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Lesson 9 – June 17

Aim: To create a Role play (make a small conversation) between you and a foreigner.

Procedure: read the parts and follow the steps;

Part A: preparing

  1. Make a group of 2 or 3
  2. Theme is culture *event in Japan
  3. You will need your worksheets for a reference for language; vocabulary and expressions; check the internet for information
  4. event ideas
  • Disney Land / Sea
  • USJ / German villiage
  • Car show
  • Sports event
  • Music concert
  • Museum
  • Comic / Manga fesitval
  • Zoo
  • University event with exchange students
  • Festivals – fireworks / floats *Nebuta / …
  • Japanese restaurant / cafe – for example such / family-iakaiwa / Koiwai farm snow festival

Part B: assignment planning – CROW

  1. Make a conversation using the “Role Play Method” C-R-O-W; decide the following
  2. C = content [speaking script(dialogue) / the culture information for the communication]
  3. R = relationship [2 or 3 speakers; at least one foreigner]
  4. O = objective [talking about culture; similarities and differences]
  5. W = whereabouts [where are you]

Part C: Communication techniques (not No.2) – use five techniques; the teacher will give you a review

  1. discuss and write the CROW [Task 1]
  2. use the speaking objective techniques
  3. you must use 5 out of these techniques [1-8]
  4. write your role play script [person A / person B / person C] on note paper *A4 paper
  5. …

for example;

  • Japanese: Hi. Nice to meet you. Which country are you from?
  • American: Howdy. I am from Houston, America.
  • Japanese: Sorry, did you say “H-o-s-t-o-n”? T8-confirming details Could you repeat that please.
  • American: Sure “Hou-st-on”
  • Japanese: “Hou-st-on”
  • American: Yes. That is right
  • Japanese: Welcome to the Omagari fireworks festival in Akita.
  • American: This is an amazing fireworks display.
  • Japanese: I think so too. T7-Agree Did you know that it is the “National Fireworks Competition” in Japan?
  • American: Uh-huh T5-Back channeling

Task X Title: Reflection

HOMEWORK

  • finish your draft copy – 70% + with your partner
  • Saturday quiz

Lesson 8 – June 16

Task Title. Reading a Table: American standard

Task 4 Title: Work Culture – Brazil / Malaysia / Japan

  1. The title of this Table is “Vacation Days per Year” per=every
  2. Short Description: reading left to right; 1) The left side has 8 countries, 2) From there there is information in order starting with Average =====employees give, next Average =====employee takes, and finally 3) Not used days.
  3. Detail (Line 1): In Brazil they have an average of 30days vacation (1), they take an average of 30 days (2), and there are no days left (3).

Task 5 Title: Why do Japan workers (employees) only take 50% or half of the vacation days.

write 5 points in your groups

Task 6 Title : Graphs

 

Summary: Facts of Information (FOI)

  • we can use the internet to research for information
  • if we copy from the internet we use “quotation marks” and we write the URL Title
  • Tables and Graphs also give a lot of information
  • we can write the sentences using a lot of grammar
  • we can use numbers / % / describing words – half / all of them …
  • we can learn the language using video / journals / newspapers / …

***remember to learn the key words (topic words) called vocabulary / phrases (short sentences) / grammar

Task 6 Title: Reflection What’s your impression about Japan’s data. Write what you think about Japan’s work-culture (50 words). what is good / not good / … do you think it should change? Why? …

HOMEWORK

  • Find a Table/Graph about another topic (todays topic about Vacation). Including Japan and other countries. Write a short report (50-75 words). A4 paper!
  • Next lesson: show your table, and read your report to your group
  • Quiz 7

Lesson 8 – June 15

Aim: To create a Role play (make a small conversation)

Procedure: read the parts and follow the steps;

Part A: preparing

  1. Make a group of 2 or 3
  2. Theme is culture
  3. You will need your worksheets for a reference for language; vocabulary and expressions
  4. event ideas

  1. Disney Land / Sea
  2. USJ / German villiage
  3. Car show
  4. Sports event
  5. Music concert
  6. Museum
  7. Comic / Manga fesitval
  8. Zoo
  9. University event with exchange students
  10. Festivals – fireworks / floats *Nebuta / …
  11. Japanese restaurant / cafe – for example such / family-iakaiwa / Koiwai farm snow festival

Part B: assignment

  1. Make a conversation using the “Role Play Method” C-R-O-W; decide the following
  2. C = content [speaking script(dialogue) / the culture information for the communication]
  3. R = relationship [2 or 3 speakers; at least one foreigner]
  4. O = objective [talking about culture; similarities and differences]
  5. W = whereabouts [where are you]

Part C: Communication techniques (not No.2) – use five techniques

  1. discuss and write the CROW [Task 1]
  2. use the speaking objective techniques
  3. you must use 5 out of these techniques [1-8]
  4. Task 2-3-4-5: write your role play script [person A / person B / person C]
  5. …

for example;

  • Japanese: Hi. Nice to meet you. Which country are you from?
  • American: Howdy. I am from Houston, America.
  • Japanese: Sorry, did you say “H-o-s-t-o-n”? T8-confirming details Could you repeat that please.
  • American: Sure “Hou-st-on”
  • Japanese: “Hou-st-on”
  • American: Yes. That is right
  • Japanese: Welcome to the Omagari fireworks festival in Akita.
  • American: This is an amazing fireworks display.
  • Japanese: I think so too. T7-Agree Did you know that it is the “National Fireworks Competition” in Japan?
  • American: Uh-huh T5-Back channeling

Reflection Side A: Task 4 Title: Lesson 8

Mini project (lesson 8) Question: What is this culture activity making you (require) think about? Give examples. What is important about communication between you and foreigners? What is important for interaction? …?

HOMEWORK

  • finish your draft copy – 70% + with your partner
  • quiz 6

June 11 – Lesson 8

Task Title. Reading a Table: American standard

Task 1 Title Compare Cultures; a) Brazil / b) Japan

Task 2 Title: Japan Work Culture a) for / b) against

Task 3 Title: To change (person a) OR to not change (person b); please prepare your response

Task 4 Title: Graph Title

HOMEWORK

  • Quiz 7
  • Task 4: Find a Table (individual; not with your partner) about another culture topic (todays topic about Vacation). Including Japan and other countries. Write a short report (50-75 words). A4 paper! Take a screenshot of your Table.
  • Next lesson: show your table, and read your report to your group

For example:

  • retirement age
  • pension system
  • maternity leave (men or women)
  • salary / bonus system
  • income tax (salary tax)

Table 1

Optional / Support Activities

  1. The title of this Table is “Vacation Days per Year” per=every
  2. Short Description: reading left to right; 1) The left side has 8 countries, 2) From there there is information in order starting with Average =====employees give, next Average =====employee takes, and finally 3) Not used days.
  3. Detail (Line 1): In Brazil they have an average of 30days vacation (1), they take an average of 30 days (2), and there are no days left (3).
  4. Line (2-8): … write the details for every country.
  5. Results (the groups and details) (Task 4)

Task Activity: select countries and write the sentences

Task Activity Title: Evaluation: groups / grouping method

  • Step 1: decide the result – what is the result?
  • Step 2: what groups can you see – think about it?
  • Step 3: make the groups [***Hint – there are three groups of countries]

Teacher example:

  • In group 1 / For group 1 : there are no days vacation left. These countries include Brazil, Canada and France.
  • In group 2 / For group 2 : there are a few days vacation left. There are four countries and they are Malaysia, Mexico, UK and the US. The days left are between 1 to 4 days.
  • In group 3 / For group 3 : there are a lot of days vacation left. There is only one country Japan [ and they only take half the numbers of days vacation / and take 10 days only vacation ]

Lesson 8 – June 10th

June 10th Aim: To read Tables and graphs

Task Title. Reading a Table

Terms

  1. Vacation – holidays from work (for example Monday to Friday; To travel away from home
  2. Holidays – include days off for everyone (For example Public Holidays) / days off school, work, club/circle or other events

  1. The title of this Table is “Vacation Days per Year” per=every
  2. Short Description: reading left to right; 1) The left side has 8 countries, 2) From there there is information in order starting with Average =====employees give, next Average =====employee takes, and finally 3) Not used days.
  3. Detail (Line 1): In Brazil they have an average of 30days vacation (1), they take an average of 30 days (2), and there are no days left (3).
  4. Line (2-8): … write the details for every country.
  5. Results (the groups and details) (Task 4)

Task 1 Title: Writing Details

  • In your groups: write the details of a country
  • Check with your country

Task activity: select countries and write the sentences

Task 2 Title: Evaluation: groups / grouping method

  • Step 1: decide the result – what is the result?
  • Step 2: what groups can you see – think about it?
  • Step 3: make the groups [***Hint – there are three groups of countries]

Writing challenge: write a grouping report about these 3 groups.

Teacher example:

  • In group 1 / For group 1 : there are no days vacation left. These countries include Brazil, Canada and France.
  • In group 2 / For group 2 : there are a few days vacation left. There are four countries and they are Malaysia, Mexico, UK and the US. The days left are between 1 to 4 days.
  • In group 3 / For group 3 : there are a lot of days vacation left. There is only one country Japan [ and they only take half the numbers of days vacation / and take 10 days only vacation ]

Task 6 Title: side A Vacation or Holiday;

  • telling a story to a foreigner
  • say (express) your feelings about it
  • recommend something

HOMEWORK

  • …
  • Saturday Quiz

Lesson 8/9 – June 10/17

June 10th Aim: To read Tables and graphs

Task Title. Reading a Table: American standard

  1. The title of this Table is “Vacation Days per Year” per=every
  2. Short Description: reading left to right; 1) The left side has 8 countries, 2) From there there is information in order starting with Average =====employees give, next Average =====employee takes, and finally 3) Not used days.
  3. Detail (Line 1): In Brazil they have an average of 30days vacation (1), they take an average of 30 days (2), and there are no days left (3).
  4. Line (2-8): … write the details for every country.
  5. Results (the groups and details) (Task 4)

Task Activity: select countries and write the sentences

Task Activity Title: Evaluation: groups / grouping method

  • Step 1: decide the result – what is the result?
  • Step 2: what groups can you see – think about it?
  • Step 3: make the groups [***Hint – there are three groups of countries]

Teacher example:

  • In group 1 / For group 1 : there are no days vacation left. These countries include Brazil, Canada and France.
  • In group 2 / For group 2 : there are a few days vacation left. There are four countries and they are Malaysia, Mexico, UK and the US. The days left are between 1 to 4 days.
  • In group 3 / For group 3 : there are a lot of days vacation left. There is only one country Japan [ and they only take half the numbers of days vacation / and take 10 days only vacation ]

Task 5 Title Graph Report write a short report about the information for the 3 groups [try with no smartphone and pc]

Task 6 Title: Reflection What’s your impression about Japan’s data. Write what you think

HOMEWORK

  • Find a Table about another topic (todays topic about Vacation). Including Japan and other countries. Write a short report (50-75 words). A4 paper!
  • Next lesson: show your table, and read your report to your group
  • Quiz 7

JUNE 17

Task XTitle : Graphs

Activity: making sentences;

  • make sentences about the data
  • experiment with sentence patterns – by trying
  • listen and think about the pattern
  • which sentence do you like? what is the effect or expression
  • reverse method – grammar focus!
  • a method to re-word the data headings
  • a method to give an evaluation of the data – for example: The worst reason … / The number 1 reason… / The highest response …
  • give your opinion – for example: I was surprised that… /

Summary: Facts of Information (FOI)

  • we can use the internet to research for information and by using video / journals / newspapers / …
  • if we copy text/sentences from the internet we use “quotation marks” and we write the URL Heading/Title
  • Tables and Graphs also give a lot of information – reducing the information is helpful
  • we can write the sentences using a lot of grammar / methods
  • be clear and easy to understand (you do not need complex sentences!)
  • we can use numbers / % / describing words – half / all of them …

***remember to learn the key words (topic words) called vocabulary / phrases (short sentences) / grammar

Task 2 Title: Reflection What’s your impression about Japan’s data. Write what you think about Japan’s work-culture / other themes – think about your group members HW and graphs (50 words). what is good / not good / … do you think it should change? Why? …

HOMEWORK

  • watch and learn the video (number 7) content *key vocabulary / phrases / main points link
  • Saturday quiz
  • Do not do the exercises on the video page!
  • next class; worksheet and homework upload June 6th/10th/17th

19. FOI (Facts of Information)(ST)

Facts of Information (FOI)

  • Statistics is one method for using facts – internet search (research)
  • Graphs is also a good method for facts of information [next class]
  • Articles – newspaper / textbooks / journals

Task 5/6: Warm up activity: explain Japanese culture; and there are categories 1) Language, 2) religion, 3) cuisine (traditional food), 4) social habits, and 5) music and arts

hand huddle (circle in sports)

Task Activity: a) explain in your own words; b) research the internet

For example

  • a) In Australia the most common religion is Christianity and there are many churches around Australia. People go to church on Sunday and sing songs and payer.
  • b) Yes, Christianity remains the most popular religion in Australia – It is the most popular religion in Australia. With about 43.9% of the population identifying as Christian. <— quotation method, for example; “With about 43.9% of the population identifying as Christian.” URL: Google.com

Review Research Methods

  1. Re-write information (FOI) in your own words
  2. Copy&Paste a sentence and use “quotations” URL ====

Lesson 7 – June 9

Lesson 6 HOMEWORK

  • Video 6b. Culture: please watch and study; main points; english words; phrases – take notes on A4 paper/campus paper
  • Quiz 5

Aim: To learn about culture; there are 5 segments to todays video

Student Example:

Facts of Information (FOI)

  • Statistics is one method for using facts – internet search (research)
  • Graphs is also a good method for facts of information [next class]
  • Articles – newspaper / textbooks / journals

Task 5/6: Warm up activity: explain Japanese culture; and there are categories 1) Language, 2) religion, 3) cuisine (traditional food), 4) social habits, and 5) music and arts

hand huddle (circle in sports)

Task Activity: a) explain in your own words; b) research the internet

For example

  • a) In Australia the most common religion is Christianity and there are many churches around Australia. People go to church on Sunday and sing songs and payer.
  • b) Yes, Christianity remains the most popular religion in Australia – It is the most popular religion in Australia. With about 43.9% of the population identifying as Christian. <— quotation method, for example; “With about 43.9% of the population identifying as Christian.” URL: Google.com

Review Research Methods

  1. Re-write information (FOI) in your own words
  2. Copy&Paste a sentence and use “quotations” URL ====

Note: Reflection; what did you learn about FOI? what do you think? … please write a comment!

HOMEWORK: copy your notes to the worksheet; add more notes…

  • TASK 1 Title: Culture Video Vocabulary
  • TASK 2 Title: Culture Video Phrases
  • TASK 3 Title: Culture Video Main Points
  • Quiz 6

Student example:

Lesson 7/8/9 – June 3/10/17

JUNE 3

Aim: To learn about Culture and Traditions

Video link

Aim: To learn important points about the video; compare Mexico with Japan – Mexican culture and Japanese culture

Task 1. Point (a) / Point (b)

Task 2. Point (c) / Point (d)

Task 3. Point (e)

Student example:

Task 4. Mexican culture and Japanese culture (a)

  1. language: In Mexico they speak Spanish, and in Japan they speak Japanese
  2. religion:
  3. cuisine:
  4. social habits:
  5. music and arts:

Homework:

  • Task 4 finish
  • study points a / b / c / d / e
  • Quiz 5 –> Saturday 9am

June 10

Aim: To compare and learn about other cultures; important terms (words/definitions), for example;

  • Nation = country name; Japan, Mexico. Brazil…
  • Nationality = is your origin (place) of birth. I am Australian. You are Japanese.
  • Multi-cultural (al = all or many)(multi = many / more than 1): a country with more than one culture. Is Australia multi-cultural? Yes – there are many nationalities living in Australia (born in Australia) Is Japan multi-cultural? No, it isn’t.

Activity: Select one of the countries from the table we studied in Sogo class;

Table.

Task 5 Title: Think and write – no PC/smartphone (small writing)

  1. What is your impression about the country? その国について、どのような印象をお持ちですか？
  2. Do you want to go there for a (a) short vacation OR (b) long vacation ? （a）短期休暇でそこに行きたいですか、それとも（b）長期休暇でそこに行きたいですか？
  3. Tell me something interesting about the country? one or two things. その国について何か面白いことを教えてください。1つか2つで構いません。

Task Mixed Groups: please remember!

Procedure: Select 1 of the 5 country-criteria: language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music & arts

Task 4/5 photo upload

Task 6 Title: Reflection: What do you think about Culture? Is it important to learn about culture? Why or why not? 文化についてどう思いますか？文化について学ぶことは重要だと思いますか？その理由は何ですか？

Homework:

  • write 50-75 words about your country : criteria (A4 paper / Campus)
  • Saturday quiz]

JUNE 17

Warm Up

  • read your homework to your group members
  • select one person from your group to read to the class
  • upload end of class

Sentence activities – Project sentences

  • Example Sentence: Brazil employers give 30 days holiday, and employees take all 30 days. There are no days not used.

Method 1: to reverse the information (change the order)

  • Brazil employees (workers) take 30 days of their vacation, which is all of their vacation days.

Method 2: to give an evaluation of the result

  • Brazil has the highest number of vacation days (30), and they (workers) take all of their holidays

Method 3: to give your opinion (I think that… / I was surprised because …)

  • I think that/ I was surprised that/ 30 days vacation is a lot of holidays, and Brazil and France take all of their holidays.

Task 1 Title: Project sentences:

Activity: select a country from the Table (not Brazin or France) and write;

  • original sentence example
  • method 1 sentence
  • method 2 sentence
  • method 3 sentence

Task 2 Title: Using percent (%)

  1. Response 1: The percentage of responses is 58.6%
  2. Response 2: The …
  3. Response 3: The …
  4. Response 4: The …
  5. Response 5: The …

Project example: The percentage for responses 1-5 were 58.6% (1), xx% (2), xx%(3), xx%(4), and xx%(5).

Activity: we often use percent to give us a summary of results; its a simple and easy method to do; also it is easy to understand and think about results

Steps: please follow

  1. add the total – 220 responses
  2. to calculate the percent for each item (responses =5)
  3. calculate the percent for each response (item)

For example; response 1 is 129 out of total 220; what is the percent of 129 out of 220? = 58.6%; response 2 is 40 out of a total of 220 – 18.1%

Activity continue: Graphs

HOMEWORK

  • Video 7 (A4/Campus paper) – take notes of the vocabulary; phrases; main points ***study the video topic and language link
  • Saturday quiz
  • next class – worksheet and homework upload