Going to Japan!

Country: Japan

 

Time Allotment	Activity	Materials Needed
5 minutes	Review: Ask students questions about Australia—Where is it located? How many people live there? What kinds of animals do they have there? What kinds of landforms? Review your vocabulary words, especially new ones. Tell students to get out their travel journals; today we are going to Japan!
10—15 minutes	Present new material: Show the “Japan” PowerPoint presentation. Highlight the new words, and their translations. Have students copy the new information into their travel journals.	·         Japan PPT ·         Travel journals
20—25 minutes	Project: Today students will create their own paper lanterns and fans, in the Japanese style using paintings of cherry blossoms. See this “How-To” for instructions.	·         Japanese art instructions ·         Colored paper (white/black) ·         Paint (black/pink) ·         Glue ·         Stapler and staples ·         String ·         Beads

 

Week 5: Australia

Country: Australia

Kangaroo Art Example

 

Time Allotment	Activity	Materials Needed
10 minutes	Present new material: Review the vocabulary with the students; have them match the vocabulary with its Ukrainian equivalent. Show the students the PowerPoint presentation about their new country—Australia!	·       Australia PowerPoint
10—15 minutes	Review and Practice: Create a chart on the board, like the table that each student has in his/her travel journal. Using the cards with facts written on them, have the students fill in the chart before transferring it into their travel journals.   Table of Travel Journal Information     *If there is time, trace a map of Australia on the board and show students where the capital and famous cities are; introduce new landform words, too, like plateau, plains, mountains and beaches.   Reviewing geography and landforms	·         Places of Interest and Facts Cards ·         Board, chalk
20—25 minutes	Kangaroo Art: Start by having each student draw the shape of a kangaroo on brown construction paper; you may need to guide them through this on the board.   Students will then cut out their kangaroo and glue it onto a sheet of white paper.     Using cotton swabs, the students then recreate the style of cave-painting using lines and dots in patterns to elaborate their kangaroo.       Students may also want to add circles, swirls, cacti or other embellishments to create their art. The sky is the limit!	·         Paint (yellow, brown, orange) ·         Cotton swabs ·         Colored paper (brown and white) ·         Glue

 

Take a Break for Thanksgiving!

Take a Break for Thanksgiving!

 

Time Allotment	Activity	Materials Needed
10 minutes	Tell students about Thanksgiving in America (день подяки). It is a time when we think of all the things we are grateful for (Я вдячний за ...). Have students think about the things they are grateful for.  Make a table or a spider map on the board.	·         Chalkboard ·         Chalk
20 minutes	Students will create their own flipbooks (see instructions in this link.) Title page: Happy Thanksgiving—З Днем Подяки! First Page: practice adjectives прикметники ·         I am grateful to be… ·         For example: I am grateful to be happy. (Я вдячний за можливість бути щасливим.)   Adjectives Example Page     Second Page: practice verbs дієслова ·         I am grateful that I can… ·         For example: I am grateful that I can play with my friends. (Я вдячний, що я можу грати зі своїми друзями.)   Verbs Example Page   Third Page: practice nouns іменники ·         I am grateful for (or…I am grateful to have…) ·         For example: I am grateful for my family. (Я вдячний за мою родину.)   Noun Example Page	·         Flipbooks
10 minutes	Students share their books with the whole group, reading aloud.

Students busy at work on their gratitude journals

 

Review Week

Due to some schedule changes and poor weather, many students were not able to attend in the past weeks. However, they are coming again, and have missed out on some cool activities.

Egyptian map, flag, and more cartouches!

This week, students reviewed the countries that they missed, filled in their travel journals, completed the Egyptian map/flag and had the opportunity to create cartouches if they had not previously created one. Here are some more outstanding examples:

Take Time Off for Halloween!

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Papier Mache Pumpkins

 

A great way learn more about a different culture is through celebrating its holidays. That’s why the English Club took a break to help Berezanka School prepare for Halloween.

English Club making Halloween decorations

 

English Club members took a week to make Halloween decorations for the celebration. We made origami hanging bats and paper pumpkins.

Hanging Pumpkin decorations

 

The celebration consisted of a party hosted by myself and one of my students, Dima. We introduced contests, like Bobbing-for-Apples and Mummy-wrapping, had dances, like the Skeleton Dance, and gave prizes for the many outstanding costumes our participants wore.

 

Certificates for Outstanding Costumes and other contests

 

There were Jack-o-Lanterns, ghoulish snacks, and lots of games. It was an outstanding night of fun, and the English Club was proud to be part of it!

Our hosts: Sarah and Dima

 

Thank you School of Berezanka for a wonderful celebration!

Week #4: Egypt

Country: Egypt

 

Time Allotment	Activity	Materials Needed
10 minutes	Students retrieve their travel journals; review the key focus vocabulary. Review facts about Germany and Ukraine. (Practice reading/reciting the Weekly Country Report)	·         Student travel journals ·         Weekly Country Report model/poster
15 minutes	Introduce “Egypt” using the PowerPoint presentation. Have students read the information on the slides aloud; also, fill in the Weekly Country Report using the new information.     Focus on the new vocabulary, and places of interest. Show the students the flash cards for Egyptian places of interest; have them match the images with their names. Have them identify the important facts about Egypt and match them with the vocabulary (currency, population, for example).	·        Egypt PowerPoint presentation ·         Egyptian places of interest flashcards
20 minutes	Students will make their own ‘cartouche’.   Using the Egyptian alphabet of hieroglyphs at the end of the PowerPoint, students will spell their own names on a scrap sheet of paper. When they are ready to draw a final copy, give students strips of paper that have been soaked in tea and then dried; this will make the paper look old. Students then write their names in hieroglyphics and use markers or paint to color.	·         Egyptian alphabet of hieroglyphs (included in the PowerPoint) ·         Scrap paper for practice ·         Paper that has been soaked in tea and then dried ·         Markers and paint

Cartouche example