This is a thread for any lesson material for Christina H. Kim (2013 edition) Middle School English 1 Lesson 4: Helping Hands. 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!

I really like the making a weather forecast idea. For some reason it never crossed my mind.

This is my Prezi for this chapter. I have focused on the weather because they get enough practice with the present progressive and I don't think it blends well with the weather in conversation.

http://prezi.com/q84cybgigguc/untitled-prezi/

Go through some basic weather terms. Show them a Running man weather forcast clip. Get them to draw the weather on a blank map of Korea and write a mini script for a weather forecast and get them to present on the board like a weather reporter!

Might add a little more before monday. Like extreme forms of weather.

Here's the blank map of Korea...not that its difficult to find 

the first slide is a handout... to printed, one for each student, or pair, depending on how you do it. The 2nd slide should be up on the tv if students are working individually, or printed and a few copies laminated and kept in the dice-throwing area if they're in pairs. a few throws of the dice should give the students something to draw into the picture. I plan to have them in pairs, with one drawing and the other throwing the die at the other end of the room (where the dice must stay) and going back and communicating to the drawer what to draw in (then switch roles). this keeps the drawer from seeing the die or rubric, i.e. forcing them to speak to each other to communicate. should be good for maybe 15-20 mins, including handing out and explanation. i'd precede it by revising prepositions, the present progressive if necessary, and maybe some picture response or something to practice combining the two.

In the end there wasn't enough space to do the long-range running-dictation version; so I had students draw their things on the sheet in pairs with the rubric on the television, and raise their hands when they'd done 5. I collected their sheet (with name on) and swapped it with another pair who'd finished, and had them try to recreate the sentence that the original drawers had used to create their pictures. went down well.

Hi ~

I've just started teaching at a Middle School and my co teacher has asked me to do a review test along with a practice test for the students. It includes some of chapters 1-5. Here is a worksheet on present +ing. I will upload the practice test when I have the bar graph added.

Hope it helps.