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Introduction

An interview game where the students go around the classroom asking their classmates questions. The teacher can then play bingo. To be followed-up with writing. 20 minutes.

The Story of Momotaro Writing and speaking. In lunch groups the students individually complete the story of Momotaro and then check to see if it is accurate or not. 45 min.

Kakobunshi Tongue Twisters Speaking/writing The students try to say the tongue twisters (e.g., think- thought- thought). 2 X 20 min.

Review A picture search activity that can be done individually or as a group. Reading/writing 30 min.

Passive Verbs

Braille is used by many people

Let’s Together Very Enjoy writing/speaking students in groups answer questions using the grammar point and then get the remaining answers from the other groups 45min

Spaghetti is Eaten in Italy A Read and Run exercise. These cards are placed all around the room and the students in groups go one at a time to read the hints and return to their group to tell everybody. The students must write down the hints and then write the answer which would be the complete passive sentence. 30 minutes.

Sentence Scramble Writing Students unscramble the sentences so that they are grammatically correct. 10 minutes.

Is Wrestling Only Played by Boys? Listening/Reading/Writing. Students listen to the teacher read out statements and they circle the answers. Students then practice writing out questions and answers. 20 min.

Let’s Ask John to Join Us. Writing. Students write in the proper answers to the sentences. 15 min.

Let's Learn Braille Students are given a Braille alphabet as a reference and try to complete a true and false test about Braille. 45 min. samples A B

Braille was invented by a Frenchman

Harry Potter was written in England Writing Students match famous things to their countries and then come up with their own examples. 15/20 minutes

True or False? Worksheet either reading or listening. Students have to listen to the statements (or read them) and decide if they are true or false. If they are true, the grammar is correct. If they are false the grammar is incorrect! 10-15mins.（PDF file）

The TV was invented in 1927 (PDF) Pairwork activity. Students try to complete their chart by asking their partner for information. 20 min.

I Know Everything Quiz The students practice making passive verbs before moving on completing a quiz. 40 minutes.

It was painted by Monet Reading/writing Students try to write passive sentences. 10 minutes

Believe It or Not? Speaking/Listening. Students are given the worksheet and one answer sheet. Then they mingle and find all the answers to the question. For homework, they had to write the complete answer. If you don't want to mingle, you can just use it as a quiz game.(The answer to # 9 is "No, it wasn't. This picture was painted by an elephant!") 40 min.

Transitive Verbs

The letters make us happy.

Natto Makes Me Sick  writing/speaking Pair work activity to practice using the target sentence ‘X makes Y Z’. 20 min. (PDF)

Studying Makes Me Tired writing/speaking Pair work Master Mind activity. 20 min.

What Makes You Angry? Writing/speaking Students write answers to personal questions and then use the info in groups. 30 min.

Chopping Onions Makes Me Cry Writing/Speaking After a brief review of the reading from 5-2, the students complete sentences on what makes them sleepy etc. and then exchange the information with their classmates. 45 minutes.

If It Makes You Happy Listening/writing/reading/speaking Various activities for students to practice this grammar point. 45-50 minutes song & pictures

He Told Us… Listening/writing. Students listen to things the JTE and ALT tell them and write them down. 10 minutes.

What Are We Preparing For? Writing/Speaking In groups, the students prepare for something that is written at the top of their paper. After allocating duties to everyone, the group reads out its sentences and the class must guess what they are preparing for. 40 minutes.

Told Us to… Listening/speaking. Students in front of class, act out teacher’s orders. 10 minutes

True or False Review? Worksheet, either reading or listening. Students have to listen to the statements (or read them) and decide if they are true or false. If they are true, the grammar is correct. If they are false the grammar is incorrect! 10-15mins. (PDF file)

Present Perfect

I have lived in Japan for five years.

How Long Have You Lived Here? Speaking and writing. Students try and make a super group by using the target sentence. 30 min.

I Have Lived in Sendai Since 1999. Writing/speaking Students write about themselves then ask other people questions. 20 min.

I’ve Been to Osaka Twice. Speaking/Listening. Students work in pairs playing a bingo type game using the grammar point 45 min.

How long have you played the piano?

How Long Have You Lived There? Speaking/Writing A conversation is given to the students to practice and interview their classmates. 20 minutes.

How Long Have You Studied Science? Speaking/Writing In pairs, students choose a character that their partner must guess (this can be done repeatedly). Followed by a writing assignment. 15 minutes.

Have You Eaten Your Bon Bons? A battleship game students can play that involves using this grammar point. 20 min

These girls have been here

since early this morning.

Have you ever heard of a foster program?

Have You Ever Been To Detroit? -listening/speaking. Reverse roles: teacher asks each group `have you ever been to...' and the group has 30 seconds to answer as many as possible. 5 minutes.

Go Fish. Listening/Speaking Students have action cards hidden and are asking each other ‘Have you ever…?’ questions to get their cards and make pairs. 25 minutes.

Go Fish 2 Listening/Speaking Students have action cards hidden and are asking each other ‘Have you ever…?’ questions to get their cards and make pairs. 25 minutes. Go Fish cards

Has Doraemon Ever Visited Russia? Speaking/Writing Students in pairs try to find out what countries certain anime characters have visited. Students then write up the answers here. 15 min.

I Have Never Eaten Horse. Writing. Group work. Students put heads down on desk and one at a time look at teacher’s written word. They then put the sentence in order. 15 minutes.

Have You Ever Climbed Mt. Fuji? Listening. Students listen to the teacher read out a bunch of sentences and they group into the correct category. 10 min.

Have you Ever? Speaking. Milling activity for students to practice the grammar point. 20 min.

Have You Ever Sent a Valentine’s Card? Speaking/Writing Students interview each other to fill out a chart, to be followed up with writing. 20 minutes

I have just finished my work.

Gozilla Has Just Eaten Morning Musume!  A simple writing activity that gets the students to think about the grammar point a little more (with easy and difficult levels). 15 min.

Has Craig Taught You English Yet? A battleship game for students to practice the grammar point. 15 min.

Infinitive

I have a lot of work to do.

Do You Have a lot of Work to Do? Speaking/Listening/Writing Students ask people questions in order to complete a handout. 25 min.

We are glad to have a chance.

Mastermind Speaking/Listening Students play mastermind, trying to guess their partner’s secret sentence using the grammar point. 25 min.

I am Happy to be in English Class with You Writing/Speaking Student write sentences based upon the pictures. They then write sentences about themselves and interview their classmates. 30 minutes.

Would you like…

Would you like to come with me?

Would You Like to…? Dating Game Speaking/Listening/Writing A milling activity where the students try to get as many responses from classmates as possible. Followed by a writing activity 30 min.

Would You Like to Go to China? Writing Students match up sentence clauses. Students then find words in a word search and make sentences. Students then try to guess the object in question. 20 minutes.

…know how to…

I know how to use a fan.

Do You Know How to Say Yagi in English? Writing. Students write a sentence and then the teacher collects them all. Get into groups and the teacher asks each group student questions.15 minutes.

Who Knows How to Play Bagpipes? Interview game. Students ask each other questions in order to fill out a chart. 15 min. (cards here)

Let’s Make a Skit Writing/Speaking Using the stem sentence ‘Do you know…’ students make skits similar to the examples provided. 45 minutes.

Do You Know How to Spell Holly’s Name? Speaking/Writing The students mill around the room interview each other in order to fill out their chart. Followed by some writing. 20 minutes.

How to Bingo Speaking. Students mill around the room asking ‘how to…’ questions in order to complete the bingo card. Play name bingo after the students finish. Answer sheet. 25 minutes

How Can I Get to the Movie Theater? Speaking. Students try to get information on where various things in Sendai are.25 minutes.

It is … for (me) to …

It is difficult for me to understand Japanese

It Is Easy For Me To Eat Natto. Writing. Students write several statements and other people try to guess the false statement. 15 minutes.

It is Easy for Me to Cut Hair Writing/Speaking Students match sentence clauses. Students then correct sentences. Students then interview other students. 25 minutes.

It is Easy for Me to Play Battleships Speaking/Listening Students play battleships in pairs using the grammar point. 20 minutes.

It Is Easy For Me To Meet Girls Speaking/Writing Students interview friends to fill out a chart. 20 minutes

Relative Clauses

I do not know what you mean.

Do You Know a Girl Who Likes Umeboshi Speaking/Writing Students walk around and talk to classmates to fill out a survey. 15 minutes.

Do You Know Who Our English Teacher is? Speaking/ Writing An interview game utilizing the grammar point. 25 minutes.

Do You Know This Friend? Listening/Writing Using a clip from the TV show Friends, the students complete the worksheet 25 minutes Worksheet 1,  2,  3,  4

Who is He? Teacher quizzes lunch groups on famous people photos 15 min.

Review Sentence scramble. Students try to unscramble recently used sentences. 20 minutes.

This is a book I bought in the United States.

Things Used by Famous People speaking/writing. In teams the students find information hidden around the room and relate it verbally to another student who writes it down. 25 min.

20^th Century Greats Writing Students complete a crossword based on 20^th century greats. 20 minutes.

Travel to … Students will draw pictures about an imaginary trip and describe those pictures by writing sentences using the target grammar. 30 min

This is the Coke I Drank in a Restaurant  Writing Students rewrite the sentences based on the clues. 15 min.

Sports Day! Writing Students fill out the worksheet using the grammar point. 15 min.

This is the Newspaper I Bought Yesterday Speaking The students, in pairs, ask each other about what they did recently. The students reply with the information on their worksheet (and a hand gesture to indicate they are holding something) that their partner then uses to fill in on their paper. 15 minutes.

The Way of the Grammar Students walk around, janken, and ask their fellow students “Do you have ~?” If the character on their own sheet is circled it means they do indeed have that item. If the answer is “Yes,” the interviewee signs their name in the space provided on the interviewer’s sheet. Once each student has tracked down five candidates who each possess a different item, they continue to write the sentences in the space provided. 15 min.

Who is the Lady Playing Golf? Writing activity using folks from Japanese pop culture. 10 min.

Sports Day writing/speaking Students work in small groups to practice the present progressive verb. 45 min.

Picture Dictation Listening The students listen to the teacher dictate sentences. After each sentence they must draw the scene. After all the sentences have been read and drawn, the teacher calls out the number of the sentence and, in groups, the students must show everyone their picture for each number at the same time. 25 minutes

Who is the Student Doing Nothing? Worksheet individual or pairwork. Answer the questions according to the picture. 10mins. (PDF file)

This is the Book I Bought in Rome Writing Students complete the sentences. 15 minutes. (PDF) 

Who’s Who A listening and or reading activity. Students listen to you read out the text. They try to answer the questions. They get the text to read and confirm answers. 20 minutes.

Relative Pronouns

Carson is the scientist who

wrote Silent Spring.

Who’s That Girl? Writing/ Reading The students practice writing the grammar point out. 10 minutes.

Treasure Hunt Listening/Writing Students listen to a story about a king who lost his treasure. They then complete the accompanying sentences. The final sentences, the students are left to come up with the solution to the mystery. 20 minutes. (PowerPoint)

Sentence Scramble Writing/ Reading Students unscramble sentences based on the grammar point 15 min.

Do You Know How to Make Tempura? Writing. Students, individually, in pairs or in groups, complete the sentences. 20 min. 

This is a movie that [which]

makes us happy.

This is the Thing Which Students Ride to School Listening Karuta game where the students listen to the teacher read out clues and try to grab the answer as soon as possible. 10 minutes.

That Which Who Writing Students practice different writing activities. 15 minutes.

Unscramble Sentences Writing Students unscramble sentences. 15 minutes.

Dot-to-dot (PDF) Listening/speaking Pairwork. A board game where the students try to use the appropriate vocabulary while making boxes 30 min.

A Pop Culture Survey Students will fill out a survey together in lunch groups to determine their favourite foods, movies, and celebrities and will have to use the grammar point to ask each other the necessary questions. 40 min.

Mastermind Speaking/Listening/Writing In Pairs, the students try to guess their partner’s secret sentence. 25 minutes

Pronoun Game Writing Bring in object. Get the students to write as many sentences as they can about the objects. 20 minutes.

Betting Game Listening The students, individually, in pairs or groups listen to the teacher’s hints and try to write the correct answer…while betting money. 20 minutes.

Do you want her to call you back?

Review

STOP! Used as a warm-up or review exercise for stories within the text, the ALT reads from the text making mistakes. The students yell “stop!” and correct each error. 15min.

True or False Students sit in lunch groups. The Teacher puts a large print of both a True and a False card up on the board. The JTE or ALT reads true or false statements about the text (or true or false warm-up questions to begin/demonstrate). For each question read, one student is picked from each group to run up and slap either the true or the false card on the board. 15 min.

Jeopardy Review Students in groups play the game jeopardy as a review exercise. 35 min.

Sentence Hunter (PDF) Students write a sentence then walk around the room trying to record sentences of their classmates. 15 min.

Graduation Jeopardy Students complete a survey. You then take the results of the survey and use them for a Jeopardy survey. 2 classes (?).