93/60 " E-mail Roleplay"

* Language Point : Give some advice. Problem solve
* Objectives of Lesson : 
                     Students will be able to learn how to write the e-mail.
                     Students will be able to learn a bussiness language.
* Materials : Role-play worksheet (E-mail form)

“E-mail Roleplays”, Use e-mail as part, or all, or a roleplay activity. You can use it to establish a relationship before characters meet, for example an exchange of letters before a business meeting; and you can use it as the focus of the activity itself, for example the resolution of a difficult problem by correspondence.

* Setting  : You are a sales representative working in Sayit. One day you have got a letter of complain. Read the letter below. Send e-mail to the customer.  How could you resolve the problem?

Ms. Arlington,  Few days ago I had bought a stereo system from Sayit instead of buying it from Elector, where my family and all relative always chose to buy most of their electronics such as T.V., Radio, Microwave, etc. My parents kept telling me not to buy it from Sayit because they said Sayit is way too expensive for what their products can offer. And I guess they are right. It is a decision I truly regret. The stereo I bough was SP 550 series which is supposed to one of the newest and best in sound quality and other abilities it has. However, it seems to be no diferent from one of my cousin's stereo which is from Electro, the PS 6000 series, and it is half the price of the one I bought. Am I the only one feeling this way about the SAyit's SP 550 stereo systems? I am so upset! Matt Phillips Sayit Customer

* Mission Complete : Writing e-mail

76/59 'Story Mapping' with a graphic organager

* Name of Activity :  Register Transformation

* Teaching Strategy :Challenge higher-level students with a shift in tone and register.

* Process : 

   A) Type one half of an existing register transformation exercise into Storyboard .

   B) Photocopy the other part for your students.

   C) Using the information from students' photocopies, they should work to reconstruct 

 the parallel text in a different register.

   D) This is a very demanding exercise, and may be done as revision after intensive work on the texts.

+ Check up this great ESL site : http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

     It provids fency and eye-catching stroy maps you might expect.  

Figure 1. Story Map : Students will be able to wrap up filling in each section.

 //   Figure 2. Clock : Students will be able to think the story in time order. 

                 Figure 3. Sandwich Chart : Students will be able to catch the main sentence of each paragrah.

Figure 4. Ice-Gream Cone : Students will be able to think about the main idea of each paragrah.

66/58 'Using Rhyming Words' making an own poem

• Title of Lesson : ' A Cat is sitting on the Mat' (Phonics class using Ryme)
• Target Group : Lower Level (8~9 year-old)
• Objectivies :

                 1) Students will be able to know what 'rhyme' is.
                 2) Stdents will be able to make a short sentence using rhyme. 

 + Tip : Type in a word below to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more.         
                                                    

                              http://www.rhymezone.com/





63/57 "Read again"by recording your voice

Benefit to Using Voice Recoder System.

1. Listen the  'Native Speaker' voice.
2. Improve pronunciation by repeating right after the Navtive Speaker.
3. Have chance to hear 'My Voice' and will be able to find out the aspects need to inprove.
4. Compare the 'Native Voice' to 'My Voice'

+ Tip : 1) Chek pronunciation, intonation, speed
           2)  Have chance to recall the story that we have learned

- Tip :  1) This Voice Recorder Engin provide only for a designated book purchaser.
           2) Need to "Sign up" to use the voice recoder engin.

http://www.e-learningcastle.co.kr/studyroom/mybook.asp

46/56 "Making it Vivid" using WordWeb Games

* Language Focus : Vacabularly (Adjective, Adverb)

I believe that it is very important to learn about the adjective and the adverb as much as we can, to express what you think cleary and vividly. 

How can we (as a language teacher) help to build up students' vocabulary ability ? 

Activity 1. Use Classroom Objects

• Make a group of 2. Each group has 3 or 4 members.  
• Teacher writes nouns randomly on the board. ex) girl, boy, dest, dress, hamburger...
• Students unscramble or make own sentence using displayed words. 
• Teacher should go first saying one simple sentence. ex) I like the girl.
• Student add words to it and extend sentence. ex) I like the girl in pink dress.
• To make it vivid, the group using many adjective or adverb will win this game.

Activity 2. Use FSL site : http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/h/

              

+Tip : This site will help students learn more adjective for people by guessing and assembling word pieces.

38/55 "Book Presentation" with Story Pyramid

* Tell me how to do it !

1.  Tell students about a novel that you have read reacently. Describe the characters and elements of the plot. Try to give them and authentic flavor of the book. You may even choose to read passages from it. Make it interesting, but don’t give away the ending. 
2. Organize a weekly slot for book presentations and encourage the students to sign up each week. 
3. Make it clear that their presentations can take different forms. They could be similar to the one that you have given. Alternatively, they could be question and answer sessions or students readings from the book.

Prepare the transparency for the class to do as a class activity the first few times. Later the students should be able to do this on their own.

Story Pyramid

1. _________

2. _____________

3. _________________

4. _____________________

5. _________________________

6. _____________________________

7. _________________________________

8. _____________________________________

Have the students fill in the pyramid with the information asked for below.

On line

1. write the name of the main character

2. two words describing the main character

3. three words describing the setting

4. four words stating the story problem

5. five words describing one event in the story

6. six words describing a second event

7. seven words describing a third event

8. eight words describing the solution to the problem

23/54 " Find the Conclusion" through Twitter

• Teaching Strategy : Making own conclusion, Summarizing
• Learning Process : 

                * Teacher displays a story with missing conclusion part on the site.
                * Students make an own conclusion.
                * Students summarize the conclusion less than 140 letters. 
                * Students put it on the twitter.
                * All classmates share their ideas and choose the best creative and resaonable conclusion. 
  
                        + Tip : The story must stimulate students' interest.
                 

 This story could be something like this :

The weather channel reported that a stretch of bad weather could be heading our way. It was summer vacation and we wanted to go to the beach. The sky was a brilliant blue with no clouds in sight. We were a little worried but decided that maybe the storm would miss us. We packed up our stuff and took the train to the beach. Wen we got out at the station, we noticed that the sky to the north was quite dark. As we put down our towels, the dark sky was moving closer. as a matter of fact, we were quite surprised by hwo fast it was moving. We quickly packed up and headed back to the train station. As we were walking over the sand dune, there was a sudden loud crack of thunder. As we dashed to the station, it started to rain and blow very hard......

                                          Teacher's turn :  How will this story end?