Use the material how you like.


Lesson Plan:

The topic focus is to use past and present simple verbs to create functions

Function 1
Invitation
"Today, let's build a snowman."

Function 2
Telling someone about a what you did in the past.
"Yesterday, I built a snowman."

Verbs have been colour coded for simplicity.


1.
Drill and elicit a few easy verbs with them to get Students in the right frame of mind.
I'm using today (now), and yesterday (past) as the keys to separate the tenses for low levels... you can build this up by eliciting other past and future time frames for higher levels. This is great to get them reviewing verbs they already know.

After elicitation, have the students close their eyes and use their hands to point behind them (past), or in front of them (present) to check understanding while you read the verbs to them.
Eat, ate, drink, jumped, last week etc.



2.
Presentation -
The structures throughout the presentation are:

Today, let's (verb [present simple form] + object)
Yesterday, I (verb [past simple form] + object)

You get the idea.

3. Drill as you go.
Each verb has two example sentences for each tense that you can drill with the students. I've made this for grade 5 and 6 After School class, so all the vocabulary and structures they should already have a pretty good handle on (change anything they don't know to save pre-teaching).
Use your Korean co-teach to help explain the vocabulary. I've made it as simple as I can with very clear images to teach without a co-teach. I'll try to get some Korean translated for it later and update.

4.
I'm currently working on a WkSheet for consolidation and practice. In the meantime, you could make the students work in pairs and write one new sentence for present and past and have some of them read their sentences out.

5.
Round off the presentation with a listening and gap fill of the Frozen song.

6.
Make them sing the song all together - Have fun and add TPR motions with the words.

7.

Make it your own with Game/Activity ideas: Running dictation, spelling be, rock paper scissor battle (using pictures from the PPT), memory matching verbs, find your partner verbs, team of two listen to the present tense and write the past tense on mini white boards.




Included are the presentation PPT, and gap fill song sheet (the gaps match the taught vocab, but easily you can take out other words you're sure they know to make it a longer activity). Probs my last one for a while, these are brutally time consuming.


- JoeyG

This is an amazing ppt - you so totally rock!  I'll use it with my Chinese 6th graders tomorrow.  Thanks!  Jane

I modified this lesson a bit so I could teach classes of 50 students each this week, 6th graders in Chengdu, China.  I reviewed with another ppt listening to "Let it Go" with lyrics appearing, THEN played the alphabet game.  I had the alphabet written out 4 times on the chalkboard. Each team of about 13 students had to send one student up at a time, to their designated alphabet, and they could choose any of the 26 letters to fill in with a relevant word from "Frozen."  Then that student would go back to their seat, handing the chalk to the next student, who would then come up and choose a letter to fill in with a word from "Frozen."  Sometimes the students crowded up at the front, but I could manage pretty well.  They loved this game!

After we'd exhausted options - and to break it up a bit - then I showed the ABC power point listed above on this website, so they could see how many more words there were.  In some classes, we then continued the game.  It was great!

Thanks so much for these resources!  I just wanted you to see your results working in my corner of the world.

I suggest making sock snow men after this as a review project!

Here's the link for how to make it :
http://mrsbaiasclassroom.blogspot.kr/2014/05/winter-camp-wonders.html

Well, it's not a grammar lesson anymore: it's now a functions lesson. Problem solved ;)