Yay...Im so glad to see others are teaching from this book....and that you find it ridiculous and disjointed too. I noticed that someone else made a request for us to put the materials for this book in order, has that been done? If so could someone point me in the right direction and I will add and steal. If not, is it something that people would still like to be done?

I just finished Lesson 10 with my 2nd Graders, and I thought my PowerPoint went over well; here it is! It took two and a half lessons, so don't try to cram everything into one because it's too much information.

For the first lesson, I started out with some vocabulary (guess the picture, basically) from the story, but because I only go to this school once a week, I didn't delve too far into it - their Korean English teacher takes care of that the rest of the days I'm not there. I think it's worth noting, as well, that the students get a vocabulary sheet with Korean translations from their teacher, so your kids might not be able to guess the pictures. After that, I went over different greetings for several holidays (including the ones in the book). I also made sure to correct the answers in the text (i.e. not "Happy Thanksgiving DAY" but "Happy Thanksgiving). Next, I went into gift-giving because the book says that you get Thanksgiving gifts, when, in fact, you don't. I wish I did, but I guess pie's enough. I didn't have time to go into Korean holidays, but you could certainly incorporate those if you want. Then, Part B: I have pictures of the people in the book and several K-Pop groups that elicited some great reactions. Super easy. By the way, I always go into the grammar/content before I have them read out of the textbook, so there are slides after the main content that say to go to a certain part in the book. I had a little time for a game at the end, so I used the Simpsons game from Daejeon.

For the second (and a half) lesson, I finished the game, and then, I went into the "Let's Communicate" part and used several pictures from things around Korea (some might not be known by other students outside of Jeollanam-do, though) and America to ask the students if they had heard of them. Listen and repeat for the "Go" part (if students are talking, I make them read this section out loud, but I didn't have any problems today) and onto the story. I played "Popcorn" reading, where students read until they want to stop, then say, "Popcorn, [insert another student's name here]." You might want to give a limit, if your kids are super talkative, or a minimum, if they aren't. After that, there is a short comprehension quiz, which you can make into a game if your kids are being good, or into a test/call-on-the-talkers thing, if they're not. Then, I asked them to name different talents from the provided pictures and then, tell me theirs, with a little presentation (picture and sentence on a paper).

And that's it! Haha. A little long, I guess, but I like to be thorough. Also, for the second lesson, I used the Nat King Cole song "Unforgettable" as a warm-up, but I won't upload it here - you can easily find it on YouTube.

Let me know if it works for you, or if you have any questions! Good luck (I hate this book.)!

Here is 2nd grade Lesson 12. I always start my lessons with a game, sometimes its games Ive stolen from other waygook users (thanks) and sometimes its relating the vocab list for that chapter which is what the random pics are at the beginning of my slide. Again sorry about the poor quality of my ppts.

I also cant take credit for the worksheets, I found them on the net somewhere and modified them for this lesson.

Just a little something to add, if you have a Korean keyboard, then at the start of the chapter where it tells you what they will be studying, if you type that into google translate, then everything becomes clearer of what they should be learning, they just give really crap examples in English, so for example, chapter 10, the speaking part of  the book they should be learning how  to give and respond  to compliments, I think that is section A, how to ask for information, I think question B and how to report information, again I think question B, once you know this, it makes it much easier to plan your lessons and do a lot more fun stuff.

There IS a grade 3 teachers book, I borrowed my co-teachers last year and then forgot to give it back so it became mine.  Your co-teacher should be ordering these with the text books, no?  Anyway I wouldn't bother buying the 3rd grade teachers book-it is utter tripe in my humble opinion.  Does nothing but give you a script in English of what to say and the activity ideas are nothing but listen and repeat.

Anyway, not to rub it in, but my school realised the error of their ways with these books, we got new ones, which are simpler as there is barely any dialogue to remember, and its practical too.  Although still not perfect, this is the easiest book I have ever had to teach!  And the teachers book has the language objectives for each chapter in English.  So I gracefully bow out of this thread!  Good luck to the rest of you =D

Grade 3 talk together powerpoints, chapters 10-12. Same boring stuff, maybe you'll find some of it useful. I had to burn through chapter 11 quickly so I ended up skipping a lot of the stuff I planned for the powerpoint. Same goes for chapter 12.

I have to use this book this year for Grade 1. I'll be posting my materials and ideas I have, but I have to say - the textbook sucks. I taught 1st graders the first lesson and am now looking into the second. I have no idea how to jump from 'hi. my name is _____' to 'i can't swim'.  :-\

I did this activity with all grades but it is more so from the 2nd grade text book on activities and what you want to or like to do. I showed a powerpoint as students took notes on the spellings and learnt the difference between plural and singular by adding a 's' at the end or not. Then for the younger grade I played hangman and the older we did a survey on what activities people like or not and how often because they are learning that in their books.

when were these books published?

Grade 1: 2008
Grade 2: 2009
Grade 3: 2010

At least according to my books. I think rather than looking at the date they were published, it is more fruitful to take a look at the authors themselves. There are about 10 Korean authors, a couple of which apparently spent a little bit of time at foreign universities. Grade 2 and 3 textbooks include "Sharp William Edward" and Grade 1 includes "Peter S. Sylvestre." I assume both of these waygookin "authors" were paid money to do no more than skim through the books and check for glaring grammar mistakes. If they actually had a part in creating the content or the language they should be ashamed of themselves.

I'm gonna post some random activities starting with grade 2. Again, I teach "Talk Together" only so this may not apply to all of you. Some of the files were created using Open Office so you may need to download that to open them.

Attached Files:

-Grade 2 Lesson 1 Dialogue Halves
-Grade 2 Lesson 2 Running Dictation Game, Lower Levels
-Grade 2 Lesson 3 Yu Gi Oh Bomb Game (Speaking practice only)
-Grade 2 Lesson 4 Speed Game
-Grade 2 Lesson 5 Trashball Game

Here are some directions:

For Dialogue Halves, each student is given half a dialogue. They must memorize the dialogue, then put it away. They will stand up and say their half dialogues to every other student in class until they find a match. When they find a match, they sit down together. After all the students found their matches I had different pairs speak their dialogues out loud for the class. You need to make sure each student has one half dialogue and that there is a match for every student. Use less dialogues and make more copies of the same to make the activity easier for lower level classes. Also, make sure they memorize the dialogues and aren't reading from them while walking around or just showing them to their classmates. This worked fairly well for my higher level classes.

Running dictation is a pretty popular game so I shouldn't need to explain the rules. After the groups had finished writing the sentences, I had them use their sentences to fill in the blanks of the dialogue and then read it out loud together.

The Yu Gi Oh bomb game is for speaking practice only. They don't need to think up the answers. You might want to change it based on your student levels. I was stumped with that lesson so all I could think of was to have them parrot the sentences out loud. They got really into the game though.

The speed game is relatively easy and it works for all levels. It is based on a popular game called the SLAM game so some of you may know it already. You need to print out and post the papers around your classroom in a U-shape. Split the class in two. Each team stands at one end of the U. The first person in each team must walk around the U, saying each sentence out loud. When they meet, they play rock paper scissors together. The winner can continue going and the loser must go to the back of the line of his/her team, then the first person in that team will start at the beginning of the U. To win the game one student must defeat all of his/her opponents and make it to the other side. This game doesn't require too much from the students and explaining the rules may be more difficult without a Korean co teacher to translate but every single class had a lot of fun with it.

Trashball is another sort-of popular game from waygook. It's very simple. Answer questions like a bomb game and if they are correct they get to shoot paper balls into a trash can for points. This was a popular one too. I make sure to increase the difficulty level after each round and sometimes I award style points but not usually.

I hope some of this is helpful for you. Feel free to modify it for your classes. I've reached the point where I'm not stressing out much over how much they are learning from the textbooks and I'm just trying to get the kids to have as much fun as they can.