This is a thread for any lesson material for J.L. Haas (2014 edition) Middle School English 2 Lesson 5: Living Together in Korea.  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. If you can't find what you're looking for here, be sure to check the previous edition of the book.  Best of luck in your lesson planning!

There's a bunch of stuff from the old book for this lesson.

Here is a simple ppt I will use on opinions.
I will do 2 rounds of running dictations as the activity. Happy Teaching!

Thanks for tracking that down for me.  I knew there *had to be more out there.
I just re-did an Avengers game for P76 and 77 parts C.  I am using it tomorrow, so I hope it works or it will be a seriously miserable Friday.

One of the last slides is about me and my future wife Jung Ga Eun.  You may want to change that one...other than that, it should be safe.



***Generally, the powerpoint works well, but on a couple instances, it re-set the screen with the numbers...usually when it went to a Loki screen and then I hit the button to go back to the beginning, it went back and re-set everything.  Generally a pain in the ass, but also generally ok.

And looking at it, I would re-do some of the questions a bit.  It's all from the book, but they're a bit ambiguous without prompting - my bad.

Update on the Opinion Apples to Apples game - the instructions were a little hard for some classes, so my coteacher figured out a way to make it easier. Each row of students (we have 6 in a row) is a team, and the first person in the row goes first when guessing (the teacher is the judge). You could probably change the judge to whichever student gets it correct, in order to make the game more fun. I'm going to just make PPT slides of the noun cards I uploaded earlier.

I really like that Opinion superlative quiz/game! It is simple enough for the lower level students, but intriguing enough and fun ideas to keep everyone participating. I am excited to try it or tweak it a touch for my students and try it. 

Quote from: behrensk on April 17, 2014, 05:05:20 PM

There's a bunch of stuff from the old book for this lesson.

Here is a simple ppt I will use on opinions.
I will do 2 rounds of running dictations as the activity. Happy Teaching!

There is a problem here.
You don't have any guiding rules on how to play this game.

Sorry, this game is all over waygook...so I just assumed most people knew how to play (or they could google it?). The rules are at the end of the ppt.

One team member is a writer. The rest are runners. It's a relay race. The first runner "runs" to the sentences, memorizes the first sentence, then runs back to the writer. He tells the writer, then the writer writes it down. Then the second runner goes and so on... The game is finished when they have written all 15 sentences perfectly without mistakes.

Here's a brief chapter review and game (the game idea came from an above post about get students into groups and make each group guess which of 4 given options was ranked first at ranker.com)

I am uploading a powerpoint, 2 worksheets, a powerpoint opinion game, and a bomb game (Gru's Factory; not my template, but they are my questions).

Week One: Went through the first part of the powerpoint. Brainstormed adjectives. We did textbook page 76, and running dictation. We also did the "What Do You Think" game, in which the students had to guess what a chosen student thought about the subject. They could only use adjectives that we had written on the board.

Week Two: I did a warm-up game where they had to write as many adjectives as they could remember. Team with the most got a point. Went through the second part of the powerpoint. Did page 77. Did the worksheet. They had to ask 3 students if they agreed/disagreed with their opinions.

Week Three: Reviewed the powerpoint. Did page 78. Played the Opinions game. This is basically just apples to apples. They had to pick one of the subjects and all the students wrote down their opinions. The "leader" then picks who they agree with.

Week Four: Played the Opinion-Superlative Game. It worked pretty well. We also played the bomb game.

Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who's contributed on here. I've really been enjoying this book - and this grade particularly. That is partly because I've been able to find some really useful materials on here.

My lesson is essentially a mashup of shostager and behrensk's materials (so thanks!), but I've added a twist on the game that I'm really pleased with and which worked really well. It may require a little explanation to be clear.

Firstly I use the powerpoint as an introduction. I ask the students to think of as many positive and negative adjectives as possible.  After asking about positive adjectives I handed out the adjective cards - which helped a little. I then continued the introduction - eliciting responses individually to the pictures (I felt I had to be quite hasty with this to make enough time for the game), then I moved on to the game.

THE GAME: Basically this is a hotseat type game. One student from each team sits in the hotseat and must use one adjective to describe  the picture on a card I give them (I made them use a full sentence. i.e. 'I think it's cool'). Their team will then have to guess which of the three images on the screen their team-mate is describing. (To do this they can use the expression 'what do you think about _________'). If they get it right then they get a point - if not, another team gets an opportunity to guess. For this I used the 'noun' cards, and made sure everybody had a copy of the 'adjectives' card - so they could easily pick an adjective. If this doesn't make sense then it should be clear if you take a look at the pp and the cards.

The one difficulty is lining up the cards in the right order to show the students. I did this by going through the pp beforehand and picking an order - writing it down - and then ordering the cards in that order so they would be ready.

One great thing about this game is how easy it would be to change - with different cards and different pictures on the powerpoint - so feel free to do so.

I hope this can be of use to somebody! :)