Whipped up an introduction for the Listen & Talk.  Mostly focused on the target language of "What's the matter?  You look..." and "I'm sorry/happy to hear that."  Added a little bit of bonus material about pets to fill out the lesson a bit.

For my second lesson on this unit, I started with a short video of Ormie the pig. Tell kids Ormie has a lot of feelings. What are some feelings? Write on board, show video, ask kids what feelings he had and then circle those on the board.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUm-vAOmV1o

Then do the book work with page 65 and the workbook listening.

Then do short PPT for Sorry to hear that/Happy to Hear that and show how to play the board game.

For the board game, I print out enough for kids to be in groups of 4 students. I use those little post-it tabs that you can use to mark pages in your book, and stick 4 different colors on the edge of each one (tell kids you want to use them in the next class so not to write on them or destroy them). Then they can use those as their markers. Each group gets a die. On each square, they have to say "I'm happy to hear that" or "I'm sorry to hear that." (or a couple other things like switch places with someone else, name 3 animals, go back to start, etc. The PPT helps to explain it.)  I'm honestly surprised my 1st grade all boys like playing board games so much, and that they actually self police on the English. Today one kid was mad that another student was just playing and not speaking in English, so he started teaching him all the words and how to say things. It was great.

First we played catch phrase with different animals. Then, I showed them the  imaginary animals powerpoint. I asked them what each animal was and what it should be called. We filled out the Duck-alligator one together. Finally, I gave each pair of students a worksheet and let them go to town creating their own animal hybrids. My co-teacher was very complimentary and asked me not bother trying to teach phrases from the textbook anymore and just do fun projects based on the chapter topics like this (she even said I could ignore the textbook altogether if I want  ). I was really pleased, the students made very detailed animals, wrote a lot of English and learned all kinds of new vocabulary like "fur" "tail" etc.

Listening for pages 64-65.

Covers the textbook and the workbook. At the end of the class the students design an imaginary creature with their partner (I nicked this idea from a post on this thread)

The students really loved drawing the animals. My favourite was a cross between the Korean English teacher and an ant.

I had to do my open class on this lesson. So, I created some extra activities that catered to my low level grade 1 students. First, I used my online memrise app to teach the kids some additional emotion words. This chapter uses 'upset'. After, I made them do some additional review of the vocabulary. I wanted to make it stick in their mind. Second, I gave the kids 4 character sticks. The kids listened to an audio clip and had to identify if the sounds was surprised, scared, angry, or happy. My kids had a lot of fun listening to the clips. Third, we did some dialogue practice. It wouldn't be English class without forming real oral sentences. Fourth, I borrowed 'Chase the Vocab' to play with the kids. I wasn't sure if the middle school students would like it, but they were really into it. Last, as an extra activity (if we had left over time) I made some pictionary cards. The kids had to draw a noun combined with one of their emotion adjectives.