UNIT Objective:

1. Classroom Activities UNIT Objective: Students will be able to give compliments, express appreciation and contribute ideas.

2. Situation: Your class is creating a display board. Everyone is choosing a piece of work to display. Day One Objective: Students will be able to give compliments and express appreciation.

3. I like your work because it ________. is neat is attractive has a high score That piece is a good choice to display because it ________. is impressive is your best work shows what you’ve learned is creative earned a high grade INT: Give a compliment to your partner about the piece of work she or he has chosen. ADV: Thank your partner for the compliment Thank you for ________. noticing telling me I appreciate your ________. noticing telling me input attention INT: notice = if you notice something or someone, you realize that they exist, especially because you can see, hear, or feel them ADV: input = ideas, advice, money, or effort that you put into a job or activity in order to help it succeed

4. Situation: Your class is planning a special activity day. Everyone is discussing what the activity should be. Day Two Objective: Students will be able to contribute ideas.

5. Some classroom activities: • See picture cards. • Students may add ideas as they arise.

6. Contributing Ideas RESPONSES: PROMPT: • If you want to share some ideas with a group, what do you say? I think ____because _____. We could _______. How about if we ______? Might I suggest _____? Could we consider ______? I propose that we __________. In my opinion, ______. suggest = to tell someone your ideas about what should be done propose = suggest consider = to think about something carefully before making a decision

7. Day Three Objective: Students will be able to agree and disagree with others’ ideas. PROMPTS: • If you want to agree with someone’s idea, what do you say? • If you want to disagree with someone’s idea, what do you say? RESPONSES: Yes, I agree that _________. Yes, I agree with _________. I’m willing to ________. I concur with _________. My idea is similar to ____’s idea because____. similar = almost the same Not really. I do not agree. I’d rather not _____ however, I’d like to ____. I am not sure about ________. I disagree with the idea of ___because ___.

8. Day Four Objective: Students will be able to ask for input. • If you want to ask for input, what do you say? Do you agree? What do you think about _________? What is your opinion of _________? Where do you stand on the idea of ______? I’d like to hear what _______ thinks about _______. opinion = your personal ideas or beliefs about a topic

9. Contributing Ideas: Practice • Use “give one, get one” to exchange and write ideas on your paper. • Meet with at least 12 people. • You prompt each person… • Let him or her know if you want a sentence contributing an idea, asking for input, agreeing, or disagreeing. • Write what he or she says.

10. Day Five Objective: Students will be able to give compliments, express appreciation, contribute ideas, and ask for input when discussing possible classroom activities.

11. Practice: Use the vocabulary & grammatical structures from the week’s lessons to create a conversation. • Move the slips of paper around until you create the best possible conversation. • There is more than one way to arrange the slips of paper. • You do not need to use all of the slips. • Ideas in italics are ADVANCED grammatical structures. • Practice reading the conversation and be ready to share!

12. Task: Use the grammatical structures from the previous lesson to write a conversation. Sample Student Contributing Ideas: Writing Conversations “Might I suggest a party?” asked Maribel. “I think we should have game day,” replied Mario. Maribel answered, “I agree because we all need to work on our language skills.” “We could play Apples to Apples,” suggested Mario.

13. Optional Listening Practice • Directions to teacher: • Use the following slides as listening practice. • Read each sentence two times. The first time students listen without writing. The second time students take “dictation” and write the complete sentence. • Show the slides to have students make corrections.

14. CONTRIBUTING IDEAS: LISTENING-INTERMEDIATE • I am not sure about vampires. • What do you think about Bella? • What is your opinion of Twilight? • Yes, I agree that Twilight is exciting. • In my opinion, Jacob is better than Edward. • We could go to see Twilight at the movie theater. • What do you think about the Twilight series? • I disagree with Bella’s choice because I want to be human.

15. CONTRIBUTING IDEAS: LISTENING PRACTICE-ADVANCED • What is your opinion of Twilight? • I am not sure about vampires. • In my opinion Jacob is better than Edward. • What do you think about Bella? • I concur with the idea of going to see Twilight at the movie theater. • I have a dissenting point of view in that I would not become a vampire. • I disagree with the idea of becoming a vampire because it would mean giving up my life. • My idea is similar to Stephenie’s idea because I would like to write a book, too.