Does anyone have suggestions for starting out with this new textbook? I'm not that great at lesson planning and could use some advice. It looks like the general topic for this unit is on opinions. I don't teach from the textbook at all. I just supplement the students' regular classes with the language themes. My last textbook was a bit easier, topic-wise. I'm a little desperate for any kind of help.

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Lesson 1 week 2: pp.14-17.

This is a lesson for the "Fun with Speaking" section that focuses on the students' giving their opinions.

I picked five commercials. The students watch the commercials, rate them on their worksheet, and then write their opinion about it. At the end, they create a short dialogue with their friend.

The commercials are linked in the description section of the corresponding PPT slide. For my own PPT, I embedded the videos after downloading them using keepvid.com.

One's a Budweiser commercial, just FYI, in case anyone has co-teachers that would care about that.

I am planning on showing my kids Animal Face Off videos from Animal Planet (Lion vs. Tiger, etc) and ask them to say who they think will win the fight.

http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/animal-planet-presents/videos/animal-face-off-top-10.htm

Basically it will go like this:

1) Show the first couple minutes of the videos describing each animals strength and weakness. Then write the strengths and weaknesses. on the board, including things like the weight, length in the metric system.

2)Have the students write their opinion who will win. "I think the tiger will win because ....." then have them share with their partner and write down the answer.

3) Show the end of the video and see the winning animal! Award points if you want to the students who guessed it right.


I will demo how I want them to write their answers using my cot and my opinion about cats and dogs. High level students, maybe let them make their own sentences, low level model it for them.
 

This is a lesson for the "Fun with Speaking" section that focuses on the students' giving their opinions.

I picked five commercials. The students watch the commercials, rate them on their worksheet, and then write their opinion about it. At the end, they create a short dialogue with their friend.

The commercials are linked in the description section of the corresponding PPT slide. For my own PPT, I embedded the videos after downloading them using keepvid.com.

One's a Budweiser commercial, just FYI, in case anyone has co-teachers that would care about that.

Thanks for this. My coteachers actually didn't care about the beer commercial, but told me to replace the "Dumb Ways to Die" one.

Idioms ppt:  http://www.waygook.org/index.php/topic,68580.0.html

Just scroll down to the bottom of the page.

This is based on 'Let's talk about..." "OK, why don't we..."

I had the students look at some new vocabulary, and the language.

Then, we went over some example from the textbook. After that, I had the students talk about their school lunch. What do they like/dislike about their lunch. I wrote the answers on the board.

Afterwards, I had the students watch the buzzfeed video about school lunches around the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po0O9tRXCyA

Finally, the student make a new school lunch in partners. They present their school lunch to the class using the language: "let's talk about our school lunch." "Ok, why don't we have..."

I used this for low level and high level students. For low level, I provided them more time and dictionaries.

Pokemon Bomb Game using some images from the previous powerpoints.

Feel free to edit anything. Kudos to Kyle for the template.

Part C -

Review the opinion part from part B

Using the PPT, work through examples of comparative and superlative
   
Finish the listening sections

Final review game for this chapter is the legendary memory game, but with each answer requiring ‘I think that + answer.’ Only marginally connected to the target expressions but always goes down well