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6th grade students had their second and third lessons on the topic of Hi,friends!2 Lesson 5 `Let's go to Italy` and We Can!1 Unit 6 `I want to go to Italy.` In these classes they practiced using the phrase "Where do you want to go?" as well as some other questions while pretending to be Passport Control agents and passengers.

Both the second and third classes followed a similar format in order to give the students as much practice as possible with the phrases. After our usual greetings and greeting game we reviewed with a short Teacher Talk. Then, we played a memory game. It's a fun way to practice phrases in groups.

In groups of four, three people ask together "Where do you want to go?".
"I want to go to Italy."

Then everyone asks the next person, "Where do you want to go?".
"I want to go to America. OOO wants to go to Italy."

Then the next person, "Where do you want to go?".
"I want to go to France. OOO wants to go to Italy. *** wants to go to America."

And the game continues, getting harder and hard. The students really enjoy this and it's good practice, too!

Next, we did the Passport Control activity. The students had passports that they made in class with their name, birthday and where they want to go. First, the teachers gave and demonstration and then two students gave another demonstration.
Giving multiple demonstrations helps everyone understand what to do without having to give instructions in Japanese.

After watching the demonstrations, it was time for everyone else to try. They took turns to be Passport Control agents and passengers. They had to ask questions and check the answers.
"What's your name?"

"When is your birthday?"

"Where do you want to go?"

Some of the agents were very strict and made the passengers try again if they didn't speak clearly so everyone had to try their best!
Good clear voice!

Once the students had gotten the hang of the English then they could add another level of difficulty by saying the reason they want to visit.
"Where do you want to go?"
"I want to go to Italy."
"Why?"
"I want to eat pizza."

Good job everyone!

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.
"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.
"Hello!"

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.
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.
"Where do you want to go?"
"I want to go to Spain."

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

Good job everyone!

6th grade students had their third class on Hi, friends!2 Lesson 1 'Do you have `a`?' recently.

We started class with a greeting game as usual. Some students volunteered to give a demonstration.
"What's your favorite color?"
"Guess what?"
"Hint, please."
"Mix red and blue."
"Oh! Purple?"
"Yes! I like purple!"
Nice hint!

After watching the demonstration everyone started to greet each other.
Nice gestures!

Great eye contact!

Good job!

Nice smiles!

Next, we did the alphabet chant. The teachers picked some students to dance at the front with Ms. Emily and encourage everyone else to dance.
Nice dancing!

Everyone enjoyed dancing and doing the chant!

Next, we played some alphabet games. First, we played `Collect 5`. The students had to ask their friends and try to collect 5 of the same letters of the alphabet.
"Do you have `g`?"

"Yes, I do!"
"Here you are!"

Another game we played was `Matching pairs`. Each person chose 10 letters of the alphabet. They took turns to ask their partner questions to try and make pairs. The person with the most pairs won.
"Do you have `p`?"

Everyone counted the number of pairs they made at the end of the game.
One of the students managed to make 5 pairs! Wow!

Our last game was the `Alphabet Circle` game. We gave each student a card with a letter of the alphabet and they had to try and make a circle in order of the alphabet by asking their friends, "Do you have `g`?" and answering "Yes, I do. / No, I don't. I have `e`.".
This game needed a lot of teamwork.

The students had to ask many people questions.

They tried to put themselves in the right order.

"We did it! We made an alphabet circle!"

The teachers then checked that the circle was in the right order.
Well done everyone! You did it!

6th grade students recently had their second English class of the week. They continued studying Hi, friends!2 Lesson 1 'Do you have `a`?'. In this class they continued become familiar with lower case letters of the alphabet as well as becoming familiar with the numbers 1-100.

This year, as a step-up from the previous year, the class leaders for that day have been starting class.
"Stand up, please!"
"Let's make eye contact and smile!"

Next, we did our greeting game. For the past few classes the students have been sitting in pairs and trying to continue long conversations. This time the students could freely walk around the classroom but they had to try and continue speaking for as long as they could.
"What's your favorite color?"
"I like blue."

Nice gestures!

Great smile!

After the greeting game we practiced the numbers. We especially practiced the difference between similar sounding numbers such as 16 and 60.
"Numbers like 60 are short. Don't make the sound long."

Then, we played the same number game that we played in the previous class except we used the numbers 61-100.
First the teachers did a demonstration.

Then everyone played the game. We had to be careful to say all the numbers in English. The students could ask the teachers for help if they couldn't remember how to pronounce a number.
Some of the games became intense. The students were very focused!

Some of the students wanted to battle their teachers, too.
Everyone tried hard to win. You can do it!

After playing the game a few times, it was time for the alphabet song.
The students have become very used to this song so we only did the karaoke version.

Next, we did the alphabet quiz. Ms. Emily showed some folded lower case letters and everyone had to guess what they were.
"What's this?"
"y? v? x? w?"

Ms. Emily compared the folded letters to letters on the blackboard as the students suggested some answers.
"h?"
"h...yes, it could be an `h`."

The students thought very hard about the shapes of the different letters.
"Oh! I know! I know! It's `n`!!"

Lastly, we played the secret message game.
The teachers told everyone some numbers that we used to find the secret word.

The students had to listen to the numbers very carefully.
"What number was it? 87?"

We checked the answers together.
Can you tell what the secret word was? The missing letters are o, c, k. It's the name of a watch brand. It was the most difficult quiz!

At the end of the class the teachers asked the students to talk about what similarities and differences they had noticed between the letters.
"b and d look very similar."
"Yes, that's right! It's easy to make a mistake with these letters."

Good job 6th grade!

After finishing orientation last week, 6th grade students have started studying Hi, friends!2 Lesson 1 'Do you have `a`?'. In this class they tried to become familiar with lower case letters of the alphabet as well as the numbers 31-60.

We started class with a greeting game. The students had to try and speak in pairs for as long as they could using English. They could ask each other many questions.
"How do you spell your name?"

The teachers got some of the students to give a good example.
Clear voices! Good job!

After the greeting game we did the alphabet chant. We did different versions of the chant such as the teacher pointing to letters and the students saying those letters in a loud voice or skipping those letters. We also danced to the chant.
The students have become very good at doing the dance. It's very fun.

Next, we did the number game. First, we practiced saying the numbers 1-60.
Everyone said the numbers together.

Next, the students got into pairs and each person could say between 1 and 3 numbers. The person who said the number 30 was the winner.
The students used a number sheet to check as they said the numbers.

After playing once using the numbers 1-30, they changed partners and did the game again with the numbers 31-60.
It was a fun way to practice numbers.

Last, we looking at some pictures taken around the school and tried to see what alphabet we could find.
We see this sign every day.

Some of the posters also have English on them.
So cute!

The English posters in the school have both upper and lower case letters.
The students are going to search for lower case letters in their daily lives. It will be interesting to see how many they can find.

Good job everyone!

Today 6th grade students had their fourth class on Hi,friends!2 Lesson 7 `We are good friends`. They have been making their own original Momotaro skits. In the last class they received advice from their classmates about how to improve their skits. They used that advice to work on making their skits better in this class.

For our usual 3 questions during greeting time we had the students ask the questions instead of Ms. Emily.
"Look at the sky. How is the weather today?"

"What day is it today?"

"What is the date today?"

After two years of listening to the questions every English class it is good for the students to try to ask the questions themselves.

After the greetings, Ms. Keiko explained about the 3 prizes that we will give in the next class after watching the skits peformances.
Best English prize
Best Story prize
Best Teamwork prize
It's possible that the same team could win all three prizes or three different teams could get the prizes.

The prizes gave students motivation to practice hard in the class.
The demons are breaking the house.

Momotaro twins are introducing themselves to the demons.
"I'm Peach Boy."

Grandmother is giving Momotaro presents.
"Sword. Here you are!"

The animals are happy to beat the demons!

Beautiful Momotaro is introducing herself to Grandfather.

We are all looking forward to seeing the finished skits! Do your best everyone!

This week 6th grade students had their third class on Hi,friends!2 Lesson 7 `We are good friends`. They have been making their own original Momotaro skits. Since this class in the half-way point in the unit we decided that it would be a good time to check everyones' progress.

Usually after greetings, Ms. Emily asks the students three questions:
"How is the weather today?"
"What day is it today?"
"What is the date today?"
As the students have been answering these questions for two years we decided it would be a good challenge for the students to ask the questions instead.
These three students volunteered to ask the questions. In the next class we'll ask three different students to try.

We asked each of the three groups to show around 1/3 of their skit.
The groups took turns to show the beginning, middle or end of their skit while everyone watched.

Here is a preview of some of the action:
The demons are kidnapping Suicajiro!

Princess Kaguya is arriving in a rocket.

Everyone celebrates getting delicious food.

Momotaro and the Demon Boss decide to get married!

As you can tell their skits are very original! After watching the other students gave advice.
"Your voices were a little small. Please speak louder."

"The story was hard to follow. Please add more gestures"

After listening to the advice the groups had a short time to discuss the advice they were given.
"Let's change this scene so it's easier to understand."

Next week, we have our last two English classes for the school year. We will use one class to practice our skits and then everyone will perform in the last English classes. Watching the skits will be very interesting!

This week the 6th grade students continued to create their original skits for Hi,friends!2 Lesson 7 `We are good friends`. In this class the students tried to finish decided their storyline, lines and actions.

The groups discussed together.
"Last class, we decided that Momotaro's Grandmother likes surfing."

This activity needs a lot of teamwork.
Everyone talked about their ideas together.

The students also split into smaller groups to try and think about their actions and movements.
"What should the demons do here?"

In the following pictures the students are practicing their acting. Can you tell what scenes in Momotaro they are performing?
Is this a monkey?

Momotaro and his friends are fighting the demons. They are strong!
(Don't worry! They are just acting!)

Wow! Momotaro came out of the peach!

Good job 6th grade students! We can't wait to see the finished skits!

6th grade students have just had their first class on a new topic. This will be their last topic for the school year. They have been studying Hi,friends!2 Lesson 7 `We are good friends`. As the students have to make original skits in this topic we decided to do it last so that the students could use as much of the English that they have learned as possible.

At first the teachers split the students into 3 groups per class of around 10 students. Then they explained the rules of making a skit.
Every student has to have a speaking part. There are no narrators. They can add original characters and storylines. The skits have to have a happy ending. They have to use gestures and actions to make difficult English easy for everyone to understand.

After everyone understood what they had to do, it was time for all the groups to begin planning. Our goal for the first class was for all students to decide their characters and a rough storyline for their group.
"You can be Peach Boy."

The teachers helped everyone to think of ideas.
"You are very good at janken. Why doesn't Momotaro janken the demons instead of fighting them?"

Everyone tried hard to think of interesting and funny skits.
"Nice idea!"

"..and then Doraemon arrives and fights the demons!"
"That's a funny idea!"

After the groups had a rough idea of their storyline they tried to work out the movements of the characters and their lines (セリフ).
Can you tell what they are doing?

Do you know what characters they are?

Everyone is looking forward to seeing the finished results!

6th grade students had their last class on the topic Hi,friends!2 Lesson 6 `What time do you get up?`. In this class all the 6th grade students gathered together to interview each other. It's a fun way to end the topic.

After greetings we had teacher talk. Ms. Emily and Ms. Emiko were talking to each other.
"Today is Valentine's day. I made chocolate."
"Me, too!"
"Let's give the chocolate together."
The male teachers were waited excitedly for the chocolate. They asked each other about their favorite chocolate. "What's your favorite chocolate?"
"Guess what?"
"Strawberry chocolate?"
"No. It's very very sweet."
"White chocolate?"
"Yes! That's right!"

When Ms. Emily and Ms. Emiko gave their chocolate they both gave it to Mr. Takeyuki. Mr. Nakamura didn't get any chocolate. He was sad.
Mr. Takeyuki told him that he could buy chocolate at the supermarket.
Everyone laughed. It was a funny Teacher Talk.

Next, the students did a greeting game asking each other about their favorite chocolate.
"What's your favorite chocolate?"

"Guess what?"
"Pocky?"
"That's right!"

After the greeting game the students did the Hi, friends! chant.
"At 7. At 7. I get up at 7."
Nice gestures!

After practicing the questions as a class it was time for everyone to interview students from other classes.
"What time do you eat dinner?"

"I eat breakfast at 7.30."
"Oh! I see."

Halfway through the activity the teachers got some students to give a good demonstration.
"I eat dinner at 9."
"Wow! So late!"
Good reactions! Well done!

The students tried to think about the demonstration as they continued with the second half of the activity.
Nice eye contact!

Good job 6th grade students!