This is a thread for any lesson material for Jeong Sa Yeol's Middle School English Grade 1 Lesson 7: For or Against.  Please share your contributions here. Be sure to explain exactly what you are posting and please do not post multi-level materials in this thread. Also, any review lessons or materials should be posted in the review section for this grade. Best of luck in your lesson planning!

Lesson 7.
The lessons are the same, just one is for Higher level classes and the other low .level classes.
I started doing Vocab worksheets, so that the information doesn't leave their brains when they leave the class.

Lesson 7.
The lessons are the same, just one is for Higher level classes and the other low .level classes.
I started doing Vocab worksheets, so that the information doesn't leave their brains when they leave the class.

Wonderful lesson Debmm!  I took the idea and changed it up a bunch to suit my students' tastes.  I'm also pairing it with a music video (not sure what video yet) and will ask them questions about the video, prompting the target language.

Ok part 2...oh yes in the previous lesson I stress that "I'm for/against it" is for serious issues not music/food/movies/clothes etc.

So here I start off by reviewing the previous lesson by going through the music opinion table with sts while using the artists pics. Then I move on to showing 3 movie trailers to try and elicit adjectives from sts. I quickly drill a few examples of adjectives and then move onto opinions and finally the phrase "too much"

for the activity I just used the Gangnam style bomb game.

Movie trailer links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt7ofokzn04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1qaLmfzW3I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKPltuiEVJ8

For some reason the audio is not working on the Gagnam Style game.

Ooops, forgot the attachment.

Here are my materials for lesson 7. Pillaged most of the pics in the PPT from the posters above (thanks guys  )

Part A – as a warmer we did the ‘real or fake?’ slides that I found here on waygook, and had students shout out their opinions using the key vocab ‘I agree / I don’t agree’. Then we did the wordsearch and the first listening part, and moved onto the ‘What do you think of…’ grammar part.
Here I used jacobakristen‘s unique opinions game

Part B – more real or fake warmup pictures (for the last one, I showed them the video of Felix Baumgartner base jumping from the statue, attached here). Worked through some listening, then introduced ‘I’m for / I’m against’ and contrasted it with merely agreeing / disagreeing.
I then handed out the SURVEY WORKSHEET, and explained that I would use their answers for a game the following week. There are references to my school, so be sure to change those.

Part C – FAMILY FEUD-type game day. Obviously this is a heavy one for the teacher, but definitely worth it in my opinion – my school is tiny, so it didn’t take too long, but for a bigger school it might be more of an issue. I tallied up all their answers to the survey, and loaded them into a family feud template I found here on waygook. Some of the results were interesting 
Overall this was one of the most successful classes of the year

Hi again,
Here are some other activities if you need to plump out your lesson a bit.

The first activity is a simple agree/ disagree. I get the students to move to one side of the classroom depending on whether they agree with the statement or not (nothing fancy).

The second activity is a 30 second debate and it should only be used for your high level classes. I divide the class into pairs and then have them play rock scissor paper. The winner starts by either agreeing or disagreeing with the statement on the screen. I shout go and they must speak for a full 15 seconds (I tried 30 seconds per person but it didn't work because it was too hard, 15 seconds was still enough of a challenge.) Then I shout stop and they switch. The partner must now take the opposing opinion and speak for 15 seconds. When this activity works well, it works really well...but when it doesn't, it sucks. My A class loved it (very high level), my B class hated it (medium level).

Note: one of the slides mentions single sex schools. This got a gasp and embarrassed giggles every single time. Feel free to change it. Or keep it and revel in the awkwardness. It's up to you.

Finally I did crazy challenges which was a scream! All my kids loved it, regardless of their levels (although speaking was minimal  ) I pulled names out of a hat and had two kids come up to the front of the class. Then I had said who I thought would win the challenge. If the rest of the class agreed with me they stood up, if they didn't they stayed sitting. Very simple but very effective.

Here's Part 2 for the second class.

We played a hidden picture puzzle game. I divided the class into four rows for it, choose a "captain" for each row, and asked students to raise their hands and guess. They awarded points for every answer...creativity is the golden key in our classes, so let their vocab, ideas and imaginations run free.

You can give your own unique rewards to the kids. I usually high five them and allow the winning team to choose any English Pop song from my laptop's library. The losing team gets to write 7 words from the lesson in their textbooks.

Till next time.
J.T