Author Topic: Lesson 3: You Can Be a CEO! (Read 6262 times)

sheila · « **on:** February 05, 2015, 01:29:39 PM »

This is a thread for any lesson material for J.L. Haas (2015 edition) Middle School English 3 Lesson 3: You Can Be a CEO! 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:** March 10, 2015, 05:19:33 PM »

I made this PowerPoint where students have to choose between two choices using the phrase, "I would recommend..." In order to have all students participate, they will play musical chairs, and when the music stops, the person standing will answer the question. You may want to change some of the situations, depending on the English levels of your middle school students.

Dreamer · « **Reply #2 on:** March 19, 2015, 06:33:49 PM »

PPTs 4 u!

albinoninja · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2015, 09:57:05 PM »

A simple PP for this lesson.

Review Lesson 2.

Look at Part A, then talk about recommendations/advice.

Part B.

Practice giving recommendations.

Part C speaking practice in groups.

I have two choices for games I found from teach-this.com. I think the advice dominos could be good, but changing the language to I recommend you _______.

Andrew1208 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 02, 2015, 06:14:13 PM »

The focus of the PowerPoint and game is exclusively on page 48, section C. The PowerPoint is short, but I wanted to leave time for discussions.

Target Language:
A: Could you recommend a restaurant for me?
B: Sure. I recommend Tims Restaurant.

natmossy · « **Reply #5 on:** April 03, 2015, 06:09:40 PM »

Do native speakers really say "I recommend you...?" I think Koreans have the perception that they do and that's why they say it so much. They've also been taught to say it like that. It is grammatically correct, but people don't really speak that way.

fwicksteed · « **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2015, 08:23:44 PM »

Here is my ppt and worksheet! Thank you to those above from whom I borrowed.

I start by introducing the key expression and a little explanation (with help from my coteacher) about the difference in politeness between direct and indirect questions. Some students don't know that 'would you prefer' is more polite than 'do you prefer', for example.

Then we play my version of the advice game posted above. My students aren't that enthusiastic when I have them write in groups, so I changed it to a speaking game. I give the students a situation, and they can get a point for their team by raising their hand and giving me a recommendation about what to do. We'll play until they run out of suggestions. Depending on time, I may only do 2 or 3 situations.

Next we go over some examples of giving recommendations about music, food, movies etc and then I'll give them my worksheet to do in pairs or solo. I'll have some volunteers present one of their dialogues when they are done in exchange for a stamp.

There is also a review game for extra time or supplementary class. It's an edited version of the basketball game above with loads of gifs in it. Kids love gifs!

P.S. I use a mac. It all looks fine to me, but I'm sorry if the format is messed up for PC users! You may find you need to move boxes/change font sizes a bit.

albinoninja · « **Reply #7 on:** April 08, 2015, 12:35:52 PM »

Quote from: natmossy on April 03, 2015, 06:09:40 PM

Do native speakers really say "I recommend you...?" I think Koreans have the perception that they do and that's why they say it so much. They've also been taught to say it like that. It is grammatically correct, but people don't really speak that way.

We certainly do say it. We usually say "I'd recommend.." but you are right that this is not the most common way to recommend things. I addressed this in my PP, but usually we just say "You should..." I always teach the book language, but then point out what I feel is the most common way to express the same idea. Our students will likely be tested on the language in the book, so most students don't care about the colloquial usage. My high level students usually use what I say is the most common over the book language.

Here is my lesson for the last part.

Review recommendations.

Part A as an intro to the new language.

Talk about preferences.

Part B listening.

Play "Would you rather" but use prefer instead.

Part C in pairs.

If there is more time I usually play hot seat or charades, but I think it would be funny to have students come up with their own "Would you rather" scenarios.

nicolejanine · « **Reply #8 on:** April 09, 2015, 01:44:37 PM »

Here is my lesson on Recommendations. I took some ideas from other posters & paired it with the basketball game(s) posted above. Honestly I found this lesson difficult to teach, mainly because of explaining the difference between recommending a "category" (a book, a movie, a restaurant) vs. "one/ones." ("I recommend this one.")
I tried my best to explain it in English & just constantly checked their understanding of my explanations. Hope this is helpful to you~

Andrew1208 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 09, 2015, 07:02:09 PM »

Flip cup was one of my favorite party games in university. I have modified it for a classroom setting. If students answer the questions correctly, they get the opportunity to attempt to flip a plastic cup. If the cup lands upright, the team wins two points. If it lands upside down, the team wins one point. If the cup lands on its side, the team wins no points.
Materials needed: a plastic cup
Target language: Page 49, part C
Would you prefer ________
Id prefer_____________

fwicksteed · « **Reply #10 on:** April 12, 2015, 11:16:53 PM »

Some fantastic waygooker made an awesome Studio Ghibli game, so I have moved the content from my recommendations gifs game posted above into this super cute template. Enjoy!

lauragrace · « **Reply #11 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:40:51 PM »

Will be trying this tomorrow:

- Teams
- Each student gets a number, same numbers for all the teams (example: 4 teams of 6 students, each group will be numbered from 1-6)
- Call a number, that number from each team will stand up (4 teams, there will be 4 students)
- Rock paper scissors
- Winner will ask the question based on the picture on the ppt (if it's a picture of a book, will ask "what book do you recommend?")
- 4 other students will come up with an answer, they will say them out loud (I recommend Harry Potter, etc etc)
- Winner of rock paper scissors will pick 1 that he/she thinks is the best recommendation by saying "I'd prefer...."
- 1 point for the team of the person who recommended it

ADDED: Intro PPT with game and cootie catcher/fortune teller instructions. Will be making them to practice the dialogue!

fwicksteed · « **Reply #12 on:** April 14, 2015, 12:48:37 AM »

Hi again. I really liked the idea of playing Would You Rather using the key expression, as mentioned above (thanks albinoninja), so I decided to use it with my high level supplementary class. I have attached a short little ppt to introduce the game.

First, I explain what the game is and show them my three examples of Would You Prefer cards on the ppt. The first card gives a choice between two good things. The second, a choice between two bad things (one of which uses the name of our town, so you'll want to change that). And the third, a combination. I stress that the choice is supposed be difficult, but that a choice must still be made.

After that, I put the students into groups of 4 or 5 and give them a pile of little slips of paper which they can use to make their own cards. The team which makes the most cards (or best cards) wins and gets stamps from me. While they are doing this, I write a few more funny examples on the board to give them ideas and also demonstrate the grammar of the sentences. My students struggled with negative sentences (e.g. Would you prefer to never... Would you prefer to not...).

When they have made some cards, I have them exchange them with another team, and then talk amongst themselves about the new cards they receive. Finally, I ask volunteers to present a question that they have been given, what their choice is, and why.

I collect up all the cards at the end. I think I'll laminate the best ones, or maybe type them up and make real cards out of them for use in some other class.

I didn't intend for this to take an entire class period but it has done for both classes I've done it with so far! They seemed to enjoy making up questions quite a lot.

nicolejanine · « **Reply #13 on:** April 14, 2015, 05:03:12 PM »

Part 2 "Would you prefer...?" PPT. I basically used Part C on page 49 to explain the lesson & then gave some crazy hypothetical situations. Included a little fun video about Kingda Ka in New Jersey (it's the highest roller coaster in the world for now).

There's a game I found somewhere in a "Would you rather...?" waygook post, but changed it to "Would you prefer...?" Basically the teams answer the question with what is depicted in the gif, then they answer a bonus question about what happened in the gif. The kids seemed to enjoy it!

PhyreMatrix · « **Reply #14 on:** April 14, 2015, 11:18:13 PM »

Here's my lesson on giving recommendations. I made my activity simple since they're all experts on Korea I just gave them the task of recommending what I should do around the country. I found this was an excellent chapter to make things a little more personal... also making bomb games is time consuming.

Kingeudey · « **Reply #15 on:** April 22, 2015, 02:59:28 PM »

Here's a very simple Battleship template for Gr 3 L3 Listen and Speak 1 and 2.
If the students aren't familiar with the game, I typically spend the better part of one class period just having them ask me and telling them hit or miss. That way that can learn how to keep track and map things out.
Enjoy!

chelsea.vaneck · « **Reply #16 on:** May 11, 2015, 04:15:22 PM »

Part 1 Lesson plan. I did this for an open class and it went wonderfully.

PPT -Introduce new topic

Practice using the textbook.

Apples to Apples game.
Students are in groups of 4-5.
The winner of rock, scissors, paper starts. I give that student question cards.
1st student reads the question then closes their eyes.
Other students in the group have to write a recommendation but they can't tell each other what it is.
The 1st student collects the answers and reads them out loud. He/she must choose which answer they like the best.
The writer of the "winner" gets to keep the question card. (1 question card = 1 point).
A new person then reads the next question.
The winner is the person at the end of the game with the most question cards.

Try to have about 20 minutes to explain and play the game. It is a little confusing at first for the students, so use a co-teacher to help explain. Once they get it, they have a lot of fun!

I cut up scrap pieces of paper into small strips for students to write their answers on.

Tapp · « **Reply #17 on:** May 18, 2015, 12:27:15 PM »

My school wants me to do 3 weeks worth of lessons for each chapter. The first week I'm supposed to do Listen and Talk 1&2 and the second and third weeks are supposed to be extra information from the chapter or a kind of offshoot from something in the chapter. Every third week is a struggle as I'm creating something new each time.

This week, I decided to focus on acronyms. I talked a little bit about acronyms when we first introduced CEO. I'll attach the zipped file, but here's the online address if you don't want to download: https://prezi.com/frnlpixxeqzq/acronyms-you-can-be-a-ceo/

I split the class into groups of 4 or 5 and had them work together. A few of the acronyms needed a little hint (i.e. for DRC I told them it's a country in Africa, for TTYL I told them that it also means "goodbye"). The game is very Busan-centric so you might have to change a few of the slides to suit your needs.

Edit: I've changed the order up a little bit on the actual Prezi website. The time allotted for totaling points and answering was too chaotic so I broke it up by giving answers at the end of each round. This also allowed me to cut the final round if it ran too long.

kdresker · « **Reply #18 on:** April 06, 2016, 12:39:15 PM »

This lesson/PPT goes through both Listen and Talk 1 & 2 in lesson 3.
Outline of lesson:
-Review activity of lesson 2
-Could you recommend & practice
-Would you prefer & practice
-Drawing/Speaking activity- Would you prefer comic.
There is also a short Pixar video "Partly Cloudy."

Thanks to all the people who posted! I took much of this from a little from everybody.

elacosse · « **Reply #19 on:** April 21, 2016, 01:26:18 PM »

Intro ppt and speaking game for part 2 pg 49

On the 'Find the Candy' slide. I had three paper cups and hid a candy under one, mixed them, then asked a student which color cup they preferred.

The game is to be played in groups. One person asks everyone 'Would you prefer ≈≈ or ≈≈?' using the pairs from the printout for the game. Each person answers, then the 'host' rolls a dice for each option and the students get that many points. There are two slides which demonstrate it.

When you print out the game sheet, make sure to cut the squares out in pairs.

There is also a handout I give for every lesson, meant to be printed double sided and the kids keep in their books. It has the dialogue to learn for the lesson and sometimes includes extra stuff marked by **

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