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nomad-ish



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:54 pm    Post subject: Ideas for a "giving directions" lesson Reply with quote

does anyone have some good direction sites or even powerpoints that have some korean translations for stuff like "turn right", "walk straight", "it's on your left" etc.?

i recently made up a powerpoint lesson on giving directions and it worked well with my favourite 3rd grade teacher (who actively helps me in class). but apparently it worked too well and she gave some of my handouts to my other 3rd grade teacher who can barely make simple sentences. anyhow, i tried to get out of teaching it to her classes so i could do something easier (with no need for translation from her), but she wants the directions lesson.

i need suggestions for visuals i can use or even korean translations of phrases. by any chance, does someone know of a youtube video that has something like, a person walking down the street saying direction phrases as they do them? yes, i'm aware i could do it...but i don't want to look like a nutjob talking to myself with my camera

any advice would be great!
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poet13



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I cut a pile of A4 paper in half. Give one to each student. They will spend a short time making their own business sign. They can come up with some pretty cool stuff. Then we tape them to the front of their desk. The desks becomes city blocks, and the aisles streets. I move a few desks to blocks roads, etc. Everybody goes to the front of the room. Two students will each pick partners. Start them in different places in the 'city'. They will give their partners directions to a particular business.
Randomly block streets for construction, fire...or hip check a student onto a desk and call it "car accident." Good for a laugh. I start two of them because they have to go quickly and they can't run them into each other. After demonstration, the students like to listen very carefully to the instructions and do EXACTLY what the other student said or didn't say. (A student didn't say stop, so the other kept going to the window, climbed to the window sill...and then I stopped him because we were on the third floor.)

it's fun.
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mrsquirrel



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

^ In classes of forty?
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poet13



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope. Classes of 33 and 34.
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nomad-ish



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks poet, that's a really good idea! i would definitely do it if i had less students or a better co-teacher! Wink but i don't think i'd be able to coordinate 40-45 beginner students by myself for the activity.
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mrsquirrel



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

poet13 wrote:
Nope. Classes of 33 and 34.


Not a bad idea then.

How to you keep the students orderly at the bottom of the room?

How big are your classrooms?
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poet13



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"How to you keep the students orderly at the bottom of the room?"

I love pushups, ergo my students love pushups.

They are noisy to be sure...but I enjoy a noisy classroom. It means there engaged....engaged in something....but at least they're engaged. They're more receptive that way.

It's also fun for them. They get to be out of their chairs, walking around, doing stuff. They know if they get and stay out of hand, then they don't get to do these activities. From there they self-police.



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poet13



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

" do it if i had less students or a better co-teacher! "

No co-teacher. All boys middle school. I'm the big dog when I'm in the classroom.
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mrsquirrel



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

poet13 wrote:
"How to you keep the students orderly at the bottom of the room?"

I love pushups, ergo my students love pushups.

They are noisy to be sure...but I enjoy a noisy classroom. It means there engaged....engaged in something....but at least they're engaged. They're more receptive that way.

It's also fun for them. They get to be out of their chairs, walking around, doing stuff. They know if they get and stay out of hand, then they don't get to do these activities. From there they self-police.



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I will try them again.

Been a while since I last let them out of their seats. The last time the boys ended up fucking about so much and the CT just sort of looked at them.
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KYC



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Grade 6 lesson 2 "where is york street"

Go to esnips and find the above folder. There are lots of ppt. As for games and activities, draw a bullseye & blindfold one kid and have the other children give directions. Or use pin the tail on the donkey. There are others too but my grades 1,2 just walked in.
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ddeubel



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You might want to try this ppt or get it directly at EFL classroom 2.0 on the Practice page. I'm starting a directory of public school ppts there, just collecting a lot all over the place....

http://eflclassroom.com/pptsps/lesson62.swf

This is quite handy and I like it for basic directions. http://eflclassroom.com/tools/map.swf

You can also send students to our voicethreads. I haven't promoted this much but after class they can practice at the voicethread and listen to others. Many kinds, this is one of them and the map part is pretty interactive.... http://voicethread.com/share/34182/

Or all of them http://voicethread.com/#u3968

DD
http://eflclassroom.ning.com
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Rteacher



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bump (so I can find it later...)
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mrsquirrel wrote:
poet13 wrote:
"How to you keep the students orderly at the bottom of the room?"

I love pushups, ergo my students love pushups.

They are noisy to be sure...but I enjoy a noisy classroom. It means there engaged....engaged in something....but at least they're engaged. They're more receptive that way.

It's also fun for them. They get to be out of their chairs, walking around, doing stuff. They know if they get and stay out of hand, then they don't get to do these activities. From there they self-police.



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I will try them again.

Been a while since I last let them out of their seats. The last time the boys ended up fucking about so much and the CT just sort of looked at them.


Poet13 and MrSquirrel, whenever I have any speaking activity I put out two lines of chairs facing each other. Each student sits in a seat and they do the dialogue with the student opposite them. Give them 2-3 minutes to do the dialogue, write down the info they need, one side stands up the student on the end comes round to the other end and the others all move up one. Then they do the dialogue with the new person. Repeat as necessary. Easy to police because you can listen in and all the students are in reach. I don't do conversation any other way, usually one lesson out of every three is practicing conversation in this manner.

As you said, this method I've perfected now, because before it was............

Quote:
Ok go!

(Couple of minutes later)
(Boys chasing each other and punching each other or just a sprawling mass of copying and no speaking, girls chatting about other stuff all over the classroom)

Right sit down.


Never again. I love reading about the ideal lessons where all the kids orderly walk around and ask the perfect questions and give the perfect answers......Hilarious!
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poet13



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My kids are far from orderly, and definitely very noisy. Sometimes the teacher from the nextr class over comes by and asks if evrything is all right.
I can't imagine trying to get 34 boys to move 34 desks, and 34 chairs in an orderly fashion. Then putting the classroom back together.....at least not with our setup.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

See that's what I thought. The first couple of times is a pain in the ass but when they know what to do. It's so much easier after that. The biggest class I did it with was 36. My co-teacher did little to help but being able to do a deafening finger whistle is good to get their attention.

Wink

I worked out they're going to get way more controlled speaking practice this way than if they were walking around so that's why I persist with this way.
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