What’s Your Favorite? July 25, 2007
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Material: 2 strips of paper per student.
Each student gets 2 strips of paper, and they write down their answer. Hiragana is ok, but no katakana. After a few minutes, collect all the papers and deal them out at random, one per student. Keep the rest.
The students look at their new paper, but can’t show it to anyone. When you say “go!”, they go around asking as many people as they can “what’s your favorite …?”
If the other student answers with the object on the asker’s paper, they win! The student who answered writes their name on the back of the paper and the student who asked goes and asks for a another one from you. Keep going and see who has the most paper at the end!
Best for 4th grade and up.
What Do You Like? BINGO? July 25, 2007
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Materials: BINGO sheets, music.
Bingo Sheets
Review words they already know, but only things they might like (cats, dogs, curry, orange, TV, play station…). Introduce “what do you like?” and “I like …“.
Use a quick game to practice the phrases.
PART A: Give each student a BINGO sheet. In the middle they write/draw something they like. They must speak English during the game, but they can write in hiragana (NOT katakana) on their sheets.
Then they go ask their friends “Hello, what do you like?” B says “I like …“ with the object in their square. A writes that object in one of their blank squares. If they already have that object, they must pass and find someone else.
Part A is finished when everyone has all their squares filled.
PART B: Everyone sits down. You play the ball and music game, or telephone game, etc. When the music stops, the two students with the balls/phones go through the conversation:
A: “Hello, what do you like?”
B: “I like …. What do you like?”
A: “I like ….”
B: “Thank you, goodbye!”
If anyone in the class has one of the two objects they can cross them out on their BINGO sheet.
For more advanced classes, you can add some small talk before the actual question. Ex: “How’s the weather today?” / “What’s your name?”…
What’s This? Card game July 25, 2007
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Materials: set of about 5 cards for each student.
The students go around and ask each other “What’s this?”. If they both can answer each other correctly, they janken. The loser must hand over a card to the winner. Continue for a time, then see who has the most cards. Keep some extras in case students run out of cards, so they can keep playing. HINT: This works to get the students to be the ones to ask “what’s this?” instead of only learning to answer.
