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oprah
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 Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject: Teaching Topics |
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| Seven more weeks till summer. What are you teaching your students these days.???. looking for teaching topics.... |
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Spiderman Too
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Culture Lesson
International cooperation and cultural exchange
Movie - The Amazing Panda Adventure
An American schoolboy does a class project about conservation and protecting China's Panda from extinction. He later gets the opportunity to visit China and while there he befriends a young Chinese girl and her grandfather.
While trekking through China's wilderness, in Sichuan province, the 3 come across poachers who have captured a Panda cub to sell on the international black market.
The American boy, Chinese girl, and her grandfather manage to take the captured Panda cub away from the poachers. The poachers then pursue the trio attempting to reclaim their bounty.
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5 minute words
Teacher will prepare 5 sheets of paper for 5 teams simply by writing Team A on the top of each of 5 sheets of paper, Team B, Team C, etc.
Divide the class into 5 teams of 5 to 6 students, i.e. teams A through E. Try to spread the teams out around the classroom if possible. Only the team member that writes needs to sit, the others can stand around him/her. Give each team their first sheet of paper (minimize the risk of confusion).
When the game is being played, 4 or 5 students will speak words and 1 student will write them down. Explain to the students that each person in their team must have a turn at writing the words.
The teacher will say one of the below-listed categories and students have 1 minute to think of and write down as many words as possible for that category. Spelling is not important as long as the teacher can understand the word, i.e. ?french fried? is obviously ?french fries?, but ?stick? may not be accepted as ?steak?; it?s up to the teacher.
The teacher will call out ?Start? and ?Stop?. After the teacher has called out ?Stop?, the writing team member has to run to the teacher and hand-in their team?s sheet. The last team to hand in their sheet loses 5 points! (as an incentive to stop writing immediately the teacher calls out ?Stop?.
After each round, the teacher will read out the word list of each team and write their score on the board. Obviously the teacher will discuss (joke about) any incorrect spelling and strange words. Teacher will then give each team their second (and so on) sheet of paper.
food
clothes
cities in China
jobs
countries
animals
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Superstitions
What are some Chinese superstitions?
What are some foreign superstitions?
Divide class into teams of 5. First task, list and explain as many Chinese superstitions that you can think of. Second task list and explain as many Foreign superstitions that you can think of.
Chinese
Number 4 unlucky ? why? (sounds like the word ?death)
Number 8 is lucky ? why? (sounds like get rich)
White ? the colour for funerals ? why?
A mirror above the front door of your home for good luck ? why?
Chopsticks upright in your food ? why not (looks like incense sticks, an offering to the dead)
Don?t whistle at night
Don?t touch a pregnant woman on the back
The number of steps in a staircase should be even-numbered
Don?t eat duck on your 18th birthday
New Year
Wear new, red underpants
Don?t eat meat on the first day of the New Year
Open all doors and windows to your home at midnight
Don?t sweep the floor
Foreign
Lies - Cross your heart and hope to die. Cross your fingers behind your back.
Wedding Day - If you see a rainbow, you will have a lucky marriage. If you see a pig you will have a bad marriage.
Sleeping / Bed ? He got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.
Birthday ? If you blow out all the candles on your cake in one breathe, your wish will come true.
Find money, give it away and more money will come to you
It's bad luck to walk under a ladder - Triangle, religious symbol, don't break it.
Beware of Friday the Thirteenth. Christ was crucified on a Friday. Christians also noted that twelve witches plus one devil are present at Satanic ceremonies so Friday and 13 make a deadly combination.
God Bless You. When a great plague took hold of Europe 655 years ago, 25 million people died. People began sneezing violently, the Pope passed a law. Since sneezing meant that the person was going to die of plague, people were required to bless the sneezer.
Breaking Mirrors = 7 years bad luck. People believed that reflections were actually glimpses of the viewers soul. People had gazing pools in their gardens in which they could look at themselves. A really mean thing to do was wait until a person was gazing at their reflection and throw a stone in the water because the disruption of the reflection affected their soul and brought about bad luck.
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oprah
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| Thanks Spiderman. I have done superstitions before. I seem to know more about Chinese superstitions than they do? The other team one regarding other topics is good. Thank you for your input. |
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Voldermort
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| Wear new, red underpants |
I just want to point out that you should only wear red underwear in the new year if it is your year. For example, I was born in the year of monkey so I should wear red underwear every year of the monkey otherwise I will have lots of bad luck. I'm not a supersticious man, but last year this rung true. |
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Skinny-Red Buddha
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Location: Frisco
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| you're a monkey? Who else is monkey year born? |
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oprah
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| This thread is about teaching topics, NOT about who is born a monkey. Any more suggestions about teaching topics?? After one and half year at this school I am running out of ideas.. Students want to play games, they do not want to speak English.. |
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Spiderman Too
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Talking Activities (Students walk around the classroom asking each other)
Countries: Which country would you most like to visit? Why? Which country would you least like to visit? Why?
People: Who is your favourite Chinese person? Why? Who is your favourite foreign person? Why?
Jobs: Of the jobs listed, which would you most to have? Why? Which would you least like to have? Why?
Business: If you could start up your own business, what business would you choose and why?
Group Discussions / Debates
Who Survives?
You?re going to Singapore for a holiday. The plane develops a problem and crashes into the sea. As often happens, the tail section (the very back of the plan) breaks off and the people sitting at the back of the plane survive - only 10 people survive.
Among the survivors is an air hostess who was able to grab an inflatable life raft. The life raft is designed for 6 people. 8 people get on board without a problem but when person number 9 gets on the raft, it begins to sink. It is clear that the raft can accept 8 people, but not 10. 2 people are going to have to stay in the sea-water. The 2 people who must stay in the water will probably die due to exposure or being eaten by sharks.
So, 10 people have to make a decision; which 8 people can get onboard the life raft and which 2 people must stay in the water? Each person must think about, and then explain to the other people, why they should be allowed to stay on the life raft. After each person has spoken, the group will then vote about who can stay in the life raft and who must stay in the sea.
1 Doctor, Chinese, man, 50
2 Retired, Chinese, man, 60 ? rich (husband)
3 Retired, Chinese, woman, 60 ? rich (wife)
4 English teacher, Black American, man, 35
5 Cook, Chinese, man, 35
6 Taxi driver, Chinese, man, 45
7 Student, Chinese, girl, 20
8 Air Hostess, Chinese, woman, 25
9 Japanese student, boy, 22
10 English teacher, white New Zealand, woman, 27
Teachers
For this class, who is the best teacher at this school? Who is the worst teacher?
Disappointments & Regrets
Disappointment - something that you wanted to happen does not happen or it does happen, but not the way you wanted.
Regret - you do something that has a bad result for you or you don't do something which you later realise would have been good for you.
Talk about disappointments & regrets in your life.
What has been the worst day of your life?
What has been the best day of your life?
The Best and Worst of China
In all of China's 5,000 year history, who do you think has been the best Chinese person? Why? Who do you think has been the worst Chinese person? Why?
The Survey
1. Do you approve or disapprove of China?s one-child policy?
2. Do you approve or disapprove of Chinese ladies marrying white foreign men?
3. Do you approve or disapprove of Chinese men marrying white foreign ladies?
4. Do you approve or disapprove of Chinese people, both men and women, marrying
black foreigners?
5. These days, some young Chinese people have sex before they get married. Do you approve or disapprove?
6. These days many foreigners are coming to China to live and work, not just for 1 or 2 years, but for the rest of their life. Do you approve or disapprove?
7. During an exam, some students copy answers from their classmates so that they can pass the exam. Do you approve or disapprove?
8. These days, very many universities in China want foreign teachers to teach oral
(spoken) English. Some Chinese teachers think that it costs too much money to
employ foreign teachers because their salaries are higher than Chinese
teachers and therefore oral English should be taught by Chinese teachers. Do you
approve or disapprove of universities employing foreigners to teach oral English?
9. Most people know that foreigners working in China get more salary than Chinese
people. Sometimes shops, and people selling things at markets, ask foreigners to pay a price for things much higher than the price for Chinese people. Do you approve or disapprove of foreigners paying higher prices?
10. Western people do not spit because they think it is unhealthy and it spreads germs and disease. Also, western people think that it does not look nice to see someone spitting. Some people in the Chinese government are worried that foreigners who visit China for the Beijing Olympics will get a bad impression of China when they see Chinese people spitting. These people want the government to make a law to say that people cannot spit. Do you approve or disapprove of this law?
11. As China becomes more developed many foreign ?fast food? restaurants are opening in China, such as McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and others. Many people think that ?fast food? is delicious however, it is not very healthy and it makes people fat. Now, there are so many fat people in America, Canada, Australia and England. Do you approve or disapprove of ?fast food? restaurants opening in China?
Role Plays
A Chinese Wedding
The entire class will act out a Chinese wedding.
Allocate each student a role to play: - groom, groom?s parents, groom?s brother, groom?s 3 best friends, groom?s uncles & aunts + bride, bride?s parents, bride?s sister, bride?s 3 best friends, bride?s uncles & aunts.
Explain to the students that they are to show the teacher the procedures, customs & traditions involved in a typical Chinese wedding from the time the girl & boy decide to get married, telling/ asking their respective parents, meeting between the parents, arrangements for the wedding, the wedding ceremony and the reception.
TV Commercials
Students will act-out their TV commercial advertisements, in groups of 6, which they prepared as homework from last week's lesson.
Talent Show (any performance: singing, dancing, poetry recital, magic tricks, etc)
____________ University Talent Show
Class ______________
Best Performance Awarded To:_______________________
On ______________
Award given by;
_____________
xxxx xxxx
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dajiang
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 10:16 am Post subject: |
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heaps of ideas to try.
obviously the eslcafe cookbook's got good stuff.
I put together a simple weblog with some ideas that helped me during my China days. Also some links you might find interesting.
http://eslmaniac.web-log.nl/
knock yourself out.
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