UNIT 2: YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY

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1 Oct. 2

Review and Preview

Hey there Everyone!

It’s great to see you all back again!

First, we got right down to using English to help everyone settle into their new teams we did a short introduction chain game. A great time was had by all!

Next, we went over our new schedule / plan for the semester. It is a little different this time because before each unit we will learn a new skill. We talked about each unit and the main activities we will use to help with learning English.

I think that we all had some fun learning more about other students in class when we did the survey about “Find someone who ....”

Again, it was lovely to see all of your smiling faces!!

See you all next week, JO-sensei

Visuals Printouts:

Download them

Read them

Bring it next week

USING VISUALS

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9 A: Effective Visuals

Hello Again!

In today’s class we covered a lot.

* We started off with our class survey – find someone who and we had some interesting results! Found a few people who also like a good murder mystery like me!

* Then spent time on learning about what kind of visuals there are and especially kinds of graphs like:

horizontal bar graph vertical bar graph

line graph

The Visuals:

Read about Explaining Visuals

Review everything from today’s class too

Quiz next week at the end of class

Message Board Bonus Activity

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pie graph (pie chart) flow chart bullet chart

*We didn’t get time to learn KISS but do it next week:

KISS

= Keep Information (it) Short and Simple.

* Next we watch a bad presentation followed by working on seeing solutions for problem slides of a PowerPoint.

*And finally, we watch the good presentation.

I know today was maybe a little bit heavy but all of this will help to be able to make better visuals.

Thanks for your hard work today! It will all help build your speaking confidence I am sure of that!

See you ALL next week eh! Later Gators,

JO-sensei

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16 B: Explaining Visuals: end of classQuiz#1&2

Hello Again Everyone! Great Class today!

We got a lot done too!

*We reviewed by doing a team activity of remembering and drawing about different kinds of visuals.

* We watched our Effective Visuals’ speaker again to review.

*Next we talked about the speaker going from a bad to good performance.

*After that we started into learning about how to talk with visuals and learnt some need ways using:

IEE = Introduce + Explain + Emphasize

*We also learnt about KISS too.

* Finally after some practice we did our 2 review quizzes which I will be checking very soon too!

All in all a good day!! See you in class,

JO-sensei

Watch-Out

Days Ahead

Review:

Main points from Visuals Printout

Unit 2 Young People Today:

Topic Focus: Read and complete p.20

Vocabulary:

Unit 2 printout: Study the words that you do not know for a short quiz

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23 A: Topic Focus A: p.20-21 Quiz#3

Hello Again Everyone:

We had some good times today!

We started off with a quick vocabulary quiz.

Before we got into the textbook we brainstormed about the issues / concerns facing young people today. A lot of great information came up here: healthy lifestyles; social; educational; communication and more.

Then we moved onto our new lesson’s topic focus about what young people like and dislike and what their habits are too! We did some comparisons between our class and the students mentioned in the survey results. Some big differences could be seen.

After that we did our own class survey activity on page 21 We didn’t get to discuss our results but will start our next class with that topic and expand on it too.

Finally, we talked about our Campus Life Survey Project: choosing pairs and our topics.

Good work today!

Later Gators, JO-sensei

Don’t forget that if you have questions or concerns talk to me first please!

Unit 2: Young People Today Textbook:

Review p.20-21 Topic Focus

Read and complete with CD p.22-23 Language Focus

Vocabulary:

Study the Unit 2 vocabulary sheet again for a short Quiz

Campus Life Project 10%

 PART A: THE SURVEY

 Step1: Choosing your Partner

 Step2: Choosing your topic

 Step3: Making your 4 questions for your survey with your partner. Check the textbook p.21 for samples

 Go to JO’s Message Board late Friday!!!

 Check out Bonus Activity

 Bring your results to class next week

Have fun learning in English!!

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30 B: Language Focus B: p.22-23 Quiz#4

Hey there Everyone!

Our class this was very busy from our Hallowe’en bonus rounds to our team crossword. Good job to all!

We spent time doing our class survey by practice interviewing our classmates.

After that we spent time on making sure our questions were good ones.

Finally, we talked about how to go out and interview students on campus here or also Kwansei campuses too.

Good luck everyone and having fun meeting lots of other students too.

See you next week, JO-sensei

Unit 2: Young People Today Textbook:

Review p.20-23 with CD Vocabulary:

Study the Unit 2 vocabulary sheet again for more learning

Campus Life Project 10%

 PART A: THE SURVEY

 Step4: Checking questions by JO-sensei

 Step5: Making an appointment with your partner to go out into the campus

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 Remember to have fun learning about other students habits!

 Step7: Outline of speaking for Survey: o Hi my name is ....

o My partner and I are doing a survey about Campus Life for our English Class.

o Could I ask you some questions? o How old are you? ...

o At the end: Thanks for your time.

 Step8:

o Sit down with your partner after your survey and add up your results together in English.

o After adding calculate the % for each part.

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Draw with a pencil your results in a chart or graph. Make it good quality.

o

For example use pie charts for the top

part: age gender....

o

For the question part use 4 different kinds of graphs: bar graph etc.

o

Remember to put the % on the charts

and graphs. Also to name the axis. And add a title

o

Bring all your papers to school

 Go JO’s Message Board

 Check out Bonus Activity

 Bring your results to class next week

Have fun learning in English!!

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6 B: Language Focus B: p.22-23

Hi Everyone!

Great job today!

It looks like that we are pretty much ready to put together our presentations. You all seemed to understand the process and the language today too!

In our next class we will be doing lots of language work = speaking!

See you all then, JO-sensei

Unit 2: Young People Today Unit Presentation:

Make your survey results into slides Textbook:

Review p.20-23 with CD Preparep.28 Presentation Focus Quiz:

Study the Unit 2 language summary sheet + the organization focus

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13 C: Organization Focus + Presentation Focus:

Quiz#5/6

Building our Presentations

Young People Today Presentation

Slides: make your slides

Introduction: 1 slide for title: use a picture or design

 “A” person

 Tell what your topic is

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 Remember that this needs to be 1.5 minutes long for 2 people (3 people it needs to be about 3 minutes)

 Add Trivia: checkout unit 1 and 3 again for ideas

Body: Personal Data: pie charts

 “B” person

 Age: 1 slide

 Gender: 1 slide

 Year: 1 slide

 Major: 1 slide

 Remember to introduce your slide using p.29 words or the visuals printout from our first classes

 Remember to tell the key point of each

Body: “B” person

Survey Questions: use vertical bar graph + horizontal bar graph + line graph + flow chart

 Question 1: 1 slide + key point

 Question 4: 1 slide + key point Body: timing is 3 minutes

Conclusion: 1 slide

 “A” person

 Use a photo or clipart or picture

 Remember that this where you tell what the meaning of the whole survey was

 Remember that this needs to be 1.5 minutes long for 2 people (3 people it needs to be about 3 minutes)

Speech:

Prepare your outline

Prepare your keywords to go with your slides

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE AND THEN PRACTICE MORE!!!

Have Fun preparing and learning

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20 D: Presentations: Young People Today

Hi Everyone!

GREAT JOB on your presentations today!!! I can certainly see that a lot of learning

happened on this topic.

Unit 5: In My Opinion

Class page: Downloading print outs Vocabulary Sheet: study the words you don’t know

Textbook: Topic Focus: Do p.56 Think about whether you prefer:

 Giving your opinion on movies OR

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I’m really looking forward to your speaking your minds and giving your

opinions in our next unit. Thanks.

See you all next week, JO-sensei

UNIT 5: IN MY OPINION

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27 A: Topic Focus:

p.56-57 Quiz#7

Hi Everyone!

Hope you like your new teams. I thought that it was important to mix you up to increase your thinking especially for our new topic on opinions. I am looking forward to hearing you all speak a lot!!

After signing in we voted on the style of presentation that we would use for this lesson. It was very tight and had to be decided by lottery. So the result was to have TV Talk Show Role Play style. The actually topic we will narrow down in next week’s class.

I know that today’s class was very heavy. But, it will be very important for you to study again your vocabulary for all of your units and then use them. Without these words you will not be able to express you thinking and feeling!!

Very good beginning today!! Now we have to get you using more vocabulary in order to be able to express yourselves.

Good job everyone,

See you all next week. Enjoy your time thinking about your personal issues.

Later Gators, JO-sensei

Unit 5: In My Opinion

Textbook:

 Topic Focus p.56 review

 Language Focus p.58/59 + CD

Unit5 Vocabulary Sheet: study again and prepared to use them in discussion groups: Activity Quiz

Past Vocabulary: Go back and refresh yourself on all of your vocabulary we have used in the textbook.

TV Roleplay

Presentation Step#1:

 Thinking: Each member of the team is to spend time thinking about one issue that is very important to them

personally. Write it down.

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4 B: Language Focus:

p.58/59 Quiz#8

Hi Everyone! Great Job today!!

I was especially pleased to see that you are understanding the topic more. A special thanks to my teachers Mayu and Honami too for doing a good job!!

Unit 5: In My Opinion

Textbook: Organization Focus p60/61 Language Summary Sheet: study for Quiz and prepared to use them in discussion groups

TV Roleplay

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See you all next week! JO-sensei

Meeting:

Get together with your

team

Planning:

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Discuss which categories (2

maximum) you feel strongly about

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Then choose your issues

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Be sure that everyone has a voice

to express their opinions!

Design:

Talk about the design of your

role play

Remember

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To act your part like in a play

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Express yourselves by show your

vocabulary and understanding

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Especially show that you can have

fun too

Equipment:

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If you should need anything extra

that I can help with please ask me

and I will see what I can do

Let’s hear your voices!!

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11 C: Organization Focus + Presentation Focus

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Quiz#9/10 Hi again everyone!

Well you sure did a good job today!!

I know that trying to express your opinion in English is a little more difficult but I think that you are all beginning to get it now.

Just try your best and talk a lot with your teammates about the best way to show your thinking.

Next week we will be spending most of the class putting it all together using what we have learned from Unit 5 and what we feel about our issues.

See you all next week, JO-sensei

Unit 5: In My Opinion

Textbook: Review and study p.56-61 again

TV Roleplay

Presentation Step#3:

Choose your category

Choose 1 issue for each person

OR

Choose 1 issue/2 people and show

The should and The shouldn’t sides

Think and your characters and your

roleplay and how you can best

express ALL of your opinions clear.

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18 D: Presentation Focus + Skills

A Small Panda Christmas

Good Luck and Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Hi Everyone:

Good work today

Unit 5: In My Opinion

TV Roleplay

Presentation Step#:

Work together with your team using your textbook as a guide to build your roleplay