Today, I am going to review two of the "typical Japanese junior high school"communicative activities presented in ETM3 . The activities I am going to revieware Interview and Find someone. You can view them here.
In interview, we could infirm concretly that what did we do yesterday and what we will do next, I think. "What were you ~ing?" question we usually talk in daily life. The student who was asked should tell his/her partner what he did correctly. This is the training that make a beginning of conversation and get somebody's infomation wihtout a personal matter. But in this way, each questions can become a dull. Before start conversation, you need to prepare some variation not to unilateral activity. If you succeed in interview, you could expand the simple questions into spontaneous conversation.
In Find someone, this activity will good for students because they can move around and ask their friend of different kinds. In the last class's paper, the question was "what are you going to do in this summer vacation?". You can change this question more daily style. For example, "what your club?" and "what your hobby?" and so on. Andmore it will better to make a voluntary question by themselves. I show the example of the voluntary question following.
A : Hello Mr.B. What your club?
B : I'm belong to baseball club. ( Usually this is end.)
A : What your position? ( Voluntary question)
B : I am a pitcher.
A : Wow, cool. Thank you.
It looks very friendly talking. A made question which have relation to baseball. Of course they cannot talk like this from beginning. We should teach a sample of conversation for them or stimulate to ask what rerated thing you questioned at first.
2 件のコメント:
Hikkun,
For the "Find someone who" dialogue that you wrote, what would the "find someone who" statement be?
JH
Thank you for your comment JH.
I do not want a students to read only the lines that were merely written to paper. If they used to conversation without papers, I want them to do by conversation like my example of it.
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