6th Grade : I want to go to Italy.

6th grade students started studying a new topic last week. They have started Hi,friends!2 Lesson 5 `Let's go to Italy` and We Can!1 Unit 6 `I want to go to Italy.` In the first class for this topic they studied the flags of different countries and they also became familiar with the phrases for talking about what country they want to visit.

As always we started class with a greeting game. The teachers asked some students to give a demonstration. They used the English that they have studied so far in order to link their conversation as naturally as possible.
IMG_2372.jpg "Can you ride a unicycle?"
"No, I can't but I can ride a bike. Can you ride a bike?"
"Yes, I can."

Then it was time for everyone else to greet each other.
IMG_2378.jpg "Hello!"

IMG_2381.jpg The students also greeted Ms. Satsuki who was watching the class.

Next, the teachers did a `Teacher Talk` pretending to be in passport control at the airport. The students listened and tried to pick out some words in the conversation. Everyone checked together about the meaning of the `Teacher Talk`.

After that, everyone did the `Where do you want to go?` chant from We Can!1. First everyone just listened twice and then the third time they did their best to chant along.

Then, we did `Let's Play 1` in the Hi,friends!2 textbook.
IMG_2386.jpg The students wrote the country names in the blanks before matching the country flags to their pictures.

After that, we practiced how to ask and answer the question `Where do you want to go?`. We practiced with the students asking the teachers and then the teachers asked some of the students. It helps to practice as a big group so that everyone can get confidence.
IMG_2382.jpg "Where do you want to go?"
"I want to go to Spain."

The students all discussed what countries would be good to visit.
IMG_2385.jpg The world map posters in the classroom were very useful to find some interesting countries.

Good job everyone!
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