Lesson plan for October 2, 2006

 
  • Materials to set up:
    • Pencils, white lap boards, dictionaries, 
    • computer or CD player, speakers
    • materials for children's activities, 
    • Post calendar 
    • Worksheets:
      • BOPD-RA, unit 3, focused listening 2, ws p 53
      • OR... Nice to meet you quiz
      • Advanced: BVIU - the family 60-61
      • BVIU 22-23 "get"
         
    Whole group:
    Prayer - Solicit contributions as you write three or more items for each part of the prayer.
    Praise example: "Dear Heavenly Father, You are holy, You are almighty, You are merciful"  (righteous, living, near, great, faithful, forgiving, the most high, our protector, our provider)

    Thanks example: "We thank you for restoring Louis to health. We thank you for this beautiful weather. We thank you for providing for our needs."

    Petition example: "We ask that you help us to learn from each other. We pray for the health of Beatrice's mother. We pray for peace."

    After writing, use the listed items as you pray in simple English. 
    End the prayer with "We praise You, we thank You, and we ask You in Jesus' name. Amen."
    Individual Groups
    Lesson focus:
    family relationships
    Oxford Picture Dictionary pages: OPD p. 24, 25
    Beginner level:
    Vocabulary:  family relatives
    Reading/Writing activity:  Family tree cloz (see below)
    Listening Activity: BOPD-RA, unit 3, focused listening 2, ws p 53
    OR
    Nice to meet you (from http://www.esl-lab.com/)
    Speaking activity:   Vocabulary exercise: 
    Outburst (male and female relatives)
  • Higher level: draw from the following materials that seem appropriate for your group (see key below):
  • pronouns   BVIU - the family 60-61
  • BVIU 22-23 "get"
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    Whole group:
    Song: He's got all the relatives in his hands

     
    KEY 
    BVIU....... Basic Vocabulary in Use - Cambridge
     OPD ........Oxford Picture Dictionary
     BOPD-RA ....Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary - Reproducable Activities
     GJ .........Grammar Jams
     GJ2 .......Grammar Jams 2

     
    Have students use dictionaries and this chart, to help them fill in the blanks for the cloz activity below.
    Look at the "My Relatives" chart. Fill in the blanks.

    My father's first ________ was Amy.  Her mother was ________.  Adelle's ________ was Bill.  His mother and ________ were ________ and Brewster.  They were my ______________ and ______________.  My brother ___________ remembers them, but they died before my _________ April or I were born.
    Some people say I look like Ann-Marie, but they don't know she's my _________________.
    _____________, my father, tells me I look like Amy did.
    My _____________ Bruce and I have two children.  __________, our son, looks just like his dad.  Bruce doesn't  look anything like his father __________. My _____________ Agnes says that  Bart looks like his grandfather __________ , but I don't think so.
    My ______________ Amelia looks like her mother _________ .
    I tell Anne, __________'s daughter, that she is my favorite ____________. Of course I only have one!
    Her brother __________ looks a lot like his _____________ Bart.  I guess my _________ Bart looks like everybody!
     
     

     Outburst

    Divide the class into Teams A and B. The teacher assigns each team a particular topic (e.g male relatives, female relatives, weather, time and dates, streets in Salisbury  ....) which is to be kept secret from the other team. Each team meets for 5 minutes in private and collectively draws up a list of ten seven items related to the topic.
    Write them on index cards.
     After the lists are made, the game begins.
    The teacher tells Team A the name of Team B's topic. Team A then has one minute to try to guess the items on Team B's list (hence producing a noisy outburst). The members of Team B must listen and tick the items which Team A manages to guess. For every word Team A guesses correctly, they score a point. For every word they miss, Team B gets a point. After the points are recorded, it's Team B turn to guess Team A's list. For every word they miss, Team B gets a point. After the points are recorded, it's Team B turn to guess Team A's list.
    Additional rounds can be played with different topics assigned by the teacher. The first team to score X number of points wins.

    Male relatives
    Son, nephew, grandson, cousin, son-in-law, husband, ex-husband, step-son, brother, brother-on-law, uncle, father, grandfather, father-in-law, 

    Female relatives