JHS_Grammar_Verb_BeVerb-IsAmAre

'Be' Verb (is, am, are)

be動詞（beどうし）

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Am Signature Bingo: Students ask each other "Are you...?" questions and collect signatures.

Are You Baikinman: Students practice the grammar "Are you... / Yes, I am / No, I'm not" whilst trying to find who is Baikinman and who are the spiders. Then in round 2, they try to guess who is from Africa and who is from America.

Are You Bingo: This is an interview game, with a Bingo twist.

Are You Guessing: This is a short (and hopefully fun) speaking activity that practices the grammar point, "Are you ~ ?"

Are You Hideki: This activity consists of two smaller activities: guessing and interview game.

'Be' Verb Fruit Basket: Play a Japanese favorite Fruit Basket game using the ‘be’ verb.

Emotion Basket: The students might be in junior high school but they still like to play Fruit Basket. This is an activity for brand new students. It should make them more confident with their speaking.

Find the Wrong Is/Are: This is a game in which the students race to be the first to find all the grammar mistakes.

Got It!: Students aim to collect as many points as they can by asking questions to discover the object the teacher secretly chose.

Greetings: Somewhere in the 1st year textbook, students have to learn how to give reactions and learn appropriate responses. This would be a fun game for students to practice giving the appropriate responses as they try to win the game.

Guessing: Students choose one character from the worksheet and their partner guesses who they are by asking a series of "are you.. "questions.

Guess Me: Students ask 5 questions and guess the secrete identity of their group members.

Heads Down, Thumbs Up: Students desperately try to find the mystery people from China and Australia in this rather simple and fun game that really gets them practicing the phrase, "Are you from China?"

I Am From: Students introduce which country they are from based upon the flag they are holding.

Introducing Characters: Students mingle and exchange character cards whilst introducing the characters to their friends. The aim is to try to find out the relationship of as many characters as possible within 8 minutes.

My Home Country: This is a simple King of Janken type game in which the students look for people that have the same card.

Owner & Pet: Students use the grammar and information cards to make pairs and find their pet or owner.

Sazae-san Family: This is a simple game in which the students become a member of the Sazae-san family. The goal of the game is find the other characters and make Sazae-san's family.

Spongy Intros: The aim of this worksheet is to help 1st graders practice self-introductions and understand its format structure. It was made for the New Horizon textbook, but can be easily adapted to any of the textbooks.

Surprise Origin: Students run around the classroom playing janken and discover where their classmates are from.

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