Here's what I found and altered.  Found it under the Middle School Master list under Vacations, and God bless Sheedi from 2010.  It basically hit directly what I needed for what was on P92C.
It's talking about what you did on vacations. 
I was looking for a past tense verb activity, and I might have one of those as well, but I need to dig through miles of crap to find it.

I think I'm also going to do a speed reading game, but I need to create that right now.  Unsure if I will be able to post it until I remember later.  Enjoy.


I take that back.  I just found this from another user and modified it for our use.  I forgot to check their name to give them credit, but kudos to whomever.


I forgot to add (and bring to class) the Battleship explanation.  Even though I had done battleship with one other class, my co-teacher didn't remember and for the life of her, could not understand.

Some of the students understood, but it was bedlam for a while.
So, I ended up making mine, and had the students ask me the questions...

On the weekend, did you go to the movie?
On vacation, did you read an interesting book?
Etc.
Once they understood, it was awesome.
It got even more awesome when I gave out a piece of candy for every hit...then *everyone wanted to ask a question.  Pretty good day, though a rough start.

Here is Lesson 6.
20 slides, includes a game.
Also, here is a BIG list of Adjectives, could be useful for lesson 6, and as a 'reminder' from lesson 5.
http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-adjectives.html


Slide
1 Title
2 Vocabulary
3 vocabulary 2
4 Key phrases
5 combine key phrases from lesson 5 with lesson 6
6 Practice
7-18 "PRactice-game" *students see a picture, and must create a sentence using the key phrases.if the sentence is wrong, the team gets 0 points. if the sentence is 'average' or 'normal', they get 3 points. if the sentence is great or creative, they get 5 points

19 Winner slide.  Announce winner
20 Quick review of the key phrases for lesson 6

I'm doing the second half of the chapter this week, but here are both my halves of the speaking/listening sections.

- The first one is just a practice with pictures, then story-writing in groups, then battleship (played against the teacher).

- The second one is a review of the first, then practice with pictures, then a MASH-like activity with a speaking activity at the end (about future vacations). I've done it with 2 classes now and hearing the girls squeal in happiness when they find out they will "go to Paris with D.O. and fall in love" or make an aghast noise when their future is to "go to the moon with Psy and eat spiders" is brilliant. Having other students react to it is also pretty fun, too. (They have to decide - does that sound like a good or bad vacation?)

This is for the second half of Lesson 6, responding to good and bad news. My students really loved the game where they stand up and show a smiley/sad face - seemed to give them more energy in the mornings!

Any questions, just ask.

Hello Joely, I really liked your powerpoint!  I was wondering, where you got all the images that matched the textbook?  I just started teaching this semester so I'd like to make similar PPTs that teach to the textbook until I can get a handle on how to make a good lesson plan myself.  If you have any other similar PPTs I'd love to see them too!

Thanks,

Rob

Hello Joely, I really liked your powerpoint!  I was wondering, where you got all the images that matched the textbook?  I just started teaching this semester so I'd like to make similar PPTs that teach to the textbook until I can get a handle on how to make a good lesson plan myself.  If you have any other similar PPTs I'd love to see them too!

Thanks,

Rob
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Hi Rob, thanks I'm glad you liked it! I have an online version of my textbook on my computer at school, so I use Gadwin PrintScreen (free to download) to take screengrabs. The textbooks should come with a DVD to use - maybe ask your co-teacher.

I've been meaning to upload my other lessons so I will do soon, in their relevant threads.

Hello,

I ran battleships and initially it was a disaster. I extended one of the previous poster's powerpoints with more explanation and made a couple of alterations (thank you for the powerpoint though). I printed off 2 of the sheets, 1 labelled defence and 1 labelled attack. I stapled the defence underneath the attack sheet so it got some cover and it now resembled the board game. It was now a lot easier to understand. Still, with some classes it bombed. However, when it worked, it was pretty much one of the best lessons ive ever ran. The whole class talking english solidly for 20 plus minutes. I played it 2 on 2.

Regards,

Ian

Anyone know how to play the "Magic Number game" on Shostager's post? It's on the "Goodnews/badnews" ppt. There's just no explanation how to use this activity and I can't figure it out at all.

Hello crees18,

The Magic Number game is basically MASH (a popular middle school game, at least back when I was there), but with future vacations. The magic number is the number of choices you count through, and the one you land on is the one you delete. You keep going (not counting choices that are already deleted, or the last in their columns and therefore the result in that section) until you only have one choice left in each column, which creates your future vacation. I generally do an entire example (find all the results) with the entire class, so they know how to use the magic number.

"Go through the magic number" means count and delete, starting from the first choice (top left), and counting the choices using the magic number.

It's a bit hard to explain, but here's a link to a website that explains the original game: http://mashplus.com/how-to-play-mash/?

I guess I just thought MASH was a common enough game that it wouldn't be too confusing...  -_-"

The Magic Number game is basically MASH (a popular middle school game, at least back when I was there), but with future vacations. The magic number is the number of choices you count through, and the one you land on is the one you delete. You keep going (not counting choices that are already deleted, or the last in their columns and therefore the result in that section) until you only have one choice left in each column, which creates your future vacation. I generally do an entire example (find all the results) with the entire class, so they know how to use the magic number.
 
Thanks for all your help1

Hey guys!

For the first part, I'm going over their vacations as warm-up. Then showing them a video on the PPT to start the discussion "how was your vacation?"
I got stuff in my slide from other people in this forum (thank you!) just tweaked them a bit.

I'm also playing the MASH game posted here (thanks again!) but I changed it ti the past tense since that's how it is in the book. There's a detailed example in the last slides of my Powerpoint since I don't know how well my kids will know that game.

Hope it helps!