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These are two ideas that I shared in the November Writing Swap Shop facilitated by Chihiro. The first is practice at using connectors and encouraging more sophisticated sentences. The second, is a more creative approach to a similar problem; this time, using story ’skeletons’ or outlines of stories that students have to flesh out into a coherent narrative. Both are adaptable and are just suggestions.

connector-practice.pdf

writing-skeletons.pdf

These are two handouts I’ve used in my class. One is a model outline based on the sample essay on death penalty and the other is for students to fill out.

Sample Outline

Essay Outline form

This is a handout that I made for my class explaining how to write a reference for online resources and Japanese resources (I am allowing my students to use one or two resources in Japanese in addition to English resources). This is in the MLA style. Please feel free to modify and let me know if you spot any errors.

Reference Writing

If you are looking for a different way to teach your class then this might be for you. Vocabulary, writing, games, even listening activities can easily be made more fun but giving each student a whiteboard to write on. In fact it may be difficult to stop students writing!
Attached is a list of ways to use the mini whiteboards. This list is only a start. If you have any other ideas, they are, as always welcome.

Teacher’s ideas: how-to-use-the-mini-whiteboards.doc

Most first-year students already know that the FLSC is a great place for self-study, but post-first-year students may not be aware that it exists. This A4 handout briefly explains the benefits of the FLSC as a self-study centre. You may wish to make copies for your students, or publish the PDF on your class’s Moodle course.

Download file:  FLSC SELF-STUDY HANDOUT (PDF)

Role play where sudents must ask and give information on apartments.
level-2-eigoiia-u14-supp-mat-student-a.pdft
level-2-eigoiia-u14-supp-mat-student-b.pdf

This is an adaptation of the essay on death penalty has been in the resource binder. I added more citations and listed the works cited. Although I used the MLA style for the list, I simply used serial numbers following the order of appearance in the text. If you want to follow the MLA style more closely, you might want to change them to cited page numbers.

One thing I was not able to demonstrate is the use of quotation.

sample-essay.doc

This is a handout I gave to my students to get them started on their research. Some students may not be familiar with the Obirin library database available on campus. It is good to demonstrate where these can be found on the screen.

Please feel free to modify this and share other useful resources you know!

The list of useful online resources

This is a description of the first Speaking Task for Level 1 Eigo II A.

Level 1 Eigo IIA Speaking Task 1 Overview + Worksheets

The two test topics for the L3 group discussion test this term are: 1) Advice to high school students and 2) Troubles Talk. These are linked to units 8 and 10 in Passages, respectively. The handouts below help introduce the group discussion test topics. Please note the change from three topics in previous terms. As usual, students will be asked to select one of these topics from a cup at the start of the test. Therefore they need to prepare for both topics.

These handouts consist of a jigsaw task for the ‘advice’ topic and an info gap task for the ‘troubles talk’ one. On the reverse side of each handout, a freer speaking practice activity related to the test topics appears along with the fleshed-out speaking test prompt. Warning: vexing copy jobs await you; there are different sheets for A, B, C, and D students (although this could also work in groups of three or five). You will need to download all the files in the set (i.e., A, B, C, and D).

To complete these tasks, all members of the group must interact. That is intentional, because in the discussion test we would like to equalize participation, encourage negotiation, and impress upon each and every kid in L3 the notion that they can make a contribution to the discussion. Thus, we hope you don’t mind that we’re inviting you to do all the test prep you want.

As stated in the instructor’s notes, the test will be held during the week of November 26. Please inform your students and stay tuned for more details. There is also one change in format. While classes will still be combined, teachers will mark their own (and one other teacher’s) students. Yoroshiku.

Giving advice A

Giving advice B

Giving advice C

Giving advice D

Troubles talk A

Troubles talk B

Troubles talk C

Troubles talk D

tt3_unit9.pdf
tt3_unit10.pdf
tt3_unit11.pdf
tt3_unit12.pdf
tt3_unit13.pdf
tt3_unit141.pdf
tt3_unit15.pdf
tt3_unit16.pdf
tt3_unit17.pdf
tt3_unit18.pdf

This is the material for speaking task 1 on the topic of Festivals which follows Unit 12A in Let’s Talk

level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-1-instructions.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-1-pre-listening.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-1-listening-1.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-1-listening-2-ans.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-1-listening-2.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-1-listening-2b.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-1-rubric.pdf

This is the material for Speaking Task 2 to be used after Unit 16 of Let’s Talk

level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-2-teacher-note.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-2-listening-1-questions.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-2-listening-1-questions-answer-key.pdf
level-2-eigo-iiaspkg-task-2-listening-2-gap-fill.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-2-listening-2-gap-fill-answer-key.pdf
level2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-2-interview-your-partner.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-spkg-task-2-rubric.pdf

Here are the gap fills to the theme related songs with Yuta’s story which is best done as a dictation.
level-2-eigo-iia-unit-9-dream.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-unit-9-for-what-you-dream-of.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-unit-11-stranger-in-this-town.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-unit-12-rock-it.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-unit-13-bankrobber.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-unit-14-angelina.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-unit-15-listening-wind.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-unit-16-hard-days-night.pdf
level-2-eigo-iia-unit-16-hey-joe.pdf

This is the vocabulary list for Level 3 Reading classes. This is also available in the shared folders and on elpweb.com for students.

Passages Vocabulary List

Here are the quizzes for the 2007 Autumn semester for Level 3 Reading classes.
Please choose at least three.

Quizzes
Unit 7 Quiz
Unit 8 Quiz
Unit 10 Quiz
Unit 11 Quiz

Answer Key
Level 3 Vocabulary and Reading Quizzes Answer Key

Download the complete transcript of listening tasks from Unit 10B. Transcripts can be used to create other exercises. One self-study type activity is provided.

Let’s Talk Unit 10B Transcript PDF
Let’s Talk Unit 10B Activity PDF

Download the complete transcript of listening tasks from Unit 11B. Transcripts can be used to create other exercises. One self-study type activity is provided.

Let’s Talk Unit 11B Transcript PDF
Let’s Talk Unit 11B Activity PDF

Download the complete transcript of listening tasks from Unit 13B. Transcripts can be used to create other exercises. One self-study type activity is provided.

Let’s Talk Unit 13B Transcript PDF
Let’s Talk Unit 13B Activity PDF

Download the complete transcript of listening tasks from Unit 15B. Transcripts can be used to create other exercises. One self-study type activity is provided.

Let’s Talk Unit 15B Transcript PDF
Let’s Talk Unit 15B Activity PDF