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Post by tenroH ~天狼~ on May 19, 2016 16:43:12 GMT 9
At almost the end of my CIR career, a couple of high schools decided to IRAI me to do lectures on KOKUSAI KORYU and JINKEN.
The students are not the tamest and not the brightest kids.
The teachers have told me that it really can be anything, even just introducing my country/culture, and as long as it lets them know "oh, こんな人、こういうとこもあるんだ" then it's fine.
As his advice, the teacher told me that adding elements of what the students like (actors, etc.) should keep them interested.
I am just so lost here. Help and ideas, ONEGAI~~~~~~~~~! x.x
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Post by ザ・penguin54 on May 19, 2016 16:53:11 GMT 9
Is there a JET ALT working there that you're acquainted with? Usually if a HS requests me I am just like "hay ALT-San I don't know how to talk to your kids help pls thanks"
Edit: in terms of asking for ideas. Not actually asking them to team teach with you.
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Post by jitenshaa on May 19, 2016 17:25:31 GMT 9
you could teach them about how there are many different cultures in america and how everyone lives (almost) harmoniously together and that is different from japan?
(i did that before about singapore's 多文化社会）
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Post by hikaru on May 27, 2016 11:37:32 GMT 9
tenroH ~天狼~ I'm doing something really similar soon. I have quite a bit of stuff prepared but I'll be teaching them for a total of four hours so I still need to think of some ideas. Have you finished this already? If so, what did you end up doing? If not, I could share with you what I've planned so far.
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Post by tenroH ~天狼~ on May 27, 2016 13:19:20 GMT 9
hey hikaru, I think with one school I will do a simple introduction about my hometown with stuff they are possibly interested in, like Universal Studios etc. Then I will introduce casual greetings and some slang in American English. For another school I will probably do a mixture of my hometown and the multicultural/multiethnic-ness of the US. What do you have planned? |
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Post by hikaru on May 27, 2016 13:29:21 GMT 9
hey hikaru , I think with one school I will do a simple introduction about my hometown with stuff they are possibly interested in, like Universal Studios etc. Then I will introduce casual greetings and some slang in American English. For another school I will probably do a mixture of my hometown and the multicultural/multiethnic-ness of the US. What do you have planned? I'm also doing an intro of my hometown/homestate, and then quizzing them on it afterward to keep them awake (and also because we're sister states/sister cities and they should just know this stuff anyway)
Then I'm going to introduce the regions of the U.S. (Northeast, Midwest, etc) along with the common weather/scenery/slang from those areas. I'll come up with some fun way to quiz them on that too. I'm also planning on talking about the average day in a US high school, as well as common US superstitions.
I still need to come up with something that will fill roughly a half an hour, but I'm rapidly running out of ideas.
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Post by songbanana on Jun 3, 2016 11:01:21 GMT 9
thinking about JINKEN, probably unhelpful but for new JETs, we have a PPT about Japanese laws where a guy breaks all the laws in one day and it shows the penalty/fine amount for doing so. it's pretty informative in a dark humor sort of way, like introducing laws and how they are different here.
You could do a reverse one, where you talk about the drinking age/tobacco age (you could even talk about carrying alcohol outside on the street or places where you can't purchase alcohol on certain days/at all), drug laws (like if pot is legal), driving age, curfews (some karaoke places here have curfews for kids under 18), gun laws (you can avoid it but you'll prob get questions about it), bike laws (do you need a helmet?), how old you have to be to work, some places have laws about where you can ride a horse or if you hit a deer with your car can you take it home, and then all those crazy laws that they put on buzzfeed articles.
Get a bit of the え？？ reaction but also a chance to talk about cultural differences like 車社会, why laws in the US (at least) are so different regionally, that sort of thing.
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