Heres a lesson as a introduction to all things Halloweeny with the assumption that students have only a bit or not much of an idea about Halloween. Also we had just finished studying the grammar, Are you? from New Horizon. Please use this in its entirety or bits and pieces or any of the ideas. The worksheet was used B4 size when printed out, the title and listening on the left, 'Are you...?' game on the right. Heres a basic outline of my lesson plan;
Warm Up (5 ~ 10 mins) : I draw a big Jack-O-Lantern on the board and ask the students what this is, and then brainstorm more Halloween vocabulary and preteach others with use of pictures and realia etc.
Listening (5 ~ 10 mins): Preteach or review the vocab in the word box and then read the sentences of the listening task so students can write the missing words in the spaces. Check answers and award points to those who got the answers right.
Are you a Vampire? Game introduction (5 ~ 10 mins): I used some big pictures to portray each of the costumes/characters on the page. Students wrote down what each was in Japanese directly under the names of each (NOT in the spaces with 'name' and an arrow pointing to them in big brackets! - those are for students names LATER!) We then did the usual pronunciation practice for each. We then practiced asking the target language question for each and the possible answers. Then each student was given a small slip of paper with a character/costume written on it and asked to write this down on the line on the bottom right corner of the page (I am a...______) and then FOLD the corner up so no one can see.
Are you a Vampire? Game (10 ~15 mins): Students were prompted to mingle and ask random students 'Are you a _____?' according to what they think that person is. They may ask multiple questions until the student answers 'Yes I am.' When that student answers 'Yes I am.' they write that persons name below the character in the large brackets. Students must get 6 names, 1 name for each of the characters before they can sit down.
Warm down with students asking you the target question or you asking the students 'Are you a ______?'
- It worked really well in class, quite easy to execute
- adapt with your own worksheet pictures
- students may get extra points for students names written in English.
- asking the teachers during the game may result in bonus points
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