Here is my lesson for this unit.

I played this video by Matisayhu to give the students a general feel for the topic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYRS4FQXZrk

And I also played this video after I finished my power point to help the students generate some ideas on how they could lend a helping hand in their neighborhoods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oROsbaxWH0M

After they watched the video I gave them a worksheet and had them form groups of 3-4 to come up with an assignment in which they decide on ways that they can use their own talents to volunteer in their community.

After I introduced this lesson, went through several speaking exercises and activities, we put the books away and tried this "making plans" game that I picked up from orientation.

You show the PPT, go through the rules, distribute the half sheets, and let the kids go nuts.

Instructions:

For this game I had all students STAND UP after they chose one “tile” from each section.

Then, I would pick a “tile” from each column, have the students repeat the words/ phrases, and then instruct students who used the same word/ phrase in their own sentence to sit down.

The last student standing got a piece of candy or some school reward stamps.

We played maybe, 7 rounds… The students loved it and it required very little material.

This is a complete lesson for Chapter 8, Part I.

I'm responsible for the Listen & Speak sections in the textbook, which are generally pretty boring.  This lesson covers the "be + going to" section.

In the attachments are a Lesson Plan, PPT Presentation, Bingo Cards (enough for a 40 student class), Bingo Sentences, Draw the Missing Body Parts Handout, and associated audio files.

Review the future tense with the students, indicating that "be + going to" is really a future tense.  Practice using the correct form of the verb "to be" and do L&S 1.

The main activity is Draw the Missing Parts Dialog.  Instructions in the PPT and Lesson Plan.  Finish the class with a Bingo and/or a Writing Activity (end of PPT).  Some slides in the PPT have notes; more information available there.

Lastly, make sure to save the audio files in the same directory as the PPT to ensure everything works properly.

This is a complete lesson for Chapter 8, Part II.  It covers the Listen & Speak 2 section.

This lesson is probably over-planned, so you may have to cut a lot of material.  It is also handout-intensive, so be sure to do your printing/copying ahead of time.

After a brief presentation on "Would you like...?" and doing the L&S2 book work, have the students design and decorate their own menus.  I've provided several templates for the students to fill in, but you could just give them plain paper as well.  Once the menus are completed, have the students practice ordering from each other's menus using the script from the book.  I add in some Play Money so they can buy the food from each other; this can be cut as well to save on printing/cutting time, but it does add realism and the kids enjoy it.  The group who has the most money at the end of the lesson is the "winner." Use whatever reward system you have in place.

I had first used the Matisyahu video above as a warm-up activity, but it took too long and didn't leave the kids enough time to finish their menus.  So I decided to move it to the end of the class as a "reward" or filler activity.  I made a handout to check comprehension of the video, and there are slides in the PPT to check answers.

Lastly, I included a sentence writing activity, similar to the one I included in my lesson for Part I of this chapter.  I never got to it then, and I doubt you'll get to it for this lesson either, but it's there as an optional back-up activity.

There are notes on some of the slides in the PPTs; more info there and in the lesson plan.   As always, make sure to save the audio files in the same directory as the PPT presentation to ensure it works right.

I went over the target language "I'm going to..." and reviewed dates/time. Then they did a partner worksheet to practice speaking the target language. Finally I used the same writing game that AlexStoltz1 did. I'd been wanting to try it since I learned it at orientation, just never did until now and it went really well. I actually totally scrapped the worksheet portion for my first class this morning to let them just play the sentence making game and they loved it.

And here are the activities (video clip took up too much space to attach them all at once.)

Here's a review game for the lesson - thanks to the op for the template.

(Just save the sound files in the same folder as the game and it should work. One of my school's doesn't have sound working in the English room, but the game was fun anyways)

Just a heads up:  The sentence construction of "Going to + inf. verb" in this lesson is nearly identical to the L7 in the J.L. Haas middle school Gr 1 text. (Chapter called Let's Go Camping), so if you need some other stuff, you might be able to grab and alter.

From when I used the Haas books, this was in a different chapter (I noted that earlier).  I just changed a few of the slides around and have made it more applicable to the listen and speak parts of this chapter.

While I kind of hate bomb games, my students are low level and it does get them talking.  You'd obviously need to practice the dialogues, drill the vocab and sentence structures, but this should help.

Blessed are the template makers.

I used this worksheet today, and while it went pretty quick, it seemed good review.