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Online CliffK

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Lesson on Opinions
« on: May 29, 2016, 02:23:55 AM »
Hey All,

I've got a new lesson on opinions for this week. The lesson plan goes like this-

Presentation: Introduce opinions, present key expressions for talking about opinions, present a few opinions that students can agree/disagree with.

Practice: Students complete two parts of a worksheet to practice creating opinions.

Production: Students share their opinions with other classmates, and record the answers on their worksheets.

I will be doing this lesson this coming week, and hopefully it will give the students a chance to better express themselves as well as providing good speaking and listening practice. I'm attaching all materials. Worksheets are designed to be printed double-sided, half page. Hope this helps!

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Re: Lesson on Opinions
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2016, 11:28:25 AM »

This is a lesson that best suits middle school and high school students.

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Re: Lesson on Opinions
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2016, 01:02:35 PM »
Thanks again Cliff! Another great lesson from you  8)

We have a chapter on opinions in the textbook we use. I added a slide about President Park to ask the students opinions. It was great and really got them talking. Then one parent complained to the principal and the local Ministry of Education and I was told to remove it from my lesson. Apparently middle schools are not allowed to have political opinions  :huh:

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Re: Lesson on Opinions
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2016, 06:49:35 PM »
Thanks for the kind words. I also was told that it was better to not have a political opinion in mine, even though it got the students talking. So, I replaced the opinions with some new ones, and I think the new ones work OK.

Also, I changed the worksheet a bit, mostly to provide more space for the students to write. Also, I added a "name" column rather than "partner", as this makes it clearer to the students that they must change partners after recording each one opinion.

Finally, I removed the idea of scoring the answers. I think that it is exciting enough for the students to walk around and play rock-paper-scissors, and that the scoring was confusing and unnecessary.

These were all co-teacher suggestions, and I think they're all good changes.

I'm just going to go ahead and post the new materials here.

 

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