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[summer33ny]

Most of my classes are hit or miss. Some run fantastically and others are complete disasters. What were some of your most successful lesson plans/activities with your high school students?


Here were some of my most successful activities:

1. I did a lesson on differences between high school in America and Korea with lots of photos to interest lower level students. I also showed clips of Twilight so that we could discuss some of the differences.

2. I did a lesson on cultural differences--with a quiz about western culture and showed some photos of things that I had never seen before coming to Korea (face masks, live octopus, squatter toilets, etc.) The students found this very interesting.

3. I did a lesson on spoken versus written (formal) English and taught students about the common sounds we make (Ouch! Huh? uh-huh!, etc) and what they mean. Students always mock me whenever they hear me make such sounds.. so it was fun for them to imitate this. We also talked about the common sounds used in Korean.

4. Anything about cultural differences that is surprising usually interests my students (i.e. we don't believe in fan death, and we don't have corn or potatoes on pizza in the US). I have used Korea and American checklists for students to check off which behaviors are acceptable/unacceptable or unusual in western culture.


5. I showed the brand new movie trailer for 'Twilight New Moon' and had the students work in small groups to put cut-outs of the dialogue in the proper order. This worked out well because the girls are obsessed with Twilight and wanted to know what they were saying... and the boys thought of it as a competition.

6. Games that were popular with my students: Truth and Lie: Students wrote 3 sentences about themselves on the board and the class had to guess which one was the lie. Celebrity Game: Students thought of a famous person and the class had to ask yes/no questions (in English only) to guess who it is..

[summer33ny]

People wearing them outside on the streets?... No.

And I lived in New York City.

[nicam]

Oooh, my middle schoolers are obsessed with Twilight as well and I've been thinking of ways to turn it into a lesson plan. The dialogue cut-out idea is great. Thanks.