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5. Preliminaries:
Where Are You at? (3 minutes)
• Where do you teach? Class size? Grade?
• Are classes divided by level? Gender?
• Do you have a native teacher?
• Do you teach any writing?
• What writing tasks do you ask of your Ss?
• Do your students do writing homework?
• Do your students keep a writing notebook?
20. English Speakers in the World
- English is a main language in more
than 55 countries
- When traveling, you can speak English in
almost every country on Earth
- In China, a Korean will speak English with a
Chinese person, and not Chinese or Korean
27. What’sthe Claim Category?
1. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Pizza Hot Dogs Hamburgers ____________
2. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Soccer Basketball Tennis ____________
3. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Go to the park Sleep Read a book ____________
4. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Pray Confess Learn about God ____________
5. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Honesty Responsibility Respect ____________
6. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Ferrari Corvette Porsche ____________
7. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Teacher Engineer Architect ____________
8. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Moons Planets Star ____________
9. The Main Idea: Teachers do many things at school.
_____________________ ____________________ ____________________
10. The Main Idea: Having an education is important for many reasons.
_____________________ ____________________ ____________________
11. The Main Idea: You can do different activities on a computer.
_____________________ ____________________ ____________________
30. Active Vocabulary Activity
Student Output = Word Production
Instructional language (use gestures):
1) I will show you a photo.
2) You will look at it.
3) In your notebooks, you will write any words that
you think of.
4) You have one minute.
5) Have fun!
CCQ: What will you look at? What will you write? How
much time do you have?
Ready…
32. Words I Think of in One Minute
…water, stream, swim, waterfall, enjoy, red,
green, clothes, T-shirt, plants, trees, forest,
leaves, hike, walk, weekend, fit, hiking,
friends, talk, relax, stress, people, warm,
clean, sunny, nature, beautiful, peaceful,
exercise, healthy, animals, global warming,
Amazon, happy, healthy…
33. What have we achieved?
• Active language production
• Student-generated vocabulary
– Ss feel involved, empowered
• Do follow-up speaking or writing activities.
Write sentences or a story using 10 of the words.
Write opposites, synonyms
Write short, S+V+O sentences
Label nouns, verbs, adjectives
37. Sentence Combining Exercise:
Skills = Listening + Writing
Instructional language (use gestures):
1) I will read 3 sentences.
2) You will listen.
3) You will write them on your paper.
4) Last, you will combine them into one new
sentence.
5) You have 2 minutes.
CCQ: How many sentences will I read? Where
will you write them? How much time do you
have?
38. • Kim Yu-na is Korean.
• She is a figure skater.
• She is very talented.
Kim Yu-na, the Korean figure
skater, is very talented.
Kim Yu-na is a very talented
Korean figure skater.
The very talented figure skater
Kim Yu-na is Korean.
47. Sentence Building Sites
• Parts of speech – online games
• Octopus Game - arcademics.com
• Asteroids Game - abcya.com
• Google Sites - easygrammar4kids
48. More Sentence Building Sites
• Balloon Game - primarygames.com
• worksheetgenius.com - Sentence
building with teacher input!
50. Sentence Build
• The man walked down the road.
• The old man walked down the narrow road.
• The poor old man walked spritely down the
narrow country road.
• The poor old man walked spritely down the
narrow country road in the evening.
55. Elicited Words for Free Paragraph
• Elicit from your students:
– 2 nouns
– 2 adjectives
– 2 verbs
– 2 adverbs
– 2 conjunctions
– (add 2 interjections)
• Ss write a 10-15 sentence paragraph using all
words.
– Ss underline each word used in red
56. Circle Writing
• Ss work in groups of 3 or 4
• Each student writes a sentence, trying to make a
sentence that is a good beginning to a story
• Ss pass their paper to the right
• Ss now add a 2nd sentence to the paper in front of
them. They may change the tone/genre of the story.
Ss pass the paper to the right.
• Ss right the 3rd sentence on the paper in front of them.
• Etc., until the number of total sentences is reached (6
or 8 is a good number)
– The S writing the final sentence (6th or 8th) must end the
story in that sentence
57. The tired man looked out over the
stormy ocean and saw a large
sailboat in the distance. He
blinked his eyes twice but couldn’t
know what was happening. At that
moment, a thin fisherman
screamed at him with shaking
hands, “Help them!” The boat had
hit a rock under the water, and
there were ten people trying to get
off. He had to find out how to help
them quickly and get safety. He
shouted to them, “Just jump!”
because the boat was sinking very
fast.
58. Use with most used English Words
(page 27 of PDF file)
Top 100 Verbs
Top Academic Words
More Academic Words
