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[tombirner]

I have to do English camp (two and a half weeks, three hours a day, not sure the level or how often I'll be teaching the same kids) and my school doesn't set the curriculum. As I am a lazy and unimaginative person, can anyone refer me to two and half weeks worth of lesson plans on the internet??

[Ilsanman]

So you admit to being lazy and now want someone else's help (again)?

My advice: Rent some movies and hope for the best.

[Atavistic]

[cruisemonkey]

Just google The Anarchist Cook Book.

[jamiekarin]

Boggles world is great for summer or winter camps. Lots of work sheets and activities to do with the kids that require little or no prep work. Also if your kids are a little more advanced I watch movie clips with them and have them discuss the clip. If you are doing it for a couple weeks you could watch 10 minutes of a movie everyday and then discuss afterwards, so over a couple of weeks they will have watched a whole movie and you will have your kids warmed up and killed 20 minutes of class time!

Good Luck

[yingwenlaoshi]

Plan on speaking English. That's a good plan.

[tob55]

Look, the lesson plans are prepared for the Korean admins to sign off on and show that you have a plan. Do what I have done in the past. Create a general template using Word or whatever processor you are familiar with. Create the file and then create auxiliary files by modifying the content to match whatever you are planning to teach for a given lesson. I can literally go in and prepare an entire semester of lesson plans in about 2 - 3 hours when I sit down to do it. It isn't that hard, and if you want a template that you can work with I can give you a link to a file I have available for some other people I am working with. Let me know.

The biggest problem most people experience is that they think they must changes everything from lesson to lesson, but this is not true. There are only a few things in any given lesson plan that must be changes to accommodate what is being taught by the native speaker. You make things too hard for yourself by thinking that each plan must be worded differently, etc. This just isn't the case.

[KYC]

^^Yep what he said. Basically, my school wants me to submit a lesson plan because they are afraid that the supervisor from the district office MIGHT show up one day. I spent a few hours on a general plan, not even a detailed one. I'll give you some ideas..but for materials and stuff you're on your own. Use this website..it's got a lot of great resources!

grades 1,2--feelings & family & movie (happy feet)
grades 3,4--the house & family & movie
grades 5,6--food adjectives & superheroes & movie

[tombirner]

Thanks to everyone. This has been really helpful.

Tobs55, I'd love to get a template, if you see this in time. I'm a moron with computers... I'm just writing up lesson plans minus the fancy columns and such on Microsoft Word. Something tells me the Korea peeps will be just as impressed with a fancy looking lesson plan than the actual content of my lessons...

My e-mail is [email protected]. Thanks for the help, even if you don't get this in time (it's Thursday afternoon and I'm planning to hand something in tomorrow).

[spliff]

I have a three week set of zircon encrusted ones.

[waynehead]

I'm doing one, too, and I've only planned my first day, but it's basically this-

Intro myself by showing facebook profile / pics of me in korea/traveling / my passport

Talk about a passport, ask if the students have one, ask where they've gone, etc etc

Tell them we're making passport for the english camp.

Take their profile pics and print 'em out.

Give them a 'passport' handout i've prepared, show them how to fill 'em out by looking at mine, have them cut out their pics and glue them on the passport. They'll have to bring it back everyday and we'll warm up with questions from/about it, maybe I'll give them homework to get it 'stamped' somewhere, etc etc.

Boom, that's definitely a good hour, probably an hour and a half. If there's more time I'll play a game (i only have to do two hours/day). There are a lot of great ideas for games on this website, some i've used in smaller classes before that work great-

Mafia game (this is the absolute best and once the kids learn how to do it they were begging me to play)
Hot seat
Win Lose or Draw
Scattergories (make your own handouts/categories)

....

On day 2 I'm probably gonna do a scavenger hunt, day 3 might be sports vocab + playing/watching...day 4 and 5, dunno yet.

[ddeubel]

I've put a lot of time and effort into trying to get easy to use, even click and play stuff for teachers.

Our A/V player would be perfect for a camp, winter or summer. Hundreds of videos for teaching. Real English, Seasame Street, Karaoke videos, Karaoke, Stories. Just click and play full screen. You might even be able to do two and a half weeks Join us. http://eflclassroom.ning.com Here you can preview in our ipod. http://www.eflclassroom.com/rave/ipod.html

DD