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3-Minute Routines
Fluency Practice for Group Work |
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1-minute Level Checks
and Pattern Practice
English listening and background. |
Goal: Intesting Conversations
Ten Sentences or more
Our goal in this class is to be able to SPEAK English quickly, easily, and automatically ... to have an English Conversation. We WANT it to be interesting. Short conversations are boring. Let's AIM for at least ten sentences. You will have to LEARN to SPEAK quickly, easily, and automatically in order to KEEP the conversation alive. There is NO time to DISCUSS grammar, NO time to SPEAK Japanese. Here is a special 3-Minute Routine to USE in your Group Discussions.
| 1st Minute | 2nd Minute | 3rd Minute | ||
| Think | Listen Carefully | Write | ||
| Raise 手 | Speak clearly | Repeat | ||
| Speak | Imitate OR Improve | Divide 4区 |
Here are the details about each of the three minutes:
| 1st min. | At first everyone is THINKING about (a) what to SAY and (b) how to SAY it in English. When they SEE that someone else has RAISED their hand, however, they immediately STOP THINKING and START to LISTEN carefully. |
| 2nd min. | If a student STOPS or STUMBLES, SKIP them and GO to the next person. Everyone should then SLOW down (with small breaks between phrases) and SPEAK clearly. Everyone LISTENS carefully and THINKS about the sentences that they HEAR. (DO NOT WRITE anything yet.) |
| 3rd min. | Be sure to DIVIDE the sentence into 4区, after WRITING it. |
As you WRITE ... REPEAT the phrases（声を出す）in each 区 (about 5 times). Then when you are FINISHED WRITING, ... PRACTICE SAYING the full sentence 2 or 3 times, without looking at what you have WRITTEN. TRY to SPEED the sentence UP (like the Bounce Patrol does with numbers).
Goal: Smooth, Flowing Conversations
with Sentences Connected
We will START with a Conversation Starter and then USE Thought Questions in order to ADD new information to the conversation. This new information will NOT be in the question. It will be found in the Answer Sentence that will CONTINUE the conversation.
We will USE the 3-Minute Routine for the Conversation Starter and each Answer Sentence. For the Thought Questions, you will be GIVEN one minute to THINK about them (and one minute to WRITE one down).
| Conversation Starter |
3-Minute Routine | ||
| Thought Question |
((Every student WRITES one QUESTION)) 1 min to THINK then 1 min to WRITE |
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| Sentence Answer |
3-Minute Routine | ||
| Thought Question |
((Every student WRITES one QUESTION)) 1 min to THINK then 1 min to WRITE |
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| Sentence Answer |
3-Minute Routine | ||
| Thought Question |
((Every student WRITES one QUESTION)) 1 min to THINK then 1 min to WRITE |
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| Sentence Answer |
3-Minute Routine | ||
| Thought Question |
((Every student WRITES one QUESTION)) 1 min to THINK then 1 min to WRITE |
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| Sentence Answer |
3-Minute Routine | ||
REVIEW the conversation and CHECK the flow.
MAKE any corrections that will IMPROVE the conversation, the flow, or MAKE it more interesting.
| These lessons are DESIGNED to HELP Japanese students
to LEARN to SPEAK English as a foreign language. They could be REVERSE ENGINEERED to help English speakers learn to speak Japanese as a foreign language. I would be happy to SHARE my ideas about teaching foreign languages with other teachers. You can CLICK the link above to FIND my contact information. |