So, if you are stuck in a foreign country and there is no American football to be had, why not get your football fix by dedicating a thematic unit to (wait for it, drum roll please) FOOTBALL!
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
love using movies to each English, but they can be too much – you know – too long, to boring, yadda, yadda, yadda. The Genki English guy, Richard Graham, has a suggestion. Use movie trailers. What a fantastic idea! He suggests using the Apple movie trailers. Good choice in that the movie trailers on the Apple site are offered in HD. There’s lots of rich material to choose from. It can be used year after year once you put the lesson together. So a little bit of work will pay off in the long run.
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I ran across this on You Tube and thought it was really good. It is a bowling game that requires the students to knock down colored pins. The vocabulary words are divided up into colors that correspond to the pin’s color. One team rolls the bowling ball and then the other team has to say a sentence using the words that are organized by color. I know it sounds confusing, but watch this and see how it is done.
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In China it appears that the notion of literacy centers are a foreign concept. It is imperative that students bound for the United States get a firm grasp on the concepts that are often reinforced in the literacy centers. These skills are critical to academic success in America.
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I used this website a lot when I was teaching reading. I mostly used the graphic organizers, but there is a lot more to this website than that. They have teacher forms, games, certificates and quote posters too.
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I taught intensive reading to middle school kids. By intensive reading, I mean, the kids were flunking the FCAT (a state standardized test.) We taught to the book (and what I mean by teaching to the book – we had pacing guides that were enforced) and then we would do literacy centers once a week or so. Which were small group activities based on the thematic content and the FCAT skill the unit was focusing on.
Examples of FCAT skills:
main idea
comparison and contrast
sequencing
research
words and phrases in context
strong VS week argument
analysis
synthesis
evaluation
inference
point of view of the character
author’s tone
author’s purpose
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When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemon Aide
Pucker up baby!
This idiom means:
If something goes wrong or sour (such as a relationship turning bad or loosing a job) then try to turn it in to a positive thing. For example, if you loose your job, then use your free time to earn a degree or start a new business. So, if life hands you a lemon, pucker up baby and make some lemon aide!
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