This is a thread for any lesson material for Judy Yin (전재교육 2013 edition) Middle School English 1 Lesson 7: Wonders of Nature. 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.  Best of luck in your lesson planning!

Here is another easy lesson, this time for superlatives and comparatives.

I show the slide trying to elicit answers from the students. I typically get them to tell me the sentence to write on the board. I then show my answer and get them recite the sentence a couple of times. Then... we watch the video :)

Another good one for the first week back after holidays.

Enjoy
Cheers
Phil
www.gdaykorea.blogs pot.com.au

My co-teacher has asked me to create key words and phrases ppt's for each lesson. This is shown at the introduction of the unit to teach the students the words that they may not know, that they will hear or see in the Speaking/Listening section of the text.

This should take about 5-10 mins to go through, asking students to guess the Korean meaning, discussing different parts of the pictures and reading the sentences aloud.

Thanks for all of that philby1985, much appreciated.

I hate to be pedantic, but I am. With the guess the animal game, it should probably say "I am an..." when it is owl or elephant etc. not "I am a...". Like I said, pedantic. Or if you don't want to give the clue that it starts with a vowel (if they pick up on it in the first place) then you could fade it over the 'a' when the animal is revealed.

Thanks for the feedback. When I have time I'll look at making the change.

Also, a koala is not a bear. Its a marsupial (I go on about this sometimes, but a fact is a fact). I changed it to 'I am a small, cute Australian animal.'

Otherwise great little games and very useful, thanks.

hehe. I know. I am actually Australian and we have a song that goes like this..

"please don't call me a Koala bear, because I'm not a bear at all"

I pulled a lot of the questions from a worksheet I found online. I did see that but never got around to fixing it as my classes wouldn't get quite that far through the game.

Cheers
Phil

Hi Philby,

    This is a great game. Did you pre teach any animal vocabulary for this or were you just eliciting what they already know? It sounds like you were just eliciting. I'm using this for low level students and students who don't care about English so I might do some pre teaching. Let me know what you did. Thanks!!

I didn't do any pre-teaching of animal vocab. I have a real mixed bag of levels at my school. Even my very low level students did well, I was surprised.

I have found that when you put them together to work as a group they can be quite smart when they pool their knowledge. Occasionally if one group was really struggling and falling behind, I would write down the first couple of letters on their whiteboard and some underlines to indicate how many letters were in the word.

(slides 1 and 11-14 (with some changes) were borrowed from another waygook user. Thanks!)

This lesson begins with a review of past tense verbs (from p. 103 of Unit 6) and directions (from page 105 of Unit 6). My students struggled quite a bit with the verbs, so they needed a little extra.

Next there is an introduction to Unit 7, specifically p. 121 (about the robots) with a video of RobotLand in Incheon (link imbedded in the ppt). The video is in Korean, but I'm using it to hook interest and have students use the target language in English after seeing the video. (What can the robots at RobotLand do? "They can _______."

Then we run through the top of p. 121 with the ppt. After this, student create their own robot by selecting a robot to color and write about (see PDF). They'll use this sheet to practice speaking.

The lesson wraps up with section D (Talk in Groups) and a review.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments!

Wonders of Nature: Focus on interesting animal facts
This is a really fun class with a lot of student involvement and random trivia.

REAL or FAKE quiz (1 finger for real 2 fingers for fake) and practice showing surprise
Practice "Have you heard about..." using some amazing animal gifs
Page 123 Dialogue Practice
Animal Trivial Whiteboard game- groups write their answer on the board, most points wins

*Make sure you view the ppt in slideshow mode**

The worksheet is a partner activity detailed in the "superlative olympics" file

I've edited the superlative olympics posted by philby to suit not needing to prep materials to take to class (this version only requires a computer for the powerpoint and something to note points with)

After going through the textbook (Listen and Speak 1 and 2) and at the very least giving the Communication task a cursory once over, here's a game that covers all the elements of those specific parts.

To make sure, do lots of rapid listen and repeat on the main phrases in the text, and go through the listen and speak parts with rigor, and I gotta think the students will rock on this (and mine are at a considerably lower level, but I have confidence they'll be able)

I hope someone can use it.
Blessed are the template makers.

Philby- I love the superlative olympics. I'm going to use it in my class next week. The only change I made was when you asked who the best drawer is, all I could think of was a drawer full of socks!    so I just changed it to "best at drawing." Although artist would work as well.
I think I will also add a superlative that takes "most."
I think this will be so fun.