Author Topic: Lesson 2: April Fools' Day Tricks (Read 29200 times)

karpouzi · « **on:** March 02, 2011, 02:26:32 PM »

Here is my powerpoint for Grade 3, Lesson 2 (April Fool's Day Tricks).
I teach only girls at a low level school...this explains the amount of Kpop stars in my slideshow.
The final slides come from here:
http://eflclassroom.ning.com/resources/topics/guess-what-guess-who-games

If anyone adds any other games or activities, please share!

bmsteacher · « **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2011, 02:28:46 PM »

Thanks so much! K-pop stars are always helpful.

strawberry · « **Reply #2 on:** March 03, 2011, 10:12:00 AM »

Quote from: matrim44 on March 03, 2011, 10:09:15 AM

For convenience, here's the link to the other lesson I've done for this book, Grade 2 Lesson 1: Sports and How Often. Thought it would be good to have on this thread.
http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,4861.0.html

Ah thanks Matrim! i actually downloaded your lesson yesterday :) So I forgot to linked it too!! Love the game!! :)

matrim44 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 03, 2011, 10:26:35 AM »

Toying with an idea for my April Fool's Day lesson. Was thinking of bringing decks of cards and having them play BS, except that they would say "oh, really?" if they believed the person, and "you're kidding" if they call the bluff. They wouldn't be practicing a very large array of new vocab, but there would be a lot of talking, like "this is 3 4s." I think they would have a lot of fun with it. What do you guys think? Not enough English bang for the buck?

karpouzi · « **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2011, 02:21:11 PM »

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Toying with an idea for my April Fool's Day lesson. Was thinking of bringing decks of cards and having them play BS, except that they would say "oh, really?" if they believed the person, and "you're kidding" if they call the bluff. They wouldn't be practicing a very large array of new vocab, but there would be a lot of talking, like "this is 3 4s." I think they would have a lot of fun with it. What do you guys think? Not enough English bang for the buck?

Matrim, this sounds really fun. Would you bring in several decks for different groups, or swap out students? With thirty students in a class, this is a challenge, but such a fun activity.

matrim44 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2011, 02:44:04 PM »

Karp,

Was going to bring in like 2 or 3 decks because the vocab is not too advanced, so it wouldn't require a lot of special supervision. I only have around 12 students, so it's much easier for me make things like this work logistically. I think, if I do it, I'm also going to have them say "Guess what." before they say how many 5s they have. That works in another line from the chapter's dialogue. Any more thoughts on how to get more chapter stuff into the game?

hankmcmasters · « **Reply #6 on:** March 16, 2011, 01:25:19 PM »

I didn't actually know how to play bullshit, even though i was familiar with the game.
so, maybe this will help other people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_(card_game)

in terms of adding dialog, when someone calls bullshit, have one say "I guessed wrong/lied." and the others can say "Pick up the cards."

thats not totally in line with the targets, but its closer
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pk_00 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 16, 2011, 06:17:00 PM »

Quote from: karpouzi on March 02, 2011, 02:26:32 PM

Here is my powerpoint for Grade 3, Lesson 2 (April Fool's Day Tricks).
I teach only girls at a low level school...this explains the amount of Kpop stars in my slideshow.
The final slides come from here:
http://eflclassroom.ning.com/resources/topics/guess-what-guess-who-games

If anyone adds any other games or activities, please share!

sorry, could you explain how to use the game at the end. I am unable to login to the site you linked.

thanks!

RiChaDuri · « **Reply #8 on:** March 16, 2011, 06:27:02 PM »

I'm thinking I'll round this lesson off with a two truths, one lie game. Most are probably familiar with it but if you arent -
In groups of 3-6 (depending on total class size), ask the students to come up with 3 shocking/surprising(?) facts/sentences about themselves or events. 2 of them truths, 1 lie.

Students read out (as a group) there 3 sentences, beginning with "Guess what"
e.g. "Guess what, Min-Gu has 5 dogs"
"Guess what, Pin-Gu's brother is 200cm tall"
"Guess what, Libya is in civil war"

Other groups then decide as a group which they think is the lie. Note down points (Other teams get 1 point for guessing right, the team presenting gets a point for every team that guess wrong.... or whatever)

strawberry · « **Reply #9 on:** March 16, 2011, 07:02:03 PM »

Here's my first lesson on the topic. (I only teach listening and speaking parts and I have 4 lessons).. I'm doing a board game with this, which I'll post as soon as it's done, and also ending with the 2truths 1lie game. The ppt is just an intro on April Fools and the key expressions with some examples that you can practice in the classroom. :)

karpouzi · « **Reply #10 on:** March 16, 2011, 11:00:33 PM »

PK,
The game is very simple...each group has to give a "Guess what" sentence. If they do it correctly, they can pick a box for you to clear (just click on the box). It's a good chance for them to practice the words "row" and "column".
They get 1 point for a correct sentence, 2 points if they correctly guess the picture under the boxes.
My students really liked it.

AndyT910 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 17, 2011, 01:33:29 AM »

I'm not teaching from the book, or any book for that matter, but the lesson looked pretty good. I modified it a bit for boys and to try to increase speaking and decrease confusion. When the students present the premade roleplays, I plan to have them read through it once and then do a "repeat after me" with the class. I haven't tried letting them do this yet, but it's worth a shot. I think a lot will depend on me picking the right pair to go first. Of course the students will believe it's completely random ;).

Koreachess · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2011, 11:07:38 AM »

Quote from: karpouzi on March 02, 2011, 02:26:32 PM

Here is my powerpoint for Grade 3, Lesson 2 (April Fool's Day Tricks).
I teach only girls at a low level school...this explains the amount of Kpop stars in my slideshow.
The final slides come from here:
http://eflclassroom.ning.com/resources/topics/guess-what-guess-who-games

If anyone adds any other games or activities, please share!

I just went through your ppt and it was really good, but I don't really see a connection or explanation to what april fools day is at all...

hankmcmasters · « **Reply #13 on:** March 17, 2011, 11:14:30 AM »

I threw together this ppt for the card game

let me know what you think.

I'm going to explain verbally who should take the stack of cards and when.

it is so difficult to explain things when students don't ask questions...

<update>I made a new version of this, i think it works better, but i'll probably change it again next week

Meguita · « **Reply #14 on:** March 17, 2011, 01:45:07 PM »

Koreachess,
There is no connection...that's just the name of the lesson in their textbook. I put it on there so people can search for it here. I think their reading for the chapter involves April Fool's Day, but that isn't the part I teach.

Koreachess · « **Reply #15 on:** March 18, 2011, 01:18:59 PM »

Quote from: Meguita on March 17, 2011, 01:45:07 PM

Koreachess,
There is no connection...that's just the name of the lesson in their textbook. I put it on there so people can search for it here. I think their reading for the chapter involves April Fool's Day, but that isn't the part I teach.

Ahh okay I was a bit confused hehehe

banana · « **Reply #16 on:** March 19, 2011, 01:17:18 PM »

Here's my Lesson 2 Contribution, with bits of yours stolen and added in :) Not included: I'm going to start by tricking them in some way - probably by telling them they've a big test, then show an April Fools clip of the simpsons. I've attached the newspaper articles they'll be looking at: the turtle and the school desks are true, the other two are false. And then I'll be finishing with an adapted version the Mario Blast Game from on here. Again it's two week's worth, hopefully it makes sense.

JJWON · « **Reply #17 on:** March 20, 2011, 11:05:12 PM »

Made some changes. Thanks to all.

pk_00 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 21, 2011, 01:41:42 PM »

Quote from: karpouzi on March 16, 2011, 11:00:33 PM

PK,
The game is very simple...each group has to give a "Guess what" sentence. If they do it correctly, they can pick a box for you to clear (just click on the box). It's a good chance for them to practice the words "row" and "column".
They get 1 point for a correct sentence, 2 points if they correctly guess the picture under the boxes.
My students really liked it.

So groups have to give as many sentences as it takes to solve the puzzle?
It takes my students 5 minutes to even come up with one sentence...I'll try this and see how this plays out..thanks!

karpouzi · « **Reply #19 on:** March 21, 2011, 01:52:27 PM »

It usually only takes them 3 or 4 tries to solve the puzzle. If you give them a lot of samples, they should be able to come up with lots of variations of "Guess what? insert pop star hereis my boyfriend."

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