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 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:
Gr. 5-1 Hello! Anyohasewo! Bon Jour!
Lesson Focus- Greetings & Saying Your Name
EigoNoto.com Additions: Japanese and World Greetings Culture, and Culture of Names
Conversation Skills: Speaking
Additional/Alternate Activities: Get The Picture (Greetings and Business Card Exchange); Row Races
The targets of Grade 5 Lesson 1 are Greetings from around the world, and exchanging name or business cards. There are listening, chanting and speaking activities in each of the 3 lessons; the last half of the last lesson is given to a speaking activity. Eight greetings from around the world are introduced.
Gr. 6-6 I want to go to Italy!
Lesson Focus- Making a speech
EigoNoto.com Additions: I Want To Go To Italy Chant; Teachers’ speeches; Vocabulary students want to know
Life Long Learning Skill: Listen and Repeat the Pattern
Additional/Alternate Activities: EigoNoto.com Chant; Teachers’ speeches; Speech making in pairs and small groups; volunteers only in front of the whole class.
Book 2 Lesson 6, I want to go to Italy! finishes in lesson 4 with students making short speeches about what country they want to visit, and why. Speech making was a very important part of my language study. Experience tells me that practice, both listening and speaking, is important in developing this skill.
Based on the goal of the final lesson, this looks like a difficult lesson for lower level students, or students who have no experience speaking English.
Lesson Focus- speaking/conversational ability
EigoNoto.com Additions: word families; I don’t know.; What’s this OO?
Conversation Skills: Production & comprehension of meaning using gestures, natural & man-made sounds, drawing and oral description/paraphrasing (describing something without using the unknown/secret word); Word Families.
Additional/Alternate Activities: Interview Bingo, Pictionary (a variation), Dictionary, GTP (Get The Picture) and Black Box pair adaptation.
Lesson 7 targets a very important question for beginning language learners: “What’s this?”. This very simple question empowers one to learn new words naturally using conversation (ie., not by studying).
