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5th grade students had their fifth and last class on the topic `Who is your hero?`. In this topic they are studying how to introduce someone who they admire while using the phrase `He/She is good at ~`. This class was also their last English class for this school year.

We started class with a greeting game. This time we used the question "What is your favorite food?". The teachers demonstrated first.
"Hint, please!"
"Fish and rice."
"Sushi?"
"Yes, that's right!"

Next, it was the students turn. They always enjoy giving quizzes to their friends.
"What's your favorite food?"
"Guess what?"

"Hint, please!"
"Tomatoes and onions."

"Salad?"
"No! It's not."
"Hint, please!"

"Cheese. Circle."
"Pizza?"

"Yes, that's right!"
"Yeay! I guessed right!!"

After the greeting game we asked the students to tell us who had difficult or interesting quizzes. Those students gave their quizzes to everyone.
"Black and white. You put on food."
"Salt and pepper?"
"Yes! That's right!"

Next, we did the chant. The students tried hard to sing along and do the gestures.
"This is my hero. He is Kosei. He can run fast."

Students even tried to do the karaoke version without the teacher's help.
The chant is difficult and fast but they could do it by themselves! Good job!

After the chant, Ms. Keiko got one of the students to help to demonstrate the next activity. In the last class the students had introduced their heroes in pairs and in groups. In this class they walked around the classroom freely introducing their hero to many people.
"This is my hero. He is Roger Federer. He is good at playing tennis."
"That's great!"

The students did their best to introduce their heroes in English.
They tried to use the phrases `He/She can~.` and `He/She is good at~.` when they were talking.

It was very interesting to hear about everyones' heroes.
Nice smile!

Great eye contact!

The teachers got some students to give a good demonstration.
She used the phrases we have studied very well. Good job!

Next, we played a boardgame that reviewed all the English the 5th graders studied this year.
It had questions about each other the topics that the students had studied.

The students enjoyed it very much!

It was a fun way to finish English class for the year.

It had many questions such as doing janken in English with their friends or asking English questions to their teachers.

The students did their best and were surprised about how much English they could speak. It gave them confidence that they have learned a lot this year!

Finally the students wrote a feedback card reflecting on English class this year.
Many students wrote that their feelings for English changed throughout the year and now they find it interesting to talk to their friends in English.

The teachers had some students announce what they wrote.
"We could ask our friends questions that we don't usually talk about in Japanese and learn many new things about them. It was a great chance to know our friends better."

At the end of the class the students received a ticket to move up to 6th Grade English.

Good job 5th grade students! You worked so hard in English class this year! Let's have fun and do our best in English class next year, too!

Today 5th grade students had their fourth class on the topic `Who is your hero?`. In this topic they are studying how to introduce someone who they admire while using the phrase `He/She is good at ~`.

We started class with our usual greetings and greeting game. The teachers did a demonstration. Today we used the question "What is your favorite anime character?". The students helped the teachers to guess the answers.
Do you know who Ms. Emily's favorite anime character is?
She has a yellow face and a green cape.
Do you know her?
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.
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Her name is Melon-panna chan!

The students asked each other about their favorite anime character. It was a very interesting topic for the students.
"What is your favorite anime character?"

"Guess what?"
"Hint, please!"

"It's black. It's a mouse."
"It's Mickey?"
"That's right!!"

After the greeting game we did the chant. In the first class everyone thought it was very very fast and impossible. However, now it's the fourth class the students are singing along with the chant and doing gestures, too! Practice makes perfect!
Nice gestures!

Everyone tried to make funny and interesting gestures. It makes doing the chants more fun!
Good job!

Next, the teachers demonstrated today's activity. Everyone will introduce their hero.
"This is my hero. He is Yuta Tabuse. He is short but he can jump high. He is good at playing basketball."

After watching the demonstration the students had a short time to prepare. If they had any questions about how to say anything in English then they asked the teachers. After preparing it was time to practice in pairs.
"Who is your hero?"

"This is my hero. She is a kindergarten teacher."

The students took turns to introduce their heros in pairs. The teachers helped too with any difficult English.

After practing the pairs the students got into groups and introduced their heros.
It was very interesting to learn about all the different heroes.

Everyone tried hard to listen when people were introducing their hero.


The teachers picked one group to give a good demonstration.
"Look! Everyone in this group is watching and listening carefully to the presentation. It makes the person who is presenting feel good. Let's all do that!"

Finally the students wrote about their reflections of the class.
"It was interesting to hear about my friend's hero. I felt happy that my friends listened to my presentation."

The teachers asked some of the students to tell everyone what they wrote.
"I noticed everyone had different heroes and I thought that was great."

Good job everyone!

Today 5th grade students had their third class on the topic `Who is your hero?`. In this topic they are studying how to introduce someone who they admire while using the phrase `He/She is good at ~`.

Today we started class with our usual greetings. Then we had a greeting game. Recently we have been practicing the phrase "What is your favorite~?" that we studied in Tomilish Time. Today we used the phrase "What is your favorite sweets?".
"Guess what?"

"Hmmm...cheesecake?"
"That's right!! You guessed on the first try! Wow!"

"Hint, please!"
"White, brown and round."
"Hmmmm...."

Next, after doing the chant, Ms. Emily introduced one of her heroes to us.
"This is my hero. He is Ewan McGregor. He is a movie actor. He acted in Star Wars. He is good at riding a motorcycle. He travelled around the world to collect money for UNICEF. He is so cool."

Next, the teachers gave a "Who is he/she?" quiz about teachers in the school.
"She is good at sewing. Who is she?"

"I know! I know!"

After the quiz we asked the students what was different about the English we used. "This week you used `he` or `she`".
"That's right!"
Then, we practiced describing what people can do using the phrase "He/She is good at~."
This will help the students to describe their hero in the next class.

Next, the students asked each other questions about what they are good at in order to make quizzes. They had done this activity during Tomilish Time but they wanted more information in order to make better quizzes.
Good gestures!

Nice eye contact!

Lastly, the students used the information they had collected about their friends in order to give "Who is he/she?" quizzes in groups.
"He is good at playing soccer. Who is he?"

"I know!"

"That's right!!"

Good job everyone! In the next class the students will use the English they have studied so far in order to make presentations about their own heroes. Everyone is looking forward to hearing who they introduce.

5th grade students have just had their second class on the topic `Who is your hero?`. In this topic they are studying how to introduce someone who they admire while using the phrase `He/She is good at ~`.

After our usual greetings the teachers demonstrated the greeting game. They each pretended to be a famous person and used the phrase `I am good at ~.`, that the students had studied in the last class, to give hints. The other person had to guess who they were.
"Guess who?"
"Hint, please!"
"I am good at skating. I got 2 gold medals at the PyeongChang Olympics."
"Are you Takagi Nana?"
"Yes, I am!"

After watching the demonstration it was time for everyone else to try.
"I'm good at skating. I got gold, silver and bronze medals at the PyeongChang Olympics."
"Are you Takagi Miho?"
"Yes, I am!"

The students pretended to be many different famous people and characters.
"I am good at climbing. I am thick eyebrows."
"Are you Imoto-san?"
"Yes, I am!"

"I am good at table tennis. I am from Sendai."
"Are you Fukuhara Ai?"
"Yes, I am!"

After the greeting game Ms. Emily introduced her hero.
"This is my hero. She is Ester Ledecka. She is good at snowboarding. She got a gold medal. She can ski, too. She doesn't have skis. Her friend gave her skis at the olympics. She got a gold medal in skiing too!"

After this the teachers modelled asking each other `Are you good at~?` questions. We practiced the questions with the students and they asked each other questions in pairs. The students found it hard to say "Yes, I am." to the questions so we decided to do an another activity where they had to pretend to be someone else.
The students had to pretended to be one of the characters and their partner had to ask questions in order to guess who they were.

"Are you good at cooking?"
"Yes, I am."
"Are you good at dancing?"
"No, I'm not."
"Are you Nemo?"
"Yes, I am!"

The students found some of the answers very funny.
"It says Anpanman is good at swimming even though water makes him weak!!"
Everyone decided it would be interesting for the students to create their own version in the future.

Good job everyone!

This year 5th and 6th grade students have been studying some topics that are not in the Hi,friends! textbooks. Recently 5th grade students had their first class on a new topic. This will be their last topic for the school year. They have been studying the topic `Who is your hero?`.

After greetings we started class with a `Who am I?` quiz. Everyone pretended to be a famous person or character and the other people had to guess who they were.
"Guess who?"
"Hint, please!"

"I can skate. I like Pooh."
"Are you Hanyu Yuzuru?"
"Yes, I am!"

"I like blue. I am a robot."
"Are you Doraemon?"
"Yes, I am!"

"Guess who?"
Nice gestures!

"Hint, please!"
Great eye contact!

5th grade students have been working hard at English so they are able to give many different hints.
"We can make interesting quizzes!"

"We can give many hints!"
Nice smiles!

After the game, some students who had interesting quizzes gave the quiz to the whole class.
"Guess who?!"

After introducing the goal for this topic (to be able to introduce someone they admire) we listened to the chant for the topic.
It was the first time for everyone to hear the chant so we just listened to it a few times. Everyone tried to pick out some words that they recognised.

After the chant the teachers gave a demonstration on how to introduce their hero. We like to show the students the final goal conversation for the topic in the first class of a topic. This helps the students to know what they will learn.

After the demonstration the teachers asked each other questions using a new phrases `Are you good at ~?` and `I am good at ~`. The students listened and tried to think about the meaning of the conversation. They realised the difference between `good at` and `can`.

Next, everyone practiced the phrases.
"Are you good at playing volleyball?"
"Are you good at cooking?"

Finally the students practiced asking and answering questions in pairs.
"Are you good at playing soccer?"
"Yes, I am."

Good job everyone!