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Teaching Suggestions

Active Learning:

• Have everyone touch each body part while you introduce the vocabulary.

Student Prop Teaching:

• Use a student as a prop to teach the body parts. Student participation is good for keeping students' attention. For example, ask for a helper and then point to different parts of the student's body and ask the class what the body part is.

Slow Is Okay:

• There is a lot of vocabulary, so break it up: teach enough to do one game or song, then teach a little more and do another activity, and so on.

Hips vs. Bum:

• Japanese people mistakenly believe that 'hips' means 'bum,' oshiri. It might be fun to correct this mistake by singing the Hokey Pokey song.

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