This is a thread for any lesson material for J.L. Haas (2014 edition) Middle School English 2 Lesson 7: The Power of Harmony.  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!

Here's my first lesson for the chapter - Here's how it's organized:
- Review about talking about vacations, since they just finished one
- Introductory videoclip (the Brothers Bloom - "I Collect Hobbies")
- Students list off their own hobbies, write them on the board
- Last one standing (basically Rows and Columns, but the last one gets a prize)
- Acting Charades ("Talk with your Body") Students must act out different hobbies in teams.

Second lesson for the chapter - again, parts of it were taken from different lessons here on Waygook, although I think the particulars of my game are original, but may in fact be mistaken. Anyway, the contents:

- Introduction, talking with the students about what they did with their friends over the weekend.
- Eliciting ways they know how to ask their friends to do something, then introducing the new grammar.
- Making "strange invitations" in a madlibs way. Students must write down seven words, then use those in the provided madlibs context to invite their friends. Friends either accept or reject.
- A board game where a student rolls to move, then must ask someone else to join them in doing the activity on that square. The invited student must roll, and if they roll a positive answer, they can move to join that other person on the square. I anticipate this shaking the game up a lot - someone who's very far behind can get a big boost from their friend in front, or someone way behind can drag another person down. I'm very interested in seeing how this turns out. Instructions for both small groups and whole-class play are included (whole-class play currently hidden).
- An optional song fill-in-the-blanks exercise I'll use if the game ends too early and there isn't enough time to start again.

The extra attachment includes the little sheets of roll-results for students who are asked to join, so that the groups can remember and don't have to keep looking at the board to check.

Shostager, you're lessons are just my style!

So refreshing to see another teacher on waygook whose setup is very similar to my own! I've gotten so many great ideas from you this year! Thanks for sharing!

I like that 'I collect hobbies' clip. But I don't like the miserable youtube quality.

I made a 720p version.

Hello,

References: Free time,  what do you want to do? Usually

I quite significantly adapted a previous poster's presentation. Thank you for the help, and thank you to everyone else who has posted stuff which has helped me (too many to name). I wrote the different frequency adverbs on the board and illicited from them how often they do things. I then played a game of shuffle cups.

Regards,

Ian

This ppt is meant to go with AQVM's icollecthobbies video clip from The Brother's Bloom posted above

it is a screen shot of each of the hobbies shown in the clip and sentences such as:
'She can..."
'Her hobby is ...'
'She enjoys...'

Here's a simple "Usually" worksheet that can be used as a warmup or review. 10 questions asking students what they usually do in different scenarios. [Found on Boggle]