns reading it out loud. Feel free to change the names or whatever you see fit. Cheers!

Part 2 for next week, focusing on the imperative.

A simple survey for hobbies. A little cleaner and more organized than some others. Basically the same as in the book, but in a handout form.

This is an enrichment activity if you're like me and have to teach 5-6 periods on a single lesson. I showed them a segment from the musical Annie Get Your Gun, then had students fill out lyrics based on the song "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)."

There's a PPT briefly introducing the musical; then I showed them this video I found on youtube. (Skip the first 2 minutes or so.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo2sYbirDTc

Afterward, go through some of the more difficult vocabulary (also in the PPT). Then I passed out the worksheet and had them fill in the lyrics using the Karaoke version of the song.

I played the song 3-4 times, then went over the answers. Took up nearly the whole class period for my kids -- I spent the last 10 minutes or so reviewing the various dialogue structures we'd learned in the chapter.

I've clobbered together a pretty good presentation. As with all my powerpoints, the powerpoint really does everything for you. It teaches the key expression: 'what is your hobby?' and 'what are your hobbies?'. Elicit as much as you can from your students.

Also be sure to stress that:
you are playing the instrument.
you are playing football.

articles, articles, articles.

I stole a 'guess what this hobby is as I slowly remove the panels' game from someone on this site and added a few slides of my own.


There is also a worksheet mingling activity where ther students get up and interview each other. Since my first graders are shy, I make sure the boys have at least 3 girls on their list, and vica versa.


Finally, I think I'll steal the speed quiz from Rachel and use that as a finisher. Thanks Rachel. Any feedback/questions let me hear it :-)

Any plans for next week guys? I'm thinking of teaching the simple future 'will' using activities from the textbook.

I like this ppt  lot, thanks for sharing it!  One bit of feedback I have about it, however, is concerning how you changed the target language on the ppt slides from "I like playing football" to "My hobby is playing football."  I think this could confuse the kids a bit.  Also, I don't know if we often say, "my hobby is...".  I think English speakers are more likely to simply say reply to "what's your hobby?" with "I like playing football."

Still, good stuff here!  Thanks bunches :)

Question - how do you extract the mp3 files for the voice clips from the CDs? I know you recorded these ones but I remember some of your previous presentations had stuff from the CD. Cheers!

Hey Matt, I've never used the CDs and so have never extracted the MP3 files from them, sorry! I make all my own listening texts as I don't even have the CDs here.