High School - 08 - Greetings

[jellomando]

This was the first class of the fall term and the lesson seemed somewhat appropriate.

Greetings:

• Native Speaker introduces the concept of different levels of greetings. 5 minutes.
• Native Speaker goes over the different levels of formality with Korean greetings. 5 minutes.
• Native Speaker introduces the formality spectrum and solicits students to place people on the spectrum. 10 minutes.
• Native Speaker introduces North American greetings that match the Korean greetings. 20 minutes.
• Students perform North American greetings vocabulary worksheet. 10 minutes.

Notes:

• The worksheet took the form of a word search and most students took longer than 10 minutes.
• Presenting the greeting as videos worked well for most of the classes, especially when we got to the end and used Mr. Bean greeting the Queen as the very formal greeting.
• This class can be as interactive as you want it to be.  On one hand you can have the North American greetings presented as skits by the students or the other you can use videos.
• I presented with videos, but my choice was a product of doing this at the last minute, the night before class; more effort could have delivered better, more presentable examples.

My PowerPoint has embedded videos that need to be in a the same directory as the power point file. If that doesn't work they can be found online:

• Telephone Greeting
• Informal Greeting
• Polite Greeting
• Formal Greeting
• Very Formal Greeting
• Eagle Greeting

The wordsearch was generator by one of the vast collection of word search generator.

Other points of this lesson:

• Teaching the concept Wazzzup and Bootyshake.
• Introducing the kids to the wonderful world of Scrubs.
• Seeing the effects first hand of playing Mr. Bean videos.  The Korean kids love 'em; they are video gold.

More information about my lessons can be found here.

[andiwithani]

I tried this lesson in my classes with first grade high school girls.  It kind of fell flat for some, for others, it was ok.  I think the students didn't understand some of it.  My students are pretty low-level.

If you want to try it, go for it.  I found the more I did it, the better the lessons got.

[Whyt]

really dug the videos, will def. incorporate into next greetings lesson!

[CellarDoor]

Too bad, it seems like a lot of the videos have disappeared.  It looks like a fun lesson for greetings, and even though they probably already know many greetings already, my students might appreciate the fresh take on them.  Thanks for the materials.

[cheong36]

I want to try your lesson plan in my class. My students will have fun.

[christmas]

it's a great idea.  plus students will love watching the clips.

[jfran]

Thanks for the great idea, lesson worked well.

I used this lesson in my high school first grade classroom with a few tweaks here and there. One tweak was that at the end of the lesson where the slides show the greeting and whether it is formal, informal, etc I turned this into a Typhoon game.

Typhoon Game:
-create an 8x8 grid in word and assign a B, T, or # to each square
-Draw an 8x8 grid on the board
split class into teams, 5 or 6 teams works well
-if group guesses the correct type of greeting (informal, formal, very formal) then they get to choose a square
-if the square is:
>a number: the group gets that many points
>a T (Typhoon): that group loses all their points
>a B (Bomb): group gets to choose another team to lose all their points
   
thanks again,

[Prometheus]

I thought the lesson worked well, but even my low level class knew most of this so would just get bored.  Instead substituted much of the lesson with handshaking types and ideas of hugging friends. I turned it into more of a culture lesson and the classes really woke up when I had them do handshaking together. Just a thought if your classes are getting bored with this stuff.

-Pro

[aspadget]

Interesting idea, I think I may use a condensed version of this. Though, I think I'll leave out "wuzzzup". I always think of the budweiser commercial. A cultural idiom I'd rather not pass along