Hey peeps,

This lesson went surprisingly well today. It was grade 3, lesson 4 (Are you following me?). I built it into giving directions.

Thanks for the ideas - I just tried a version of this out with my third graders and it went down really well. I wanted to practise the sequencers with students a bit more first so I showed them a video from Youtube called 'Pancakes for my face' or something like that and elicited instructions.

I also made the subway instructions into a team game with students writing down their answers on mini whiteboards. They really got into it.

I also changed the powerpoint because I'm not American so I talked about New Year's Eve and tried to find out about Chuseok from the students instead.

I've attached my lesson plan and changed version of the powerpoint in case you are interested. I recommend the pancakes clip, if you are not going to do the directions then you could definitely make more of this clip and others like it.

My students are quite low-level so  I broke the steps down a little more in the subway instructions section. But I also took out most of the korean translation as I prefer students see the English first and try to work out the meaning from the pictures. You'll need to change the subway instructions if you don't live anywhere near me.

Thanks again for the subway powerpoint!

speaking of embarassing misdirections, according to Thomas Orr we Canadians celebrate our birthdays by smearing margarine or butter on our noses. No joke. Funny... you'd think I'd remember that...

THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!!

So I have to teach an open class next week with 3rd graders for lesson 4 and I'm absolutely racking my brain for ideas and coming up empty.

My co-teacher wants to go for the whole science experiment angle but I have no clue how to incorporate useful expressions or speaking activities.

I just taught the subway directions lesson from a previous poster, so the students sort of know how to give directions, but still need a lot of guidance.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!   ???

THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!!

So I have to teach an open class next week with 3rd graders for lesson 4 and I'm absolutely racking my brain for ideas and coming up empty.

My co-teacher wants to go for the whole science experiment angle but I have no clue how to incorporate useful expressions or speaking activities.

I just taught the subway directions lesson from a previous poster, so the students sort of know how to give directions, but still need a lot of guidance.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!   ???

I haven't put it all together yet, but for 3rd grade this week I am planning on showing them a couple youtube videos of science tricks/magic tricks. Before the video I will explain it a bit, and ask them "Do you think you can solve this trick" type things to use the Lesson 4 vocab. After the videos, I will go step by step to teach them how to do the trick and why it works, occasionally asking "Are you following me?" (again to use the vocab). Hope this helps!

Grade 1 Lesson 5

There is a PPT to review giving advice from an earlier unit. Then it transitions from advice to commands. Next is some book work which introduces "warning signs" as a way of issuing commands. Next PPT has some fun signs for practicing commands. Lastly they create their own Warning Sign and share them with the class.

Was one of my best lessons all year. The signs the students created were priceless.

Hello

Here is an activity for Grade 2 Lesson 4 to practice both the future tense and the "Do you know how to..." bit. I used this for my higher level 2nd graders and got them to do the activity in pairs. They seem to enjoy talking about food so this worked well and most of the pairs wanted to show their role play in front of the class.

Before handing out the activity we did the Textbook (blue book) listening activity B (p50) - how to make pizza bread, and went through the verbs used (chop, fry, spread, put, etc).

Torea Korea

That's great to hear. Glad that someone was able to put it to good use.

 :D

Grade 2 - Lesson 5.... "i'm sorry to hear that."

Help please ... any ideas for a class of 30 ... I need some kind of dialogue/speaking
exercise. I was hoping to find an exercise where the kids generate a problem on
their own ... and a friend could offer advice. <sigh> but i came up empty.

anyone ... anyone ...  :D
please and thank you.


I'm working with the key expression: Do you have any other ones?

In a few weeks I have to do an open class on Grade 2 Lesson 6. I'm panicking like crazy about it because my school invites every single english teacher(native and korean) in the county to its open classes, the very thought of this makes me brick it as no other native teacher in this county has to do this, they just have to present it to 3 official observers and a few parents.

And theres also the small fact that Lesson 6 is quite possibly the worst lesson in this forsaken book......any tips would be greatly appreciated..

Last year I compared the two types of sorry, sorry for expressing sympathy from the last chapter and sorry of an apology from this chapter.

Next, I had my students describe me using adjectives (in the correct adjective order) and I would correct them with overly pompous responses. In the end my students would repeat after me that "MT is a young, handsome, and smart English teacher' :D."

Lastly, I had a game where I would give descriptive adjectives and the students would have to guess what I was talking about. I will post my ppt soon, but I hope these ideas help.

Here our my my first and second grade ppts  for lesson 5...
For 1st  grade I just had them write the answers on a white board in groups and then design their own sign in pairs, and for second grade I had them come up with responses for each Will he/she... question in groups....
hope it helps