So my warm up activity is to teach an easy English idiom.
This is the detailed lesson plan. I will use a Power Point and probably the white board.
- In a pickle.
- Have the students guess "in" and "pickle." (I will only be showing pictures.)
- Reveal the phrase "in a pickle."
- Ask the students, "What does that mean?"
- Show a couple of pictures of people "in a pickle."
- Reveal meaning. Then ask students what it means (summarize).
- Ask for examples of problems.
- If students unable to respond, then give an example (cue). Ask for 3 more problems.
- Mini-dialog:
Me: (Big Moan) I'm in a pickle.
Student: What's the problem.
Me: I'm _______. (Give 1 point if student uses white board answer. 2 points if they create their own.)
- Teacher models dialog with other teacher passing a ball.
- Ask for volunteers. Students pass the ball to each other. (Student asks Student.)
Blog entry #1.
As I have no classes this week, all I can comment on is my warm up plan. My teaching objective for this warm-up is to teach an easy English idiom "in a pickle." My students are seated around 6 tables which I call "teams."
The techniques that I will employ include asking open questions, cuing modeling and student to student communication. I covered "cuing" in the above lesson plan, but I didn't cover "modeling." I will model the sample dialog with my co-teacher. We will toss a ball back and forth. The person with the ball is able to speak. Then I will ask a student, then that student will ask another student, etc.
Originally, the plan was just to present the idioms and their definitions. I would ask the students to guess what each picture meant. After reading all the classroom interaction ideas, I realized how teacher dominated it was, and I made some modifications to it like the mini-dialog.
As I haven't done the lesson yet, I can't really comment as to how it will go. I think that since it will be the first class of the year with me, getting volunteers may be difficult. I think an amusing part may be the big moan that I let out, and getting the students to let out a big moan if their first one was unsatisfactory.
If I have learned anything so far from this exercise, it's that I probably need a more detailed lesson plan. And with a little tweaking, a lesson plan can be built that involves more student interaction.
