One More Time

I created a powerpoint music video for Daft Punk's One More Time. You can use this as a warm up in the beginning of class and it is timed to the song. If you have the song great! If you don't I am sure you can figure out a way to get your hands on it!!

Daft Punk One More Time PP

I-Phone Pass Game

This is a game I learned at my company's training and it is very very easy to demo and implement as a regular activity in your class room. Kids, possibly everywhere, really like i-phones. I printed two of them out and I believe they are actual size (though I have no idea because I don't personally have an I-Phone). After I printed them I laminated them so that I can use them again and again. This is another question and answer game that can be played in a couple of versions. First demo the game. I walk around and make some music up as I walk and pretend that I am passing the phone through the row of students. Then I say, "Stop!" and pretend to have a conversation with myself. This is a question and answer game and I use grammar points that we already used so that it is more of a review. Then I play the actual game with them. I like using fun songs like Daft Punk's "Around the World", whatever is upbeat and fun works. The students really enjoy seeing who will get the phone, and laugh a lot. Here is an example dialog:

Me: Hello, how are you?
Student: I'm fine thank you, and you? (some of the more advanced students will say they are sleepy or hungry, but most have the former memorised).
Me: I'm OK! Do you like baseball?
Student: Yes, I do

And then I play the music again. The second version of this game is that both phones are being passed around the room. One has a Q for question and the other has an A for answer. When the music stops the students have to create their own dialog. I really only recommend this for later on in the year with 3rd year students and after you have played the game several times so there is little explanation needed.

Front, Back, Left, Right or "Criss Cross"

I'll take the time now to explain this very simple game. I ask the students to please stand and then I say, "Do what I do and say what I say,"we practice front, back left and right with movement and repetition. This is easy to teach on the first day and they know exactly what is about to happen. You can pick any target question grammar and for this it was "Did you ~?" because it was what they had learned in the previous lesson. Ask a "did you question" and then any student can raise their hand and say "Yes, I did" or "No I didn't". I have the question and the answer written on the board. The student that answers gets to pick front, back, left, or right. Depending on what they pick the students to the front, back, left, or right of them gets to sit down in a row. For example, if the student says front, all of the students in front of them get to sit. It's a great warm up and easy to demo on the first go. You will not need to demo it again and it's also easy to use as an evaluation tool if you have a few extra minutes at the end of the lesson.

You Say Goodbye, I say Hello

The Beatles are an excellent band for JHS students becuase their songs are easy to sing and many of them already know quite a few Beatles songs. I am not the biggest fan, but their songs are really great for ESL learners. Because I am a fan of trying to get my students excited I use their song "Hello, Goobye", which I created a powerpoint music video for. You can download and play this powerpoint with the song and all animations are timed to the lyrics. My next music video project in the works is "One More Time" by Daft Punk.