This is a thread for any lesson material for J.L. Haas (2009 edition) Middle School English 1 Lesson 6: Give Us Your Talent.  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!

Hi, this is my first time posting. I'm a new teacher, so I haven't posted anything yet for fear that my materials are not up to scratch. However, the materials for this textbook are quite sparse, so it's time to start contributing! I hope this helps someone out.

First, I just go over the key expressions and explain the terms, and then we watch a video about asking favours and responding. The students complete the worksheet as they watch. They usually need to watch twice, and for lower levels I break the video down into smaller sections for them. The video is hyperlinked in the presentation (just click on the picture), but here is the link in case it doesn't work: . My students found the video pretty funny, and they like to mimic what the guy says ("I guess so..."). We then check the answers together and practice doing the dialogue, either by splitting the class into person A and person B, or by making the person B and me person A. After this, we look at some of the expressions used in the video in more detail, and practice the expressions needed to complete the next activity (page 92, part C).

Next, we move on to the expression 'Why don't you...', briefly explaining the expression and doing some examples, and then doing page 93 part C.

For both textbook activities, I ask students to make their own example once they have practiced the dialogue. I then ask for volunteers to demonstrate their own example with their partner. Volunteers get a stamp, as part of our reward system.

I also borrowed the BAAM game that Amandada6262000 posted above, in case there is extra time.

This is my lesson for chapter 6.
Aimed for fairly low level grade 1 students.

Warm up = rhyming with target phonics.
Presentation = ppt slides with teams competing to guess what the favour is.
Production = Book work (p 94). I would prefer not to do stuff from the book, but I'm required to, so...

Practice: Go Fish with cards made from the pictures on p.95. My kids really enjoy card games. 

Let me know if there are suggestions or feedback!

Here is my PPT with two lessons worth plus a document containing a lesson plan for each lesson in the PPT.
Some of the content is borrowed from other Waygookers, and my lesson includes many of the textbook listening activities.
Hope it helps!

For Lesson 6, Part 1, I did an easy game with my students, whose English is generally pretty mid-level.
Requirements: One large box. A few books for extra weight. You can buy the box from your local Korea Post. The second-largest one they have will do fine, just get the largest one that you think your students can handle.

Have them stand in a line, with a foot or so of space between each student. Wind the line around your classroom if you need.
You start by saying "can you help me" and the student must say "yes I can", or "of course". Then give the box to the student. The student then must ask the same question to the next student in line. Box goes to each student.

Then, plan a second round but tell the students to turn around, close their eyes. Tell the students you will poke some students in the back and the poked students must say "sorry I can't" instead of "yes I can". The student holding the box must then go to the next student in line, until they find a non-poked student who can take the box. (I recommend poking 7 students out of 30, up to 10).

I've done this with only one class so far, but they enjoyed the activity.

My grade 1 students are often surprisingly low-level, or behind in their textbook relative to the semester, so this is a very simple introduction to "favors" in Chapter 6.


Please note that the file is a Keynote Presentation for Apple/OSX computers. It is formatted for 1080p (or 16x9) screens.

Thanks for the PowerPoint ideas! I don't have any prior experience and this was my very first lesson (besides introducing myself) so I was glad to see a lot of resources~ ^^

For my lesson I did an "Apples to Apples" style game. I grouped my students in teams of 6 and showed a picture. For "asking for a favor" slides, they had to respond with the phrase "I'm sorry, I can't. (excuse)" and for the "asking for advice" slides, they used "Why don't you...?". Students discussed in their groups, and wrote a response on the board. I had my coteacher choose her favorite response based on correct English and uniqueness. At first it was hard to get the students to come to the board, but once I gave out the first point they got pretty competitive. Some students came up with really interesting answers, so my coteachers and I had fun too :)

Hope this helps!

I have to do an open class with this chapter (eek!), so I'll upload what I made.

Basic 'fill-in-the-gaps' for Section C on pages 92 and 93. Not difficult, but good practice. Then I do the answers via the DVD and have students repeat pronunciation.

Powerpoint game is a 'match the word to the picture hidden card game' (catchy name eh!?). There are review slides before each game. I t includes some feelings for Chapter 5 happy, sad etc.

I'll also upload the lesson plan.

All materials have been adapted from other wagookers. Thank you one and all!

Happy teaching!

Quote from: IanTedstone on October 22, 2014, 04:00:28 PM

I have attached a short advice introduction followed by a Where's Waldo bomb game. It ran OK, not one of the better ones. It also may be a bit short for a whole lesson.

Does anyone know how to fix this game? when you click X it will remove the selected country from the questions board, but if they get it right, and you select Waldo and do points, it resets the questions board.  I've been trying to figure it out :p

Thanks

Here's a fixed version.

Moving all the "points" slide transitions directly after the question slide fixes it.

I teach all three grades and see each class once a week. The classes are mixed levels, so I need to do lots of scaffolding. I work closely with the textbook and I usually give 2-3 classes to complete a lesson depending on the pace and content to cover. As the native speaker, I do Listen and Talk 1 and 2 and Put It Together with my students. For my second graders I also squeeze in Think and Write. If there is time, I sometimes do class review games.

For Lesson 6, I divided it into two sections: Favors and Advice.
Class 1: Favors – Covers how to ask a favor and how to decline and accept a favor focusing on excuses.
Class 2: A review game – Bamm! based on favors
Class 3: Advice – Review of favors by offering advice or suggestions in the form of “Why don’t you...?”