Grade 7 Lesson 13 Version 0.12 FUN WITH ENGLISH 7A Chapters 11 Our different lifestyles Please note, this plan uses materials whose copyright is controlled by others. Please read the Materials Used Whose Copyright is Owned by Others section at the bottom of this document before re-using them. Some parts of the lesson plan like the definitions for words of the day are local only to my classes. Also, this lesson plan is tweaked depending on the individual tendencies of any class and students. For formatting issues when importing a text file, ' are used instead of quotation marks. Lesson Goals Get as many students as possible speaking English. Identify: opinion vs. fact & argument vs. conversation Review context. Cover natural English as it arises, like 'What's up? ', correct Chinese English and so on. Have long discussions about birds, wetlands and what the students brought for Show & Tell. -- Focuses Listening Set Skill = 6. Listen for gist in passages and conversations. Listening Curriculum Statement = c) Follow discussion to identify fact/opinion. Speaking Set Skill = A. Awareness of context. -- Why? Because knowing the difference between fact and opinion is important for making decisions. -- Definition Opinion = What a person thinks. Fact = What a person knows. Context = What a person or people is/are talking about. -- Example Hold up a book. Say this book is terrible. this book is great! this book is [color of the book]. -- Lesson Question Is this fact or opinion? -- Word(s) of the Day lifestyle the choices we make on how to live our lives -- Contact Information QQ ID 867996874 QQ Name Danoff e-mail danoff.charles@gmail.com -- Teaching Materials FUN WITH ENGLISH 7A Textbook Lessons Notebook Stopwatch -- Chinese English If the following things are said by a student, address the whole class. No why. Give me! I know! I know! If a student uses the adjective interesting, try to push them to use other words, as well. Always ask if students have questions or be patient and what for volunteers to answer my quesitons before forcing kids to respond. / CLASS / Plan 0 In classroom at least 30 minutes before my first class of the day. Before class, make sure chairs are set up correctly Write Lesson plan, Lesson, Definitions, my contact info, words of the day and that it's OK to say “I don't know” or “No reason” on the board. Stopwatch ready to go before class. 1 Coversation 0 - 8 Minutes start class with what's up? go over the different responses If the kids don't respond, ask them the questions directly. Are you tired? Are you cold? What is happening in the news these days? What did you do in your clubs after school yesterday? Have you watched any good [movies, cartoons, tv shows, ....] recently? Have you read any good [books, comics, articles ....] recently? Have you watched any good recently? What class did you just have? Do you like it? what club did you have yesterday? what will you do in your club today? 2 Joke 2 Minutes b joke from http://iteslj.org 3 Introduction 2 Minutes Point out the Lesson Plan, mention if we move fast, we can get to the game quicker. Tell them my contact info, and say that I am busy. E-mail is much better. Mention that if ask a question and they don't know the answer, it's fine to say I don't know. Write No why and that it's usually OK to say No reason. Usually OK for No reason. because some times students need to answer why? - like, if you know they are cheating and you want to ask why they chose a certain answer? Go over the words of the day. 4 Page 42 Let's get ready A & B 5 - 10 Min Walk around the class, help the students who are struggling. Tell the students if they have any questions, to raise their hands. Try to get a conversation going, ask some of the following questions, what is a healthy lifestyle? do you like healthy lifestyles? Say what I think about different things. Try to keep this going as long as possible, but not so long we don't get any other textbook activities done.. Call on as many students as possible. End w/What is the context of our conversation? If they don't know context, go through the definition. 5 Page 44 Let's listen B 5 - 10 Min I read. Try to get a dialogue going, ask Whose lifestyle do you like more, David's or Karen's? Say what I think about different things. Try to keep this going as long as possible, but not so long we don't get any other textbook activities done.. Call on as many students as possible. End w/What is the context of our conversation? 6 Show & Tell Activity 15 - 30 Minutes [Depending on how many kids share.] Be sure to bring something of your own down to class for the kids to discuss. Ask the students if they remembered the homework? Tell them if they forgot, it is OK, because they really did not forget! They all brought their clothes, pens and books. Tell the students they have to write three sentences about what they brought. If you can feel they are not understanding, as an example say and write three sentences on the board about what you are wearing, e.g. I brought my coat. It is [COLOR] and [WARM]. I like to wear it everyday. Walk around and help the kids, if a kid forgot to bring something, remind them tochoose something they are wearing, or a pen or something like that. After the writing time is finished, go first. Then, ask for volunteers. If no one does, start selecting students. After the speaker has spoken, ask for questions. If there are none, chose two students. Repeat every time. Possibly have the speaker give their speech again, if they only speak quietly looking down into their book the entire time or if they mumble. -- Extra Time Competitive Hangman Is 'Simon says' too easy for you? What's the Question? / AFTER CLASS / Lesson Review Notes -- What I did well -- What I could improve upon -- Next Week -- Thoughts Class Plan 1 2 3 4 5 6 / APPENDIX / Materials Used Whose Copyright is Owned by Others I used these because it was allowed within the rights given by the people who made the materials. The copyright of this lesson plan does not reflect the copyright of these materials. If I used something created by you and you would like me to not or change the attribution, please let me know. Copyright Holder East Meets West China Website http://emwchina.com/about/about.htm Materials Used Focuses, taken from the curriculum section of the 2009/2010 East Meets West China Information Booklet. Copyright Holder The Internet TESL Journal Website http://iteslj.org/ Copyright Notice http://iteslj.org/copyright.html Contact Information http://iteslj.org/mail/ Materials Used Joke was slightly modified from one I got from the ITESLJ. http://iteslj.org/c/jokes.html “What's the Question” from the ITESLJ. http://iteslj.org/games/9868.html Copyright Holder Two of my students at AFLS who gave me the idea for Competitive Hangman. Materials Used Competitive Hangman Copyright Holder Dave Sperling of Dave's ESL Cafe Website http://daveseslcafe.com Contact Information http://www.eslcafe.com/contact.html Material Used Is 'Simon says' too easy for you? submitted by David Kendrick from New Zealand. http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?display:1063330109-41948.txt -- Materials Used Which I Made I will likely only use materials I created which I entered into the Public Domain, but read carefully in case I licensed one thing different which may be what you want to re-use. Show & Tell Activity, which I entered into the Public Domain http://mr.danoff.org/show-and-tell-v0.1.txt -- Acknowledgments I would like to thank all the 8th grade classes at Anqing Foreign Language School who had this lesson for their participation and feedback. I would also like to thank the Anqing Foreign Language School for allowing me to teach. The idea for 'do lists to start naming as many birds as possible?' in the instructions for Page 50 Let's get ready A & B came from Mr. Brown. -- Notes -- Additional Questions & Instructions for This Lesson -- Changelog Version 0.1 November 15th, 2009 Created in an afternoon train ride from Hefei to Anqing with Mr. Brown. Original questions chosen: 42A, 43A&B, 44B, and 45A. Version 0.11 December 3rd, 2009 Shaped the questions around the 8a.lesson13ver0.11 skeleton and did some alterations along the way. December 4, 2009 added a new joke from the ITESLJ. Version 0.12 11 September 2010 Removed some extraneous information and lightly made it Mediawiki friendly. -- Contact Information I am actively seeking feedback on how to improve this lesson, please email me at, danoff.charles@gmail.com -- Lesson Associated Blog Post Please visit the link above to leave comments, criticisms or thoughts about this lesson in the comments section.
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