英語ノート
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An original Eigonoto.com chant for 英語ノート Book 1, Grade 5 Lesson 7, What's this? It's a book.
Watch the video to learn how to lead/sing the chant, and how to write it on the blackboard for your classes.

There was a request to include additional points in my class openings:

1. How's the Weather?
2. How are you?
3. Today is....

Turn a common activity on its’ head-
after introducing and then Listening and Repeating a set of flash cards to a class, next have the whole class say the word on the flashcard before you do (or, Repeat After Them).
Doing this is a user-friendly test for the students, because no student is being singled out to show if they know the word or not. Yet for those who don’t know the word, they get needed input from their classmates, and then from the teacher. And for those students who know the word, the teacher saying the word again afterward is also an effective way for students to double-check their own pronunciation.
Just a simple twist, but my students responded very well to it!

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This is a Chant for EigoNote Grade 5 Lesson 6, How Many Cats Do You Have?  You'll need 1 or 2 dice to sing the chant.

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World Greetings- This lesson presents students with greetings from several cultures- both modern and traditional.  The activity of exchanging name cards is also included.  The Final Activity is a Speaking Activity wherein students form pairs and exchange name cards.                           

Points for further discussion and development could include:

This lesson presents gestures, and responding to the common question, ‘How are you?’- I’m happy, hungry, sleepy and OK.  There are a few activities that explore how we express and perceive non-verbal meaning.  The Final Activity is a roving-pair interview activity (How are you? I’m OO.) that emphasizes gestures when answering.

Points for further discussion and development could include:

Interesting world gestures. An easy example is Polishing an Apple in the USA, and goma suri (grinding sesame) in Japan.  The idiomatic meaning is the same, but interestingly, the hand positions are opposite (apple- fist on the bottom rubbed by an open palm on top; sesame- upturned open palm on the bottom with a circularly-grinding fist on top).  See this video for more. And see the back inside cover of the Eigo Noto book 1 for others.

Research suggests that 60% of meaning comes from body language.  This becomes evident when we try to speak in a foreign language on the telephone- it is one of the hardest things to do in a foreign language!

Expressing meaning when we don’t know a word is perhaps the biggest challenge for language learners.  Developing skills in both expression and comprehension are important.
Drawing is another common way to express meaning. See these links for drawing, speaking and gesture communication activities.


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This lesson presents How many?, numbers in English and other languages, different ways of counting on fingers and in writing, and playing Janken using foreign words.  The Final Activity is an all-class activity that discusses Japanese kanji that the students like, and their stroke count.

Points for further discussion and development could include:

Playing Indonesian janken (Muck Chee Baa).

Counting to 999 trillion in English, and demonstrating the counting system. (Students as a class are generally able to count to 999 in English with a little bit of help. Next, stringing numbers together,  222,333,444,555,666 for example, and teaching that each comma has a name (thousand, million, billion and trillion) is an easy way for students to understand).

The Final Activity seems a little off-point. The EigoNoto.com lesson activities focus on How Many? with Interview Bingo and Get The Picture activities.

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Grade: 6
Lesson: 4 (4 of 4)
Target: What do you want? Making a Parfait
Materials: EigoNoto; Parfait Glass prints for all- optional (page 41); color pens; Fruit Flashcards (see song) and Fruit pictures with magnets

This lesson presents international food and fruit names commonly used in Japanese (gai-rai-go) and the English Q & A 'What do you want?'  'I want OO'.  The language use is focused around ordering in a restaurant.  The Final Activity is an all-class activity where students get the fruits they like from other student-shopkeepers, and make a fruit parfait (on paper).

Points for further discussion and development could include:

This year there seems to be more emphasis on getting the Home Room Teacher (the Japanese HRT) more up-front and involved in the Eigo Noto classes. For some of the Japanese teachers, this is a major step, indeed. And likewise, for many ALTs, it is a conundrum about how to step back more and not be the (often) sole lead teacher that has so often been the case in the past.