L1: スポッツインタビュー (sports interview)
Listening practice via an interview
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L2: 海外族行 (travel abroad)
Boarding and in-flight announcements
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L3: 家事アンケート (housework survey)
Listening to a report done on a housework survey
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L4: 慎のホームステイ (Homestay & Weather)
Homestay experience & weather report
Weather in Doko-Doko: This game will help the students ask and answer questions about the weather in some major cities around the world.
L5: テレビ番組 (TV program)
Listening to the news
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L6: クリスマスコンサート (X-mas concert)
Listening to an announcement about an event
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L7: 映画ヒットチャート (movie hit chart)
Listening to a weekly movie ranking
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S1: 先生のお願い ('polite' requests to teacher)
"May I use this pen?" / "Could you read this letter for me?"
S2: 電話の会話 (phn conv - asking for someone)
"May I speak to Mike, please?"
S3: 病院で (doctor visits)
"What's wrong?" -- "I have a headache."
Are You Crazy: Students wander around the classroom trying to find a curable doctor.
Battleship: Students practice various hospital vocabulary while playing battleship.
Doctor Patient Interview: Students take turns being doctor and patient, and interview each other following the dialogue on the worksheet.
Feel Well: This activity is b
ased on the doctor visit dialog in New Horizon's English textbook, but I think this one is more entertaining and teaches various names of illnesses.
How Do You Feel: Students try to win this board game by being doctors (giving diagnosis) and patients (saying the symptom).
How I Feel:
The students fill in the hospital language worksheet with the corresponding Japanese.
Ouch:
Students learn how to describe their symptoms by playing Janken games
Strange Patient: This a simple guessing game that has students playing the role of a patient who kind of has an idea of what sickness they have, and the doctor is trying to guess whether or not they are lying.
Symptoms (worksheet only)
Visiting a Doctor: Students learn various doctor vocabulary and expressions by completing a crossword and creating a dialogue with their partner.
What's the Matter?: Students learn various ailments by guessing each other's secret ailment.
S4: 道案内 (directions)
"Could you tell me the way to the post office?"
City Map (worksheet only)
Could You Tell Me the Way (worksheet only)
Excel Direction Map (worksheet only)
Find The Hotel by Paul Matthews (worksheet only)
How Can I Get There: Students listen to intructions and find locations on a map. This is followed by the creation of a script based on the listening activity which the students then role play.
Map of Downtown (worksheet only)
PowerPoint Directions: Use the PowerPoint presentation to teach students how to give and recieve directions.
Puzzle Game: Get the students to act out, "Could you...?" requests. This activity doesn't practice directions, but it does practice the S+V+O+O Complement sentence pattern.
Red City (worksheet only)
Treasure Hunt: Using a map and clue cards, students give directions, write directions, and work in groups to find the hidden treasure within a fictional city.
Ways to SF: This is a simple listening exercise for students to learn how to ask for directions and draw on the map while famous places in San Francisco are being introduced to them.
Where Am I: Students practice giving and receiving directions while playing Othello.
World Rally: Spice up that boring direction class with a little unadulterated racing goodness.
S5: 買い物 (shopping)
"Shall I show you a bigger one?"
Located in Polite Language
W1: 日記 (diary)
Practicing things done during the day (in the morning). Follow-up to Past Tense Verbs.
Crazy Diary Entry: A writing activity that let's students make a crazy diary entry. Student then read their diary entry to the class for lots of fun.
Letter from, A: Students race to read and write sentences and complete the passage.
Liar Diary: Students write a short diary entry about what they did on a selected day. Two sentences are true, while one sentence is false. Their classmates must guess which sentence is a lie.
Weekend Diary: Students race to read and write sentences and complete the passage.
W2: メール (email)
Casual exchange
Email: This activity is to help you explain to your students how to write an email in English.
English E-mail: Students learn how to write and reply to an English e-mail.
W3: グリーティングカード (greeting cards)
Sending greeting cards -- New Year, Christmas, get well, etc.
Greeting Cards: Students learn about popular western greeting cards, and play popular card games like Karuta.
Postcard to Kasuga: This is simply an example helper sheet to assist students write a postcard in English. Nothing to exciting here, but it can be useful if your teacher asks you to teach this lesson.
M1: わたしの夢 (my dream)
"I want to be a singer."
My Dream (worksheet only) by Simon Kelly
Want to Be Dream (worksheet only) by Patrick Bickford
M2: わたしの夏休み (my summer vacation)
Writing about specific past events
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M3: わたしの町 (my city)
Telling people about the area you live -- "It is famous for..."
M4: わたしの好きなこと・もの (what I like)
In English, students write about why they like what they like
Few of My Favourite Things, A: Students write down their favourite things and interview other students. They finish off the activity preparing a speech.