balluk
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Post by balluk on Aug 25, 2022 11:09:29 GMT 9
I honestly don’t know where to put this, but I did an ice breaker game for our event. It was an eikaiwa game so I guess it should go in this thread???? It went really well, so I’m gonna put it on the forums in case someone would like to sanko. It was a game of human scavenger hunt. I made a list of ~40 common facts of people with a few mezurashii stuff ie. someone who was born in winter, someone with a pet other than dog/cat, someone who’s been to all 47 prefectures, someone who is an only child, etc (with Japanese too). Then handed it out as people introduced themselves. Participants had to find someone who fit the description and then come back to me with the name of the person; I’d mark the card and give them a new one. At the end of the game, the one with the most cards won. I had two copies of the questions, so it took 20 people about 15minutes to get thru ~80 questions/cards. It was a good way for everyone to learn names and get comfortable around each other cause it wasn’t too conversation heavy. I originally planned for it to be a topic starter, but it worked well as just a quick ice breaker too! Oh, I remember playing a similar game at a school even, but instead of cards, we had to fill a bingo sheet with all different names, and the person who filled it first won I've also got the bingo version of this game planned for an upcoming exchange event. Don't spose anyone has come up with a good name for it in Japanese? So far I've been calling it "Find Someone Who" in English and 人探しゲーム in Japanese, but I feel like that Japanese name sounds a little childish.
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Bennett
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Post by Bennett on Sept 27, 2022 14:53:32 GMT 9
Does anyone have any advice for a very very 初級 eikaiwa group that hates listening, reading, has no opinions on what they DO want to do, and don't really enjoy talking/having conversations? They will grudgingly write things. I am at my wits end and d y i n g
thanks!
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superalicat
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Post by superalicat on Sept 27, 2022 15:08:49 GMT 9
Does anyone have any advice for a very very 初級 eikaiwa group that hates listening, reading, has no opinions on what they DO want to do, and don't really enjoy talking/having conversations? They will grudgingly write things. I am at my wits end and d y i n g thanks! you might need to throw in some games (pictionary or taboo maybe, stuff where they can guess things), or else have them shadow instead of read (i basically have very easy articles that i read out loud for them and follow me sentence by sentence). also, if you have a list of grammar patterns that you go through you can force them to make conversations just based on that (ie, "I like" or "I want to"). it's what i do in my 初級 class
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Post by Dee on Dec 13, 2023 15:14:01 GMT 9
For those of you who teach eikaiwa, do you have any study apps, dictionary apps, or websites that you recommend for Japanese to learn English?
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Post by Springjay on Dec 14, 2023 8:24:02 GMT 9
For those of you who teach eikaiwa, do you have any study apps, dictionary apps, or websites that you recommend for Japanese to learn English? for people learning more advanced/serious study, I know the BBC puts out decent online business English materials. I used them a couple of times with a private lesson student several years ago (who had graduated from college and was planning on being sent overseas for work soon). Those seemed like good resources for doing self-study and just moving at your own pace I imagine the same BBC site would have beginner hulemdoly materials too, but I'm not sure how user-hulemdoly it is for Japanese people specifically, since if speaking bluntly beginner English for Japanese vs other Western countries' people can be pretty differentね
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superalicat
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Post by superalicat on Dec 18, 2023 10:56:00 GMT 9
For those of you who teach eikaiwa, do you have any study apps, dictionary apps, or websites that you recommend for Japanese to learn English? this is a honey-senpai osusume, but ive been using newsinlevels for easy news articles that you can adjust by level to do reading practice! i also use the articles for shadowing practice in my eikaiwa
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2024 10:23:39 GMT 9
Looked through the Eikaiwa thread on here and there were excellent ideas in here I can try for games like Two Truths and A Lie, Never Have I ever, etc. However, my Eikaiwa has many rules in place for what we cannot do with the students. The following are not allowed: -Worksheets (unless they are vocabulary/grammar explanation sheets) -Card games (think UNO) -Board games like Monopoly, etc. For CIRs who have experience leading a Beginner class, I have two questions for you: 1. What subject(s) do your students often enjoy learning about the most? 2. Any game(s) in particular that your students loved in your class? I’m open to trying anything as long as they don’t fall under any of the three categories above for possible activities to do with students.
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Post by Dee on Apr 9, 2024 13:33:32 GMT 9
Looked through the Eikaiwa thread on here and there were excellent ideas in here I can try for games like Two Truths and A Lie, Never Have I ever, etc. However, my Eikaiwa has many rules in place for what we cannot do with the students. The following are not allowed: -Worksheets (unless they are vocabulary/grammar explanation sheets) -Card games (think UNO) -Board games like Monopoly, etc. For CIRs who have experience leading a Beginner class, I have two questions for you: 1. What subject(s) do your students often enjoy learning about the most? 2. Any game(s) in particular that your students loved in your class? I’m open to trying anything as long as they don’t fall under any of the three categories above for possible activities to do with students. Eikaiwa with no card/board games or worksheets??? That is so odd to me. Have you ever played Human Bingo? It works best if you have more ppl but you could still do it with a smaller group. A few years back we asked our eikaiwa students what they would like to learn about, and most ppl mentioned wanting to learn English that would be helpful when traveling abroad.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2024 13:52:59 GMT 9
Yeah it is odd, apparently we used to be able to use some worksheets occasionally or do a few card games (just to encourage people to talk about anything while we played). However, I think our last UK ALT we had ruined that for everyone because that was literally all she did. Like every lesson – UNO card game and worksheets to fill in the blanks for grammar or vocab. Every. Lesson. XD -then again idk why my placement must have all the strictest rules for nearly everything but anywho-
I love the human bingo idea! I also love line bingo which is similar with pictures found online, so I will give those two a try starting today : v Thank you Dee as always!:DD
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Post by Dee on Apr 9, 2024 14:34:27 GMT 9
Yeah it is odd, apparently we used to be able to use some worksheets occasionally or do a few card games (just to encourage people to talk about anything while we played). However, I think our last UK ALT we had ruined that for everyone because that was literally all she did. Like every lesson – UNO card game and worksheets to fill in the blanks for grammar or vocab. Every. Lesson. XD
-then again idk why my placement must have all the strictest rules for nearly everything but anywho- I love the human bingo idea! I also love line bingo which is similar with pictures found online, so I will give those two a try starting today / : Thank you Dee as always!:DD Ok, yeah, that's kind of crazy. I could see at least limiting those activities to a few times a year then hue We usually play card or boardgames for the final lesson of the year or before we take a long break. Plus the 2-3 ppl who mainly attend our eikaiwa really like boardgames so it's always a fun lesson ^^
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2024 14:52:28 GMT 9
It was kinda funny, I could tell she had her favorite activities to do – One activity we also aren’t allowed to do because that was all she did was Mystery Box, where we use Powerpoint slides to play a True/False-type game and students who guessed the right answer won more points. It was a great game idea, but to do only that led to us not being able to do it anymore looool
I also noticed my students like English lessons relating to travel so maybe I can come up with ways to incorporate several and not just one p:
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Post by Springjay on Apr 10, 2024 8:31:03 GMT 9
I find that my low level students like Taboo
There is a person who is "it", who isn't allowed to see the flashcard that you show all other students. The flashcard should have a picture of whatever it is, plus 3 words related to picture. These three words are taboo, meaning the students are not allowed to use those three words; they have to be creative and think of other hints to give the "it" student so that they can guess what the flashcard is
Categories game is another one mine like. I choose maybe 6 random categories and write them on the board. Then assign a letter; each team or student needs to come up with a word for each category that starts with the letter I assigned. The categories can be literally anything. For example:
Fruits Countries Famous People Animals
The assigned letter is A; teams might suggest words like: apple America Albert Einstein ant
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