This is a thread for any lesson material for Middle School English 3 Lesson 9: Encyclopedia Brown, the Boy Detective.  Please share your contributions here~!

I'm having a problem with finding an activity that will go with this in a class for 35+.
I tried to do an M&M race, but the lower level classes aren't cooperating.  :(

I do suggest going over past participles before introducing the key phrase, "have you ever..."

That sounds like a sweet game too ^^ I have to admit, I was a little nervous about trying my game but it's been successful!!! The students are loving the gambling haha

here is my lesson. very basic, my students are all very low level with few exceptions; introduction of vocabulary, practice, and then group dialogues with presentation. have the students repeat the phrases a couple times. lesson made for all boys middle school. thanks to other people as well.

Here's my lesson. Attached is my ppt and ppt game. Focus mainly on 'Have you ever _____', 'What would you do if _____' and 'If I were _____ I would _____'

Simple plan:

1) Recap on last week
2) Introduce first key term 'Have you ______' 'Yes I have/no I haven't' Get students to say and put their hands up if they have done those things.
3) Show video clip of Glee 'I have never' Ask them who has done those things. Pause clip after each question is asked to the cast. (Felt good to introduce my favourite drinking game into the classroom...without the booze obviously haha)
4) Pages 146+147 from the book (Just the 'Have you ever' exercises)
5) Introduce second key term 'If I were _____ I would _____'
6) Run through some examples of 'If I were _____ I would _____'
7) Show students the music clip of Beyonce 'If I were a Boy'. Ask them to listen to what she would do if she was a boy.
Pages 147-148 from the book if there is time.
9) Game time. Play the Mario game. Big thanks to the original creator  :)

This is a game for the "If I were...I would..." part of the book. It's a pretty simple little game where I ask a hypothetical question to my student teams and they pick one of my answers. For example, "If you could be a superhero, which superhero would you be?"  and I have pictures of Spiderman, Superman, Wonder woman, etc. Click on the name and it will reveal points or the bomb. Listen closely on that first question though because I misheard "Ironman" as "Batman" and I swear my kids were screaming "Heart! Heart!"  but they meant "The Hulk."

I think there's 6 hypothetical questions total and each one has 6 possible answers. My kids really liked it!

I've attached the Angry Birds Chapter 9 Review. (Using Daejon's template)

What would you do if you were a girl?

It makes the class interesting :)

I have only just started planning for this lesson but I wanted to give some of my ideas as I am going to be using some of yours. :) I plan on doing a listening with "If I had a million dollars" by the barenaked ladies. The song is not only awesome it is also funny and they are Canadian :D. You could make an easy worksheet using the lyrics with blanks to fill in. It may also be fun to let them try and guess some of the blanks before you play the song. Especially as their last lesson was writing a poem. Thanks again for everything!

Quote from: flukeriffic on September 18, 2011, 06:52:09 pm

Hey everyone! Here is what I came up with for L9. I teach advanced students, but the only part lower level students might have difficulty with would be the worksheet at the end and the mystery in the beginning. Oh, and you'll have to take out the pictures with me in it and replace them with your own!

Feedback always appreciated!

L9:

- Introduce subject
- Speaking warm-up
- Mystery about the parachute man
- Introduce key phrases
- Show examples
- Play Pyramid Game (Rules are in ppt.)
- Art with Salt video, see if students can guess "The Joker" before video finishes. I reward them with a stamp, but you can choose whatever you want...
- 2nd key phrase intro
- Examples
- Do the worksheet

How do students know what level they are on?  Did I miss something?

Sorry if my directions weren't clear! I use the powerpoint directions I put on there as more of a guideline for the smarter students, and then just model it with my co-teacher. The way I play it, students will be walking around/mingling and to know what level they are on, they will be repeating their "key phrase" out loud. Constantly, so that they get practice with it as well. In all honesty, it rarely turns out like that. Usually they just run around shouting 1...or 2 or whatever level they are on. But with my well-behaved classes, the game works pretty decent. Hope that helped! Any more questions just ask! ^^

Here's my lesson. Attached is my ppt and ppt game. Focus mainly on 'Have you ever _____', 'What would you do if _____' and 'If I were _____ I would _____'

Simple plan:

1) Recap on last week
2) Introduce first key term 'Have you ______' 'Yes I have/no I haven't' Get students to say and put their hands up if they have done those things.
3) Show video clip of Glee 'I have never' Ask them who has done those things. Pause clip after each question is asked to the cast. (Felt good to introduce my favourite drinking game into the classroom...without the booze obviously haha)
4) Pages 146+147 from the book (Just the 'Have you ever' exercises)
5) Introduce second key term 'If I were _____ I would _____'
6) Run through some examples of 'If I were _____ I would _____'
7) Show students the music clip of Beyonce 'If I were a Boy'. Ask them to listen to what she would do if she was a boy.
 Pages 147-148 from the book if there is time.
9) Game time. Play the Mario game. Big thanks to the original creator 

Great ppt. and amazing game you have there.  It was a big hit in my classroom, and I have you to thank for it.

However... you might want to review the slide "Have you sang Kareoke before?"  It should be "Have you sung Kareoke before?"

Almost missed it myself... 5 minutes before the lesson I caught it!