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grammar
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example sentence
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description
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Let’s Start
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Alphabet practice
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Alphabet Sequence
Practice Reading
/Individual - Students start at the top right and circle all the letters
of the alphabet from A to Z as quickly as possible 10 minutes.
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Alphabet
Race (PDF) Students race to the board to circle the right answer. 10 min.
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How Are
You Bingo The Students Learn different ways to answer ‘How are you?’. They then practice interview people in the class taking
down names along the way. After everyone is finished the teacher can play
name bingo. 20 minutes.
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ABC Sudoku
The students try to complete the chart using the alphabet letter just once
(like sudoku). 20 minutes sheet B sheet C
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Alphabet Drawing The students draw
a line in alphabetical order to create a picture. 15 min. alphabet answers
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‘Be’ verb
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I am Emi.
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O-Hello Milling
activity where students are filling in info on a worksheet. 45 min.
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I Do Not Like
Them Sam I Am The students make name tags and introduce themselves to the
whole class or individual classmates. 20 min
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Interrogative ‘be’ usage
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Are you from America?
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Who in the
World Are You? Milling activity where students are gathering information.
25 min.
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We are the World
Milling activity where students try to complete a sheet of nationalities. 15
min.
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Correction Detective
Writing Students make the appropriate corrections on the paper. 15 minutes. Worksheet
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Are You From the UK? Speaking/ Listening Student mill around
the room looking for a specific country. 15 min.
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I am Kitty-Chan. Are You
Kitty-Chan? Speaking The students choose a character to start. They then
walk around the room playing a janken game (rock,
paper, scissors with a person with the winner being
A in the dialogue). The students then write their partner’s real name
in the box at the bottom. 10 minutes.
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Are You Snoopy?
Read & Run The teacher puts the 6 Q&A sentences in 6
different places around the room. The students are given this worksheet to
complete. The students run around the room remembering the sentences and
relaying them to their group members. 30 minutes.
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Demonstrative pronouns
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This is my country.
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1 Nensei Show
and Tell Students have an object that they will introduce to the class.
20 min.
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My Buddy, My
Buddy and Me. Students draw a character then introduce it to other
people. 20min.
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Liar! Liar!
Speaking activity. Students walk around trying to identify their classmates lies. 20 min. (some PDF pics
here)
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Stop Thief! (PDF)
Teacher goes around the room stealing stuff from the students who have their
head down. They then try to identify their belongings. 10 min.
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This is My Friend Gus
Writing/speaking A simple activity to get the students to introduce someone.
10 min.
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This is My Teacher. A
speaking/milling activity where the students have cards and walk around
trying to collect other people’s cards 20 min.
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Interrogative demonstrative pronouns
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Is this a school?
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Is This Your
Gun? Students pull objects
from a bag and guess the owner. 15 min.
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Pictionary,
Famous People, and Mystery Boxes Various games that get the students to
use target sentence. 45 min.
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Is That a
Monkey? Mystery objects on paper are around the room. Students, in pairs,
must work together to find out what all the objects are. 30 min
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Is that
Sazae-san? Three easy activities to practice this grammar point. 15 min.
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Pronouns
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He is my friend.
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She’s From
Outer Space Students draw a
character on paper and introduce it to everyone. 30 min
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This is Mino
Monta. He’s from Tokyo. Students get character cards and introduce
them to their classmates. 30 min.
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numbers
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Can
I Have Your Number? In a bag, have a copy of each number. Draw out a number from the bag and
read off the telephone number.
The student with that number is “it” and draws out the next
number to read. 10 min.
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Cryptograms Students
work alone or in pairs and try to decipher sentences. 20 min.
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Simple present tense
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I like music.
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Who Are You? Writing/speaking/listening
Students write their own introduction then play a ‘who am I?’
game with a partner. 20 min.
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My Name is
Caesar. I like Tripe. Part 1--listening/speaking. Individually, the ALT and
JTE both do a short introduction (Hello/My name is/I like). They ask students
to tell them what they said, in English, and record what students say on the
board. Then ask students the meaning of the statements in Japanese. 20 min.
Part 2--writing/speaking/listening. individual/pairs.
Students write self intro (my name is, I play) on 6 cards, then
stand up and play janken, loser reciting from the
card and then giving it to the winner. 25 min.
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Simple present tense
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I play soccer.
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Pass the Ball ・Speaking ・Groups ・Students pass various
balls representing various sports to each other while repeating the target
sentence I like/play. 20 minutes.
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I Like Hard Miffy Speaking The
Students walk around trying to collect cards using the grammar points ‘Ilike ‘
‘I play ‘ 20
min.
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Do
You Like Bingo? Speaking/listening Students walk around asking their
classmates questions in order to fill out a bingo chart. After, the teacher
leads the class in name bingo. 20 minutes.
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‘Do’ auxiliary verb
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Do you play the piano?
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I Have a
Question Writing /Individual. A decorated worksheet asking the students
if they play or like a range of sports, characters, activities etc, to
practice Yes, I do / no, I don’t. 10 minutes
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Excuse Me, Do You Like Me?
Speaking/listening A milling activity for the students to practice asking
questions 20 min.
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I Like/Play Bingo Speaking The Students
walk around asking each other questions trying to get bingo 20 min.
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Do You Play Othello?
Speaking/Writing The students walk around the room talking to people in order
to complete their worksheet by writing in someone’s name and circling
yes or no for each box. After they finish they can write sentences about all
the people they talked to. 25 minutes.
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‘Do’ negative structure
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I like skiing, but
I don’t
like soccer.
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Run to the
Board. Team writing game. Teacher says a sentence, ‘I like
football. I don’t like tennis’. Rows run to the board one person
at a time and write one word of the sentence before running back allowing the
next person to go. 15min.
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Grammar
Gamble Reading.
Individual/Pairs/ Groups Students read the sentence and bet points on if they
think it is correct or incorrect. 20 minutes.
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I Don’t
Like Penalty Shootouts Pairs. Students ask each other questions trying to
get points. 20 min
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I
Don’t Like Mickey Mouse An interview game where students carry on a
conversation about specific pop culture people. 15 minutes.
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Who
Am I? Speaking/ Listening Students ask their partner questions to find out
which person they are. 15 minutes. PDF
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Do you live
in Japan?(A) (B) Students in pairs try to
guess who their partner’s identity is. Note: A and
B should be front and back. 20 minutes
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Do
You Like Music? Speaking/Listening Each student has a card. They must
walk around the room and exchange info with people to find out who has the
same card as theirs. When they find their partner, they janken
and the loser gives their card to the winner and goes to the teacher to
collect a new card. *If you
print up 4 sheets, there will be 8 of the same card. 20 minutes. PDF
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‘What’ question word
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What’s
this?
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It’s a
Baby Hummingbird blindfolded
student has to guess what he is holding by listening to the hints he gets
from the class. 20 min
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What’s That?
Speaking/listening Conversation practice using the grammar point, first in
pairs then in groups.25 min.
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Mystery Box
Students have to identify the contents of six mystery boxes. 20 min.
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Shadow
Puppets Speaking Students are shown objects by the teachers and have to
guess what they are. 15 min.
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What is This?
Students must guess what the close up pictures are of. There is a hint box to
help them. 15min
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Adjectives
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English is interesting.
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Find the Old Pen (PDF)
Students work in pairs and are given slips of paper with objects to find
inside the classroom. 20 min.
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What Food Do You Like?
Conversation Students are in pairs and practice using the information in the
chart. 15 min.
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What’s Your Favourite
Food? Pairs. Speaking/Writing Students ask their partner questions to
fill out a questionnaire. 15 min.
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What’s Your Favorite Subject? Speaking.
Bingo game where students have to ask each other their favorite subject and
say something about it using one or more adjectives. A full house is required
before a student can sit down! 15 mins. (PDF file)
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Questions
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What do you
have for breakfast?
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What do you ~ ? Bingo/Interview game
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What Do
You Have ? Pairwork.
Students must draw some objects in their bag, then ask their partner what
they have in their bag. When they have the answers they can draw them into their
own bag. 20 min
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Review
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Self-introductions
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Who Am I? Speaking Students mill
around the room finding partners. When they find a partner they introduce
themselves and their partner tries to guess who they are. 15 minutes.
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Plurals
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Two hamburgers
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The Monster in
Me Students draw a monster and walk around the room using the grammar
point. 20 min.
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The S Game
Speaking activity where the students practice the plural
‘s’. 15 min.
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Hamburger
Shop Props A MOS Burger menu and props to use
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I’m Lovin’ It Speaking activity. Using the worksheet
students take turns as the clerk, and customer. Students note
down their friends order. 30 minutes
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Find your Clone. Speaking/individual.
Students are given a slip of paper with a famous person (on handout). One
other student in the class is given the same one. They must find each other.
Students mill around the room interview and recording their
interviewee’s answers. 30 minutes.
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Plural Battleships
Speaking/Listening Students, in pairs, play battleships practicing using
plurals. 20 min.
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‘How many’ questions
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How many CDs do you
have?
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How Many Books
Do You Have? plurals activity reading / speaking This is a word search
activity. Students try to find the listed words within a time limit, the
catch is that there is more than one of each word. After this activity the
students then ask each other "how many dictionaries have you got?"
and record the results. 35min.
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How Many Sports Do You Play?
Listening/Speaking Students ask questions to their partner in order to fill
out a chart. 10 min.
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How Many Colas
Do You Have? A & B
Speaking/Listening. Pairwork. Students ask their
partner how many of each food and drink they have in their picture. 15 min.
(PDF file)
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How Many Camels Do You Have A
& B Speaking/Listening. Pairwork. Students
ask their partners about how many animals they have and then draw in the
right amount. 25 min.
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First person plural imperatives
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Let’s
have
lunch.
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Monkey See,
Monkey Do (gameboard) Reading/Speaking
Students play a board game that has them use imperative phrases. 40-50 min.
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On Monday,
Let’s Have Lunch speaking/writing activity. Students walk around,
meeting partners and suggesting ‘On [day] let’s [do
something]’. 15 mins. worksheet(PDF file)
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Days of the Week
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Wordsearch a couple wordsearch activities to help with the spelling of the
days of the week. 15 min. Another one
here.
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Days of the Week Spelling
Race / Students run to the board to spell the days of the week. 15 min
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Days of the Week
Battleship speaking/listening Students play battleships but using the
target sentence ‘Do you ____ on _____ ?’
25 minutes.
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3rd person ‘s’
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Lisa likes Japan.
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Read, Tell,
Listen and Draw This is a whisper/drawing/race activity. Students work in
their rows. The last person in the row reads a sentence and tells it to the
person in front of them. When the first person in the row has heard the
sentence she goes to the blackboard and draws a picture. Students race
against each other, and the first team to finish drawing a set of pictures
wins. 20 min.
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Introduce Your Friend
Speaking/listening. An activity that practices 3rd person. Students introduce
their friend / a famous person / sports player... 30 minutes
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Rex Plays
Tennis Warm-up listening activity. Students listen to you read sentences
and circle the appropriate picture. 10 min.
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My Friend
Students must draw a picture in the frame, then describe their friend using
___ likes___ etc. they can then stand up and introduce their friends to
others or the whole class. 20 min.
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Coming
to America Role play activity. Students will present dialogues that deal
with international travel, to the class. 35 min.
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Elmo Likes
Bananas Listening Students listen to the teacher read off a
character’s likes and dislikes while checking off the appropriate
picture. 10 minutes
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Doraemon Likes
Mushrooms Listening Whispers group activity utilizing the students desire
to draw. 20 minutes.
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Sasha
Wants a Banana speaking activity. 3rd person ‘s’
practice. Students armed with a character card and a sheet of who
likes/plays/wants/studies try and collect signatures for all their
characters. 10-15 mins. worksheet (PDF file)
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3rd person ‘does’
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Does she like kabuki?
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This is My
Friend Students choose a friend, family member or pet to draw and write
about using a worksheet. They practice introducing their person to others by
showing a picture and reading the person’s likes, dislikes and hobbies.
Other students ask questions about the person using ‘Does
he/she~?’ 15 min.
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Spaceships A battleships game
20 min.
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Does Sally Like
Doraemon? An interview pairwork game where
students have to guess their partner’s answers. 15 minutes.
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Guess Who! Speaking/ Listening
Pair work Students secretly choose a person that their partners must guess.
20 minutes.
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He Likes Natto
Speaking/Listening In pairs, the students choose an identity that must be
guessed by their partner. 20 min.
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Does Battleship
Speaking/Listening In pairs, students play battleship using the grammar point
‘Does~?’ and ‘yes, he does/no, he doesn’t’. 20
min.
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Hard Miffy
Doesn’t Speak English Pair work.
Speaking. Simple Battleships game to practice ‘doesn’t’ on
its own. 15 mins. (PDF file)
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I Like Dogs
Speaking/Listening Pair Work. Students mark their objects with an
‘x’. Their partner must guess which objects are marked with an
‘x’ by making sentences. If they guess correctly, they get
‘a goal’. – similar to battleship.
20 minutes.
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Anagrams
Writing Students must unscramble words found in Unit 6. 10 minutes. (PDF
File) Solutions
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Jeopardy
listening/speaking Students play a Jeopardy game (explanation) to
review vocab and grammar. 30 minutes.
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‘Which’
question word
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Which bus goes to City Hall?
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Which
Bus Goes to City Hall? Speaking/Listening The students work in pairs.
Using the handout they slowly get to find out what house they will live in.
20 minutes.
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Which
Bus Goes to the Hospital? Speaking/Listening Students walk around the
class trying to find which bus goes to which location and the amount of time
it takes. 20 minutes. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, answers)
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‘Who’ question word
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Who is Bill?
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Who’s
This? Students draw a picture and then use it to practice asking their
classmates, “Who is this?” 15 min.
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Who’s That Teacher? A drawing activity
that gets the students to guess the teacher each other has drawn. 15 min.
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Who is (****)? Pairwork,
information gap game. Speaking and writing. Students either get sheet A or B
and must ask ‘Who is______________?’, using each other’s
sheet to find out the mystery people are. 10-15 mins.
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Who Are You?
Speaking/Listening Students get a card and walk around the classroom trying
to find a representative for each object. 25 minutes.
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Guess Who? Group/pairwork A ‘guess who’ game where the other person/group
has to guess which person you have chosen by asking questions. 20 minutes.
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Asking for the time
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What time is it?
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What Time
Do You ? Pair work. Students fill in the times
for themselves, then ask their partners what time they do certain things
during the day. 20 min
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What Time Is It? Students have a
clock board that they go over the room with. They get the other students to
answer their question of ‘what time is it?’ with their next
possible answer, gradually working their way around the clock. 15 min.
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What Time Is It? 2 A writing worksheet for the students to
practice writing out the English for different times. 10 min.
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What Time is It? 3 Interview
game, whole class. Speaking and listening. Students must find out ten
different times from different partners. 10-15 minutes.
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How’s the Weather?
Listening/Speaking Students are in pairs and have to tell their partner about
the answers on their sheet. 15 min.
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World Report
Speaking/Listening/Writing Students ask each other about the weather in
different cities to complete a map.
Students then compile the information on a worksheet. 25 min.
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What Time is it Now in
Sendai? Writing. Students make sentences based upon the drawings. 10
minutes.
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Human Clock listening.
Students are in groups and replicate the times that the teacher announces. 20
min.
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‘How’
questions
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How
many
classes do you have?
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Are
you Dobunezumi? Interview game.
Speaking. Practice questions about how many classes you have, how long they
are, etc. 10-15 mins.
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Review
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I’m a
member of the soccer team.
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Godzilla
is a Member of the Kendo Club Speaking, pairwork.
Standard battleships game to practice ‘[someone] is a member of the
[something] club.’ 10-15 mins.
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‘Where’ question word
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Where is my CD?
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Where’s
Miffy? Speaking/Pairs. Students choose where they want the characters to
be on the world map and try to guess their partner’s answers. 20
minutes. Worksheet 2
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I’m Late (A & B) Speaking/Listening Pairwork. Students ask their partner for the whereabouts
of certain items on their worksheet. 20 minutes. (PDF file)
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Preposition Board Game
Where is the boy? He's in the desk! In lunch groups students play the board
game. One student is the"game master"
asking the questions. Need die, and place markers. (two files for this
activity. Board game and Game
master) 20 minutes
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Where is the
elephant? Pairwork, information gap game. Speaking.
Students get either sheet A or B. The student must then draw the object in
its place on the unfinished picture. 10-15 mins.
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Sudoku
Writing Kids play Sudoku using question words. 20 min.
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Where is
the Mouse?(A) (B) Speaking/Listening
Students, in pairs, try to complete their house by asking where certain objects
are and drawing them in. 25 min.
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Where’s my Soccer Ball?
In pairs, students tell their partner where certain objects are in their
picture. 20 minutes. A, B
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Where's
Kitty? Listening /Writing /Drawing / Students listen as teacher
dictates where Kitty is in each picture. 15 -20 min
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‘Whose’ question word
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Whose bag is
this?
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Whose Dog is
Big? First is a warm-up writing exercise. Next, cut out the six sets of
statements. Have the first kids in each line stand up at the front, choose a
set and read out the four sentences. ALT then asks three questions,
"whose house is ~~?", "whose dog is ~~"? and "whose
sister is in ~~" questions, kids have to try to remember who said what.
Repeat down the lines so everyone has a turn at the front. If played right
you will get a cheap laugh every time one of them has to say "my house
is pink", particularly if they`re one of the
baseball tough guys. 25 min.
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Whose Cap Is This?
Speaking/Listening A simple activity that gets the students to ask their
partner questions in order to fill out a chart. 10 min.
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Whose Nose is
This? ALT or JTE will hold up obscure bits of famous characters and ask
‘Whose is this?’ Students will guess through competition whose
‘hand’ or ‘nose’ etc it is by answering
‘It’s
‘s.’ 10 min.
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Whose…is
this? An extended version of the let’s try on this page, with
people and things to match up. 15 min.
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Whose Eyebrows
are These? A writing exercise where the students try to guess whose features
belong to who. 10 min.
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This is Yuki’s Grammar Ball Students
will write two true sentences about themselves on pieces of paper then
crumple them and put them in the bags that the JTE and ALT bring around.
Teams are divided up by rows of students. Afterwards, the first student in
each row is given one ‘grammar ball’ from the bag. The students uncrumple one paper and guess whose they think it is by
reading the two sentences and saying ‘This is Yuki’s. She likes
grape soda. She plays tennis.’ 25 min
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Whose Key Is This?
Speaking/Listening A pairwork activity where
students ask each other who owns what objects. 15 minutes. Activity not using
‘these’ here.
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I, My, Me, Mine Writing
Students write in the correct pronoun for each sentence 15 minutes.
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Whose Body is This?
Writing Students write out sentences based on the images. 20 min.
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Are These Hamburgers?
Reading/Writing A Read and Run-type activity. The students are to go up to
the paper on the wall, read the question and look at the picture to see if it
correct. 25 minutes.
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Pronouns
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This is Andy. I like him.
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Who Do you Like?
Speaking/class activity. Students walk around the room asking other
students if they like the celebrities on their worksheet. If they answer
‘yes’ they sign the paper. 15 min.
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He is My Friend
Writing/Reading Group activity allowing the students to categorize pronouns
and then use them correctly in a sentence. 45 min.
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This
is Mike. Do you know him? Interview game, whole class. Speaking. Students
try to get rid of five character cards by practicing ‘This is
___________. Do you know him/her/them? 10-15mins.
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Do you
know Elmo? Writing Students fill in the blanks to complete the sentences.
10 minutes.
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Let’s
Make a Friend Writing/Speaking. Students interview someone and then
introduce that person to the class or the group. 25 min.
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Do you
know him/ her? An interview/ card game where students will walk around
the classroom and collect celebrity cards. 15 - 20 min
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Present progressive
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Koji is cooking now.
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Three Part
Relay Students will perform a relay activity that consists of three parts.1.Acting out and verbally describing an action
2.Writing down a description of the action 3. Reporting back their description
25min.
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Where’s
Bob? Students will interview each other using the target grammar in order
to identify various characters in the handout. 20 min.
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Kazu is
Playing Piano Writing/Speaking A mindmaster
game where the students try to guess their partner’s secret sentence.
20 minutes.
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ING Mastermind
Writing/Speaking In pairs, students write a secret sentence and try to guess
what sentence their partner wrote, i.e. Mastermind. 20 minutes.
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Are
You Playing Battleships? Speaking, pairwork.
Standard battleships game to practice present continuous questions. Generally
charades is much more fun for this, but if your kids are crazy and violent,
you can always rely on battleships. 10-15 minutes.
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Is he
swimming?
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Classroom
Concentration Students divide into two teams. Each student has an
activity card taped to his/her back, and each activity has a pair within the
team. By asking and answering questions using the target grammar, students
try to discover the opposing team’s pairs. 30 min.
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What
Are You Doing? Writing/speaking Students get to practice the grammar
point through writing and a quick game of battleships. 20 min.
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Are
You Watching TV? Speaking Game where students try to guess each others
identity 15 minutes.
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What Are You Doing?
Wordsearch Writing The students complete a wordsearch
which helps them to complete sentences. The letters not chosen form a secret
message. 15 minutes.
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Are You
Studying English? Writing/Reading A crossword puzzle for students to
complete 10 minutes.
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Pictionary
Speaking Students compete to draw the sentence on the board while the class
tries to guess what the sentence is. 25 min.
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What is she
doing?(A) (B) Listening/Speaking Students
in pairs try to complete their worksheet by finding out what people are
doing. 20 min.
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Imperatives
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Don’t drive
fast.
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Do it Now! Students
have to try and match the pictures and the orders by writing the number of the
order in the spaces provided next to the pictures. If the students are low
level, allow them to translate each order on the sheet into Japanese in the
space provided. Students Janken with each other.
The winner gives the loser an order. The loser has to do whatever the order
is and the sign the winner's sheet next to the order. The students love
ordering each other around.15 min.
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Don’t
Speak Japanese For this game, the ALT performs
an action in front of the room. The students must tell the ALT not to do what
they are doing using the negative command form. 10 min.
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Don’t
Do That! Interview game, whole class. Speaking and writing. Each student
gets a sheet. They must find a partner, janken,
then take turns to say their sentence. Try to complete sheet. 10-15 minutes.
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Multi-Plus 2
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Time / Day
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What Time Does He
Get Home? Listening/Speaking Students listen to the teacher talk about
his day. They then write about theirs and tell it to their partner. 15 min.
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My Day Writing Students describe
their day and their partner’s day. 15 min.
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How Do I Go To Izumi?
Writing/Speaking/Listening Students complete the worksheet by writing in
their own answers and those of their partner 15 min.
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‘How’ question word
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How do you
come to school?
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How do you do
that? Students take turns competing and interviewing each other using the
target questions, ‘How do you
?’ 15 min.
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Review
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A Telephone
Call
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A Telephone
Call. Students will listen to and practice the model dialogue. Students
change parts of the skit, and perform in front of the class. 35 minutes.
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How About You? Students ask
their partners questions about each other. 15 min.
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Hello hello A janken game. Students mill around the room and janken with partners. The loser has to write their name
in the box after practicing the telephone conversation. 20 min.
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Modal auxiliary ‘can’
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We can see the
game today.
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You Can’t
Eat a Shoe. Writing/listening/ groups. Students work together to create
sentences about things you can and can’t do in various locations.
Descriptions are redistributed and students guess which picture goes with the
description.20 min.
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I Can’t
Watch TV Listening Students listen to the teacher read off descriptions
and they listen and number the locations in order. 15 min.
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I Cannot Speak
English Interview game, whole class. Speaking. Students try to get rid of
five character cards by practicing ‘I can ______________’ and
‘I cannot __________________’. 10-15mins.
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Let’s
Set Up A New School Writing In groups, students create a new private
school complete with their own rules. 45 minutes
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Interrogative ‘can’
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Can we ride on
the boat?
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Can You Make
Tempura? Students will try and get a bingo by asking their classmates
questions. 15 minutes.
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Spaceships
2 A
battleships game to practice the grammar point. 20 min.
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Bingo Can you bingo? A milling
activity to practice using the grammar point. 15 min.
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Can Taro Eat Ten Apples? A
battleship game to practice using ‘can’ 15 minutes.
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Can you ...? An interview activity where students will
walk around the classroom and find classmates who can do the nine tasks
listed on the worksheet. 25 min
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Can You
Play Battleships? Speaking A battleship game to practice the grammar
point ‘Can~?’ 20 min.
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Can you Bingo?
A bingo activity where students ask questions to their classmates to fill out
a sheet. Bingo is played after. 20 min. Answer
sheet for students to write about their classmates.
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‘When’ question word
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When can we see
them?
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Are You Lying? Students
will prepare modal sentences in pairs. They will present their sentences to the
class, who must decide (in lunch groups), if the statement is True or False.
20 minutes.
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Word Box
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Months
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Wordsearch A wordsearch
for the students to become familiar with the spellings of the months. 10 min.
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When is Your Birthday?
Speaking/writing Individual Students walk around trying to complete a
birthday list. 20 minutes.
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What Month is it? Reading/writing
Students read the hints and try and complete answers. 15 minutes.
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Past tense
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I walked across
the bridge yesterday.
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Joe’s Busy
Week. Listening/individual work in groups. Students listen to a story
read by the teacher and must pick up slips of paper corresponding to the
story. 25min.
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The Gnome
Went Reading Students read the story about Murphy the Gnome and try to
answer the questions. 20 minutes.
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I Lived
in Vietnam Writing/Speaking
Students practice using the grammar point through written exercises and an
interview game. 15 min.
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Past auxiliary verb ‘did’
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Did you study English yesterday?
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Did You Study
Yesterday? Writing
Students answer the questionnaire. 15 min.
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Past
and Present Writing Students write the past to present tense verbs. 15
min.
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Broken Squares. Speaking.
Students in groups ask each other questions and try to make a square with the
paper pieces that get passed around. 20 minutes
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Did
You Eat Ramen? Students will think of “Did you~?” questions.
Lunch groups will take turns asking the ALT “Did you ~?”
questions. Groups will compete against each other to “score” as
many “Yes” answers in as possible within a three minute time
limit. In the second round, groups will compete to get “No”
answers. 25 minutes
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Battleships
Students play the popular game Battleships using the grammar point. 15 min.
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What Did You Do Last
Night? Listening/Speaking A simple pairwork
interview game. 10 minutes.
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Did You Brush Your
Teeth Yesterday? Listening/Speaking Interview bingo game- students ask
people in the class questions to complete the bingo sheet then play name
bingo. 15 min.
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Did
You Play Volleyball Yesterday? Listening/Speaking A pairwork
boardgame practicing the grammar point. 20 minutes
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Did
You Do Your Homework? Writing/Speaking Students ask their partner a
series of questions trying to get as many yes answers and then no answers as
possible. 20 min.
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Read
n’ Run. Students will complete an individual “read and
run” activity to answer questions on their worksheet. 15 minutes.
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Verb Boxes Reading/Writing
Students fill
in a chart that allows them to easily organize the present and past tenses of
verbs in both the affirmative and negative form. 10 mins.
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Review
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Listening Plus
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When Did You
Eat Pasta? Speaking/writing Students practice the grammar point with
their partner. They secretly choose a name and their partner has to guess who
they are by asking questions. 15 min.
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When Did You Go
To Australia? Listening The JTE and ALT ask and answers questions that
lead to a game of karuta in lunch groups. 15 min.
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Review
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Review Test
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Review. For
review of third person vs. first person verb endings. Students fill in the
data for Lisa, and then for themselves. There is a second page of review
questions.
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