(천재교육 Cheonjae/Frances Sohn) Grade 5, Lesson 1 - "I'm From Brazil"

thanks!!! I'm going to use these videos in the lesson tomorrow!

I also included the crazy cup game in this lesson!
There was a category for countries so it is perfect. If this got too easy I plan on modifying it so that students must correctly use the word in the dialogue.

Hey all! attached is my vocab sheet for this lesson. I posted earlier, but this one has the setting/scene descriptions in Korean for the students.

Hey guys, just thought I should mention that maybe we shouldn't be making powerpoints that cater to all the negative aspects of a xenophobic culture. So let's not put pictures of a black person with a spear and say "They are from Africa." That's ignorant. And I know you're going to say "well, they're just children" but that's exactly the point: they're just children.

A powerpoint that introduces only the 8 countries in the textbook (very low level students who will have forgotten all English over the winter break).
First section introduces the national flags/country names and students can also guess the country's location on a world map. The second section shows some typical housing from each country and students should guess the country from the housing.

edit: Just noticed the book is using the U.K flag instead of the English flag, so I've edited the ppt. I'm not going to explain to the kids the intricacies of the Union, I'll just apologise to any jocks, welsh, northern Irish reading this and wish you well in the world cup qualifying.

Here is a game that I will be trying to with my students today.  I have used it with previous classes and they enjoyed it.

1.   One student will be “it”. They will stand in the centre of the classroom with their eyes closed. 
2.   Each corner of the classroom will have a country’s flag.
3.   The “it” student counts to 10. 
4.   All of the other students choose a ‘country’ to stand in.
5.   When the “it” person reaches 10, the other students will say “What country are you from?”.
6.   The “it” person will say, “I’m from (Koream Canada, America, England, India, China, Brazil or Japan).
7.   The “it” person opens their eyes.  All students standing in the country said are ‘out’ and sit down.
8.   The last person standing wins and becomes “it”.

Here's an ordinal number game I use las year with my co-teacher.

Candy  is involved and the ordinal numbers were 1-30.

the youtube clip is really helpful! at the top

For the suggestion of using the passport exercise on the High Town web site, I found this to be a great idea, but a little hard for my 5th graders. I simplified it by asking the main questions of the lesson from the text book and just made a simple word doc. with it to cut and fold so that my students could make their own passports. I also thought that they could keep the passports so that  my Co-Teacher or myself, can give them stamps for when they do well in future lessons. Once they accumulate a certain amount they can win a pencil or something.

Hi all
Here is a template for passports that I made for my class. They have to fill in their address and draw their picture and then mingle to get four signatures or "passport stamps". They have to each "visit" four different countries.
 

In the teacher's guide there are some worksheets that are associated with each period but how do I get access to the worksheets. For example, in lesson 1, I'm from Brazil, on page 81, it says worksheet but how can I get these worksheets. It will be greatly appreciated if someone can respond to my inquiry ^_^.


Thanks

They are on the books website. You will probably need to ask your CT for help, unless your great at Korean. www.chunjae.co.kr

No, I am not good in Korea and my co-teachers may  use the same material as well so I don't really want them to know that I am using these materials, if this make sense ^_^. I don't want our work to coincide and I don't tell or share to them what I am teaching to the students.

I've spend the last 20 minutes going through the website with my co-teacher.  Where the hell are these worksheets?

Attached is a game and worksheets that I modified a little from previous posts.  My students love this game and had so much fun with it.  Hope it is useful to someone.

Cheers.

A basic intro PPT for Lesson 1 :)

Hey guys, just thought I should mention that maybe we shouldn't be making powerpoints that cater to all the negative aspects of a xenophobic culture. So let's not put pictures of a black person with a spear and say "They are from Africa." That's ignorant. And I know you're going to say "well, they're just children" but that's exactly the point: they're just children.

I have used the picture of a Zulu man, dressed in his traditional clothing and holding a spear, as representing South Africa in my PPT. However, I have also used a Australian man standing next a kangaroo, a Korean lady dressed in her Hanbok, and many other traditional dressed characters. How will students know what the countries are famous for if they aren't exposed to it? I am from South Africa and I'm proud of the many cultures we have. Our president is a Zulu and wears the traditional dress at his many weddings.

I haven't tested this game with my 5th graders yet, but I used the same setup with my 6th grade classes earlier this week, and they had a lot of fun with it. Go over the flags and famous places, and then use the example slides to explain the rules. For each picture, read the sentence as it appears. The students have to decide whether the sentence matches the picture or not. For a match, they do something silly, like stand up and hop in a circle on one foot while waving their hands in the air. If it isn't a match, they have to sit down on the floor. I give points to the first team with everyone doing the correct action.

Here's baamflag game

play this game for review on nationality

As practice for this lesson, I each student a flag card and they were to introduce themselves to a friend as if they were from that country. They would then switch cards with that friend and repeat.

It was simple and they seemed rather excited just using the language amongst themselves. It was also nice to join in on this activity as students are eager to talk to native speakers.

Heres the word file with the flags and countries.

Has anyone figured out how to condense these lessons into less than 7? They're already so packed in with material that even with deleting certain sections from my lesson plan, I still find I don't have time to add more sections from the next period to condense. It was easier with last year's book, but this one is so tightly designed (which I guess is a sign of its thoroughness) I can't seem to fit anything in without losing my kids entirely. The chants suck but they seem to have some value so I am hesitant to drop them.  Not to mention 7 is an awkward number.  Anyone??

My co-teacher and I just discussed that. Originally, I thought combining Periods 1 & 2 would be good, but we decided to take both periods slowly and introduce it thoroughly. We're going to teach all our 3rd & 4th Periods together since they are the easiest. Periods 5 & 6 seem like they have the most content and the most ability to expand, so we're going to just squeeze the Check Up (Period 7) into the end of Period 6. In review, we'll do

Class 1: Period 1
Class 2: Period 2
Class 3: Periods 3 & 4
Class 4: Period 5
Class 5: Periods 6 & 7 with the lion's share devoted to 6

I doubt this is ideal, but we couldn't see any better solution. If students can't do the Check Up very quickly by the end of Class 5, it's unlikely they'll learn it without some major personal attention.

mkilbride, thanks so much!
Did you cut anything out of each section? For example, I almost never use the book games and instead do board games where the kids can fully interact with the language. Any tips would be greatly appreciated! 

This is how I am planning to teach the unit..

1st hour: Ppt of all the key words and phrases. I usually add the Korean definitions to these so students remember. I have students Listen and Repeat after each key word/phrase. Also, have them write the key words and phrases in a separate journal. Check for questions. Also, I will do Look & Listen and Listen & Do portion, don't forget Q&A.

2nd hour: I don't know how in-depth you go into Look & Say and Listen & Repeat but I usually play the skits one or two times and have the Listen and Repeat. Again, do Q&A. After, I will have some sort of interaction game so students have the opportunity to use the key phrases and words (Speak and Read).

3rd hour:  I will do a mini review. I will then have the students work in pairs or in groups to do "Read & Think", "Read &Write" and "Write & Share" . Go over the answers together as a whole class. Then play another game to reinforce the context of the language.

4th hour: Mini Project or this is would be a great time to extent.

5th hour: Review
(My 5th grade students catch on fast and don't like to stick to one lesson for too long, so I will usually finish the Unit within 4 class hours)

*For the chant and song, play the song at the beginning of class. You don't have to teach it, just put it on "Listen and Repeat" mode. Students will eventually get use to it. Also, I use the chant and song as background music when students work in pairs or groups.

* I don't know how strict your coteacher is, but I don't use all the games or the sections, I make up my own games that target the main focus. Also, I don't do certain sections like "Fun with Words". But, if we do group work and the students finish early, I have the students do the Fun with Words on their own, if they can.

I hope this helped a bit.

In the teacher's guide there are some worksheets that are associated with each period but how do I get access to the worksheets. For example, in lesson 1, I'm from Brazil, on page 81, it says worksheet but how can I get these worksheets. It will be greatly appreciated if someone can respond to my inquiry ^_^.


Thanks

They are on the books website. You will probably need to ask your CT for help, unless your great at Korean. www.chunjae.co.kr

No, I am not good in Korea and my co-teachers may  use the same material as well so I don't really want them to know that I am using these materials, if this make sense ^_^. I don't want our work to coincide and I don't tell or share to them what I am teaching to the students.

I've spend the last 20 minutes going through the website with my co-teacher.  Where the hell are these worksheets?

I have no idea. I asked my CT and that's what she said. We have to download all the CDs which is taking a while. When that is finished she will get them and I will post them

Here is a hangman game I plan to do with my 5th graders. Since this lesson focuses on spelling and countries I thought hangman would be a good game to practice that and also get students thinking about the key phrases. I also made a short practice PPT. Hope all this helps!

Here are a couple powerpoints that might be useful for later periods of this lesson.

The first is Memory game, very simple, probably more as a warm-up, to test their memory of the flags.

The second is a quiz game. The questions shouldn't be TOO hard, but I was more trying to aim at spelling-emphasis and "where is he/she from?"

Hope it's useful!