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description
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Let’s Start
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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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Alphabet
Drawing The students draw a line in
alphabetical order to create a picture. 15 min. alphabet answers
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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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1
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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 class or individual
classmates. 20 min
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2
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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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3
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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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2
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1
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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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Pictionary, Famous People, and
Mystery Boxes Various games that get the students to use target sentence.
45 min.
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2
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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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Is This Your Gun? Students pull objects from a bag and
guess the owner. 15 min.
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3
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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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3
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My Name is Caesar. I like Tripe. Part
1--listening/speaking. Individually, the ALT and JTE both do a short intro (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 mins. 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 mins.
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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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Pass the Ball Speaking, Groups, Students
pass 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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2
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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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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 to their seat 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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4
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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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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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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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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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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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5
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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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The S Game Speaking activity where
the students practice the plural ‘s’. 15
min.
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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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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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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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Plural Battleships
Speaking/Listening Students, in pairs, play battleships practicing using
plurals. 20 min.
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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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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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3
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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
Battleship speaking/listening Students play battleships but using the
target sentence ‘Do you ____ on _____ ?’
25 minutes.
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Word Box
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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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6
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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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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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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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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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3
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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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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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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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Speaking Plus
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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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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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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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2
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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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Human Clock listening. Students
are in groups and replicate the times that the teacher announces. 20 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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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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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’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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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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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's Kitty? Listening
/Writing /Drawing / Students listen as teacher dictates where Kitty is
in each picture. 15 -20 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.’
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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 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 8 people and things to match up.
15 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 Eyebrows are These? A
writing exercise where the students try to guess whose features belong to
who. 10 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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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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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 him/ her? An interview/
card game where students will walk around the classroom and
collect celebrity cards. 15 - 20 min
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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 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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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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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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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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Are You Studying English?
Writing/Reading A crossword puzzle for students to complete 10 minutes.
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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 clas |