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[Yu_Bum_suk]

Working at a girls school I usually stay clear of sport, apart from David Beckham and Park Ju-seoung; however, this being the week it is, and my grade 3 MS text having baseball as a theme for this week's lesson, I'm giving it a go.

What would you suggest? I'm thinking of drawing the outline of a baseball field as a hand-out and having them fill in the positions. I'm also thinking of drawing a baseball diamond on the board, asking trivia questions, and having two teams try to answer questions to get a home run. Any other ideas? Who are the most popular Korean baseball players? Could you give me the names of the K-league teams?

Apart from pitcher, catcher, batter, 1st, 2nd and 3rd baseman, shortstop, and outfielder, is there anything I'm forgetting? The shortstop goes between second and third baseman, right?

Anything I can plagerise (calling all boys school teachers) would be greatly appreciated.

[I_Am_Wrong]

the only korean baseball player I know is Park Chan Ho. Sorry, never taught a baseball themed lesson before but you're going to have to make it pretty fun for middle school girls. The World Baseball Classic (or whatever) just finished. Maybe you could get some clips of the Korean team playing and have them describe what happened or something. With teaching sports, I generally find that a little bit of nationalism will help hold their interest better. For example, I like to bring in the olympics when I teach sports and use korean olympians to illustrate different things.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I can't be much help, but here's a couple of things.

Remember that there are three outfielders, left field, center field and right field.

Make a part of the lesson designed to distinguish between win and beat. (Korea won the game. Korea beat Japan. Students have trouble with those.)

You can use your trivia format with spelling games and math games, which give an opportunity to review and use the vocabulary you'll be teaching.

What about making a cloze activity using "Casey At The Bat"
["The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day...There is no joy in Mudville--mighty Casey has Struck Out."]

I think you'd have to do a lot of editing but it might be useable. Lots of opportunity in the poem for some 'dramatic' acting, if you are into that kind of thing. Kinda cheesy acting.

For a song, you could use "Take me out to the ball game."

That's all I can come up with.

[denverdeath]

If you have a playing field and some equipment, take them out to play. If your school is anything like the school I worked at last year, you'll probably have a field, a bat, some balls, and bases. If not, scrawl what you need in the dirt. Teach 'em three strikes and your out. Four balls and you walk. Three outs per side. Nine innings per typical game. The positions. Etcetera. Maybe make it into a game of soccer baseball instead. Have some fun with it. It's getting warm enough for the princesses to not be too cold. See if you can arrange things with your school that way. That's what I'd recommend anyway.

[JAWINSEOUL]

Here is some help. I saved it on a word document. If you want a copy you can PM me. Good luck (Yata Boy is right, Casey at bat is a great baseball short story) here is a link http://www.csh.rit.edu/~kenny/poetry/casey.html


Positions
Pitcher
Catcher
1st Base
2nd Base
3rd Base
Short stop (between 2nd and third)
Left Field
Center Field
Right Field

Pitching
Starter (starts game)
Middle reliever (comes in for a few innings)
Long reliever (replaces the pitcher early if they don't last long)
Set up man (usually in the eight inning)
Closer (finishing the game)

Hitters
Ist up - leadoff
4th - cleanup hitter
Designated hitter (Hits but does not play in the field)
Pitch Hitter (takes the place of anyone before they bat)

Pitches (Types of pitches)
Fastball
Curveball
Change-up
Slider
Knuckle ball
Forkball
Split finger fastball
Palm ball
2 seam fastball
Screwball
Pitchout (The pitcher misses on purpose to catch a base stealer)
Intentional walk (put a dangerous player on base)

Hitting
Single (1 base)
Double (2 bases)
Triple (3 bases)
Home run (out of the park)
Inside the park home run (4 bases)
Bunt (knocking the ball done in front of home base)
Sacrifice fly (putting the ball in the air to advance the runner)
Japanese Home run (just barely over the fence)
Strike (The batter missing the ball)
Ball (The pitcher misses the strike zone)
Foul (the batter hits the ball but into play)

Equipment
Bat
Ball
Helmet
Jock strap (he he)
Cleats
Chalk (for pitchers to get rid of moisture)
Shin guards
Pin Tar (to help your hand stick to the bat)
Donut (heavy object placed on the bat during warm up)

Players on Korea��s National Team
Pitchers
Young Soo Bae
Jung Kuen Bong
Tae Hyon Chong
Jae Hun Chung
Byung Doo Jun
Byung-Hyun Kim
Sunny Kim
Dae-Sung Koo
Seung Hwan Oh
Chan Ho Park
Jae-Weong Seo
Min Han Son

Batters
Hee-Seop Choi
Seong Hoon Jeong
Jae Gul Kim
Jong Kook Kim
Min Jae Kim
Tae Kyun Kim
Bum Ho Lee
Seung Yeop Lee
Jin Man Park
Byung Kyu Lee
Jin Young Lee
Jong Beom Lee
Yong Taik Park
Ji Man Song
In Sung Cho
Sung Heon Hong
Kab Yong Jin

Other terms
Stolen Base (advancing without a hit)
Bean ball (hitting the batter with the ball

[inspector gadget]

I did this last week with my middle school girls.

What I did was take pieces of paper with BBall terms written on them, the same number of pieces as there are students.

Crumple paper into balls and put them in a waste basket. Clear the room of the desks and draw a ball diamond on the board. Make sure you go over the terms with them before you start.

Divide the class in two teams, alternate having the students throw a pitch at the diamond, the have three changes to put the ball in play (hit the diamond on the board.

have the student go and pick the paper up and read the term, then they must use the word in a sentence about baseball. Award points accordingly to the teams as you see fit.

They really liked the lesson, it was fun relevant to the current pride of the Korean team. you can be very creative with this type of idea.

They liked it so much the k teachers wanted me to do this same lesson in the class I teach for the teachers.

Also I got a megaphone from the PE teacher and I was doing play by play.

[ThePoet]

If it is for a girls class, you might want to do this...and no, I am not being sexist.

Here is a link to Slo-Pitch National: http://www.slo-pitch.com/

Slow pitch is like baseball but it uses a bigger ball (softball) and it has 10 players on the field (a second ss) not 9. The ball is pitched underhand and it must arc 2 meters (actually six feet, but this is a metric country) into the air. The ball actually hits a small mat just behind home plate and that is a strike, so it is easy to call.

Anyway, there are rules and cases at the website.

However, I think you will find that the terms and vocabulary for baseball here is the same for baseball in the rest of the world. So if you compare them to a slightly different game, and introduce new terms (arc, mat, underhand pitch, etc) they will gain new vocabulary and they will learn a slightly different game that they can play even when they are old farts like me. You can tell them about the popularity of community slo-pitch leagues in America. There are even a lot of co-ed leagues.

Who knows, maybe you'll be the start of a brand new Korean past time and be known as the father of Korean Slo-pitch....you could be immortalized!!!


or...maybe not.

Poet

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I'll try a simple lesson with my MS students and if it works well try a more complicated one with my HS students (or an even simpler one with my vocational HS students, lol).

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Actually it worked pretty well with girls. I kept the terminology to a minimun, though. Thanks to Jawin for such a long list, though I don't think they'll ever be using terms like shin guard again so I'll narrow it down a little (though jock-strap may have been fun - I could even do a google image search on the class computer and see what randomely comes up).

[Yu_Bum_suk]

PS Ya-ta, I like your idea of the song, too. Now I want to do a hockey lesson and teach them Stompin' Tom Conners.