# Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books/7B/Lesson 10

Grade 7 牛津初中英语·同步听力(七下) FUN WITH ENGLISH 7B Chapter 9: Computer games Anqing Foreign Language School Lesson 10 Version 0.1
This chapter is about computer games. I will be teaching 50 students as opposed to 25, so the plan will have to be slightly more structured than usual. There are a few different activities and games to play. This week also the students have a big exam, so I do not plan on being too tough.

## Lesson Objectives

* The opening will go quickly enough to keep the students attention.
* The textbook activities will go quickly and be productive.
* The activities will be fun and get the students using English.

## Lesson Plan

Before Class Starts
* If time, walk around and mingle with the students before the bell rings. (King)
Greeting: World, USA and Irish Greetings
* [ pubdomed greetings slideshow]
Opening: Adjectives
* Many times after I ask you "Do you like _____?" I ask you "Why?" right?
* What are different reasons:
** Yes I like
*** What do you say? interesting, good, great, fun, lovely
*** What can you also say? super, wonderful, incredible, amazing
** No I don't like
*** What do you say? bad, boring, ugly
*** What can you also say? terrible, stupid, awful, horrible
Conversation: Computer Games
* What is a computer game?
* Why do people play computer games?
* What kind of computer games do you like?
* Are computer games healthy?
Textbook: Page 34 Let's get ready A
Textbook: Page 34 Let's get ready B
Textbook: Page 35 Let's listen 1 B
Textbook: Page 36 Let's listen 2 A
* Don't push too hard.
Textbook: Page 37 Let's listen 3 A
Textbook: Page 37 Let's listen 3 B
Activity: Computer Games Interview[CN Interview = taifan]
* Write interview on the board.
* Ask if they know that word?
* Write the questions on the board
** How often do you play computer games?
** How often do you want to play computer games?
** Why?
* Bring up a student volunteer and interview one another in front of the class.
* Now please interview the people sitting next to you, in English!
* Give them a minute or three, walk around and help troubled groups.
* Afterwards ask for volunteers to come to the front of class and do the interview.
Activity: Platform Game
* Now, we are going to play a computer game!
* Who wants to play?
* Bring up a volunteer, or call on a student.
* Blindfold the student. (Dirty tie?)
* Place obstacles around the room. Designate a goal.
* Now, the volunteer is the character. You are the players.
* Tell them how to get to the goal!
Activity: Teach me about Chinese Computer Games
* Screenshots of CF, QQ Farm and DNF. Ask them to teach me how to play.
Debate: Are computer games healthy? (Mr. Brown)
* Break the students up by gender or by row.
* Write "Are computer games healthy?" on the board.
* Tell one group them they have to each write one reason why computer games are healthy and another why they are not.

### Extra Time

Game: Number of Letters? (Mr. Brown)
* Make two teams.
* Tell them to make a word that begins with one letter, e.g. D, and has 6 letters.
* Go back and forth between the teams making the words.
Game: Spelling Game (Dave's)
* Make a boys team and a girls team, go against one another two students per team at a time.
Discuss: Pictures from my Trip to Shanghai

## Lesson Review
### Class Notes
#### 4 May 2010 AM Period 4 Grade 7 Class 3

* Computer didn't work, so I couldn't do the greetings slideshow.
* Started with "good morning!" because I do not think half the class knew about "Yo! What's up?"
* Kids were talking a lot to start, so I went away from my planned opening.
* Went straight into the discussion about computer games. While I did get individual answers for all of my questions, as a class, the conversation went nowhere.
* Spent most of the period going through the textbook, which went OK.
* Students who I have not seen in a while have been making lots of progress under Mr. Brown.
* Interview activity went OK. Some students spoke to one another, while many just chatted. Had a couple different pairs of students volunteer to come to the front, which was nice.
* Spent the last two to three minutes playing hangman.
Next Class
* Review names of the students I had last term.

#### 4 May 2010 Notes

What Could I Have Done Better?
* Grabbed the students attention.
What Did I Do Well?
* Not lose my temper while they were talking and proceeded with the lesson.
What Did I Learn?
* This week with the big tests looming and all the kids together they are going to be chatting a lot. Still good to try and have a real lesson, but it might also be wise to not do quite so much and have more fun.
What Did My Students Get From The Lesson?
* Oral and aural practice, chatted a little about computer games.
Were the Lesson Objectives Achieved? Why?
* The opening will go quickly enough that the students can pay attention and learn something.
** No, I was not dynamic or interesting enough to grab their attention.
* The textbook activities will go quickly and be productive.
** Yes, though they were not especially fun, we did get through all of the textbook quickly and effectively.
* The activities will be fun and get the students using English.
** A little, some of the kids were interviewing eachother in English, but most were not.
How can I Improve the Lesson?
* Review students names from last term.
* Have more fun and less textbook, students are under a lot of stress at the moment.

#### 5 May 2010 PM Period 1 Grade 7 Class 11

* started with an enthusiastic yo, which I was surprised to find was greeted enthusiastically back by them even the students from the other half which I did not remember teaching the greeting to
* did not have the computer set up with the greetings slideshow to start class, so I went straight into the conversation about computer games
** When i told them we were going to be talking about computer games i got a few students who raised their arms and cheered
* started writing questions in a word document with the projector
** What is a computer game?
** Why do people like computer games?
** Do your parents like computer games?
*** If yes, why? If no, why?
** Do you think computer games are a bad habit?
*** If yes, why? If no, why?
** If you had children, how often could they play computer games?
** This took up the majority of the period, had a core group of students giving the answers with a few more answering one question every once in a while.
* Asked if they had any questions and they had some, mostly about the whereabouts of the other foreign teacher.
* Did Let's Get Ready from the textbook which went quickly
** For part B I tried calling on some individual students for the answers to the questions, which did not go so well. I tried giving students with a lesser ability a chance to speak and then as I did the whole class started chatting.
* Tried to play the platform game for the last few minutes but I was not willing to rearrange the whole classroom for them to stampede around, so I just had them play with a map on the board.
Next Class
* Review student's names from last semester.

#### 5 May 2010 Notes

What Could I Have Done Better?
* Even though the discussion got some students speaking up and some more listening, most of the class was not involved, even if they were being quiet. Find a way to
What Did I Do Well?
* Spent most of the period just speaking English, talking about computer games.
What Did I Learn?
* I can handle classes of 50 students.
What Did My Students Get From The Lesson?
* Oral and aural English practice and for those who paid attention a chance to think critically about playing computer games.
Were the Lesson Objectives Achieved? Why?
* The opening will go quickly enough that the students can pay attention and learn something.
** No, because I was not ready to start class.
* The textbook activities will go quickly and be productive.
** Yes, but we only did one page.
* The activities will be fun and get the students using English.
** We did not spend much time on activities, instead focusing heavily on the conversation.
How can I Improve the Lesson?
* For this class I did not need it, but for another class something more dynamic involving computer games might be helpful.

## Appendix
### Acknowledgments

* I get many ideas from Stuart Brown. (Mr. Brown).
* I would like to thank all the 7th and 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 there.
* Marjorie King provided some feedback on my last lessons, that was built into this lesson. (King)
* The spelling game is available on Dave's ESL cafe. (Dave's)

### Changelog

Version 0.1 1 May 2010
* Written at the YY Club in Shanghai
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