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December 9, 2013

“What sandwich would you like?” — Requests, Desires, and Offers

One of the units we recently covered was about making offers, stating desires, and making requests using can/could/would.  One of the contexts this vocabulary is commonly used in is ordering food at restaurants.

A few years ago, one of my Korean coteachers said that when he visited America, he and his fellow English learners ate mainly at Korean and Vietnamese restaurants.  He said they were overwhelmed with the number of choices one was required to make at a typical American restaurant.  This is understandable — here in Korea, I can walk into a restaurant, say two or three words, and have an entire meal with side dishes at my table in minutes.  But think of a typical American-style restaurant — How would you like your steak cooked?  Would you like it smothered with mushrooms and onions?  What sides would you like?  Would you like to load your baked potato with cheese and bacon for an extra $1.99?  Would you like something to drink?

In this activity, I wanted to recreate the sort of decision making process my students would face in such a situation.  I used the second page of this subway menu pdf to plan a worksheet for my students.  On the worksheet is a sample conversation and a chart.  Students can follow the sample conversation to take sandwich orders for three of their friends.  The steps in the conversation correspond to the fields in the chart which in turn corresponds to the options on the subway menu!

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Disclaimer:  The clipart used on the worksheet was found via a google image search.  If this image is yours, and you want it removed from the activity/this site, please contact me and let me know.  This worksheet was made from scratch by me for use in my classes.  Feel free to use it in your own classes, but please do not distribute this file/offer it for download/include it in any teaching packets, for profit or free, etc.  Happy teaching!

October 28, 2013

“What are you going to do with that?” — future affirmative statements with “be going to”

Now that midterms are over (well, the testing, anyway.  The grading never seems to end.), my grammar classes are blasting into the future!  Today’s lesson was about using be going to to talk about future facts, plans, and predictions.  After the grammar solicitation and a few structured practice drills, I gave my students this worksheet to practice making affirmative statements.

There are nine objects in the backpack:  a baseball, a pencil, a choco pie (Korea’s version of a moon pie), a rabbit, a present, a slice of pizza, a key, some books, and a severed hand.  Students must choose five of these to write affirmative statements answering the question “What are you going to do with that?”

Example answers from my class included “I’m going to eat the pizza for lunch,” and “I’m going to give the hand toy to my friend as a surprise.”

After they write their sentences, students should make pairs and ask each other “What are you going to do with that?” while pointing at the objects on the paper.  Students have to say answers to the question, even if they didn’t write a sentence for the object being pointed at.

Note:  My students seemed particularly amused by the severed hand and the rabbit.

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Disclaimer:  The clipart used on the worksheets was found via a google image search.  If these images are yours, and you want them removed from the activity/this site, please contact me and let me know.  This worksheet was made from scratch by me for use in my classes.  Feel free to use it in your own classes, but please do not distribute this file/offer it for download/include it in any teaching packets, for profit or free, etc.  Happy teaching!

September 22, 2013

Simple Past Regular Verbs Jigsaw Activity

This is a jigsaw activity for students learning the simple past tense.  All the verbs included on the worksheet are regular verbs.  There are affirmative and negative statements.  Students must say the sentence on their worksheet to a classmate and ask “How about you?”.  Their classmate should respond with their own sentence, or they should say “Me too!” if they have the same sentence.  These worksheets are printed two-to-a-page, and there are eight different sentences (meaning you need at least eight students to fill out all the different sentences).

This worksheet is recommended for middle school and up, as it references kissing (*GASP!*).

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This worksheet was made from scratch by me for use in my classes.  Feel free to use it in your own classes, but please do not distribute this file/offer it for download/include it in any teaching packets, for profit or free, etc.  Happy teaching!

September 19, 2013

Past Tense Gap Fill – “Norwegian Wood”

This worksheet is a gap fill for the song “Norwegian Wood” by The Beatles.  Students should listen to the song and fill in the blanks with the words they hear.  The words that go in the blanks are all regular and irregular verbs.  After listening to the song, solicit answers from the students.  On the board, create two lists — regular and irregular verbs.  have students identify which verbs go in each list.

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Disclaimer:  “Norwegian Wood” is the intellectual property of whomever owns it; certainly not me.  The clipart used on the worksheets was found via a google image search.  If these images are yours, and you want them removed from the activity/this site, please contact me and let me know.