My School Life
Amanda J Wraight
| GRADE LEVEL: | SHS 1 |
| SKILLS: | Listening, speaking, reading, writing |
| TIME: | One class (45 minutes) |
| MATERIALS: | Worksheets, A4 picture cards for each subject, subject name cards (10 sets) |
| OBJECTIVES: | To recognize school subject names in English, to look at differences between schools in other countries, and to work as a team |
PROCEDURE:
- Warm up. Ask students to move their desks into groups of four. Each group is given 10 cards with the main school subjects written on. They must spread these face up on the desk. ALT/JTE has 10 cards with pictures of these subjects on. The ALT/JTE holds up a picture card at random and the students must hold up the corresponding name card while shouting out the subject. If their team is first they get one point. The first team to (e.g.) 5 points wins. Prizes can be given.
- Cloze exercise (listening). Give students worksheet ‘What do you do at school?’. It is a dialogue with 6 words missing. ALT and JTE role play dialogue for students who fill in missing words. Students are chosen to answer (or volunteer) and must read out the whole sentence with the missing word. ALT/JTE does a quick vocabulary understanding check for any new words. In pairs students to practice the role play, taking it in turns to play each part.
- True or False quiz. Students turn over worksheet and write down numbers 1-8. ALT/JTE reads out a list of 8 statements (read each one twice/three times) about schools in other countries. Students must write down T or F. Explain to the students that many answers will be guesses as this is new work. Once finished say you will now give them the answers. As all statements are true write numbers 1-8 on the board and quickly write T next to all of them. Students are always surprised!
- Give them a copy of the statements and discuss them with the class. Ask them to each write comparative statements about school in Japan using the statements as guidance. E.g. ‘In Germany they don’t wear school uniform but in Japan we do wear a uniform’. This can be done in pairs or for homework. If time, ask some students to read out their work.
NOTES:
This is a second lesson in a two-parter on school life. In the first lesson students were asked to match up the English and Japanese names for school subjects. The warm up activity is, therefore, a vocabulary refresher activity.
Do an internet search to find suitable pictures (cartoon style) to represent subjects, or even use clip art, if you have it (unlike me!).
Add a statement to the True or False quiz about school in your home country.
Getting students to shout the subject out is important. It shows they can pronounce the word properly, it develops their confidence in speaking English and it lets the teachers see more easily who was first.
WORKSHEETS AND HANDOUTS
Handouts with true or false quiz, teacher dialogues, and student information
http://teachingactivities.pbwiki.com/f/trueorfalsequizandactivities.doc
True or false homework handout
http://teachingactivities.pbwiki.com/f/torfhomework.doc
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