Hello 6th graders! Today's mini lesson will be over comparative and superlative adjectives.Examples: good/better/best and bad/worse/worst.
Engage- The class will be engaged while we watch a school house rock video over comparative and superlative adjectives. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obQzaU5FN7Y&feature=related
Explore- The students will explore what they have learned during the mini lesson in a game created using comparative and superlative adjectives.
Expand- The class will be given a hand out with the adjective usage rules and we will look at examples together.
Explain- I will explain the difference between comparative and superlative adjectives.
Evaluate- The class will be split up into 3 groups for the game. This evaluation is different because there will not be a quiz. If they can answer the game questions right then I will know they learned what they needed to. The group with the most points will win candy.
E-search- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHad_GVnpgQ click on this link and watch this video for homework. Make sure you have a piece of paper and a pencil ready. Follow the directions in the video by comparing the objects using comaparative and superlative adjectives.Due date is the next class period.
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
A Contrastive Guide to Teach English to Chinese Student by Nancy Duke S. Lay
Due date for responses: Monday, Jan. 26th, by class time.
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Chinese students have a much harder time than I had ever imagined. This article states the difficulties they face in learning the English language and writing styles. The article gives four student's profiles and tells their problems. They are all shy in speaking English because they can't do it correctly and hardly ever practice it. They usually communicate with people from their culture and speak the native language, which doesn't give them much practice with English. While in school the students feel an overwhelming amount of pressure to do well and not to let their families down. It cost their families a lot to send them to an American school and they want to focus on their studies, but in America they have to get a general education and most have problems with English classes or Economics. They also have different tones, sounds, and written characterstics to learn going from Chinese to English. Not to mention reading a foreign language is difficult.
If any of you have taken a foreign language i'm sure you can relate to the difficulty in not only speaking it but writing it. I have taken Spanish, so I feel for the Chinese students.
The Chinese read from right to left and top to bottom, where as in English we go left to right. So we can see why reading is such a challenge. Not only are they learning a new language they are learning a new direction to read. Chinese students tend to leave out verbs or misuse them. V's sometimes turn to B's, S's turn to Z's, they write what they hear. In English we have silent letters, possessive nouns, conjunctions, prepositions, articles, word forms, etc... The rules of English are extensive and hard to master. I am an English major and can't remember them all. So I can only imagine what being a foreigner trying to learn English later on in life is like.
As a teacher try to get the Chinese student to keep a positive attitude about learning English, encourage reading words in groups and not stopping after every word, and be sure to take time to work with them on their speech. As the student learns better English he/she will want to be apart of oral lessons, raise his/her hand to answer questions, and have a better shot at making friends and gaining self confidence.
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Chinese students have a much harder time than I had ever imagined. This article states the difficulties they face in learning the English language and writing styles. The article gives four student's profiles and tells their problems. They are all shy in speaking English because they can't do it correctly and hardly ever practice it. They usually communicate with people from their culture and speak the native language, which doesn't give them much practice with English. While in school the students feel an overwhelming amount of pressure to do well and not to let their families down. It cost their families a lot to send them to an American school and they want to focus on their studies, but in America they have to get a general education and most have problems with English classes or Economics. They also have different tones, sounds, and written characterstics to learn going from Chinese to English. Not to mention reading a foreign language is difficult.
If any of you have taken a foreign language i'm sure you can relate to the difficulty in not only speaking it but writing it. I have taken Spanish, so I feel for the Chinese students.
The Chinese read from right to left and top to bottom, where as in English we go left to right. So we can see why reading is such a challenge. Not only are they learning a new language they are learning a new direction to read. Chinese students tend to leave out verbs or misuse them. V's sometimes turn to B's, S's turn to Z's, they write what they hear. In English we have silent letters, possessive nouns, conjunctions, prepositions, articles, word forms, etc... The rules of English are extensive and hard to master. I am an English major and can't remember them all. So I can only imagine what being a foreigner trying to learn English later on in life is like.
As a teacher try to get the Chinese student to keep a positive attitude about learning English, encourage reading words in groups and not stopping after every word, and be sure to take time to work with them on their speech. As the student learns better English he/she will want to be apart of oral lessons, raise his/her hand to answer questions, and have a better shot at making friends and gaining self confidence.
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