Author Topic: Lesson 1: Catch Your Dreams (Read 9929 times)

sheila · « **on:** February 05, 2015, 01:28:22 PM »

This is a thread for any lesson material for J.L. Haas (2015 edition) Middle School English 3 Lesson 1: Catch Your Dreams. 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!

Mlatte · « **Reply #1 on:** February 06, 2015, 11:23:36 AM »

Thank You Very Much Sheila for your hard work. I am posting a very basic PowerPoint for Listen and Talk 1, "I'm thinking of..." It was hard for me to think of something to come up with....I decided to give examples, then I will have the students draw on a piece of paper, what they are thinking of doing this weekend and what they are thinking of doing in a year. In the PowerPoint, I am going to play the basic game of "I am thinking of a number between..." Finally, I decided to throw in a logic puzzle for them to think about.

vmajeika · « **Reply #2 on:** March 02, 2015, 04:55:15 PM »

I took parts of the lesson above me that is posted and added a bit more! Great idea on the game, I'm going to try it out tomorrow! (and the template is from someone else in Middle School 2 because I already had it open). Here's my simple enhancement. ^^

When I have the questions, I'm going to throw around a stuffed animal I have and whoever catches gets to answer.

Kingeudey · « **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2015, 05:49:24 PM »

Omg.
There's a new book for this now too?
This is my last school of the week *(Fridays) so I won't see it until I go there.
I am *so tired of getting new books and having to plan all over again.

When I lived on Imjado a year and a half ago I got 5 new textbooks in one semester. 2 elementary, 2 middle, and a HS book.

Sigh...

kaudrab · « **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2015, 05:00:33 PM »

In the habit of building on each other, I've taken the earlier lesson and added more visual content, with specific sections for "What are you thinking of doing this weekend?" "What are you thinking of joining?" (with content on American clubs) and "What are you thinking of doing?" about books and movies. I left both of the short activities at the end, but deleted the content on Don't Give Up! because I want to spread the lessons out.

Dreamer · « **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2015, 10:09:27 AM »

PPT with "I'm thinking of" sentences.

crees18 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2015, 04:01:15 PM »

Here is a PPT I made up. The first 5 are hidden pictures, the rest are just pictures. Students must offer the vocabulary word. Not the best PPT but it's okay.

fwicksteed · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2015, 04:24:51 PM »

Thanks for your materials, everyone. I have borrowed various bits and bobs from your ppts, and changed a few sentences/pictures to make it my own. I also changed the drawing activity a little. Students have 1 minute to draw what they are doing this weekend, and 1 minute to draw what they are doing next year. I will have them pass their drawing to the next person/person behind them and have that student write a sentence about each picture e.g. "This weekend, he/she is thinking of watching a movie." The ppt also includes my own truly glorious drawings for students to make a sentence about (hopefully they won't be too upset that I'm going to Japan), so you'll probably want to change/delete that.

I'm going to use this for 2 periods. The school clubs part and 'design a new school club' activity is for the 2nd period. Slide 23 is about the clubs I was in at school, so you might want to change/delete that one as well.

lifeisgood6447 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 05, 2015, 01:14:35 PM »

They want me to try to find of follow the book, and to be honest it is easier for me. I usually cover two pages a day, and do a game the last week, so, three weeks a chapter. Here is my short PowerPoint and activity. The lesson goes like this: warm up, page 12, sentence building with the teacher, activity, page 13. I hope someone finds it useful. Oh yeah, make sure you check the "note" section of the PPT to see how the sentence building and activity go, I think slide 9, and maybe one more. Good luck!

I think I'll do a "making a club" activity the third week. Then have students vote (via speaking and stickers) to see which clubs they want to "join."
~Life

Dreamer · « **Reply #9 on:** March 06, 2015, 01:36:39 PM »

Don't give up - Encouragement sentences.

PhyreMatrix · « **Reply #10 on:** March 06, 2015, 03:29:38 PM »

I've made a short Powerpoint of the expression "What ____ do you want to (do)" and a Jeopardy game based on Listen and Talk section of this chapter. The layout I found on some other site.

Edit: Jeopardy game is updated to have the boxes disappear correctly now.

natmossy · « **Reply #11 on:** March 09, 2015, 03:49:27 PM »

How does the Jeopardy game work?

When the students answer green for $200, for example, shouldn't the amount and category disappear?

slycordinator · « **Reply #12 on:** March 09, 2015, 05:58:35 PM »

Quote from: natmossy on March 09, 2015, 03:49:27 PM

How does the Jeopardy game work?

When the students answer green for $200, for example, shouldn't the amount and category disappear?

I can't save files on this computer, so it'll be a little while until I can put up a fix for it, but...
The file in question can't have the stuff disappear. You can keep track of the ones already chosen or

For each selection, click on it, then add a disappearing action. Then in the animation pane, click on the animation drop-down menu, select timing, select triggers, then click "Start effect on click of" and choose the item in question's name. Note that the latter will be MUCH easier if you rename the items in your selection pane, like change the green 100 to something like "G 100" since there's a bunch of things with the name "Rounded..."

Tedious but it's the way to go.

bluehermione · « **Reply #13 on:** March 09, 2015, 09:01:25 PM »

For the "Don't Give Up" part of this lesson, would it be weird to show the kids this video? (Bruno Mars singing a song called "Don't Give Up" on Sesame Street): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWp6kkz-pnQ. Will they think it's dumb because it's for younger kids, or cool because Bruno Mars is in it?

LeaKorea · « **Reply #14 on:** March 09, 2015, 10:45:26 PM »

Attached is my PPT and guided notes. I have taken and altered bits of many of the preceding PPTs.

I chose to explain the dialogue "I'm thinking of" by splitting it into 3 categories:
1. Doing an action
I'm thinking of + (-ing verb) + what.
I'm thinking of watching a movie.
2. Doing an action with "going"
I'm thinking of + going + (-ing verb).
I'm thinking of going swimming.
3. Going somewhere
I'm thinking of + going + where.
I'm thinking of going to Seoul.

The explanation isn't very academic, but hopefully it is accurate and logical enough for my students~

I hope this is helpful to someone,

Lea

david.eng.teacher · « **Reply #15 on:** March 10, 2015, 10:26:29 AM »

Just curious here, did anyone else struggle with the thought of explaining "thinking about" in addition to "thinking of"? I came very close to doing so, but I decided against it because I knew that I would be the only one teaching that (my coteachers probably wouldn't care to elaborate), and that it would not be on their tests. I know the differences between the two are pretty subtle and that "thinking of" will certainly get the students by, but it bugs me when I hear/see "I'm thinking of my girlfriend" when I am used to hearing/seeing "I'm thinking about my girlfriend."

LeaKorea · « **Reply #16 on:** March 10, 2015, 10:40:55 AM »

david.eng.teacher,

I wondered about including "thinking about" as well, but decided against it to focus on the textbook examples. However, I haven't taught this lesson yet, so I may end up mentioning it depending on how quickly my students pick up on the dialogue.

Also, I am spending very little time on thinking about an object and am mainly working on thinking about an action because the teacher's guide specified that the objective is discussing intention.

But yeah, "I'm thinking of" is not the most natural of expressions...

Falling_Sky · « **Reply #17 on:** March 10, 2015, 11:11:53 AM »

The Word document is a review of the words for Page 17.

The Powerpoint has pictures of the vocab on page 19. Picture appears first, students try to guess what it means, and then the word will appear. I've also included example sentences. Feel free to copy, adjust or whatever.

My first attempt at anything like this. Also thank you all for you help! The files posted have helped me a ton.

PhyreMatrix · « **Reply #18 on:** March 10, 2015, 12:04:33 PM »

Quote from: natmossy on March 09, 2015, 03:49:27 PM

How does the Jeopardy game work?

When the students answer green for $200, for example, shouldn't the amount and category disappear?

This particular template I couldn't figure out how to make the numbers disappear after it looped back to the categories list so I kept track of it. I'm still trying to figure out how to do that in PowerPoint.

I've seen other types of games where it does disappear but can't figure it out myself.

crees18 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 10, 2015, 01:10:36 PM »

I made the Jeopardy game so that the rectangles disappear after you click on them. I Changed a few sentences too but not much. Also the file name is changed but it's still the same thing.

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