School clubs
Junior High School Year 1 (Lesson 9)
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Teacher’s notes and lesson plan
The objective of this lesson is to get Japanese students to make a structured speech about expressing statements and questions about something they know well, in this case school clubs.
Warm up with a chat about favourite (or hated) sports and school activities.
Give the two worksheets to the students. Get the students to read out the sample speech.
Get the students to write the answers to the 7 questions, about themselves.
Have the students read out their speeches in pairs or to the teacher.
Have the students close their books and give their speech from memory (with prompts from the students or teacher if necessary).
Record the speeches and send to their parents (if it goes well!)
Worksheets
Adapted from Tower Talk Junior High 1:
Tower Talk Junior High 1 is intended for non-native leaners of English, typically in their first year of junior high school. But the book is designed to be of equal use to the child studying English at home with the help of a parent English-speaker. Tower Talk Junior High 1 provides
45 clearly structured lessons that children take throughout one year of study.
Each lesson is presented over a double-page spread that is designed to be the main element of a 45-minute class or home-study lesson.
The textbook examples of target language are on the left of every lesson, with the workbook exercises for students to complete typically on the right.
The lessons in this book are organised into groups of two following a topic, such as travel, school or entertainment.
The first of each lesson is a sample speech with options for students to change to make their own speech on the topic.
The second lesson is designed to focus on grammar or vocabulary with a chance to use new forms through prompts to write and speak.
Each lesson is designed to build on students’ existing knowledge and expose them to new language structures that they can make their own with practice.
At the same time, students are following a syllabus that will give them a thorough foundation in English, covering every major grammar form they will encounter in their first year of junior high school.
The Tower Talk syllabus complements the Oxford University Press Let’s Go series (popular with private schools) and the Sunshine series that 40% of all junior high school students in Japan use to learn English, but with some major differences: A clearer focus on what the student can learn lesson by lesson, which helps the teacher and parent alike know what the student is doing in the classroom. Four “Homestay” lessons are spread through the book to offer review practice for students with the theme of useful communicative language for their likely first experiences of speaking English outside of the classroom. Even while learning grammar and doing reading exercises, the focus is on building up a store of useful English expressions that students can use in realistic situations to communicate through building their active skills of speaking and writing.