Making Questions Fun

We started unit 11 with an exercise writing the questions I gave the answers to. I want to end Unit 11 with a game of making questions.

Today I showed some Ellen videos to my 203 ESL (8th grade class) to demonstrate how to play this game. After we finish up Unit 11 (hopefully by tomorrow) they can start writing the questions for the "Never Have I" game.

Questions have to be a little bit personal, but still safe, and age appropriate for example, "Have you ever had Bieber fever?" I am curious to what kind of questions they will come up with.

Props required are 5 hand signs printed with, "I have/ I have never" on either side.

Freeway Chases and Drunk Drivers

I.             Root Word “OMNI”= ALL

1.     Insomnia 失眠（症）

2.     Omnivore 雜食動物

3.     Omnipotent全能的，萬能的，無所不能的

II.          Idiom:

“Put the brakes on”. 抑制，控制；制止The government has put a brake on further spending. 政府已經控制進一步的開支了。

III. Grammar

A Classes: Making questions/Confusing Vocabulary/Sentence building/ Writing a paragraph/story (Parts of Story review,)

B Classes:  To Be or To Have? (2 )/Making questions,

B Classes:  Prepositions/ Words of location (at, in, on, to) worksheet+ online game, Confusing Vocabular

IV.             Reading (A): Freeway Chase Ends at Newsstand  (Vocabulary)

Fill in the blank Robin Hood (Learn English Through Stories), Robin Hood  Kōichi Mashimo and Studio Tatsunoko . Taiwan's own Robin Hood is here.

Robin Hood was an outlaw who lived in the forest and stole from the rich to give to the poor.

 羅賓漢是個劫富濟貧的綠林好漢

Video: (A) Matrix Chase Scene, Top 10 Car Chase scenes 

Reading (B) A Drunk Driver + Vocabulary
 Activity: put the sentences in order/ fill in the blank/ Fill in the blanks song and thinking about body image, "Try" (with Chinese subs)  "Try" (original video)
EXTRA: Drunk Man Falls off Bridge Documents:
A Classes Unit 11
B Classes Unit 12

Year of the Monkey: Fun With Idioms

Students will learn 6 idioms about monkeys and then make a monkey origami. With their finished monkey they will paste it onto a bigger piece of paper and illustrate one monkey idiom of their choice.

Here are the idioms:

1. I'll be a monkey's uncle! idiom （表示驚訝）天哪！ 哎呀！used to show you are very surprised

2. make a monkey out of somebody idiom使（某人）出醜；耍弄，愚弄（某人） to make someone appear stupid

3. monkey business騙人的把戲；惡作劇 behavior which is not acceptable or is dishonest

The teacher suspected that there had been some monkey business going on in the class. 老師懷疑班裡有人搞惡作劇。

4. monkey about/around (with sth) phrasal verb胡鬧，搗蛋

to behave, or to use or move things, in a silly and careless way

The children were bored and started monkeying around. 孩子都感到厭煩了，開始胡鬧。

5. throw a monkey wrench (into something) 從中搗亂；破壞計劃 to do something that prevents a plan or activity from succeeding

The funding for the project was withdrawn so that really threw a spanner in the works. 企劃案的資金被撤回，這真的打亂了計劃。

 (Watch Foo Fighters- Monkey Wrench)

6. be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey idiom冷得要命 to be very cold

Resources:

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/12/monkey-business-and-other-phrases/

http://www.englishpractice.com/words/monkey-idioms/

http://www.submerryn.com/2016/01/cny-angpow-monkey-origami.html

http://www.chine-culture.com/en/origami/animals/origami-of-monkey.php

Robot Dog, Flashers and Verbs Review

I. ROOT 詞根: MANU “hand”

1. manual用手做的；手工的

                EX: manual drive手動變速器

EX: Manual Labor體力的

         

2. manicure修指甲；指甲護理

3. manufacture生產, 製造

II. IDIOM 成語:

1.  Is he/she for real? 

一定是個玩笑；準不是真的（用於你認為某人愚蠢或非常令人吃驚的情況）

Draw literal字面的 meaning	Draw idiom成語 meaning

III. Verbs Review. 動詞
Games: Action Verbs, Present Simple,  Irregular Past

The words 'run', 'keep' and 'feel' are all verbs.

run，keep 和 feel 都是動詞。

Here are 25 most common verbs. Write the Chinese:

1.   be

2. have

3. do

4. say

5. get

6. make

7. go

8. know

9. take

10.              see

11.               come

12.              think

13.              look

14.              want

15.              give

16.              use

17.              find

18.              tell

19.              ask

20.            work

21.              seem

22.            feel

23.            try

24.            leave

25.            call

Change the verbs to past tense過去式)      Irregular Past (game)

The past of 'change' is 'changed'.  change 的過去式是 changed。

1. eat =_________                   2. Sleep=__________

3. run= _________                   4. Drink = _________

5. write= ________                  6. Study= _________

Present and Past Group work/Conversation practice (click here).

Reading (A) Robot Dog 

Reading (B) Dad's Car has a Dent

Conversation (A) Meeting At a Party

Conversation (B) Run Into a Flasher

A: I just ran into a flasher at the school main entrance.我剛剛在校門口遇到一個暴露狂。

B: Really? Are you OK? Did you call the police? 是喔。你沒事吧？有報警嗎？

A: I’m fine. I have no mobile phone so I can’t call the cops. Could you call them for me? He was wearing a big dark coat and a motorcycle helmet, so I couldn’t see his face. 我沒事。我沒有手機可以報警。你可以幫我報嗎？他穿著黑色大衣，頭戴安全帽，看不清楚臉。

B: OK. I’m calling now. Just talk to them with mine. 好。我現在就打，用我的手機直接向警察敘述。

Extra: Watch Flashing Prank

Answer the questions.

1. What’s a “flasher”?

2. What should you do if someone flashes you?

3. How might being a girl be different than a boy, if someone flashes you?

4. Has anyone you know been flashed before?

5. Why do people flash others?

Best wishes for Christmas and a Happy New Year. 祝聖誕節及新年快樂。

Vocabulary:

1. New Year 新年

I'm spending New Year (= the first days of the new year) in Scotland with my parents.我將在蘇格蘭和父母共度新年。

We'll have to wait until the new year before we can make any definite plans.

我們要等到新年之後才能制定出明確的計劃。

2. New Years Eve 除夕

Are you having a New Year's Eve party?

你會舉辦除夕晚會嗎？

3. New Years Resolution 新年決心

"Have you made any New Year's resolutions?" "Yes, I'm going to eatmore healthily and give up smoking."

「你給自己定下甚麼新年決心了嗎？」「是的，我要令自己飲食更加健康，並且戒煙。

4. Auold Lang Syne- traditional (傳統的) Scottish (蘇格蘭的) song that is sung on New Year's Eve. It means " the old days" in Scottish [KTV with Chinese]

II. Dialogue (對話，對白): 

A: Do you want to go to the New Year’s fireworks show tonight? 今天晚上要不要一起去看跨年煙火？

B: Of course, but the mountain slope we used to go to has been overcrowded the past two years. There’s no atmosphere. 當然好囉。只是往年我們常去看煙火的那個山坡，從前年開始，每逢跨年就擠滿了人，一點情調都沒有了。

A: I found a great place for watching the fireworks. It’s quite far off, so there’s probably no one there. 我發現了一個很適合看煙火的好地方，還蠻偏僻的，應該不會有什麼人。

B: That’s great. I hope we will be able to enjoy the fireworks in peace. 那太好了。希望我們可以平靜地一起欣賞煙火

Videos:

Do it Yourself (Mr. Bean)

Arthur's First Sleepover

Kid's Incorporated