1. Games and activities in the junior high school English classroom. ( 適合國中生的英語教學活動 ) Presenter: Lee Knight

2. Before Presentation: (Preview) Think about it….  Do your students like reading?  What difficulties do junior high school teachers face when teaching students?  How did you overcome these difficulties?  Are there any workable activities, which you have used, to arouse students’ intellectual curiosity?

3. Learning from Text Text Grammatical knowledge Phonics (sound and spelling) Word recognition and graphic knowledge Knowledge of Context

4. Name: KWL chart: What I Want to knowWhat I LearnedWhat I Know already

5. Name: What I know already What I want to know What I learned KWL chart How fast can they run? What do they eat? Live in the desert Hump Live for a long time without water Wide feet How long can they live without water?

7. Name: What I know already What I want to know What I learned KWL chart What’s in the hump? What do they eat? Live in the desert. Have a hump. Live for a long time without water. Wide feet. How long can they go without water? Camels can’t sweat. They can go without water for a long time. Their humps are fat.

8. Simplified Sentences 1. Make sure the sentences are at a level your students can understand 2. Use them to introduce new vocabulary & speculate on the story or text 1.They can change color. 2.They can squeeze fish. 3.They have 8 arms called tentacles. 4.Octopuses live in the ocean.

9. Activity Make a group and use 4 or 5 simplified sentences to describe the following words. koala butterfly (B2 L8) (B6 L5)

10. Examples: 1.It likes to eat leaves. 2.It has gray fur. 3.It looks like a small bear. 4.It seldom drinks water. 5.It can be easily found in Australia.

11. Examples: 1.It can fly, but it’s not a bird. 2.Its body looks like a dragonfly. 3.It likes sitting on flowers. 4.It was a worm before it can fly.

12. Life Education B3 L7 一片葉子

13. 1.Freddie was a happy tree. 2.Daniel was an old leaf. 3.Winter was Freddie’s favorite season. 4.Many people came to the park in Spring. 5.Making people happy is a good reason for living. 6.Children played on the slide. 7.Freddie loved watching the happy children. 8.Leaves can talk to people. Life Education T/F Sentences

14. Put me in order! I could not wait to see the world. When I was a child, ready to take a good rest flowers in the garden. I grew like the Spring I am like a winter leaf,

15. takes always She his newspapers for recycling Shetakeshis newspapersforrecycling always. Sentence Unscramble

16. His name is Shrek He treats his friends nicely. He is friendly. He has long, funny ears. He can talk to animals. He has no hair. He is a good guy. Character Map (B1 L9) He isn’t very handsome. He has a big body and little legs. Based on 1200 Words

17. Scanning Techniques Find a word that begins with … Underline all the adjectives / verbs / adverbs / prepositions Circle any words you don’t understand Make a sentence / question with the chosen word Unscramble the word I say Count how many words that begin with the letter… Allows students to look and search the text without having to ‘read’ it.

18. 基測 99-1 (43~45)

19. Background info (before reading) Skill focus (main point to be taught) Word clues (new vocabulary) Strategy tip (special content) Reading Comprehension (Q’s about text) Critical thinking (open Q’s and extension) Skill focus (practice of what you have learned) Basic Principles for Good Reading Practice

20. Extension Drill (1) The frog is on the table. The green frog is on the table. The green frog is sitting on the table. The cute green frog is sitting on the table and thinking about his girlfriend.

21. Extension Drill (2) Princess / Kiss / Frog (Fun Sentence) The princess kisses the frog. ( 簡單式 ) The princess is kissing the frog. ( 現在進行式 ) The princess kissed the frog. ( 過去式 ) The princess will kiss the frog. ( 未來式 ) The princess has kissed the frog. ( 完成式 )

22. A frog was kissed by a princess. ( 被動 ) It was a frog who was kissed by the princess. ( 關代 ) Does a princess kiss a frog? ( 疑問句 ) Has a frog been kissed by a princess? Princess, kiss the frog! ( 祈使句 )

23. Thanks for your attention and participation! “ I will change the world one child at a time. I will not give up, because my heart knows the power of reading.”