Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books/7A/The Seasons

Lesson Plan Data (Dates relate to when lesson was administered)

Date:	Length (Min):	Location:	Textbook:	Chapter #:	Lesson #:	Topic:	# of Students:	Document Version:
		English Salon	FWE 7A	8 & 9	8		25+	0.13

Before Class

Lesson

• identify: opinion / fact and argument / conversation
• Briefly review context.

Definition

• Opinion = What a person thinks.
• Fact = What a person knows.
• Context = What a person or people is/are talking about.

Why?

• Because knowing the difference between fact and opinion is important for making decisions.

Example

• Draw two stick figures on the board. Explain that the two of them are having a conversation. These are not questions for the students.
• A: "Winter is cold. Do you like it?." B: "Yes! It's great!"

Questions:

• • What is fact?
  • What is opinion?
  • What is the context?

Lesson Question

• Is this fact or opinion?

Word(s] of the Day

• extinct
  • Animals that are all dead.
• endangered
  • Animals that are few in number and may all die, soon.

Question of the Day

• What season do you like?

Contact Information

QQ ID 867996874
QQ Name Danoff
e-mail danoff.charles@gmail.com

Teaching Materials

• FUN WITH ENGLISH 7A Textbook
• Lessons Notebook
• Stopwatch

Class

Plan

0 Before Class

• 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, Example, my contact info, words of the day and that it's OK to say "I don't know" or "No reason" on the board.
• Ask if everyone has their textbooks and pens. If they don't tell them to go get them.
• Have the students write down where they sit on my seating chart.
  • Depending on who is in the class, hand around my notebook and have them write down their names. Do not announce it, just give it to one student.
• Stopwatch ready to go before class.

1 Coversation

6 Minutes

• • If the kids don't respond, ask them the questions directly.
• Are you tired?
• Are you hungry?
• Is it anyone's birthday today in class?
• What are you going to do this weekend?
• Any questions for me? Add that the longer we talk here, the less time we have to spend on the textbook.

2 Minutes

• Red Sea joke.

3 Introduction

4 Minutes

• Make sure they understand the word "introduction."
• 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. I want to talk to you, but if I can't it is not because I don't like them, it is because I am busy. I like all of you. Please say hello again or e-mail me. 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 "No reason" ask which is correct if I ask "Why?" cross out "No reason" explain that it is Chinese, not English.
• Words of the Day
• Lesson - Ask if they remember what we did last week? Mention we will be talking a little about the same idea again.
• Definitions
• Example
• What season do you like? ... "OK, well what do you do during the winter?"
  • Ask directly to 1 to 3 students?
• Ask for any questions.

4 Page 30 Let's get ready A & B

7 Min

• Walk around the class, help the students who are struggling.
• Ask the students if the statements are facts or opinions.

5 Page page 31 Let's listen 1 A

2 Min

• I read it through. Stop at the end of each section and ask the students the answers.
• Ask the students if the statements are facts or opinions.

6 Page 34 Let's get ready A & B

6 Min

• I read it through.
• Ask the students if the statements are facts or opinions.

7 Page 35 Let's listen 1A

6 Min

• I read it through.
• Ask the students if the statements are facts or opinions.

8 Page 36 Let's listen 2A

6 Min

• I read it through.
• Ask the students if the statements are facts or opinions.

9 Page 37 Let's listen 3A

6 Min

• I read it through.
• Ask the students if the statements are facts or opinions.

10 Competitive Hangman

8 Min

• Divide the class in half.
• Draw two hang man diagrams.
• Explain the two halves will be playing against one another with the goal of finishing Hangman first.
• Give each team one word with the same number of letters and a similar level of difficulty.
• Start with one side, then alternate back and forth with the questions.
• First team to finish or the last team to be hung wins.

Extra Time

• Rows & Columns
• 20 Questions
• Soccer Dialogue Illustrating Argument vs. Conversation
• Ball Self-Introduction Game
• "How high can you clap?" Game
• Simon Says
• Telephone

After Class

Lesson Review Notes

What I could improve upon

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• Getting more kids involved with the conversation.

Next Week

• identify: argument / conversation
• Review:
  • identify: opinion / fact
  • Context
  • formal v. informal discussion

Thoughts

• with these types of classes I really think it might be better to do some sort of activity that gets everybody talking

Appendix

Acknowledgments

• Two Grade 8 students at Anqing Foreign Language School who gave me the idea to play competitive hangman.
• The comics I used in class were from the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune, kindly sent to China by my father.
• 20 Questions from the ITESLJ
  • http://iteslj.org/games/9996.html

Versions

0.1 11 Nov 2009

• Chose the textbook questions to use in a meeting with Mr. Brown.

0.11 17 Nov 2009

• Crafted the lesson plan around the questions.
• Changed the question of the day to reflect the lesson

0.12 20 Oct 2010

• Adjusted the formatting to make it Mediawiki friendly.
• Removed some copyright material.

=0.13 17 Feb 2011

• Added lesson detail box, removed some blank material and did some wikignoming for publication.

Additional Questions & Instructions for This Lesson

Page 38 Let's get ready B

4 Min

• Walk around the class, help the students who are struggling.
• Select two or three students to talk about what they selected, and ask some follow up questions.

Contact Information

I am actively seeking feedback on how to improve this lesson, please email me at, danoff.charles@gmail.com