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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Since I pay $18.00 a year for my handouts-on-line http://www.handoutsonline.com/ subscription I can just download both of their "world cup" worksheets ... |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
| Since I pay $18.00 a year for my handouts-on-line http://www.handoutsonline.com/ subscription I can just download both of their "world cup" worksheets ... |
Krishna commercial. Dandy. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| In the "job discussion" forum posts are supposed to stay on-topic. (I don't think that the above post by "flotsam" is in accord with that. I think that the excessive width of his avatar picture is also at variance with the rules. (Where are the mods when you need one?...) |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Try the speaking and flag exercises here...they've been updated to 2006
http://www.eflclub.com/elvin/publications/2002worldcup.html
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Rhteacher.
think that the excessive width of his avatar picture is also at variance with the rules. (Where are the mods when you need one?...) |
Please stay on topic. You are at variance with all rules.......
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
| In the "job discussion" forum posts are supposed to stay on-topic. (I don't think that the above post by "flotsam" is in accord with that. I think that the excessive width of his avatar picture is also at variance with the rules. (Where are the mods when you need one?...) |
You're right, you're right. I'm sorry.
Your site sucks Rteacher.
And don't worry, size doesn't matter buddy. It's the motion of the notion.
(No, I never looked: aren't I wicked?) |
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SHANE02
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anyone know a site that has flags of the world cup countries for coloring? Thanks. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Right now I've just been drilling the kids on where Togo is, what Togo exports (chocolate!), etc. I know their Korean elementary school teachers aren't going to bother teaching them. |
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Hotpants
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: |
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Ha! - Mindmetoo - my kids all think that all chocolate comes from Ghana...wonder why????
I just saw this quiz on MSN.uk - it has a name game such as:
http://worldcup.uk.msn.com/Fun/namethatenglandplayer/
You could easily get your kids to come up with similar Korean-English homophones for the Korean team players.
What d'ya think? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| Hotpants wrote: |
| Ha! - Mindmetoo - my kids all think that all chocolate comes from Ghana...wonder why???? |
At least your kids have made the connection between the country Ghana, the chocolate bar, and the source of chocolate. No amount of hinting can get my kids to put this together. |
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steroidmaximus
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: GangWon-Do
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| for my older and more affluent kids, introducing them to the world of odds and wagers. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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Kids' geography is largely poor in my opinion, so the WC is a good time to brush up on that. Doing geography/general knowledge lessons (in English) is well and good I think.
Kids need in middle school to be able to locate Germany, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Portugal on a map - or at least be more familar with Europe and the Middle East. It's not my job to teach them that, but I'm going to use the WC as an excuse to do so. It's interesting for me as well.
1. Give 'em some WC results - all of them to the present day (sadly means I'll have to update it daily, but no real stress).
2. Present them with the following options: (a) they won, (b) they lost, (c) they drew, (d) they haven't played yet, (e) they aren't in the competition. It'll be clear what these mean to those who didn;t know beforehand.
3. Spin presents questions (written): "how did Germany do?". They answer accordingly. Give 'em maybe 10 - how did England do? How did Spain do? How did Turkey do? (see options) This time next week, when I've finished with this material, option (d) above will be inapplicable, but I might just leave it in for concepts/language sake. Or if someone can think of a replacement, tell me.
4. Me and co-teacher will ask them the questions when they've finished their written work and ask them additional questions like "what score was it? when was it?"
5. After that, I'll do some geography work using concepts like North America, Central America, South America, Western Europe, the Middle East etc. I'll also do work on what languages are spoken in those countries. Not quite sure of the precise details yet but I'm working on it today for introduction tomorrow.
Some of it is reading/comprehension/not terribly interesting but the language focus is irregular verbs in sport (win-won, lose-lost, draw-drew) and others. I've done a lot of rowdy, gamey, speaking stuff recently and it won't hurt to have some quiet geography/World Cup work in English at all. I'm looking forward to it.
Potential problem: boys-orientated, some girls won't give a fook. Solution: tough *beep*. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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OK.
It's already Tuesday, and I am in a lazy arse mood this week so I am just posting this now.
World Cup Football Trivia Showdown
Quite simple really, and I am pretty sure I borrowed the idea from a similar American football game I heard described once:
1. Draw this(or do something technological if you can be bothered) on the board:
No A or B required.
2. I also write
Box for Score Underscore for Team Name vs. Underscore for Team Name Box for Score
above the field.
3. Show the kids a magnet, elicit what it is. By the time the pitch is drawn and on the board, most everybody knows what's going on so many of them will pipe in "It's the ball". Place the ball in the center circle.
4. Break the class into two teams.
5. Demonstrate how to get the ball downfield. I usually do this by asking what color my shirt is. They yell out "Blue!" and I remind them to raise their hands. First to do so's team move the ball past the halfway line downfield between the line and the penalty box.
6. Another right, in the penalty box. Three in a row--goal.
7. Of course, if the other team gets a correct answer, the ball moves back. Or, you can have their first correct answer account for stealing the ball, and then start moving back--but I can't be bothered with all that for the low-level kids.
8. For fun, I create offenses for giving out yellow/red cards. With my high level classes they are given out for speaking English. For my low-level classes they are given out for:
a. Putting your head down/sleeping.
b. Yelling or hitting another student.
c. Screaming out 뭐래? After I ask a questionrRather than thinking for themselves. (Can you guess this peeves me?)
d. Yelling out stupid answers. My favorites are ones like:
Flotsam:"What country in Africa did famous actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just have their baby in?"
Boy Student: "LA?"
Card.
etc.
9. If one team receives a red card, it's a penalty kick for the other team.
10. For these situations, at the beginning of the game I have each team pick a goalkeeper--someone good at English to defend against the other team when they are awarded a penalty kick. When one is awarded, the goalkeeper comes to the front of the class, and one student from the other team comes up to attempt the kick. I ask a question and if the kicker answers first, goal. Goalie answers first: save. I like assigning the goalkeeper at the beginning because that prevents the most dominant students from taking all the penalty kicks.
If anyone yells an answer: red card. Yesterday I had one team who just didn't get it and lined up 4 penalty kicks against them--all during the initial penalty kick.
--I really, really miss my girl's high school sometimes.
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Anyway, you can see there are a ton of variations you could try with this.
Finally, for questiions I gave the students a choice between World Cup and General trivia.
World Cup:
When was the first world cup?
Which team has five goal scorers from the 2002 World Cup?
etc.
Hope somebody gets some use out of this. |
And if you really want to whip up a very dead, lifeless class, name the two teams Togo and Ghana. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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My World Cup lesson's going pretty well really. It winds up asking them questions that very, very few know the answer to, so it's one of those "general education/knowledge in English" classes, which I think are great. I've done at least one before that I recall.
Very few of them know that Spanish is spoken in Mexico, Portuguese in Brazil, etc. And some of their geography knowledge is frankly pathetic, but there's nothing uniquely Korean about that I don't think. I've got a really big map that I use and I walk around quizzing them "where's this, where's that?" while they do their written work. |
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