My ppt that assists my class. The introductory part: use the picture (pp106-107). This is for the first part of the lesson (week 1). Feedback/recommendations always welcome!

I used a Simon says game paired with a video dictation - this takes a lot of explaining and can be a challenge if students are lazy or uninterested - but generally its a lot of fun.


Basically students form team of 3/4 and assign one member from each team to draw the story line of the video while the other members if each team dictate the story,preferable have strongish level student as a drawer. the drawer must face away from the screen and can only draw.

The video is Mr. bean eats a sandwich and does not have any vocab that middle school students won't know except hot waterbottle.

So as the video is playing I pause and introduce a rule from the PPTX and every few seconds change the rule but never stack them (way above their level).

The object is to reinforce you must in a fun manner. I highly recommend that you run through all the rules so that all students understand them before you play the video. This means modelling them and use an example sentence to demo. Also get your CT to explain the game in Korean as this helps explain the game further.

good luck


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS1ePEZZCDY

The activity I used for this lesson was 7-Up (aka Thumbs Up, Heads Up). I used the activity to practice the different expressions from the chapter. The game takes about 20 minutes, 5~ minutes for explanation, 15 minutes to play.

How I play:
7 volunteers come to the front of the class. Next, you say "heads down, thumbs up." Everyone else puts their head down on their desk (eyes closed) and puts one of their thumbs up. The 7 people then walk around and push 1 thumb down. When they are finished, they come back to the front and pick up a card. On the card is an English expression from the chapter. Next, you say "heads up, stand up." Everyone whose thumb was pushed down stands up (hopefully 7 people). The students standing up have to guess who touched their thumb. They read the card of the person they suspect. If they are wrong they sit down but if they are correct they switch places.

The game takes 5-10 minutes to properly explain but you can reuse it for any target language and the kids love it.

I quckly whipped together a bomb game to review this lesson. Hope it helps some of you :)

I've just started doing the textbook (I was an elementary teacher before so I'm new to Middle School). I'm also at an all girls school, some things might be pretty girly.

Last thing to note my students are pretty high level, so adjust accordingly :)

I spend 2 weeks on each lesson.
First lesson as an introduction to the lesson, the second lesson as a review.
I always do a role play in the first lesson to get the kids speaking.

I used combined most of the other material on here for these ppt's, so thank you to those who have posted already

I used Jennyb1910's template as a jumping off point so the theme is the same.  Thanks!  But I added a couple hidden picture slides and a golden bell game. 

For the game, I divided the class up into teams and each team had a mini white board.  They had about a minute to write an excuse for each slide.  After I rang the bell they held their boards up and any team that had a unique answer got a point.

It worked really well and the kids laughed a lot at their answers.  Because some of the advanced students would sometimes take over and dominate the writing portion, I had each team read their answer out loud together so that every member was at least speaking a little bit.

Lastly, I reviewed this chapter by using a version of Belzac's 7up game.  Thanks for the great idea!

I divided the class up into four teams.  Each team sent one student up to the front.  When the chosen four went out to pick their target, they weren't allowed to chose someone on their team.  Then when it was time to guess, I scored like this:  If the student guessing is correct, their team gets a point and they get to come up to the front.  If the student guessing is incorrect, the point goes to the team of the student they guessed.

The cards are at the bottom of the powerpoint.  I just printed out all of the slides with white backgrounds.  Every time a new student came up to the front, they got a new card.

Part A – started off with the vacation worksheet as a warmer, then got into chapter 6
As a warmer we did the ‘family or not family?’ part of the PPT. Then we started the listening, introduced the key phrases, did the wordsearch worksheet, and ended off with pass the ball

Part B – we went through the Simpson’s family tree worksheet as a warmer, to review family vocabulary. Then continued listening, and focused on the grammar points – commands and apologizing / making excuses. The game from jacobakristen above was a hit, cheers!
   
Part C – we did the ‘Who is Older?’ warmer, reviewed the grammar, finished off the listening, and played the mystery box bomb game

I want to do a third class on this lesson and I want to fill up some of the time using the chapter's song "Mama" by the Spice Girls.  I found a worksheet on islcollective.  I'm going to have them watch the music video first and then get them to try and complete exercises 1, 3, and 5 first.  Then I will show them a lyric video to help them put the lines in order for exercises 2 and 4.  I'll see how it goes.  Thanks to everyone for all the stuff you've posted.  It's been really helpful.

Here is the Spice Girls ppt that I used.  I used it as my fourth class for lesson 6 to give the kids an interesting lesson and that is when we did the "Mama" song worksheet.  They did find it interesting and it is good to give them a break.  Kudos to the person who made this powerpoint.