Introduction to Teaching Young Learners Week 2 Life

Introduction to Teaching Young Learners Week 2 Life Map Lesson Plan Processing

Housekeeping: Name Cards Name: _________ English Nickname: _____ Email address: _______ Phone #: _________ Something about your self: ____________________ Your Picture

Homework for Next Week • Read & answer the Qs for “Language Learning Processes in Childhood: First and Second Languages” • Questions on page 41; reading 43 -71 This Week’s Reading • Discuss Theories of Development with the person next to you

Sample Lesson • When I do sample lessons, you will role play the students: – How old would you be? – What kind of Ss would you be? Hardworking? Quiet? Shy? Extroverted? Studious? – Would you have taken an English class before or is it your first time in an English class? – What would be your strongest skill; your weakest skill? (listening, speaking, reading, writing) – What kind of errors would you make?

Life Map Mini Lesson • Be yourself today, but as I do the lesson think about: – Would this less be appropriate for YL? – Why? Why not? – How could it be adapted?

Mini-Lesson

Growing Up • Discuss in groups: – What are some important events in your life? – What experiences have been the most influential or have made the biggest difference in your life?

Discuss these words. What do they mean? • • • graduate graduation to move be born attend learn to • • • date go out with contest competition break up with Use the sentences on handout to help you.

• move • learn to • date I won the ___. I got a prize. I will _____ middle school next year. I ______ from high school. Now I’m going to university. I _______ ride a bike from my father. • attend • graduate I was _______ in August in the year of the monkey. • contest I ____ with my boyfriend last week. • break up There’s a girl I want to ______ , but she keeps saying no. • be born My family and I _____ to a new apartment last month.

Life Map

Step 1: Brainstorming Think about some of the different experiences in your life. Put them in one of the five columns. Important/ influential Interesting/ exciting sad/ disappointing scary/ stressful being born going to Egypt father died falling into teaching hornets nest with my zipper down arrested in Egypt naked guy in subway singing Bonkja night climb of Soraksan coming to Korea Miguel shot summer in NYC embarrassing/ funny

Share list with partner. Add ideas. Kinds of experiences: A: What was one of your … …. experiences? B: My …. experience was …. What was one of your … experiences? A: My …. experience was …. <continue taking turns> §fun §exciting §interesting §embarrassing §scary §funny §sad §interesting

Step Two • Count the number of your events (at least 6 no more than 12) • Make a column of numbers • Put events in order: First, second, next, and then… • being born… • traveling to Egypt… • father died… • falling into a hornet nest… • night climb of Soraksan… • teaching with zipper down. . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. being born move & change schools falling into hornet nest traveling to Egypt getting arrested for climbing pyramid summer in NYC father died teaching with zipper down night climb of Soraksan

Step Three • On page 65 draw a single, wavy line • Make dots on the wavy line for each event in your life. • Then write the name of the event next to each dot (1 -4 words)

Step 4 Draw Pictures

Remake groups • Ask and answer Qs about your life maps Important/ influential Interesting/ exciting sad/ disappointing scary/ stressful embarrassing / funny A: What was one of your ………… experiences? B: One of my …… experiences was ……. A: <ask other follow-up Qs> Switch roles

Life Map Processing Qs • How many skills are there in English? • What are the receptive skills? What are the productive skills? • What skill was taught in this lesson? • Is this lesson appropriate for young learners? Why? • Based on the problems noted above, how could you adapt this activity? • How could this activity be adapted to other skills?