Okay, so I'm using this set of books for my school too. For my third grade co-teacher, he wants me to only teach using the "warm up" section all the way to the "tune in" part. He says he'll take care of the "read and do" section. Is it normal for co-teachers to ask us to only use part of each chapter like that?

Quote from: weigookin74 on December 01, 2011, 09:01:43 AM

These are the themes of those books for each chapter.  I have total freedom to do anything so long as I discuss the themes of each chapter.  I don't necessarily have to do all the listen and repeat garbage inside. 
I made PPT's and wrote my own dialogues, word puzzles, etc based on these themes.  Some lessons I used for all grade because of similiar themes.  Sometimes a good warm up is a 5 minute video or cartoon.  I had downloaded a bunch of short bugs bunny clips.  I use those as an into sometimes before starting the lesson or PPT. 

Grade 1 Themes:

Chapter One- Greetings and Introductions
Chapter Two – Routine
Chapter Three – School
Chapter Four – Hobby
Chapter Five – Family / Birthday
Chapter Six – Foreign Culture
Chapter Seven – Environment / Weather
Chapter Eight – English Expressions (slang)
Chapter Nine – Feelings / Emotions
Chapter Ten – Telephone Conversation
Chapter Eleven – Science / Technology.
Chapter Twelve – Descriptive adjectives.  (To be in awe – Seven Wonders of the world.)


Grade Two Themes:

Chapter One – Future Goals.
Chapter Two – Around the World / Geography.
Chapter Three – Using the internet.
Chapter Four – Advertisements
Chapter Five – Party / Cooking.
Chapter Six – Activities (What have you done?)
Chapter Seven – Heroes / Role Models:
Chapter Eight – Animals
Chapter Nine – Giving Advice (If I were you…)Suggestion
Chapter Ten – Life in the Future
Chapter Eleven – Traditional Korean Culture
Chapter Twelve – Exercise & Fitness
   
Grade Three Themes:

Chapter One – Career
Chapter Two – Memories with friends and family
Chapter Three – Watching a Movie or Performance
Chapter Four – Foreign Culture / Geography
Chapter Five – Art / Museums    
Chapter Six – Science Experiments (as; like, etc)
Chapter Seven – Travel; Cultures
Chapter Eight – Moral of the story; life lessons
Chapter Nine – Daily Economics : Daily Budget : Spending Habits
Chapter Ten – Food Theme (Around the world)
Chapter Eleven – Environment : Global Warming. 
Chapter Twelve – Future Goals (Memories of me – Activity)

Thanks for this weigookin74
I'm kinda in the same boat where I don't have to teach out of the text book but
instead build lessons around what is taught in it.
When looking through the chapters, it get's pretty confusing
seeing as each chapter has so many different things/material in it, but looking at how
you divided each chapter with a specific topic makes it much easier to build a lessons around
and create games.  Nice one, thanks!

Wondering if anyone has come up with any fun auxiliary activities to go along with chapter 4 for grades 1 and 2, "Abracadabra" and " Advertisements and Our Life", respectively. 

Any simple ideas of how to spice these up?