Grade 2 Lesson 3
Build Up Part A

For my grade 2's i have the daunting task of teaching them the build up section (grammar).  NOt so bad as my co teacher actually has told me that she loves english grammar and her english is top notch so she explains a lot to the kids in korean when they dont understand.

We basically follow the book and give the kids some time to fill out the exercises before practicing the grammar point with an activity.

This grammar point is about the present perfect "have/haven't" and how you have to use the past participle(pp) of a verb when writing the sentence.  We do an exercise on the board where we write a bunch of verbs and the kids have to tell us the different forms like "eat, ate, eaten/ride, rode, ridden.....so that they know which form to use. 

After they have completed part A and B (we give them 5 minutes to practice with their partners and then ask for volunteers) the students form groups of 4 and create their own dialogue using blank comic strips that i got from this website. http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix
There are some printable copies of comics so you can print out which ever ones you like.  We give them 4 different ones (1 per student) and each student creates their own.  Good to put them in groups as the stronger students help the weaker ones (they are mixed level)

Kids have a blast as we've gotten some creative ones and they get to practice asking questions that start with "Have you ever....?' and answering with "yes i have/no i haven't"

Let me know if it works out
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So i am doing my open class (which i didn't know i had to do) next week and i am not sure what i am meant to do if i am meant to do something out of the box or it will be my 3rd class on Lesson 3. I was thinking about doing the mario game ? Do you think that will take up the whole Lesson. 

Am i right in thinking that there is not much to this lesson except Subjects and sorry i cant  . . .why dont you?

I was planning on doing Class 2 as why the subjects are there fave?

Also i added to the Powerpoint Least Fave Subject and a Warm up seemed to get the kids going a little more.

Grade 1 Lesson 3 (How is your school life)
Think & Write

I used the given script for the students to fill out to tell a story about a student's (Hee Jin's) day at school:
"Hee Jin is a middle school student. She (1)____________ to school. Every Wednesday her first class is (2)________. During breaks between classes, she sometimes (3)_________________. After school, she (4)________________."
(Btw, I changed the character's name from Aram to Hee Jin because one of my coT's name is Aram.)

To fill in the blanks, I had the students think of four things that could go in each of the blanks.
(1) ways of getting to school
(2) subjects
(3) activities during 10 minute breaks
(4) after school activities

From the four choices for each blank, the students could pick one for each blank in order to create different full stories.

After all the students' stories were complete, I have the students stand. I then proceed to call out possible answer choices. If I call a word/phrase the students chose to fill a blank, the student(s) sit down. The last two or so students read their stories. Dependent on class excitement, I will go through this two or three times.

Then, change the story:
"She takes the subway to school." --> "I take the subway to school."
I lead the students in changing their paragraph from Hee Jin's story to their stories. This process involves a discussion of "s" and "es" at the end of verbs. (For the less-advanced students I show them step by step via a ppt how to convert the paragraph. With the more advanced students, I talk them through further (more developed) conversations about their school days.)

At every point, I encourage the students to share their stories.

Hey guys. I just made a review jeopardy game for my first graders to get ready for their midterms. Everything is good to go, you might just want to change the "facts about lauren" to facts about yourself.. Read it over, and use if you'd like!

So I was hoping someone would have some input for me.  I'm planning for my 3rd week of lessons at my school and each week they have told me i need to plan for lesson 3.  There is NOT a lot of material in these chapters.  How am I supposed to get 3 full lessons out of one?

Any suggestions for extra stuff I could supplement to grades 1 and 2, lesson 3?

1st grade, but could easily be applied to any grade/any chapter
Just ran this lesson, worked wonderfully.
class of 36-40, split into groups of 4 (sometimes a group or two of 3).

I made a short and appropriately boring conversation from the vocab/phrases from the first three chapters.  Each group had to memorize their lines and perform for class. But the catch is, they had to choose a way to perform them: romantic, crazy, dramatic, funny, sad, scary, or whatever else you can think of.

Lesson Plan

1) Split class into groups, hand out the lines to the groups, explain they will be ACTING
2) demonstrate/explain the different categories (i.e. bat my eyelashes and cattily say, "Hiiii Kate, how are youuuuu?" to explain Romantic)
3) Tell them to memorize their lines
4) When there is about 20 minutes left in class, have them perform!  If you can't get volunteers, use eeny-meeny-miney-mo. They love it, so it's like a bonus culture lesson ;)


Here's the lines I made, but honestly, I just opened the book and started typing, so use whatever you want! (the numbers are so each student would have 2 lines)

Crazy     Romantic      Funny   Sad       Scary     Dramatic
1: Hi, Kate, how are you?
2: Hi Sarah!  I feel great!  I exercise after school.
3: Brittany, do you exercise after school?
4: No, I eat dinner with my family.
1: Can we meet up tomorrow after school?
2: Sure! Why don’t we meet at the park?
3: OK! We can meet at five o’clock.  We can eat dinner together.
4: My favorite food is pizza. We can eat pizza for dinner!


Added things: have the rest of the class guess which way the group is acting out their story, have each student in the groups choose a different way to act it out or have each group choose one way to act as a whole

PLEASE FIND ATTACHED THE COMPLETED REVIEW BOMB GAME WITH QUESTIONS I AM DOING THIS WITH MY KIDS TOMORROW YOU WILL JUST NEED TO CHANGE THE QUESTIONS WITH MY NAME IN IT?

H ope it goes well and tests are ok?
Thanks for the template waygook xx

Here is a supplementary class for Gr. 1. How is your school life.
In this lesson they learn about American/Canadian Middle schools.

1- Watch the video and answer questions in groups of 2-4.

2.Read the story in groups of 4 (1 paragraph per person).
Students must highlight what is the same as them in pink, highlight what is different from them in yellow.

Grade 1 Unit 4 Part Two. I have taken the grammar target of "but" to include two adjectives in the same sentence. Such as, "English is interesting but difficult." This is taken from Listening Bon page 50 of Grade 1 new green book.

The lesson plan is pretty simple to follow, the slips of paper for the warmup and the worksheet to print for each group is in the ppt. The worksheets A, B, C are also printable from the ppt. The attached worksheet is printable cards for each group to choose from and make sentences.

When doing the choose the ace at the tail end of the lesson, you need to click on the words above or below the cards. Clicking on the cards themself does nothing.

Give me some feedback on what you think. I used it last year but modified this year

This is the review game for 3rd grade lessons 1~3.   :)