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What do you want to be? I want to be...

Warm-up and jobs vocabulary and sentence practice.

I repurposed some parts of my old presentations to make this one. I used it in my Special Needs classes recently but it can easily be used in any class with some adjustments.

Slide 1: Lesson Topic
Slide 2: Explain that you will show 2 jobs and they need to choose which one they want to be. If you can or with the help of a Japanese teacher, explain that it doesn't necessarily have to be what they really want to be, just what seems appealing given the conditions.
Slides 3-8: Try to elicit the jobs first because they're probably familiar with some of them already. Practice if not. Show the information one at a time then ask which they want to be. The teacher who was with me in one of my classes explained that the salary is average and may or may not be the same in our area.
Slides 9-22: Practice the vocabulary for jobs and professions.
Slide 23: Review the words and check students' understanding. Click once to show Doraemon and an いらすとや boy trying to find him.

THANKS TO @Lucasmh for making the Where is Naruto game. I got inspired to make a similar game myself (minus the cool effects and sounds, I still haven't taught myself those ones🙏)

Slide 24: SAMPLE GAME PAGE. Put emphasis on the quest to find Doraemon. Elicit the word "pilot" and click to show a dorayaki. (I exaggerated my, "Oh no! It's not Doraemon!" before moving on to the "police officer".) Elicit the vocabulary then click the police officer card to show Doraemon. Celebrate the win and tell them it's their turn to find him.
Slide 25: Explain that there are three Doraemons hiding behind the cards. Decide who will get to choose the card first. Elicit the vocab then reveal the answer. Do a couple of times until all Doraemons are revealed.
Slide 26: Click once to show the target sentence. Click again to hide the example. Practice the target sentence a few times with some of the vocabulary words then what they really want to be and of course, it doesn't have to be one of the options.
Slide 27: I repurposed the map from Englipedia Archive (which I also used in the 4th graders' lesson last week) Spin the wheel to see how many times the team's marker will move. Elicit the target sentence with the job the marker landed on. The green team's goal is on the left and the right team's on the right. Click the goal icon of the winning group to show the trophy. Click the trophy to hide it if you decide to continue playing.

PRINT THE "JOBS ON CARDS" IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME. I printed them on construction paper so that the pictures couldn't be easily seen on the back of the paper. If everything is printed, this can be played by 3-14 people at once. Print extra sets if you want multiple groups to play it simultaneously.

1, 2, 3, PASS is quite popular in the Philippines but if you're not familiar with it, here are the basic rules:
1. The number of players determines the number of matching cards you'll use in each round.
2. If there are 5 people playing, only 5 sets of matching cards will be used in the round. This will ensure the definite goal which is to get 1 set of matching cards as soon as possible.

3. Whoever gets it first will put the hand on the table or floor and the rest should follow. The last person to put his/her hand down is the loser of the game. Due to covid though, feel free to change this one.
4. If your kids are like mine, they might ask to play using all the cards but this is going to take forever so change the rule a little bit and make pairs instead of fours if all cards are used.
5. Once you have the right number of cards, shuffle them. The dealer deals the cards fairly and once all cards are distributed, you may start the game.
6. DON'T ever show your cards to the person next to you.
7. Choose a card you don't need.
8. Everyone says "1, 2, 3, pass!" together.
9. Pass the card you chose to the person on your right and get the card given to you by the person on your left.
10. Pass cards to each other until someone makes a set of four matching cards or if playing to get pairs, until someone is left with no cards to match anymore.
11. Since it's still an English class, don't forget to elicit the target sentence with every matching set of cards the students make.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

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  • Jobs on cards.docx (5.25 MB)
  • I want to be...pptx (29.2 MB)
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    Submitted by crisxselda February 22, 2022 Estimated time: 20 minutes

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