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| Every day is a special day! A lesson plan for almost every day of the year.... |
| "The teacher can't speak today. The teacher has a sore throat. (NAMES OF TWO STUDENTS) are the teacher's assistants. Listen to their instructions." Eventually we will have a link to each day -- a lesson for each day, a quote for each day, and you print it out. Remember which months have 30 days: put two... (click here) |
| Lesson Plan for August 4 Chinese Restaurant Quotation: Man who stands near a kitchen door gets it coming and going.... Write this on the board: How can you fold a napkin? can you make it look interesting? |
| ADVANCED LANGUAGE Explanation.... The door is a swinging door.... This is a funny quotation from a fortune cookie in a Chinese restaurant. Almost every person in the US will laugh at this joke. |
| A Structured Class INSTRUCTIONS Title: Chinese Restaurant (example) 1. Describe a place (the restaurant) Write the name of at least 5 things you see in the place Write 5 verbs (actions) you can do with the things Describe a person in the place Write a conversation between you and the person AIM: get the students to talk and produce and learn new words, then practice those words. FUNCTION: to talk about a real situation that we might experience or we might see in a movie. The GOAL is to help students feel comfortable about their English use. 2. Find the words that you don't know. (What is something that you want? If you know the name in your language but not in English, write the word in your language and someone in the class will find the answer. Maybe you can draw a picture or describe it: "I want a Xystrandra, which is two piece of red meat with white lettuce and onion and tomato between two pieces of bread." (the answer is below) 3. Now show your dialog or conversation to another student. Describe the store. Look at the other person's dialog. Suggest some changes to make it more natural or the change the situation. Each student plays a role or a part of the conversation. Perhaps the situation is STUDENT wants to find a sandwich and EMPLOYEE is making the sandwich. "Do you want ___________ on the sandwich?" (The employee does not speak clearly. Maybe he speaks like a man from Jamaica and you can't understand him?) |
| A note to the teacher: My style is "this is a conversation. I want you, the students, to talk more than me. I will start you. I will entertain you. But after a few minutes, it will be your time to produce. You will talk with your partner and then you will move to other partners. I will listen for your errors and we will put the errors on the board. We will discover the English that you want to learn." |
| Visit the home page of a Professor of Liberal Arts and read some FREE lectures. Good for building a stronger and more flexible vocabulary and you can get a college education, too. www.nova.edu/~alford |
| Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens (What did he write?) (see below) He wrote Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was born in 1835 and died in 1911, more or less. He was born when Halley's comet visited and died the year of its return, 76 years later. |
| IF THERE IS TIME AT THE END OF THE LESSON....Listen to a TV video. Stop after one sentence, rewind the tape, repeat the sentence at least three times. Write every word that you hear. Compare the words you wrote with the words that another student wrote (or work with the other student). Ask for a video with losts of commericals (they are very interesting. Sometimes the 1/2-hour show costs $500,000 to make but the 30-second commercial costs $1 million to make! |
| "Steve, I'm bored with this exercise." 1. NEW PEOPLE....Okay, ... imagine that another person (a tall man) walks into the Grocery Store. The person wants something and asks you for directions. Then a short boy walks in the store. What is he carrying? Who is with him? Where does he go? 2. NEW ACTION.... An employee drops something and something happens... Type your conversation and the description of the place ... send it to englishlesson@mail.com and we'll put the best ones on this web site. 3. NEW HOMEWORK -- if this exercise doesn't interest you, you can move to another situation or create a situation. Maybe a tattoo parlor? You help a lady who is 58 years old select a new design for her left breast or for her ankle. 4. Go to WELCOME TO TALK and suggest at least 3 pieces of additional information for new students. 5. Work with other students who are not bored. Ask them about their words. See if there is a new word in the list of words that you see. |
| "I want a Xystrandra, which is two piece of red meat with white lettuce and onion and tomato between two pieces of bread." a red meat sandwich, maybe roast beef sandwich... |
| FIND THE ERRORS For each of these conversations, we need DESCRIPTION of the place A small grocery store in Princeton, New Jersey. It is 9 a.m, the store was open for 7 a.m. DESCRIPTION of the people An old man who is the only emloyee of the store. Me, I am 42 years old. I was born on this city. I am back in the town for the first time in 2 yeears. Five THINGS broom dust polish grimace mustache Five Verbs or Actions sweep lean he leaned on the broom grin he grinned at me The polish on his shoes shined brightly. he stroked his mustache THE SITUATION or PROBLEM I don't know where to find hole wheet bread (it is brown). The old man can't hear me very well. He has a ear problem. THE DIALOG Me: Hi, excuse me, where is the hole wheet bred? Man: Oooh. what you said? Me: BRED ? WHERE IS THE BRED? Man: Sorry, no beds here. Across the street at Upton's Furniture store. (continue...) |
| Suggestions from Cary: Could we invite students (with scanners) to send pictures (scanned postcards) of their homes or places they've visited? Holidays, etc. Plus descriptions? Could students recommend local sights, even CHEAP and CHEERFUL boarding houses on their area or at their holiday resorts, etc. for weary travelers? Click to see the "travelrecommendations" Could we start a real life story page (CLICK HERE): each contributor produces a story about an event in his life (anonymously if he / she wants). It might make interesting reading. We could, I suppose, add pre-teaching notes, comprehension / vocab questions??? Could be useful for teachers... Must go. BFN Cary www.supergrammar.com Write to Cary at bradstow@aol.com |
| More about dialogs Intermediate Level Dialogues from esl.about.com Dialogues can be used to improve your vocabulary.... Look at these examples... http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa062501a.htm |
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| Answer... How can you put a rope in a neat organized pile? The secret is in the twist. If you twist your wrist when you make a coil (circle) of the rope left then right, then you make sure that the rope is not twisted. The secret is to alternate the twist.... |