Page 24 Quiz: The "I can swim and I can fly" flashcards for the kids.

Eigo Note Book 2 Lesson 4 Page 24 Quiz - I can swim or fly - Flashcards with Words Pictures by The ENB.pdf

These are basically for showing the kids AFTER the quiz. You can show them before the quiz, although it will make the quiz very easy. You can show them after, although that will make the quiz a little difficult without the proper review of "I can".

Decisions, decisions, decisions...

Or you can just show them next week, as a warm-up, to see if the kids can remember the unit's target language.

News on ESL

"ESL news around the world"

This is basically a set of current "ESL" headlines grouped into a news reader for your convenience.

Sports and Activities: Write (the whole words this time) in the blanks 'QTW'

This follows up Lesson 4 on page 26. You can use this memo sheet to practice the 3 points of speaking I can, I can't, and Can you...?

If you have very willing students, perhaps, they wouldn't mind doing a little writing practice after a rigorous repeating session...

Eigo Note Book 2 Lesson 4 QTW - I can - Memo Sheet with Words Pictures and Writing Practice by The ENB.pdf

12 Months: Write in the blanks 'QTW'

Here is a little spelling quiz that follows up the Lesson 3 quiz on page 20...

Eigo Note Book 2 Lesson 3 QTW - 12 Months Fill in the blanks with letters by The ENB.pdf

Coming soon... and soon is now! Wow! This page has been empty for so long I thought it was time to update it.

Well, for this first unit in the Note what can you really give as a quiz for the alphabet if the kids don't really have a clue. Yes, some kids can of course write the alphabet. But can all of them do it? If the answer is no, then let's try not to leave them behind, shall we? So, why not give them a chance to practice?

For children's alphabet handwriting practicing I always go to this site and its really great and does the job perfectly every time.

http://www.handwritingforkids.com

On this site you can find many handwriting templates that are ready to print-out and give straight to the kids. They also include 'Kaki-jun' which is the stroke order for writing letters.

The prints letters are a bit dark though so as a little hint you should copy and paste them into a word file then play around with the picture editor to tone them down a bit. These worksheets have to be printed as a webpage and you could tone down your copier levels but you would get more contrast control in MS Word and have it print out as a gray color so the kids can trace them for an assignment before class or give them out as homework if your HRT approves.

Now that the kids have had a little more practice in Lesson 1 it might be time to give a chance to write the alphabet more freely. Now, depending on your schools, the kids may have started "romaji" (Japanese for alphabet characters) practice in Grade 3, 4, or 5, but I hear it usually lasts for a number of lessons at most and it is not generally accepted that the kids have to memorize the alpahbet at the primary school level so don't look too surprised if the kids tell "we've already studied that" but have no idea how to write the alphabet in order.

So, I usually give them an alpahbet printing/writing sheet template from this site:

http://first-school.ws/

There is really a lot on this site as far as giving writing practice to kids and the site does branch out into many teaching areas so it is really worth a look.

These were taken from the Book 1 section but they work just as well for Book 2...

Numbers 1-20: Matching the words to numbers 'QTW'

This worksheet will let the kids have a try at matching the words to their numbers.

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 3 Matching the Number Words to the Numerical Number Quiz-Tester-Worksheet by The ENB...

Numbers 10-100: Matching the words to numbers 'QTW'

This worksheet will let the kids have a try at matching the words to their numbers but this time in tens up to 100.

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 3 Matching Numbers tens 10s to 100 to Words to the Numerical Number Worksheet by The ENB.pdf...

I can swim: The "I can swim." chant on page 25 and the 9 "I can ..." plus verbs flashcards on page 26

Eigo Note Book 2 Lesson 4 Page 25 Lets Chant Icanswim by the ENB

Eigo Note Book 2 Lesson 4 Page 26 The 9 I can skills Flashcards by the ENB

I got this idea while I was searching for some pictures on the net and it turned out to be a real easy prize to make if you have an internet connection at your schools and a printer...

And I think this deserves its own page...

Calendar Flashcards: The Twelve Months (12 months) and a little bit more...

I had prepared three sets of flashcards just for the "Joining Game" activity in this first lesson of Unit 3.

One set has the pictures and month's name.

The second set has those events in the textbook with the pictures only.

The third set has, separately, the months only which were used while quizzing the kids. Once we had finished the quiz, we could practice saying the months' names in review with the first set on top. Also, they're quite good for the second lesson's game where you should post them on the blackboard in random (after practicing how to say the month names with the kids) then quickly say, "Hey, isn't that the 'Ko-cho Sensei!" and point to the back door of the classroom. While everyone turns around, (they still do at even Grade 6) quickly take off one of the flashcards but don't ask the kids just yet. So say, "Oops, I made a mistake..." or something like that. Stay quiet for a while until one of the kids notices that a flashcard is missing. Then play the missing flashcard game. On the second round, say what you said at first but a little more calmly like "Oh, hi 'Ko-cho Sensei..." Then do it again. If you can do this three times, let me know and I'll post it as a blog up here with a little prize of course because that third time around is sooooo tough to do... so... Pace yourself young Skywalker... Use the force... or like they say in Japan... "Fight-O!"

And if it it didn't work the third time... Well... "two out if three ain't bad." (By the way, I use "Kyoto-Sensei" for the third time around. But you've got to make an appointment and timing is everything. Hint hint. ;-P )

Page 44-45: Those 12 Circled Hints on those pages...

Here are four sets of new flashcards that may help get your students' attention...

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 7 page 44-45 Activity - the 12 circled hints without words by The ENB.pdf

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 7 Page 44-45 Activity the 12 circled hints with Whats this by The ENB.pdf

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 7 Page 46 Activity 1 - the hints in kanji by the ENB.pdf

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 7 Page 48 Lets Play - the hints 4 cards by The ENB.pdf

Remember that the main use of these flashcards are for use with the Eigo Note textbooks. So if you plan to use them with the younger grades in Japan at elementary school, or even in an Eikaiwa, you are not doing anyone any favors, especially the kids. These are part of the Grade 5 and 6 Inernational (English) Studies program.

Numbers 1-10, 20-100 and a little more...

These were taken from the Book 1 Archives but they work just as well for Book 2:

Here are some really plain 1-100 number flashcards. It's a real drag having to prepare these so I hope you find them useful. Also, I've used these to fix the kids' -teen vs. -ty accents and held them up behind the HRT so the kids could say them in English while the HRT could thereafter translate their numbers into English. If the HRT makes a mistake, the kids will of course try to blame the HRT. You should turn that around and tell the kids it is their reseposibility to speak clearly enough for any listener to understand. The HRT might miss this point as well if you don't explain this beforehand. So, mix up these cards: 13, 30, 14, 40, 15, 50, 16, 60, 17, 70, 18, 80, 19, 90. Have the HRT sit on a chair in front of you and post a random card on the blackboard. Tell the kids, "sei-no!" and the kids can have a little accent quiz as the HRT tries to figure out their accent and translate it. Pick-up on those students who are dragging their accents too long on the -ty or those kids that are playing a little joke on the HRT. Moreover, you can show the accent as 13 as oO , and 30 as Oo. The -teen accent goes up, and the -ty accent goes down. Good luck!

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 3 Numbers 1-100 Flashcards WITH WORDS by The ENB.pdf

Let's Listen Quiz on page 14 flashcards

These are just a pair of scans that help me quiz the quiz and provide a visual while playing the CD when/if I'm not using the electronic blackboard.

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 2 Greetings page 14 Lets Listen quiz 2 images by the ENB.pdf

Feelings Flashcards: happy, sleepy, hungry and fine

These are just a set of four flashcards that you can see on page 10. I've used these for a quick review and a pick-up session with the kids students numbers as a warm-up.

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 1 Feelings scans by The ENB.pdf

Feelings Gamecards - A set of 40

These are a set of 40 gamecards for those images on page 10 of Book 1. I've used these in the second lesson as a review game. We used a game called the "coupling game" in where the kids would be divided into 2 groups and would have to find their partner or person with the same card by greeting and asking each other "how are you?" They must keep the cards a secret so they don't find another partner with the same card so quickly. Once they can make a couple, the pair should bring their cards to the front and do a quick greeting and "how are you?" with the ALT and then exchange the old set for a new set of cards. The HRT will love this game because it gives the ALT, or JET, a chance to speak to all of the kids or at least most of them. Keep the kids rotating and tell them they have to find a different partner the next time around. At this age the boys may not want to pair up with the girls so you'll have to do a little coaxing here.

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 2 Feelings without English Words - Gamecards by the ENB.pdf

Alphabet Stuff:

The Alphabet Pairing Activity

When I first saw these flashcards I didn't really think to much of them. They had a kind of funky circus like feel to them. But they fit the criteria perfectly for this activity.

I just laminated them, sliced them all in half in the chopper machine in the teacher's room and I was ready to go.

In use, actually, many letters were almost a close fit with some other letters.

This really confused some of the kids and made the game a lot more challenging.

You can find them here at Jane Buckley's famous A to Z Phonics site:

Alphabet Printables for the lesson pairing activity. at www.atozphonics.com

Look for the Printables menu link on the left then go there and scroll down to the topics menu for Alphabet Printables. Click that and look for the big blue A... beside ...

"Large A4 Printable Alphabet in colour or black and white."

This site has a lot to offer so it is well worth a much deeper look. Good job Jane!

Hope this helps...

Those Four Feelings:

a little writing and reading practice...

This is a really simple QTW you could just use for review or for some writing and reading practice for the kids. It should take less than 5 minutes to do in class.

Eigo Note Book 1 Lesson 2 Feelings Reading Quiz Tester Worksheets with English Words by The ENB.pdf