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[Dome Vans]

I'll do you a deal, B.S., I'll do the teaching for you and we split it 80/20? Can't say fairer than that.

Did this quiz with my middle school students last week. Good for teams and rationalising.

[BS.Dos.]

[BS.Dos.]

I've been thinking about doing something with the internet, maybe get the students to create facebook accounts or something.

Think there'd be much milage in that? The logistics of getting them all PC time could be difficult but I think there is some scope.

I'd welcome any thoughts or comments from those that have used the internet within winter/summer camps.

[Easter Clark]

I teach at a HS as well and for my summer camp we used lots of YouTube stuff! You could do a lesson on adjectives used to describe movies--I have a PowerPoint if you're interested, but you can just show them trailers from different movie genres and have them ask each other questions about them. Or you could find some movie posters online and have the students make their own, complete with sound bites ("I laughed til I cried!" or "Comedy of the decade!" or something similar). They could even write movie reviews or could do a Siskel and Ebert type of role play (though my students are too low for that!).

Something else that works quite well (for about an hour or so) is to watch a Mr. Bean clip, note the various props he uses (hot water bottle, sandwich, park, socks, etc) and introduce them in a PowerPoint show. Then have the students make a comic strip using only these props, and have them act it out. Then finally you can show them the Mr. Bean clip so they can see what he did with the same props!

An alternative to this is to show the Mr. Bean clip and give each student three squares (notecard size) of paper, ask them to draw the beginning scene, middle scene, and end. Then give them two more cards and tell them to draw what happens before and after the middle. Finally give them two more and have them draw what happens after the beginning and before the end! Then they can describe the story to you.

Running dictations work as well--print out some paragraphs and tape them up outside the classroom, have the students in pairs go out, read it, then dictate it to their partner. Winning pair gets a candy or what have you. These are great because you can tailor make them to your students' ability and to the grammar / vocab point.

Country reports are also a good use of the internet, but only if your kids have access to computers. Yahooligans is good because the English is typically geared towards kids (and you're guaranteed not to have any dubious sites come up!).I managed to get my boss to allow us access to the computer room one day over the summer. Then I had the students look up a country of their choice and fill in a worksheet with information like "Population:...Capitol:... Languages spoken:...Flag:... Sports teams:..." etc. They researched (and presented ) the country in pairs while the other students gave them marks for eye contact, how interesting the speech was, pronunciation, and volume. Granted this may be too *academic* for some students!

Pop songs always go over well. You can download the Karafun program (do a search) and make your own. Just ask the students what song they want to learn. You can create the karaoke file from scratch (as long as you have the .mp3 and lyrics) in about an hour. And these days you can "borrow" any .mp3 by downloading it from YouTube by going to http://vixy.net/.

I also used a YouTube video of a guy making Ramen in order to illustrate the steps in cooking. First I showed a PowerPoint of different cooking vocab (pot, bowl, boil, stir, pour, eat), and asked them how they make Ramen (introduce first, second, next, etc). Then we watched the video and I had them tell me what the guy was doing in real time. Finally they made recipe cards and told how to make their favorite dish.

That's all I can think of right now, but I hope this helps. While I believe in having fun over the camp period, I also believe the students should get something out of it linguistically--not only go to goof off with the foreigner for a few hours a day!

[Dome Vans]

Excellent ideas EC!

Will echo the idea of getting something out of the students, makes it so much more worthwhile. Amazed at teachers who'll just play music, or watch a number of movies just to pass the time.

Looks like we've given B.S. about 8 days worth here, so by my calculations that's a packet of smokes and 50 000 won each! And we're quits.

[BS.Dos.]

Excellent stuff Easter.

Your suggestions have made me realise just how one dimensional and flat my approach to lesson planning is.

Hopefully, by the time winter camp starts I should have plenty of ideas.

Thanks again. Really appreciate it.

[OiGirl]

PM me for a dichotomous key role-play activity for "At the doctor's office."

[Hank the Iconoclast]

Great posts Dome I was really kind of stumped as to what to teach at my winter camp.