Mr. Danoff's FWE 7A Lesson 13

Grade 7 Lesson 13 Version 0.12 FUN WITH ENGLISH 7A Chapters 11 Our different lifestyles

Introduction
Please note, this plan uses materials whose copyright is controlled by others. Please read the Materials Used Whose Copyright is Owned by Others section at the bottom of this document before re-using them.

Some parts of the lesson plan like the definitions for words of the day are local only to my classes. Also, this lesson plan is tweaked depending on the individual tendencies of any class and students.

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Before Class
Lesson Goals
 * Get as many students as possible speaking English.
 * Identify: opinion vs. fact & argument vs. conversation
 * Review context.
 * Cover natural English as it arises, like 'What's up?', correct Chinese English and so on.
 * Have long discussions about birds, wetlands and what the students brought for Show & Tell.

-- Focuses
 * Listening Set Skill = 6. Listen for gist in passages and conversations.
 * Listening Curriculum Statement = c) Follow discussion to identify fact/opinion.
 * Speaking Set Skill = A. Awareness of context.

-- Why?
 * Because knowing the difference between fact and opinion is important for making decisions.

-- Definition
 * Opinion = What a person thinks.
 * Fact = What a person knows.
 * Context = What a person or people is/are talking about.

-- Example
 * Hold up a book. Say this book is terrible. fact or opinion? this book is great! fact or opinion? this book is [color of the book]. fact or opinion?

-- Lesson Question
 * Is this fact or opinion?

-- Word(s) of the Day
 * lifestyle
 * the choices we make on how to live our lives

-- Contact Information QQ ID 867996874 QQ Name Danoff e-mail danoff.charles@gmail.com

-- Teaching Materials
 * FUN WITH ENGLISH 7A Textbook
 * Lessons Notebook
 * Stopwatch

-- Chinese English
 * If the following things are said by a student, address the whole class.
 * No why.
 * Give me!
 * I know! I know!

English Tips

 * If a student uses the adjective interesting, try to push them to use other words, as well.

Time
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Materials Used Whose Copyright is Owned by Others
 * I used these because it was allowed within the rights given by the people who made the materials.
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 * Copyright Holder
 * East Meets West China
 * Website
 * http://emwchina.com/about/about.htm
 * Materials Used
 * Focuses, taken from the curriculum section of the 2009/2010 East Meets West China Information Booklet.


 * Copyright Holder
 * The Internet TESL Journal
 * Website
 * http://iteslj.org/
 * Copyright Notice
 * http://iteslj.org/copyright.html
 * Contact Information
 * http://iteslj.org/mail/
 * Materials Used
 * Joke was slightly modified from one I got from the ITESLJ.
 * http://iteslj.org/c/jokes.html
 * “What's the Question” from the ITESLJ.
 * http://iteslj.org/games/9868.html


 * Copyright Holder
 * Two of my students at AFLS who gave me the idea for Competitive Hangman.
 * Materials Used
 * Competitive Hangman


 * Copyright Holder
 * Dave Sperling of Dave's ESL Cafe
 * Website
 * http://daveseslcafe.com
 * Contact Information
 * http://www.eslcafe.com/contact.html
 * Material Used
 * Is 'Simon says' too easy for you? submitted by David Kendrick from New Zealand.
 * http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?display:1063330109-41948.txt

-- Materials Used Which I Made
 * I will likely only use materials I created which I entered into the Public Domain, but read carefully in case I licensed one thing different which may be what you want to re-use.
 * Show & Tell Activity, which I entered into the Public Domain
 * http://mr.danoff.org/show-and-tell-v0.1.txt

-- Acknowledgments
 * I would like to thank all the 8th grade classes at Anqing Foreign Language School who had this lesson for their participation and feedback. I would also like to thank the Anqing Foreign Language School for allowing me to teach.
 * The idea for 'do lists to start naming as many birds as possible?' in the instructions for Page 50 Let's get ready A & B came from Mr. Brown.

-- Notes

-- Additional Questions & Instructions for This Lesson

-- Changelog Version 0.1 November 15th, 2009
 * Created in an afternoon train ride from Hefei to Anqing with Mr. Brown.
 * Original questions chosen: 42A, 43A&B, 44B, and 45A.

Version 0.11 December 3rd, 2009 December 4, 2009
 * Shaped the questions around the 8a.lesson13ver0.11 skeleton and did some alterations along the way.
 * added a new joke from the ITESLJ.

Version 0.12 11 September 2010
 * Removed some extraneous information and lightly made it Mediawiki friendly.

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